Am I prepared well physically for SFAS or RIP?

Question

I am curious of the excercise regiment that I do daily will help me in the future for SFAS or RIP.

My regiment is simple and is a two day regiment that I do six days a week with one day of rest
day#1 Chest and triceps and shoulders
day#2 arms and back

I do abdominal muscles every day and will Ruck a bit from time to time and throw a run in a few times a week

on day one I do 8 sets of 100 regular pushups super setted with 8 sets of 50 tricep pushups, then I do 3 sets of twenty fingertip pushups supersetted with 3 sets of 50 tricep pushups (this is obviously not all in one go but dispersed throughout the day) for my abs I just do 140 crunches every night

on day 2 I do 8 sets of sixteen pullups throughout the day and then do curls, I alternate what curls I do depending on different days, I sometimes will do 3 sets of 50 reps of regular curls supersetted with 3 sets of 50 reps of hammer curls with a 25 pound dumb bell, on a different day I sometimes do 3 sets of 12 reps of a 40 pound dumbbell supersetted with 3 sets of 12 reps of hammer curls also with a 40 pound dumbbell.

I am 16 years old so I will continue to improve on this as I get older, I am turning 17 soon and next year I hope to join the Army and soon after attend RIP as I will have an option40 contract.

I also run a mile in 5 1/2 minutes. I am 5"7 and 140 pounds (I hope I am not to small).

So do you think that I am physically prepared for either of these grueling selection phases? And how do you think I would score on the PT tests

Answer 1

Are you prepared? Let's see...try not getting any sleep for a few days while exhausting your body each day through whatever means necessary whether it be ruck runs, runs, gym workouts, etc. Then once you are completely exhausted and sleep deprived to the point of hallucinating, try and navigate at night without any flashlights through swamps, draws, and some of the thickest vegetation you can find and do this all night for a few days straight. Once you give up on that, get some buddies together and try and move something impossibly heavy through sand for miles without losing your temper and chewing out your buddies when they screw up and show their weakness. I don't care how physically fit your body is, your mind must be much stronger. Given that you are 16 years old with no life experience, I would recommend you do not go to SFAS as soon as possible. In fact, you have to be 20 years old just to attend SFAS. RASP I could care less about having a young kid try out for, but Special Forces requires something a little more special. Stay in good shape and do something with your life for 5 years or so, then re-evaluate the situation and see if you are still willing to try out for SF. Good luck and don't get ahead of yourself. Start by graduating high school and acquiring some type of scholarship to college to save mom and dad a few bucks.

Answer 2

Are you ready? I don't know, are you? There's only one way to find out. Anyways what's the rush? Wait until you are at least 18 or 19 (get a civilian job, take a few college classes, get some experience in real life etc.). Hopefully that year or two adds some maturity. SFAS and RIP are not the same thing and level of preparation differs (SFAS is far more mental than it is physical). SFAS is about the hardest thing I've done in my life other than combat deployments. Other than that, going to Regiment before trying out for SF is the best course of action in my opinion. And no, you are not "too small".

Answer 3

Who the **** gives a woot about finger tip push ups. Get rid of that ****. You should not do bicep curls cause that is mostly beach muscle you don't really need it. Make sure you go chest to floor on every push up. Like somebody said before legs are very ******* important, get a gym member ship do dead lifts squats cleans. I hate running too with a passion but your not running enough as a Ranger expect to run 5 miles daily so if you can't kill your self in PT then go for a fast 5 mile run you'd be like everybody else. Rangers aren't though.

go to this website (Crossfit.com) if you do the workout of the day every day I guarantee you will feel stronger and faster. Most military units do Crossfit SF too.

More abs. Bicep curls aren't a very functional exercise (you'd ever curl in real life).

do Crossfit.

Answer 4

first off, you forgot legs. thast the most important thing to work out aside from core muscles if your going 18x or option 40. cardio is also more important than what you can lift.

also triceps are part of your arms, i take it you meant biceps and back?

and yiou said you worked out shoulders on day 1 but what do you do for them exactly? if you think pushups work them out, they dont.



making it through training that works you out until you hurt is just as mental as it is physical.



working out wise, just a few tips:

if your doing a 2 day split then your not working out hard enough or your body has gotten too used to your workout and its not getting any gain from it.after a good work out the muscles exercised should be useless the next day, sore the day after, and useable again the day after that. if they arent its time to change your work out. either change the exercises you do, change how you do them (i.e going from doing 10 8 6 4 to 10x10), or just look into a whole new routine.

drop the pushups: they're the worst thing you can do for chest, you're burning muscle to gain it. grab some dumbells and do presses. i didnt do a single pushup for atleast a year and i still knocked out 70 pushups in less than a minute on PT tests.

if you need a routine, go on bodybuilding.com or crossfit.com. bodybuilding has more routines for packing on muscle, crossfit will make you curse the day you were born and show you what its really like to get tired fast and keep going while tired.

Answer 5

i think 68w is great because after you do basic and AIT and airborn and if you pass RASP you will get to do 7 additional months of medical training, included in that is a month at a hospital working in an ER. its a great opprtunity and opens a lot of doors, for a future career in medicine if that is something you are truely interested in. the other guy gave a lot of good advice. my husband was abotu the same shape as you when he joined the army, and you will only improve from there. i think you will be fine, as long as you dont give up. RASP has a higher passing rate than RIP did, so thats some good news for you. just make sure to have that option 40 in your contract!!! if they say it will take a bunch of trouble and days and blah, blah, blah, just dont sign. thats what happened to my husband. it literally took like 2 minutes to fix, and he in now in the ranger regiment.

Answer 6

"Perfect physical condition alone will not get you through SFAS" Quoted from the SFAS website.



The SFAS Program Assesses

Tactical Skills

Leadership

Physical Fitness

Motivation

Ability to Cope with Stress



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Activities Include:

Psychology Tests

Physical Fitness

Swim Test

Runs

Obstacle Courses

Rucksack Marches

Small Unit Tactics

Military Orienteering

Land Navigation Exercises.



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