<p>What is the Air Force Standards on Body Fat? I know for my height I am overweight for the academy by like 30 pounds. I weight around 215 and for my height and age (17) I should be less that 186. Some people can say and have said that by those stats I am obese buy I am not convinced that I am not obese. To me obese is is someone that has trouble running for three miles confortably. I do not have that problem. I would say that I have a lot of lower body muscles. Even though I cant run a mile in less that seven minutes, and I lack upper body strength I have pretty good abdominal strength and I have a lot of endurance. I did a home body fat test and my body fat is somewhere around 24.5 %. Does anyone offer advice pertaining to working out during the winter months. It’s too cold and dark outside to go run, and I can’t afford a gym? What are my options? Any advice?</p>
<p>It's never too cold to run outside. I've run in blizzards, hail showers, and thunderstorms. As far as the dark goes, try to make time during the day. Shift your schedule to leave time before the sun goes down. Work hard - lots of push-ups, lots of sit-ups, lots of pull-ups.</p>
<p>Work hard.</p>
<p>Not sure what you can do about working out in the winter, does your school have athletics going on so you could go run in the gym or something? If not, does your house have stairs? Running stairs is an excellent workout (My tennis team here just ran bleachers for 20 minutes as our conditioning). Also, you can always do sit ups/ab workouts and push-ups anywhere, and I mean anywhere. As far as body fat, this is straight from the admissions website</p>
<p>"If you exceed the Air Force weight standards, you must undergo a procedure to determine your percent body fat. The minimum allowable body fat is 20% for males and 28% for females. Once the maximum weight standard has been exceeded, the body fat standard becomes the entry requirement unless you subsequently meet the weigh standard."</p>
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<p>For something you want badly, it's never "too cold" or "too dark" to run outside.</p>
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<p>For something you want badly, it's never "too cold" or "too dark" to run outside.</p>
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<li> Start dieting and exercising intensely enough to meet the standard....</li>
<li> Go to civilian college.</li>
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<p>Get away from the computer and get outside.</p>
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<p>Hahaha! I didn't understand what the tough love thing meant till I finished reading the post. Did you take the CFA yet? If so how did you do? If you run at night or morning remember to wear reflective clothing, sorry I sound like your mom, but I run on a road where the speed limit is 50 >.< but people go 65 >.<</p>
<p>Ditto what luigi said. Also, if you do get in, please for the love of god don't tell anyone you want to be a pj if you have 20% body fat.</p>
<p>Incase it isn't clear, we are hoping you succeed in whatever your goal may be. It takes a whole lot of effort on your part but the people on this forum are here for any guidance and piece of wisdom we are available to hand out to ya. Best of luck and don't give up!</p>
<p>Luigi beat me to the punch. AFPJ, you've come on saying the same thing before. From our angle, seems like there has been little progress. Until you get yourself out there and seriously getting working, you won't find any remedy to fix the problem you have. No matter what anyone says, until you get the motivation to go do what you need to do to get yourself in a position to be accepted, its not going to happen. Read this, get off the computer, and go run 5 miles.</p>
<p>When I was at USAFA with my son visiting before he was accepted it was in the first week of april that year. It had been 60 degrees the day before we got there. The day we toured USAFA it started out a nice 40 degrees, by the time we finished it was 22 degrees and there was freezing rain coming down. We were freezing our butts off. However, as we drove out of campus, I noticed that there were several cadets out for a leisurely run, in shorts I might add. So, the moral is, it is never too cold. NEVER</p>
<p>Also, I am sure all of the cadets will tell you that they get up long before sunrise many times to go run, and they run after the sun goes down, so it is never too dark. Just be safe out on the dark roads.</p>
<p>You have got to want it. Nobody can give it too you.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>Also, if you get here, you'll be running at 0430 and let me assure you that the sun will not be up by then.</p>
<p>To make it here, you're going to have to work hard. If you really want to be a PJ, you are going to have to work harder than anyone at this school. I wish I could tell you I'm exaggerating. Generally speaking, cadets are pretty fit compared to the average population, yes? The average cadet, though, is not in good enough shape to go STO/CRO. Not even close. I can think of maybe two people I know who might be able to get accepted to the pipeline. That's when the real fun starts, and the washout rate is high. Ridiculously high.</p>
<p>Like everyone else said, go workout. Visiting this forum now costs you 100 push-ups. We want to see you succeed, but we can't do it for you. Good luck!</p>
<p>What is the English translation of STO/CRO and PJ ?
thanks~</p>
<p>I believe STO=Special Tactics Officer, CRO=Combat Rescue Officer, and PJ=Pararescue</p>
<p>Thanks klassmom for asking that. I didn't want to ask ;-)</p>
<p>yep, that's right</p>
<p>LOL- I have no pride on asking. Anyone who has met me will know that the woman
they just met, has NO military background.... so I'm learning as I go ;-)</p>
<p>yep, we've got a guy who got the CRO afsc in our squad.. insane man. insane. could break everyone by himself if he wanted</p>
<p>AFSC is Air Force Specialty Code, by the way - also known as your job.</p>
<p>Yeah I see those guys every morning at practice...we have one end of the pool and they have the other. I'm glad there are people who want to do that...but I'm really glad that I'm not one of them.</p>
<p>Bottom line is that it takes a special type of person to want to get up at 5 every morning, get bound by rope, and jump into an 18 foot deep pool and then fight their way out, and then do pushups and flutter kicks on the side of the pool for a while before diving in, swimming all the way across in one breath, wash, rinse, repeat until about 7 am...</p>
<p>Honestly I think I'm in reletavely decent shape and I don't think I could handle that...</p>
<p>^^so speaketh crazy runner-man who WASN'T AT CHOIR TODAY</p>
<p>Sorry. I had to do my homework so I wouldn't be UP AT 2:16 AM^^ :)</p>