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Hackett

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Hi guys, I have been appointed to USNA with the class of 2024 and I have some questions about the PRT and preparing. I am a distance runner in shape and am not worried about passing the prt but I was wondering if there is any kind of bonus to scoring a perfect or if it is just a pat on the back. Also, does anyone know any routines to improve on push ups? Right now I can do about 50 but about 35 cadenced. I'm happy to be on board and am excited to join the family.
 
Hackett said:
I always appreciate straight shot responses but I was wondering if you had any recommendations for routines or variations to improve quickly
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I also suggest to doing them correctly. There are certain muscles used with push-ups that aren't developed with just running. Plenty of documentation out there on exactly what they are looking for in push-up form.
Maxing scores on PRT helps in scoring rank. At least that's what my DD noticed in ROTC.
 
Hackett said:
I always appreciate straight shot responses but I was wondering if you had any recommendations for routines or variations to improve quickly
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While his advice is totally correct, I'll tell you what increased my count from 50 to close to three digits on a good day. Today, do the max you can do uncadenced which is 50, similar to me. Then the next day, do 51, adding one more everyday. After a month you should be able to hit around 80. If you increase (or at least do the max you can everyday), you'll be hitting much higher, if not double the amount you can do right now by I-Day.
 
All great advice above of course. In 1995 I was Leading Chief of clinical services at the NAS Cecil Field Branch clinic. It came time to go back to sea duty and I got orders to go back green side but would be first going to field medical school. I was in my 30s and while nobody has ever claimed the course is like Marine boot camp, it’s still a PT and negative-motivation type of program. I worked out every day but only ran for the PRT which I always easily passed.

I was headed to a school to be classmates with mostly kids just out of A school as I had previously done in 1979. I wanted to not just get by in school but excel and not drop from runs or hikes. One of my corpsmen was an HM2 SEAL on two years of shore duty. I asked him the same thing. “What can I do to improve my run times, my stamina,” I asked. Rick, I’ll call him, said, “run.” I said roger that and I cut down on the weights a little and started running. And I ran, and ran. And it worked. I was always in front on runs and humps and blew away the academics.

Surely one wonders why I had to go to field medical school as a 30 something Chief when I had already been once before. One day the BUMED Force Master Chief came to visit and I told him I was thinking about going to submarines. This made him giddy as he was a bubblehead. A few weeks later I called my detailer to negotiate orders and he told me he had me plugged in for sub school. What? “Yep, the Force popped in and bragged about getting a surface IDC to go subs and to make it happen.” I told him I changed my mind and wanted to go back to the Marines.

A couple days later, the detailer called me. “Dude, the Force is POd. Said if you don’t go subs to send you to field Med first.” I said, ok I’ll call his bluff and go. That’s what motivated me to start running and I’m glad I did.
 
If you max the PRT, you get two banked weekends, it’ll boost your PE grade, and it will impress your companymates a bit. It’s definitely worth aiming for. There are tons of free progression programs for pushups on the internet, and any of them will probably work. The most important thing is that you practice on a regular basis.
 
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