Jarnhamar
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16 is the youngest age now.
Yes if you were in pretty bad physical shape you could still join the reserves. Sometimes they won‘t let you and sometimes they will. Depends on who your with i guess.
For the most part there is a basic minimum you have to pass. 19 push ups uhh so many sit ups. Squeezing a certian amount of pounds per square inch in a grip tester thing. You have to pass a "shuttle run" where you run back and forth over 20 meters (i think) and have to cross a line each time before a beep sounds (the beeps get quicker and quicker) which is a little hard if your not good at running or pacing yourself OR you will do a step test where you walk up and down steps. (which is the dumbest test ever, a cat could pass it).
A friend of mine just failed the push up test, i think he did 17 out of 19 push ups and he has to wait 6 months to do the test over where as a girl on my basic training course was able to fire off one push up out of the required 9 and they looked the other way.
Try it and find out, worst thing you can do is fail and be told to come back in 6 months.
As an experiment i sat on my butt for 4 months not working out once and took the Provincial Police physical fitness test and passed with flying colours, your probably in better shape then you think you just have to have the will power not to quit.
Yes if you were in pretty bad physical shape you could still join the reserves. Sometimes they won‘t let you and sometimes they will. Depends on who your with i guess.
For the most part there is a basic minimum you have to pass. 19 push ups uhh so many sit ups. Squeezing a certian amount of pounds per square inch in a grip tester thing. You have to pass a "shuttle run" where you run back and forth over 20 meters (i think) and have to cross a line each time before a beep sounds (the beeps get quicker and quicker) which is a little hard if your not good at running or pacing yourself OR you will do a step test where you walk up and down steps. (which is the dumbest test ever, a cat could pass it).
A friend of mine just failed the push up test, i think he did 17 out of 19 push ups and he has to wait 6 months to do the test over where as a girl on my basic training course was able to fire off one push up out of the required 9 and they looked the other way.
Try it and find out, worst thing you can do is fail and be told to come back in 6 months.
As an experiment i sat on my butt for 4 months not working out once and took the Provincial Police physical fitness test and passed with flying colours, your probably in better shape then you think you just have to have the will power not to quit.