I'd like to get pointed in the right direction for implementing a stretching routine into my prep. For anyone who has been through selection or is in the army at all, what do you do to give yourself a physical advantage via stretching? I'm hoping to carry this habit into OSUT as well. Any advice helps, thanks.
When doing my 2 and 5 mile time trials, I've always just picked a pace and stuck with it the whole way through (minus picking up speed to burn gas at the very end). However, I noticed that with rucking, it's generally more efficient/accepted to do intervals of fast pace then slower paced recovery on time trials. Is this the same with runs? Should I be running for time using a different strategy than I currently am? Thanks.
I'm currently enlisted as an 18X and ship off to OSUT on 7/6 (71 days away). I have been running u/Terminator_training 's "Ruck Run Lift" program in preparation (I'm in phase 2). On many conditioning days, he gives the choice between doing a run or a ruck, saying that I should pick which one to work on based on my current proficiency in each exercise. My 2 and 5 mile run times are 14min and 40min, and my 6 mile ruck time is 1.5hrs with a 50lb ruck. I feel like these PT numbers are pretty similar in that they're all pretty sub-par lol. I know that SFAS is super ruck heavy so I've just been choosing the rucks every time. Should I continue to bias the rucks or focus more on my runs since I'm pre-OSUT and SFAS would be in roughly a year? Please let me know what you all think. I want to get as much out of this program as I can and in the right way.