British Military Fitness
Started going to the local park (Leazes Park in Newcastle) on a Thursday (and one Saturday) to join a load of ex-army instructors and other fools to run around and get very sweaty, tired (and usually) muddy and wet. http://www.britmilfit.com/locations_venues.aspx?venueid=34. Basically its circuit training without a gym - and believe me, after a few weeks of doing it you come to quickly realise you don't need a gym to get completely knackered!
Last night was 'assessment' night - a month voluntary assessment. Since I've only just started I wanted to benchmark myself, and hopefully see my fitness improve over the coming weeks and months.
It starts off with a 1.5km run - which I did in 5min21 - a pretty damn fine time in my opinion.
The following page gives a list of the 'colours' used, blue, red and green, the 'top' level being green. I've gone as red till now, but my run puts me firmly in the green category for that part of the assessment - v. chuffed.
http://www.britmilfit.com/fitness_assessments.aspx
At the end we did 15 x 20m shuttle runs - and for this I got a time of 1:26 (or 86 seconds if you will) which also puts me in the green category! Yeah me...
You can sense the 'but' can't you - yep, the running is my strong suit.
I can't remember my exact numbers for the other three exercises - I think I got about 35 push ups, 50 sit ups, and 27 burpees[1] (in two minutes each). All well within the red category, and showing where I've definitely got room for improvement. My aim for next time is to add at least 5 to each of those totals.
[1] Video of burpees:
Last night was 'assessment' night - a month voluntary assessment. Since I've only just started I wanted to benchmark myself, and hopefully see my fitness improve over the coming weeks and months.
It starts off with a 1.5km run - which I did in 5min21 - a pretty damn fine time in my opinion.
The following page gives a list of the 'colours' used, blue, red and green, the 'top' level being green. I've gone as red till now, but my run puts me firmly in the green category for that part of the assessment - v. chuffed.
http://www.britmilfit.com/fitness_assessments.aspx
At the end we did 15 x 20m shuttle runs - and for this I got a time of 1:26 (or 86 seconds if you will) which also puts me in the green category! Yeah me...
You can sense the 'but' can't you - yep, the running is my strong suit.
I can't remember my exact numbers for the other three exercises - I think I got about 35 push ups, 50 sit ups, and 27 burpees[1] (in two minutes each). All well within the red category, and showing where I've definitely got room for improvement. My aim for next time is to add at least 5 to each of those totals.
[1] Video of burpees:
