Stretching…Really?! I guarantee most of you will be thinking “oh great, another fitness article telling me I should stretch – bol@$cks to it, I’ve never stretched and I’m fine”. Am I right?! Stretching in the Marines Stretching is a must as far as Royal Marines Recruits are concerned.

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60 minutes is said to be the optimum time for a training session. Many of us will push on thinking the extra sets and reps will have positive effects. In fact, the hormone cortisol increases during long training sessions which has muscle wasting and testosterone blocking tendencies.

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The Muscle-Up is an exercise that used to be confined to the training regimes of gymnasts and acrobats. However, these days with the advent of Parkour and Free-running and the need for increasing hard all over body compound conditioning exercises, the Muscle-Up has become more mainstream.

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The Press Up has long been the cornerstone of nearly every resistance exercise regime used. Whether it is the military, school PE, a gymnastics club, a martial arts class, a circuit in a local gym or a young man doing exercise in his bedroom, the press-up is utilised.

Part of the reason for it’s popularity is it’s ease of use for everyone and therefore it’s versatility. Nearly everyone can get down on all fours, take the knees away and then lower the chest to the floor and raise it back up again. Even if someone can’t complete the full press-up, a simple regression of leaving the knees on the floor and pivoting from these instead of the feet is available.

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Pull-ups are the choice of the Commandos. Why? Quite simply they are harder than chin-ups and its all to do with hand placement. Upper body wise, the pull up is one of the best exercises to perform. It is not only a compound exercise involving a large number of muscles of the upper-body, it also exercises the core and abdominal areas.

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