<p>I agree to the above; I also went to USAFA SS and the hardest part for me was the core muscle exercises. Pushups, "leaning rest" (holding pushup position for a long time), flutter kicks, and sit ups were some of the exercises we had to do. Not hard individually, but they all work the same muscle areas and after awhile it becomes tough. IMHO, as long as a person is in the middle of the pack during BCT, CBT, Swab Summer, Plebe Summer, whatever, then they'll be OK.</p>
<p>Not allowed to do flutter kicks or arm stuff during Beast. (overhead arm clap, that kind of thing).</p>
<p>so what physical stuff takes place during beast? Just running, push ups, marching, and sit ups? BTW Marines4me What is CZZP (I think I spelled that wrong)</p>
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<p>Beast also has ruck marches if I recall correctly - like, 6? of distances between 2 and 25 miles? It was mentioned in "Absolutely American" and somewhere else as well.</p>
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<p>There will be skills development also during Beast. Rappelling, drilling, shooting, throwing grenades. You may want to find out from your local parents' club if you can see a copy of the Beast video. It will show you much of what happens. And don't forget about the shoe shining parties where you finally get to have some fun.</p>
<p>You'll run, do pushups, all kinds of ab work, jumping jacks, that kind of thing. You'll go through this basic warm up of exercises every day. Then, you'll go run or do whatever it is they want. You will learn to DREAD the word "MSC". Basically, what that means is you'll run down Target Hill (the biggest killer in all of Beast. This hill gains an AMAZING amount of fall-outs) and then do the warm-up down at Target Field. After the warm-up you'll be like "oh, we're done. That's a long run, and we just did our exercises". But no--you'll do muscular endurance, which means they'll make you repeat exercises over and over again until you reach muscular failure. And then, only then, do they have you run back up this massive hill. It's not that it's that steep--it's just LONG. It seems to never end. Plus, there's the fact that you don't expect it. By the end of Beast you'll realize it's really not that bad, but you'll want to die after the first time.</p>
<p>Anyways, besides all that, you'll be doing a lot of pushups just randomly for punishment. In addition are the ruck marches. We did two 3 milers, a 6 miler, an 8 miler, a 12 miler, and then the March Out and March Back (march out was 12, March Back was 15). I think that's the right number of rucks. The 6 miler and the March Back are by far the worst. The 6 miler goes straight up the ski slope. The March Back is rough, period. The route changes every year. The worst part was the darkness. We were on gravel roads most of the time, so it was impossible to get a good footing. A lot of people ended up falling multiple times, including myself. I was also lucky enough to find out that I'm night blind. THAT was no fun.</p>