Crossfit

[11Bgrunt1]

Looking for some help I am in the military and I am trying to gain some muscle mass

We don't do p90x stuff really its more of a functional fitness type work out. Tractor tire flips shit like that. I get all my workouts from Military Athlete dot com, This type of exercising was done for the SOF community ( Special Operation). This is what I am looking for I have one last deployment before I start the Q course (special forces qualification course). When I went to selection I lost around 30 LBS in 21 days. The Q course is about 18 months long. Your talking about the best the ARMY has to offer. MY endurance has to be extremely high I can not loose this. But I want to add some muscle and strength I noticed from the 21 day selection course that well, I needed to be stronger to compete with the rest of my peers. I lost every bit of my strength by the end. I am not asking to be a machine but i want to be as close as possible to one. Im not looking to add muscle for appearance reasons I am just looking for a way to gain the most strength I can and keep it when under extreme stresses. MAybe this is not the best place to get the information I need but I know not everyone one here does cycles just for appearances there has to be someone one here that understands what Im trying to do.

[vx1000]

Looking for some help I am in the military and I am trying to gain some muscle mass

We don't do p90x stuff really its more of a functional fitness type work out. Tractor tire flips shit like that. I get all my workouts from Military Athlete dot com, This type of exercising was done for the SOF community ( Special Operation). This is what I am looking for I have one last deployment before I start the Q course (special forces qualification course). When I went to selection I lost around 30 LBS in 21 days. The Q course is about 18 months long. Your talking about the best the ARMY has to offer. MY endurance has to be extremely high I can not loose this. But I want to add some muscle and strength I noticed from the 21 day selection course that well, I needed to be stronger to compete with the rest of my peers. I lost every bit of my strength by the end. I am not asking to be a machine but i want to be as close as possible to one. Im not looking to add muscle for appearance reasons I am just looking for a way to gain the most strength I can and keep it when under extreme stresses. MAybe this is not the best place to get the information I need but I know not everyone one here does cycles just for appearances there has to be someone one here that understands what Im trying to do.

You will do PT with your IODA Cadre if you go through the Q Course. There really isn't a test of how much of a machine you are during the Q. If you can pass a PT test (score of 270), do six pullups (pathetic), and ruck 12 miles in 3 hours with a 60lbs ruck then you are fine. The Q is more about brains. A lot of people got booted in SUT and Sage, where critical thinking is most important. No one fails SERE, some recycle MOS and language but not many. You must have been a fatass to lose 30lbs in selection.

[11Bgrunt1]

You will do PT with your IODA Cadre if you go through the Q Course. There really isn't a test of how much of a machine you are during the Q. If you can pass a PT test (score of 270), do six pullups (pathetic), and ruck 12 miles in 3 hours with a 60lbs ruck then you are fine. The Q is more about brains. A lot of people got booted in SUT and Sage, where critical thinking is most important. No one fails SERE, some recycle MOS and language but not many. You must have been a fatass to lose 30lbs in selection.

NO not a fat ass never been fat. I went to selection at 176 lbs and cam back at 143 when i went to ranger school i lost almost 45 lbs and went at about the same weight I loose weight very fast Dont know why. I dont know when you went through but they have always given 3 mre's a day so either your full of shit and have never been or or your trying to act like a hard ass.

[vx1000]

NO not a fat ass never been fat. I went to selection at 176 lbs and cam back at 143 when i went to ranger school i lost almost 45 lbs and went at about the same weight I loose weight very fast Dont know why. I dont know when you went through but they have always given 3 mre's a day so either your full of shit and have never been or or your trying to act like a hard ass.

If they have always only given 3 MRE's to candidates how did you manage to eat 4 MRE's as you have posted in your "looking for some input" thread? Sounds like you never went. Post up your "OUTCOME:SELECTED" paperwork.

Schools change. You used to get only 1 MRE a day in Ranger school and there used to be a Desert phase, so your Ranger Tab should be outlined with pink thread since you did the easy class, ha.

I am just pulling your chain man, slow down. It's just hard to believe you lost that much weight. I mean I went 14 days on a few chunks of goat, a handful of grapes, and two SMALL slices of beaver tail in SERE and I lost like MAYBE 5 lbs, I was the same starting weight as you too, 170lbs (just WAY leaner). We had only one guy lose 20+lbs, he started at big 220lbs and had just come off a cycle so granted he was going to drop A LOT of weight in SERE, but still it was only like 22lbs. We weight ourselves immediately after being liberated, no food, just totally starving.

[RedSeal88]

Just as others have said, for conditioning and overall athleticism CF is bomb.. But after spending 3 months at a CF gym doing 5 WOD's a week I can tell you it is not good for muscle size at all.. There were some guys at that guy with ridiculous physiques but even those devote crossfitters admitted to me that they had seen little improvement in their physique since beginning crossfit and that they got their current physiques from the time they spent bodybuilding..