Royal Marines Reserve

[GTIR]

Don't you have a proper picture of yourself op?

(Not that I am a gheyer, it's for the female ladeez you see)

[egor110]

Tiggsy said:

By his own admission...you'd just have to run away (7 min mile pace should be just enough)

Look at the work the marines do in Afghanistan it's lots of patrols on your feet walking and sprinting.

He's a big bloke but the Taliban don't care they have guns and imagine the bragging rights taking him down.

[Chilli]

kingstondc5 said:

But if your a big boy, does that not make you a bigger target therefore more chance of getting hit?

Possibly, but we're talking a fit-as-you-like, well-built young man, not a 12 story tower block!

(I'd still take him though)!!!

[Vladimir]

Are there any ex RM on here at all?

My "doing the RM officer selection and passing" (and three years OTC) seems to be about as close as it gets so far judging by the replies.

Surely there's some real Royal Marines somewhere on PH?!

[TheForceV4]

Hahahaha some of the comments have made me piss, thanks again guys I didn't think this would get much attention at all :-) :-) agree with the above we have everyone on here, surely there must be at least one marine/ex lurking on here?

[TheForceV4]

Hahahaha some of the comments have made me piss, thanks again guys I didn't think this would get much attention at all :-) :-) agree with the above we have everyone on here, surely there must be at least one marine/ex lurking on here?

[Hoofy]

Oddly, you could try:
http://forum.tz-uk.com/

Higher than average number of ex-services.

[XCP]

I was in the RMR in the late 70's.
Run, run and then run some more would be my advice. With loads.

[buckrogers21stc]

Ive been through the RMR training.
Would you like the full story lol or you want to ask anything I can only give you my version.

[hbzboy]

Happy to help, fire away. All Arms Comando Training through RAF Regt stint.

[minerva]

What the marines' training involves is relatively easy to find online. read into it and then see if you can do it...

I think that you will find that you will find that your excess body weight will be a burden that you will seek to shed almost as soon as you get into training. if you want to be able to pass the '30 miler' you should practice it, not practice bench pressing (not trying to be facetious, just making a point).

Once you have got to a certain body weight then it is quite easy to lose weight for another objective and then regain it once through the door.

Another course is to join another branch of the Army/Royal Navy/RAF and then get into to do the All Arms' Commando course. It is much easier to do that.

I am speaking as a serving medical officer.

[egor110]

Did the original poster say he was in Brstol?

My brother has a cross fit gym , near to 40 commando so has a good load of marines attend, might be worth a trip down from Bristol?

[andy_s]

Bloody hell.

I'd start running like a bd. Don't stop till you pass out [of training].

Seriously.

[z4chris99]

the little bro is a RM officer

he is about 5,10 and was 85kg when he joined. he's now about 80kg I reckon

As you can see they are mostly ripped and light weight

[egor110]

Re running , what sort of running?

Ie just follow a half marathon plan/full marathon?

I'd of thought doing most your running off road would help as i'm guessing there not going to be doing much running on tarmac and make your training runs as hilly as possible would all help.

[Vladimir]

z4chris99 said:

the little bro is a RM officer

he is about 5,10 and was 85kg when he joined. he's now about 80kg I reckon

As you can see they are mostly ripped and light weight

Blimey, I don't remember having to do YMCA when I did my POC… ;-)

[z4chris99]

Vladimir said:

Blimey, I don't remember having to do YMCA when I did my POC… ;-)

was YO families day at CTC, fun to see them get beasted a bit

the PTs do have an air of Freddy mercury about their uniforms

[Vladimir]

z4chris99 said:

was YO families day at CTC, fun to see them get beasted a bit

the PTs do have an air of Freddy mercury about their uniforms

I nearly threw up when I did my POC. It was a little tougher than expected…
I came 2nd on points (out of around 30ish) for the fitness test but had to look after the guy who was first - he threw his guts up. At least we gave it our full effort!

[Halb]

mattnunn said:

You need to start running, now, and don't stop until you've lost 10kg or your body breaks - which it probably won't, probably. I imagine combined with a decent diet you could do it in 6 weeks.

Black Jesus good luck ;o)

Definitely. I've just done the same thing, same height as Black Jesus and now at 105ish KG, though it fluctuates a bit now. 12ish% bf. My running times have just toppled. At a quandary now as to whether still trim the fat or build the muscles back up. Running is ace though. So will probably try and get better times and lose more.
Myfitnesspal is ace, and lots of running does it.

[Halb]

okgo said:

Nothing like as well as a marine needs to. Look at the requirements, for a male solider they're easy, 1.5 miles in 14 mins or something laughable. For marines its 1.5 miles in 12.30 and then another 1.5 under 10 mins, a world apart.

Just worked it out and I do the first one in my parkrun, but the second, that sounds tough...and at 2% incline on the treadmill?
I am gonna try and give this a go this month.