Free Expert Tips To Train For A Marathon Need advice to run a marathon? Or maybe you want to complete your 42km in a faster time? Check out these free expert tips and nutritional advice to assist your training.
Remember that your body can only adapt to a certain amount of stress within a given period of time. It’s easier to focus on improving one station of the test at a time rather than trying to improve all components at once. For example, a person trying to improve his 2.4km run and his broad jump will do better by focusing on one first, then the other.
If you’re overweight, inflexible, weak or injured, there is no way to fix all these things at once. However, if you have only one area of weakness, it can be addressed in about eight weeks.
Always prioritise strength and power training over endurance training. Strength and power is much harder to gain, so it should be first on your training checklist. For example, during your BMT there were many guys who were able to improve their timing for the 2.4km run from 12 minutes or more to just over 10 minutes plus. That’s nearly a 20-per-cent improvement. But only a handful were able to make a 20- per-cent improvement in their standing broad jump, from say 200cm to 240cm.
In my opinion, the hardest station to improve is the standing broad jump, followed by the chin-up, shuttle run, sit-up and finally the 2.4km run. To improve your overall IPPT performance, train for the hardest stations first.
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I've been failing sbj since i entered the army. Recently I've attended RT sessions and the pti taught us various exercises e.g. sprinting to train up for our sbj. But seems to be no improvement at all. I've also tried various techniques but to no avail. Please advice.
To splashboy81, I have this method maybe you can try it out. Continue your training how the RT was conducted by yourself, and apply for IPPT Test every weekend (Sat).
When you frequently take the test, your body will adapt each station.
How I passed my IPPT during NS is that my company will conduct IPPT every Tue and Thu every week till most of us have passed the test. it really went well.
Don't forget to target better result on each station every time you take.
try focusing on your calves and thighs for the explosive power. something my PTI taught was always look beyond the end of the board as you prepare to jump,launch when you're on your toes (that's why you need the explosive power in your calves and thighs) and tuck your thighs in and try to keep your legs in front as you jump. Also try to fall forward. If that fails, maybe imagine you're trying to jump across a giant crocodile-infested longkang?
If i were jumping over a crocodile-infested longkang, I'll be sure to have a running start first and not place my feet together neatly to launch myself right into snapper jaws.
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