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**CC_TA** · 10-07-2009, 13:50

Originally Posted by snornin

TA field Hospital deployed to Herrick with an 80% fail rate at fitness ( so I heard...) were they too old and unfit to go?

If they let their physical stamina lapse a bit hey ho - they did churn out some well patched up and suitably fixed happy customers.

**Mag_to_grid** · 10-07-2009, 13:51

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

Originally Posted by Sentinel

The TA can't meet the same standard of fitness as their regular counterparts because the TA is part-time and the regular army full-time.

Bollocks. 99% of people have the time to get in three good quality fitness sessions a week. That's all you need.

Exactly - time management. 3 x 35 min runs per week plus 2 mins of press ups and sit ups on alternate days would keep anyone at a good standard of fitness.

A combined commitment of about 2 hrs per week and at no cost to the individual.

**CaptainPlume** · 10-07-2009, 14:05

Originally Posted by Mag_to_grid

A combined commitment of about 2 hrs per week and at no cost to the individual.

Can I claim MTDs for this?

Oh arrse, of course I can't, I've retired...

**Mag_to_grid** · 10-07-2009, 14:08

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

Originally Posted by Mag_to_grid

A combined commitment of about 2 hrs per week and at no cost to the individual.

Can I claim MTDs for this?

No but you might get your bounty

Oh arrse, of course I can't, I've retired...

**msr** · 10-07-2009, 14:12

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

Originally Posted by Mag_to_grid

A combined commitment of about 2 hrs per week and at no cost to the individual.

Can I claim MTDs for this?

Oh arrse, of course I can't, I've retired...

Surely your exercise these days is stretch for bottle of Gin, bend to get tonic out of fridge, swing french doors open and stroll into garden. And on alternate days reach for pipe and lift beslippered feet onto footstool?

**CaptainPlume** · 10-07-2009, 14:16

Originally Posted by msr

Surely your exercise these days is stretch for bottle of Gin, bend to get tonic out of fridge, swing french doors open and stroll into garden. And on alternate days reach for pipe and lift beslippered feet onto footstool?

See the event (for H4H) I posted on the Slingsby thread this morning to see how I get exercise these days...

**msr** · 10-07-2009, 14:23

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

Originally Posted by msr

Surely your exercise these days is stretch for bottle of Gin, bend to get tonic out of fridge, swing french doors open and stroll into garden. And on alternate days reach for pipe and lift beslippered feet onto footstool?

See the event (for H4H) I posted on the Slingsby thread this morning to see how I get exercise these days...

So you work behind the bar at a rugby club ;)

**supermark500** · 10-07-2009, 14:27

I've got to say that the general level of fitness in the TA (from my experience) is rather embarrasing. I don't want to be with people that think that a 13 minunte pft time is a good acheivement. That's from people in their early 20s.

**Gluck_ab** · 10-07-2009, 14:50

Originally Posted by Sentinel

The TA are in in place to support the regs on ops, something that is happening more and more so surely they should be meeting the same standards of physical fitness?

The TA can't meet the same standard of fitness as their regular counterparts because the TA is part-time and the regular army full-time.
I don't get 3-4 PT sessions a week, have Wednmesday afternoons off for sport and live and work on the same site. I work in central London spend over 3 hours a day commuting to and from work and do a full days work when I get there. If I could be as fit as the regular army despite doing all that what sort of message does it send out if a part-time soldier can be fitter than a full-time one?

(actually I am very fit at the moment and can do the CFT and PFT but that's beside the point)

My bold - my round trip is 2 hrs and 30 minutes (combined train and walk time) and i too do a full days work when i get there, so that argument doesn't wash with me and, unsurprisingly, the rest of your post doesn't either.

You're only having to pass a PFT and CFT once a year - it's not like you're having to train for P Coy, AACC or selection - and obviously, if you can already pass the former then whatever you're doing must be working.