Hi folks. I've been considering the military for some time and have recently decided to get serious about it as a possible career change. I haven't been concerned about physical fitness until this point as I'm very active on a regular basis. A few weeks ago I tried starting a morning routine consisting of running, pushups and situps in the style displayed on the armys website. The situps as shown lead to significant back pain for me. I've had a friend watch and he claims I'm doing them exactly as on the video. Now I can do crunches in bunches but I'm starting to really become concerned about doing situps in the manner prescribed. I've just seen a doctor and he claims I should not be doing situps like this (crunches instead) and of course I have back pain given the exercise. At this point I'm confused and would like to hear opinions from those who know better. Thanks in advance.
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PS No problem with the running and pushups. Doing 3 miles in under 24 min and groups of 25 pushups. Still plenty of work to be done but I'm feeling reasonably good about where things are going minus the situps.
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PS No problem with the running and pushups. Doing 3 miles in under 24 min and groups of 25 pushups. Still plenty of work to be done but I'm feeling reasonably good about where things are going minus the situps.