{"id":70,"date":"2009-04-25T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T08:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/army-fitness-training-at-40\/.php"},"modified":"2009-05-10T06:11:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T06:11:34","slug":"army-fitness-training-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/army-fitness-training-at-40.php","title":{"rendered":"Army fitness training at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/army-fitness-training-at-40.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Man I nearly have my ass back in the army as an electronics systems engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Its a good job to see me through the recession but I have to admit at 40 I felt out of place at the fitness induction.<\/p>\n<p>I was twice the age of all of them, and I&#8217;m disappointed to say my perfomance on the run was very poor. Not only that but I am much bigger at 100 kg than the others there.<\/p>\n<p>Well wait till the little ferrets find out they are too skinny to carry a pack and we&#8217;ll see then.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I have a shitload of running to do, must say its a chore. I&#8217;m doing 5 runs a week on a 6 week army program.<\/p>\n<p>I have 4 months until boot camp (basic training) if I make it in. I will add hill sprints and pack runs once I have done the 6 week program.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jDPl45_F02A&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jDPl45_F02A&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Man I nearly have my ass back in the army as an electronics systems engineer. Its a good job to see me through the recession but I have to admit at 40 I felt out of place at the fitness induction. I was twice the age of all of them, and I&#8217;m disappointed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[288,287],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-army-fitness","tag-army-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}