Rugger buggers and being fat.

[Halb]

Fittster said:

Engineer1 said:

The changes in the rules that came in in the late 90's and the professional game has moved rugby from being a fat blokes game into a powerful muscular mans game, the late 80's early 90's Western Samoan, Fijian and New Zealand teams had a good proportion of 20st+ players.

Yep, they are now pumped full of drugs to get muscle bulk required.

And to get 210kg bench

[wolf1]

J5 said:

pugwash4x4 said:

WildCards said:

pugwash4x4 said:

am i unfit? well not totally- i go to British Military Fitness 2-4 times each week and have a monthly fitness test- i'm in the intermediate group, run a mile in under 10 mins, can do over 60 pressups and over 50 situps in 2 mins, and do 300m of shuttles in less than 70seconds. This means i am fit enough to go to war according to the army.

The BA Regular Soldier fitness requirements are st, don't compare yourself to them and think you must be fit.

Edited by WildCards on Tuesday 13th October 12:15

nope- BFT means something crappy like a mile in 14mins not much better than walking.

Miles and a half i thought, but you're point still stands

Mile and a half after a squadded warm up run of about a mile and the the mile and a half had to be completed in under 10 and a half minutes (11 minutes for the over 30s) I wouldn't call that walking and if you were to close to the 10 and a half minute marker you could expect to be on remedial pt until you were back under ten minutes. So in essence don't flatter your self you are not comparable to a soldier as that is the basic requirement and the majority exceed it by a very large margin.

[pugwash4x4]

wolf1 said:

J5 said:

pugwash4x4 said:

WildCards said:

pugwash4x4 said:

am i unfit? well not totally- i go to British Military Fitness 2-4 times each week and have a monthly fitness test- i'm in the intermediate group, run a mile in under 10 mins, can do over 60 pressups and over 50 situps in 2 mins, and do 300m of shuttles in less than 70seconds. This means i am fit enough to go to war according to the army.

The BA Regular Soldier fitness requirements are st, don't compare yourself to them and think you must be fit.

Edited by WildCards on Tuesday 13th October 12:15

nope- BFT means something crappy like a mile in 14mins not much better than walking.

Miles and a half i thought, but you're point still stands

Mile and a half after a squadded warm up run of about a mile and the the mile and a half had to be completed in under 10 and a half minutes (11 minutes for the over 30s) I wouldn't call that walking and if you were to close to the 10 and a half minute marker you could expect to be on remedial pt until you were back under ten minutes. So in essence don't flatter your self you are not comparable to a soldier as that is the basic requirement and the majority exceed it by a very large margin.

I'm over 30 and did the last run in 9:03. Sorry us TA boys don't compare to real soldiers :P

[Ayahuasca]

pugwash4x4 said:

wolf1 said:

J5 said:

pugwash4x4 said:

WildCards said:

pugwash4x4 said:

am i unfit? well not totally- i go to British Military Fitness 2-4 times each week and have a monthly fitness test- i'm in the intermediate group, run a mile in under 10 mins, can do over 60 pressups and over 50 situps in 2 mins, and do 300m of shuttles in less than 70seconds. This means i am fit enough to go to war according to the army.

The BA Regular Soldier fitness requirements are st, don't compare yourself to them and think you must be fit.

Edited by WildCards on Tuesday 13th October 12:15

nope- BFT means something crappy like a mile in 14mins not much better than walking.

Miles and a half i thought, but you're point still stands

Mile and a half after a squadded warm up run of about a mile and the the mile and a half had to be completed in under 10 and a half minutes (11 minutes for the over 30s) I wouldn't call that walking and if you were to close to the 10 and a half minute marker you could expect to be on remedial pt until you were back under ten minutes. So in essence don't flatter your self you are not comparable to a soldier as that is the basic requirement and the majority exceed it by a very large margin.

I'm over 30 and did the last run in 9:03. Sorry us TA boys don't compare to real soldiers :P

Even cooks, HQ company clerks and blanket-folders pass the BFT with ease. It is not designed to be hard.