
Originally Posted by
Lintfur
Hi everybody. This is my first time posting here. I wanted to get advice to see what would best help me in my situation.
I am 5' 8" about 165 lbs, male, 22 years old, and in decent shape. I eat about 5 healthy meals a day - I'll admit though, I drink friday and saturday, but unless I can avoid it, I eat healthy (lots of vegetables, low sugar, lean meats, and only supplement with fish oil, calcium, and 15g/week creatine because I heard it helps with bone density).
My only problem is I have trouble recuperating from all the infantry training we do. The bones in my feet and legs constantly feel like they have stress fractures (I've had them before and they suck) and my body in general never receives enough rest between workouts to really build strength, endurance, speed, etc. I normally wouldn't have a problem with recovering from workouts but my platoon's PT (physical training) consists primarily of running at least 5 miles every day. I'm starting to get into CrossFit and that looks to me like the best way to build overall athletic fitness, but with the regular PT schedule we have I can only work in a couple workouts a week before I start feeling exhausted.
So I was wondering what would be a good AS cycle to go on to help me recover from my workouts to get stronger and prevent any bone, or muscle damage? I'm not looking to get huge though - in my case, getting bigger would mean I'd have to carry around even more extra weight when we train.
I've heard, and I'm pretty certain, that Army Special Forces, and Delta Force are on AS. I've seen a couple Delta Force guys and they were jacked like Arnold, haha! Whatever they're on, I would like to know about. If someone from our militaries elite forces could post on this subject I would really like to hear from them.