I don’t even know how I this channel made it into my reco’s, but having now watched a ton of vid’s recently, I can honestly report I’m 100% more active/actually exercising since discovering Austen’s channel. These videos are awesomely inspiring.
@@touger9759 Kipping on the pull ups is what destroyed my rotation cuffs in my shoulders because it let me do hundreds of pull ups a day. TBH though, most don't know that we do pull ups to get over the wall, not for the sake of doing pull ups. You know that, but our civilians don't know, that's why they do arm curl pull ups, not over the wall ones. For those that can't do a pull up, use a pull down bar untill you exceed your own weight. Good luck. Semper fi
None of their pushups counted, they were being nice. 90 degrees at the elbow to shoulders is needed for the minimum pushup in the final event. They all failed that.
@@giathanhnguyen6166 I'm surprised elite runners can get away with not being able to do even a few proper pushups. Those weren't even close. Don't runners need upper body strength as well for stability and arm movement to propel them more?
These ladies are some beast! They’re smiling while doing all these challenges but I’d be having the most grueling ugly face trying to attempt any of these 😅😂
It's either because they are already conditioned from their Olympic training regimen, or they are taking breaks off camera, or this isn't the exact training they do in the Marines. It could also be a combination, but we'll never know which reason it is.
@@djansen06 That certainly could be, but also keep in mind that Olympic athletes are the most fit people on Earth (literally). So it makes sense that they can finish these challenges, otherwise every marine would compete in the Olympics
These athletes probably hadn’t needed to work their upper strength as hard as a marine soldier. But they finished the challenge anyway. That’s impressive.
You’d probably be surprised at how much time and effort these ladies put in the weight room to stay at the World Class level as Track & Field athletes. They are impressive athletes and have to have an amazing work ethic to be able to stay at that top level just like any other sport
Most military training for the Elite units (Ranger, SEALs, etc) are more centered around breaking your body and your mind. Doesnt matter if you run 25 miles a day and do 1000 pushups straight before joining. Your weakness will come out and the instructors will exploit it. But these professional athletes have been digging deep and over coming pain since they were in high school and do it all with a smile at the end. This was inspiring to see.
They take breaks between and it ain't as tuff and heavy as the real marine fitness test. Trust me, they lowered the weight and level, otherwise this video wouldn't be as good or succesfull
@@fesjo1013 not to brake it to you, but they’re not marines, of course they’re gonna need more time to breath, and you don’t even know if that’s true. Another reason of why they’re smiling is because no one is screaming to them.
I went into this video thinking the Olympians would absolutely crush it! They did obviously, but wow some of those movements were pretty difficult. They did great! And the Marines were very encouraging… Super cool.
@@dobermanownerforlife3902 hahaha God it was miserable. They didn't have my size so I went up a FULL size. Had to wear dress socks and two green socks on each foot🤣🤣🤣
These ladies did awesome! For future reference the Marine demonstrated the MUF incorrectly. You drag your buddy straight back and to the first cone, you don't drag them through the zig zag and then fireman carry straight back. On the way back with the ammo cans you go through the zig zags, not straight back. Either way, great job. Love to see it!
@@HollowPoint_762 Yes still drunk... lol would stop drinking at 4 am get an hour and a half nap wake up at 530 and usually do these tests at like 6 am. Also were you all able to bounce when doing the ammo can lift? not discrediting these girls i mean they are peak condition athletes but we were definitely not allowed to bounce and we had to pause at the top with are arms locked out.
Yeah I've always wondered how Olympians would do in the military. I mean, sure, Olympics is a festival of peace, so perhaps I shouldn't be making these comparisons, but both sportsmen and military personnel needs to be in shape, so yeah.
Most athletes have the physical ability to be in any level of the military it’s the mentality that is different combat sports athletes specially mma would be the best soldiers
If you want a great example, then check out Larsen Jensen. He was a Silver and Bronze Olympic medalist in distance swimming for Team USA. After the Beijing Olympics, he joined the Navy and became a SEAL. The Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon was exclusively developed by the military, consisting of Fencing (combat training), Swimming (physical training), Horse Riding (logistics), Shooting (combat training), and Running (physical training).
@@brentcohee2681 top athlethes is specialized to do their sport. A runner that can run a marathon on 2:05 is an extrodenary human beeing that have a unbelivable psyke but that dosent make him a great trooper. He simply wont have the arm and upper body strenght. The same can be said a sprinter that run 100meter on 9:90 exept he wont have the endurance needed. My gues is that athlethes in sports that isnt as specializedin in one aspect would do well in a test like this, Kristian Bloomenfelt that won the triathlon event in Tokyo is someone I expect to do well in this.
Man, when I was back in middle school all the girls were required to hit 3:30 for the 800m-run. This really puts it in perspective of how ridiculous that standard was
Nah worh those boots on they’re adding a LOT of time, the olympic runner ran about a 2:30, that’s SLOW AF for an olympian like I hit that time in highschool. A 3:30 is pretty reasonable
I run the cft with Marine Corps officers and we’re expected to get a first class score every time. For us the MUF is the only hard part. Some of these girls run it faster than the officers in our unit.
@@gummy5862 not even. It’s just a general opinion that the MUF is the only hard part about the cft. If u can’t max ammo cans or do the sprint with ease then you got some problems. I get a 300 every time on my CFT and PFT. Once you’ve been in a while u tend to see people start getting big and not focusing as much on endurance like u said, but new officers are both strong and have stamina. We’re expected to go to OCS and be running a 18 min 3 mile. After your 2LT days you can get big and not worry as much about scores since it gets less important. Just don’t let pt be a bad thing on your fitreps.
@@jay__chugh Are you LCpl or 2ndLt Chongo? Don't let anyone make fun of Marines for being the people that joined because they don't have brains. I do understand if you had a few mistakes, but get a handle on the spelling and punctuation. Hit up the S3 or your training NCO for some fun and provocative marinenet courses and go to the education center/MCTIMS for some basic classes. Or, just have a few more drinks, or less. It will come around eventually. That's the Marine Corps Way.
These times aren’t even hard to beat, I beat them every time I do a CFT, I don’t get how they call themselves olympians. I was expecting them to do the 880 in sub 2 mins. My last 880 I ran in 2:25
Those target times/numbers always put me back in my military time and what absolute beasts we had back then. I served my country in my early 20s (almost 31 now) and we had this one mandatory march that was repeated annually. 12km (7.5 miles for the american folks) with 15kg backpack (around 33lbs) which was weighed before and after + you had a midway point where youd have to check in and turn back so you couldnt really take shortcuts since it was mostly a straight road. 2 hours was the target minimum that everyone had to beat no matter what. We had officers that ran that stuff in under 45 minutes. I can maybe run the 12km without the extra weight in under an hour but with combat boots and full standard gear is kinda insane. Some people are definitely built different.
In the British army, all they tested us on was a basic fitness test: 1.5 miles in a squad in 15 minutes, then 1.5 miles individually timed in 11.5 minutes wearing boots and trousers. I think it was at least twice a year, but I don't think I ever did it less than 6 times a year! I never failed one I always aimed at 10.5-11 minutes, the "whippets" could do 7.5 minutes. After the Falklands they introduced a Combat Fitness Test (CFT) due to the fast guys in a BFT failing to keep up when carrying weight. The CFT was 8 miles, carrying 35 lbs pack plus a rifle, followed by a fireman's lift (still carrying the packs and rifles), a ditch jump (to burst any blisters!), a short barrier course over then under, and finally climbing into the back of a lorry. I can't remember if the 2 hour time limit was just the 8 miles or if it was for everything, probably just the march. The first time my regiment did it they put together 8 man teams based on BFT times. All my section were "big lads" built for comfort not speed (we're not talking fat, just not stick insects) we came in second out of 40 teams. We were accused of cheating because we did so well. The following week we all did a repeat, this time with a witness to make sure no-one cheated. We came second again. We ran 200m then walked 100m for the entire 8 miles course, we never stopped for a rest. I was the section leader and was asked how we did it, my best explanation: if you weight 120 lbs and have to carry 1/3 of your body weight you're going to find it hard to keep going, if you 200 lbs and have to carry 1/5 you're going to find it easier. If you try to prove how fast you are, you're going to fail. From that point on every section was mixed, the stick insects were always a liability, always needing to be dragged along, but it was good to take the piss out of them like they took the piss out of us "big lads" doing BFTs.
This is some real fitness training which should be done in schools, obviously not at this maximum intensity but some sort of rigor would train us at a young age to be disciplined and possibly change our mind set on healthy eating as well. Just my mind thinking out loud
It's been 36 years since I enlisted and I probably couldn't do any of these anymore without having some type of physical breakdown. Just older and my body isn't what it used to be. God Bless our men and women in uniform.
THESE! are my favorite videos!!! Olympians breaking the fitness tests!!! Amazing! and give me the boost to do more exercise Thanks!!! remind me the fun on competition of my good years!!!
Just watching them made me out of breath. I definitely can’t doing these. These women is amazing. I thing they could even do better than this but they don’t.
Admirable! So much "mind over matter" physical training in the US Marine Corp. Preparation for combat! ...also for the women. How does this apply when one has retired?...facing life's hurdles positively and successfully! Awesome! Kudos, guys! 👏🇺🇸⭐️🎺🥁
Another great inspiration to my functional training. The last discipline really has a huge potential of carryover to practical life situations. Thank you for inspiration Austen.
i love this video this was insane gives people the chance to try it themselves id love to see the male standards and age as well to see what the difference is
As a marine this is the entrance physical fitness test. Just to see if you can make it through boot camp. Thats the real test but props to these Olympians they are strong candidates for the corps. Semper fi.
USMC 1978, retired Navy in 2000. These ladies had more time to rest between events than is normal, but still did just fine. I switched to Navy because the MC was stressing my body too much.
Congrats to the ladies for doing such an excellent job. Remember these are world class athletes. The average American female wouldn't do that good. I have been retired from the Marines since 1999 and never seen this version. We did Pull-Ups ( Dead Hang for the Ladies), Sit-ups ( change to crunches) and ( 3 )mile run ( 1.5) for Ladies . This course seems more realistic for Combat Fitness. I still think the other course was effective too. People forget the preparation it takes to get in shape for the PFT. Great Work All!
Doing these events all back to back is a different story without any rest in between is how the test was kind of first implemented. I remember when the corps was trying to figure out if they were going to have marines do the pft and cft the same day. Omg…
They forgot to add the factor where you're still drunk from the night before thinking you were just gonna be doing a light run or something and its a surprise scored cft with your whole chain of command there on a monday morning at zero dark thirty.
Great job to these athletes. for future reference, the marines should use the ammo cans that weight 30 lbs since those are the once used when marines run their cft for score. other than that these athletes crushed it!!
@@fukro7557it’s just men being sexist and butthurt that these women are stronger than them. So they have to act like it wasn’t 30lbs that the women were lifting to make themselves feel better
You guys did the CFT wrong bro. 880 good. You just sprint half a mile. Ammo lifts: you can put the can down to rest. MUF: You buddy drag to the closest cone then fireman carry straight down. No zigzag. Grab the ammo cans and run thru zig zag. Overall, they did great
The last time I did a CFT (back in 2014) we used a full size ammo can packed full. Not these half size cans filled half full. Also, we performed the movement to contact as a straight SPRINT on on an uneven open field, not a nice springy round rubber track. Even still, I don’t see how these women made the time they supposedly did at the pace they seemed to be going. I always had near perfect scores (ranging from 280-298) on both the PFT & CFT (only lacking a little on the runs, my average range being 2:30-2:50 for MTC, and 19:30-20:15 for the PFT 3mi run), and that is with a flat out sprint for the half mile movement to contact and nearly collapsing at the end.. I guarantee I was running at a faster pace than these olympians. And their maneuver under fire event looked like a snail pace compared to how I’m used to seeing the average Marine complete it. Edit: I am not trying to bash anyone here, just sharing my experience and observations. But, to me this definitely seems toned down and edited for results.. Edit2: I just noticed that they are using completely empty (sm) ammo cans for the maneuver under fire event. Now I KNOW this whole thing is fake bs just for show.
I've been an amateur athlete for many years, relying on self-training, and I've been no longer interested in sports lately and that's got me interested again.
These ladies were great. I would like to see a video of some Marines that have served more than 5 years but retired more than 5 do this course. Do they still have what it took for them to be a Marine?
Hold on now...I know we used the bigger ammo cans! The weight might be the same but with those smaller cans you don't have to go down as far before it passes your chin and you can actually get a grip on those little ones. I was always afraid I'd yeet the ammo can. But all in all this was extremely impressive, especially the boots and Utes run.
@@matt_spencer_photos4102 bro I swear, you're right. They always did that. Theyre also missing the motivated ssgt who made sure the biggest Marines were the only options for buddy drag and carry.
My husband and I were just saying this about the ammo cans because we both remember them being bigger. My problem is why did they give those girls those boots with the giant heel? He had jungle boots but bought theirs at DSW, lol I bet they would have done better in regular USMC boots.
@@bridgesbane7032 Also the guy you were dragging they would be dead weight not knees bent assisting lol. Also yea they were the ammo cans that the 50 cal ammo came in if i remember right and we were not allowed to bounce. I definably would have a mark cause i would blast my chin a couple times. Also was it 30 lbs? i though they were 50 lbs but i could be wrong there. Also there was no rest period when we did it it was the run strait into the lift straight into the rest. This is not discounting what these girls did they are beasts and killed it just some elements missing for those non military folks out there this is only half the picture of taking these tests lol.
Anytime we did any kind of pt testing in the Army, we did so with the element of about 4 hours of sleep because of sleep deprivation. Everybody does great when that part gets left out.
This was a great competition these girls pushed themselves to the Limit and I am so proud of each and every one of them go girl power I love it great video❤🏆🎈🥰
I don’t even know how I this channel made it into my reco’s, but having now watched a ton of vid’s recently, I can honestly report I’m 100% more active/actually exercising since discovering Austen’s channel. These videos are awesomely inspiring.
I LOVE THIS! That’s awesome my man keep up the great work
Bro seriously. It was in my recomended and i watched thr whole thing 🤷
I was eating a PB&J watching just thinking...not for me lol
@Andy Scott sir go sign an option 40 contract
I must admit I forgot how tough that CFT is until I was looking at this.
No matter how fast you are, there is always camera man who's faster than you.
So true😂😂
Underrated comment
And a DI/DS who's faster
True😂😂
Fax🥰🥰🤣🤣🤣🤣
“You’re allowed to do whatever it takes to get the box up” is perhaps the most Marine response possible to the question of form lol
Ya but God damn your soul to he'll if you kip on the pull-ups lol
@@touger9759 Kipping on the pull ups is what destroyed my rotation cuffs in my shoulders because it let me do hundreds of pull ups a day. TBH though, most don't know that we do pull ups to get over the wall, not for the sake of doing pull ups. You know that, but our civilians don't know, that's why they do arm curl pull ups, not over the wall ones.
For those that can't do a pull up, use a pull down bar untill you exceed your own weight. Good luck.
Semper fi
@@forcesightknight that and they really help you fly up a rope using just your arms.
Oh, this is Zoomer humor.
Randomly repeating comments you see online, regardless if it makes sense in context.
Repeat in hopes for upvotes.
@@toby7582 ratio
“She’s got good form” I’d hope so.. she’s an Olympian. Lolol
Some runners have weird form but they’re still at the elite level.
@@gummy5862 yhh like de grasse with his arm
None of their pushups counted, they were being nice. 90 degrees at the elbow to shoulders is needed for the minimum pushup in the final event. They all failed that.
@@jlawsl well they are runners not bodybuilders so think that still count
@@giathanhnguyen6166 I'm surprised elite runners can get away with not being able to do even a few proper pushups. Those weren't even close. Don't runners need upper body strength as well for stability and arm movement to propel them more?
These ladies are some beast! They’re smiling while doing all these challenges but I’d be having the most grueling ugly face trying to attempt any of these 😅😂
ya cause in the military they don't use that tone when instructing
their smiling bc they are probably taking plenty of rest before each event. Thats how all these youtubers do it, cut the screen and u dont see it all.
It's either because they are already conditioned from their Olympic training regimen, or they are taking breaks off camera, or this isn't the exact training they do in the Marines. It could also be a combination, but we'll never know which reason it is.
They’re Olympic athletes. They work out all the time. They are also genetically inclined toward elite athleticism.
@@djansen06 That certainly could be, but also keep in mind that Olympic athletes are the most fit people on Earth (literally). So it makes sense that they can finish these challenges, otherwise every marine would compete in the Olympics
The heart of an athlete knowing this is not what they train for but their mind and drive is FIRE!!!
It's about drive
@@emastermet609 it's about power
@@cacacaio230 we stay hungry
Sanna Jonsson We devour
@@pinkaji1208 put in the work
These athletes probably hadn’t needed to work their upper strength as hard as a marine soldier. But they finished the challenge anyway. That’s impressive.
Yeah but they are women so the standards are less
Just to clarify, a marine is not a soldier and a soldier isn't a marine.
@@dubol07 ya a soldier is sub marine
You’d probably be surprised at how much time and effort these ladies put in the weight room to stay at the World Class level as Track & Field athletes. They are impressive athletes and have to have an amazing work ethic to be able to stay at that top level just like any other sport
@@Chosen_Ash your penis is talking again big guy. up next?
Most military training for the Elite units (Ranger, SEALs, etc) are more centered around breaking your body and your mind. Doesnt matter if you run 25 miles a day and do 1000 pushups straight before joining. Your weakness will come out and the instructors will exploit it.
But these professional athletes have been digging deep and over coming pain since they were in high school and do it all with a smile at the end. This was inspiring to see.
Austin:"Do you want to know your time?"
Ally:"No"
Austin:"Understandable, have a good day"
I love how they all smile through everything no matter how grueling.
They take breaks between and it ain't as tuff and heavy as the real marine fitness test. Trust me, they lowered the weight and level, otherwise this video wouldn't be as good or succesfull
@@fesjo1013 not to brake it to you, but they’re not marines, of course they’re gonna need more time to breath, and you don’t even know if that’s true. Another reason of why they’re smiling is because no one is screaming to them.
Easy to smile when u know the training isn’t going to be used in a life or death situation later on down the road…
@@I-dont-reply lmao turn down the dramatics
It’s so wholesome
I was a middle distance runner in school and there is a big difference running is shoes and shorts than in boots.
Unless they're Nike SFBs. Those things are AWESOME.
The boots they're wearing look like they weigh 10 pounds 💀💀
Now let’s see Marines do the Olympians sport! Haha
True
Let's go then
75th Rangers did marathon in Somalia. While carrying 50+ pounds and under fire from enemy.
@@simontide6780 rangers aren't marines but ok
Instead of do their sport let’s see them do a track workout because track workouts are THE WORST
They have the best personality! Super positive with a smile on their face
I went into this video thinking the Olympians would absolutely crush it! They did obviously, but wow some of those movements were pretty difficult. They did great! And the Marines were very encouraging… Super cool.
Man, I feel for them doing this in boots they've never worn nor broken in lol.
I thought that too.
Then I remembered whatvinhad to do I new boots.....
@@dobermanownerforlife3902 hahaha God it was miserable. They didn't have my size so I went up a FULL size. Had to wear dress socks and two green socks on each foot🤣🤣🤣
@@mmancino1982 I wish they had done 20 mile full pack.
That hump is merciless.
@@dobermanownerforlife3902 lol no shit. But I think longest I ever marched in one go was like eighteen. Army went soft🤣🤣
@@mmancino1982 I'm not sure how long it was. We past that candy striped water tower atleast 10 times, at Leonardwood.
When Allie said "I'm already tired"... I truly felt that. 😩😭😭😭😂😂😂😂
This dude was an MA with my squadron a few years back. Funny dude. Glad you're doing big things/meeting cool people, man! 💪🏽
These ladies did awesome! For future reference the Marine demonstrated the MUF incorrectly. You drag your buddy straight back and to the first cone, you don't drag them through the zig zag and then fireman carry straight back. On the way back with the ammo cans you go through the zig zags, not straight back. Either way, great job. Love to see it!
You a Marine?
Not true. You zig zag back.
That’s wrong you do drag them through the zig zag
@@Fatherofheroesandheroines yes i am
@@travisstallworth46 you don’t though.
Only thing I saw that yall did wrong was normally we were hungover during the tests. Great job ladies. USMC Semper Fi
or still drunk
Fact! Semper Fi
@@HollowPoint_762 Yes still drunk... lol would stop drinking at 4 am get an hour and a half nap wake up at 530 and usually do these tests at like 6 am.
Also were you all able to bounce when doing the ammo can lift? not discrediting these girls i mean they are peak condition athletes but we were definitely not allowed to bounce and we had to pause at the top with are arms locked out.
@@nicholasjaeger3132 that might've been the decision of who was running the tests. I've had a couple that allowed it and others that didnt
I guess we are just going to ignore the piss poor form on the push-up?.. most of them wouldn’t count
12:49 her carry was hilarious. Great effort, and with a little practice she would improve immensely. The smile, the effort, she did great!
Yeah I've always wondered how Olympians would do in the military. I mean, sure, Olympics is a festival of peace, so perhaps I shouldn't be making these comparisons, but both sportsmen and military personnel needs to be in shape, so yeah.
Most athletes have the physical ability to be in any level of the military it’s the mentality that is different combat sports athletes specially mma would be the best soldiers
It not about the PT it about the mentality
If you want a great example, then check out Larsen Jensen. He was a Silver and Bronze Olympic medalist in distance swimming for Team USA. After the Beijing Olympics, he joined the Navy and became a SEAL. The Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon was exclusively developed by the military, consisting of Fencing (combat training), Swimming (physical training), Horse Riding (logistics), Shooting (combat training), and Running (physical training).
Olympians should be in much better shape than your basic enlisted military personnel... I mean they are supposed to be elite athletes
@@brentcohee2681 top athlethes is specialized to do their sport. A runner that can run a marathon on 2:05 is an extrodenary human beeing that have a unbelivable psyke but that dosent make him a great trooper. He simply wont have the arm and upper body strenght. The same can be said a sprinter that run 100meter on 9:90 exept he wont have the endurance needed.
My gues is that athlethes in sports that isnt as specializedin in one aspect would do well in a test like this, Kristian Bloomenfelt that won the triathlon event in Tokyo is someone I expect to do well in this.
Man, when I was back in middle school all the girls were required to hit 3:30 for the 800m-run. This really puts it in perspective of how ridiculous that standard was
It's slow for a runner, even in middle school, but it doesn't seem ridiculous for a basic fitness standard.
Boot and utes makes a HUGEEEE difference. Especially if you don’t have any lightweight boots
Nah worh those boots on they’re adding a LOT of time, the olympic runner ran about a 2:30, that’s SLOW AF for an olympian like I hit that time in highschool. A 3:30 is pretty reasonable
@@ellie.decker29 im a male runner, i can run 800 in less than 2 minutes, however these ladies did amazing job
Nah its really not that bad I think but for girls Im not sure
This is so cool! I've known Allie Wilson since we were in Elementary School!!!!! So cool to see her doing awesome as an Olympic Athlete!!!!!
She didn't quite make the Olympics but is a real up-and-comer
Sure you did.
I run the cft with Marine Corps officers and we’re expected to get a first class score every time. For us the MUF is the only hard part. Some of these girls run it faster than the officers in our unit.
You guys put all your stats into strength and none into endurance that’s why. 😂
@@gummy5862 not even. It’s just a general opinion that the MUF is the only hard part about the cft. If u can’t max ammo cans or do the sprint with ease then you got some problems. I get a 300 every time on my CFT and PFT. Once you’ve been in a while u tend to see people start getting big and not focusing as much on endurance like u said, but new officers are both strong and have stamina. We’re expected to go to OCS and be running a 18 min 3 mile. After your 2LT days you can get big and not worry as much about scores since it gets less important. Just don’t let pt be a bad thing on your fitreps.
might just be me but the muf course looked a bit shorter than the real one
@@rolandojbuenoanderson7953 it was looking short, also they did it wrong.
@@jay__chugh Are you LCpl or 2ndLt Chongo? Don't let anyone make fun of Marines for being the people that joined because they don't have brains. I do understand if you had a few mistakes, but get a handle on the spelling and punctuation. Hit up the S3 or your training NCO for some fun and provocative marinenet courses and go to the education center/MCTIMS for some basic classes. Or, just have a few more drinks, or less. It will come around eventually. That's the Marine Corps Way.
10:05 I like how he's explaining things while he's getting dragged and carried that made me laugh :)
Lmaoo
I wanted to see them dump the buddy with a far toss.
I think we all want to see Austen compete in all these!
All good of them did so good and not even breaking a sweat but Kendall was a beast today
She didn’t actually complete a single push-up…none of her push-ups would have counted.
Awesome 🤩 This trio is outstanding, great sportswomen 🏃🏿♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏿♀️
Even at my PT Test best I couldn't beat these Olympians. Impressive that you got true Olympians!
These times aren’t even hard to beat, I beat them every time I do a CFT, I don’t get how they call themselves olympians. I was expecting them to do the 880 in sub 2 mins. My last 880 I ran in 2:25
@@mastin8756 somehow..I doubt all of that crayon eater lol.
I don't miss doing the CFT as soon as the sun was rising but watching this has motivated me to workout !!! Awesome job to everyone who did this!
Allie seems like the kind of person who would charge the enemy line with a smile on her face if she was a soldier, lol. Love it!
Those target times/numbers always put me back in my military time and what absolute beasts we had back then. I served my country in my early 20s (almost 31 now) and we had this one mandatory march that was repeated annually. 12km (7.5 miles for the american folks) with 15kg backpack (around 33lbs) which was weighed before and after + you had a midway point where youd have to check in and turn back so you couldnt really take shortcuts since it was mostly a straight road. 2 hours was the target minimum that everyone had to beat no matter what. We had officers that ran that stuff in under 45 minutes. I can maybe run the 12km without the extra weight in under an hour but with combat boots and full standard gear is kinda insane. Some people are definitely built different.
I always sucked at estimating how much my truck weighed. Quite a few times when it was weighed at the end it was around 50#.
How are your knees these days ?
@@markofisaiah1449 YES
I run 7k without any extra weight and I almost die. This is not my thing.
In the British army, all they tested us on was a basic fitness test: 1.5 miles in a squad in 15 minutes, then 1.5 miles individually timed in 11.5 minutes wearing boots and trousers. I think it was at least twice a year, but I don't think I ever did it less than 6 times a year!
I never failed one I always aimed at 10.5-11 minutes, the "whippets" could do 7.5 minutes.
After the Falklands they introduced a Combat Fitness Test (CFT) due to the fast guys in a BFT failing to keep up when carrying weight.
The CFT was 8 miles, carrying 35 lbs pack plus a rifle, followed by a fireman's lift (still carrying the packs and rifles), a ditch jump (to burst any blisters!), a short barrier course over then under, and finally climbing into the back of a lorry.
I can't remember if the 2 hour time limit was just the 8 miles or if it was for everything, probably just the march.
The first time my regiment did it they put together 8 man teams based on BFT times. All my section were "big lads" built for comfort not speed (we're not talking fat, just not stick insects) we came in second out of 40 teams. We were accused of cheating because we did so well.
The following week we all did a repeat, this time with a witness to make sure no-one cheated. We came second again. We ran 200m then walked 100m for the entire 8 miles course, we never stopped for a rest.
I was the section leader and was asked how we did it, my best explanation: if you weight 120 lbs and have to carry 1/3 of your body weight you're going to find it hard to keep going, if you 200 lbs and have to carry 1/5 you're going to find it easier. If you try to prove how fast you are, you're going to fail.
From that point on every section was mixed, the stick insects were always a liability, always needing to be dragged along, but it was good to take the piss out of them like they took the piss out of us "big lads" doing BFTs.
This is some real fitness training which should be done in schools, obviously not at this maximum intensity but some sort of rigor would train us at a young age to be disciplined and possibly change our mind set on healthy eating as well. Just my mind thinking out loud
Great video Austen. Wonderful job ladies. Great work Josh at procuring.... Awesome all the way around 👏🙏❤
Such good energy from Josh and the insane track athletes in this video. Absolute tanks 🔥
It's been 36 years since I enlisted and I probably couldn't do any of these anymore without having some type of physical breakdown. Just older and my body isn't what it used to be.
God Bless our men and women in uniform.
These women went full on beast mode. Very impressive.
THESE! are my favorite videos!!! Olympians breaking the fitness tests!!! Amazing!
and give me the boost to do more exercise Thanks!!! remind me the fun on competition of my good years!!!
For woman standards not men we have different tests ours is way harder
Just watching them made me out of breath. I definitely can’t doing these. These women is amazing. I thing they could even do better than this but they don’t.
Daaaang!!! They all killed it👏👏👏👏👏👏 🔥🔥🔥🙌🙌🙌
My toxic trait is that I feel like I would kill this lmao😂
Admirable! So much "mind over matter" physical training in the US Marine Corp. Preparation for combat! ...also for the women. How does this apply when one has retired?...facing life's hurdles positively and successfully! Awesome! Kudos, guys! 👏🇺🇸⭐️🎺🥁
Great job! Especially Allie. I am your Uncle Russell's and your mother's friend from EB. Korey loved the video too.
Y’all never realize how hard it is until you do it. I just graduated from kilo co PI last Friday
Shut up boot lol
As a Marine I say they all did great, Kendall is amazing 😍😍😍
She didn’t complete a single push-up properly…none of hers would have counted.
Another great inspiration to my functional training. The last discipline really has a huge potential of carryover to practical life situations. Thank you for inspiration Austen.
i love this video this was insane gives people the chance to try it themselves id love to see the male standards and age as well to see what the difference is
This is making me very motivated to go run on my treadmill 🏃🏼♀️
I know it’s 2 years later but go do it.
Man!!! These military men are cuuttttttteeeeeee!!! Lmbo good job keeping focused ladies!
This makes me feel so much better now. My normal time was a 3:40 for the run at age 35. Ladies killing it and smiling too…
You want to be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling
Hell yeah! Never quit, no matter what
All these girls are great and they are so supportive of each other.
As a marine this is the entrance physical fitness test. Just to see if you can make it through boot camp. Thats the real test but props to these Olympians they are strong candidates for the corps. Semper fi.
USMC 1978, retired Navy in 2000. These ladies had more time to rest between events than is normal, but still did just fine. I switched to Navy because the MC was stressing my body too much.
I went through basic and AIT with a Olympic hopeful…he smoked the entire PT test 😂 and he was an Olympic race walker 😉
I'm impressed. Great job, ladies! Makes me motivated to get out there and move.
Love the videos Austen keep up the good work
Congrats to the ladies for doing such an excellent job. Remember these are world class athletes. The average American female wouldn't do that good.
I have been retired from the Marines since 1999 and never seen this version. We did Pull-Ups ( Dead Hang for the Ladies), Sit-ups ( change to crunches) and ( 3 )mile
run ( 1.5) for Ladies .
This course seems more realistic for Combat Fitness. I still think the other course was effective too. People forget the preparation it takes to get in shape for the PFT.
Great Work All!
These ladies are machines. It would have taken me 6 hours to complete them all and that’s a minimum.
THAT WAS REALLY FUN. -- WATCHING IT PLUMB WORE ME OUT!
Doing these events all back to back is a different story without any rest in between is how the test was kind of first implemented. I remember when the corps was trying to figure out if they were going to have marines do the pft and cft the same day. Omg…
Omg😭
They should have changed the turn order. Going last gives you an advantage because it gives you time to watch others and create strategies.
I don’t get why they just didn’t run them all at the same time.
when ally was standing at the ready for the run and her hand was on her watch... very on brand haha
On the Ammo can lifts, the second girl not only beat the first but she did well over the male maximum reps. Im impressed
They forgot to add the factor where you're still drunk from the night before thinking you were just gonna be doing a light run or something and its a surprise scored cft with your whole chain of command there on a monday morning at zero dark thirty.
the soldiers come off so cocky, the Olympians are so humble!
Me: they look slow…that looks easy
Dead after 2 pushups
These women killed it. Mad respect.
Kendell's crawling speed was crazy
She couldn’t do a single push-up properly though.
They running laps in brand new boots? Ouch
Great job to these athletes. for future reference, the marines should use the ammo cans that weight 30 lbs since those are the once used when marines run their cft for score. other than that these athletes crushed it!!
But he said it was 30 lbs? I'm not familiar with the American army so maybe I'm missing something
@@fukro7557it’s just men being sexist and butthurt that these women are stronger than them. So they have to act like it wasn’t 30lbs that the women were lifting to make themselves feel better
Good lord! I was screaming cheering them on, this video from 2021 hahah man that looks nuts.
I wonder how much rest they got in between events. In the Marines it was about 3 minutes.
Olympians would have a pretty good recovery speed.
You guys did the CFT wrong bro.
880 good. You just sprint half a mile.
Ammo lifts: you can put the can down to rest.
MUF: You buddy drag to the closest cone then fireman carry straight down. No zigzag.
Grab the ammo cans and run thru zig zag.
Overall, they did great
Great content, great instruction. And ladies, you did amazing. Now let me get more fit so I can accomplish the CFT like they did. ANIMALS!!!!
really impresive it show what beasts do track and field good job ladies
The ladies did a great job! 👏👏👏 I honestly can’t say I could match them !🤣 😂😂
Would love to see Simone Biles on the show!
The last time I did a CFT (back in 2014) we used a full size ammo can packed full. Not these half size cans filled half full. Also, we performed the movement to contact as a straight SPRINT on on an uneven open field, not a nice springy round rubber track. Even still, I don’t see how these women made the time they supposedly did at the pace they seemed to be going. I always had near perfect scores (ranging from 280-298) on both the PFT & CFT (only lacking a little on the runs, my average range being 2:30-2:50 for MTC, and 19:30-20:15 for the PFT 3mi run), and that is with a flat out sprint for the half mile movement to contact and nearly collapsing at the end.. I guarantee I was running at a faster pace than these olympians. And their maneuver under fire event looked like a snail pace compared to how I’m used to seeing the average Marine complete it.
Edit:
I am not trying to bash anyone here, just sharing my experience and observations. But, to me this definitely seems toned down and edited for results..
Edit2:
I just noticed that they are using completely empty (sm) ammo cans for the maneuver under fire event. Now I KNOW this whole thing is fake bs just for show.
I've been an amateur athlete for many years, relying on self-training, and I've been no longer interested in sports lately and that's got me interested again.
You guys just came thru my feed, I’m incredibly impressed, you guys are awesome, I’ve never been physically fit.👏🏻
"now toss her, as far as you can", loved that comment :)
They did great! A short(ish) sprint in cold weather is the worst feeling afterwards🥶
That ammo can does not look like 30 pounds, bruh. There's no way.
This is an amazing channel which remind me to keep working out~! Solute to the marine~!
These ladies were great. I would like to see a video of some Marines that have served more than 5 years but retired more than 5 do this course. Do they still have what it took for them to be a Marine?
This video just gave me the biggest goals. Gonna test myself after watching this video. I don't even know how I got here but I'm glad I did. 😊
these ladies are killing it!!!
Thank YOUs for your service Gentlemen, ONE LOVE❣️
Hold on now...I know we used the bigger ammo cans! The weight might be the same but with those smaller cans you don't have to go down as far before it passes your chin and you can actually get a grip on those little ones. I was always afraid I'd yeet the ammo can. But all in all this was extremely impressive, especially the boots and Utes run.
they also didn't do the maneuver under fire in the early morning when the grass is all wet and slippery from the dew so the zigzag is a lot harder
@@matt_spencer_photos4102 bro I swear, you're right. They always did that. Theyre also missing the motivated ssgt who made sure the biggest Marines were the only options for buddy drag and carry.
My husband and I were just saying this about the ammo cans because we both remember them being bigger. My problem is why did they give those girls those boots with the giant heel? He had jungle boots but bought theirs at DSW, lol I bet they would have done better in regular USMC boots.
I was saying the same thing, and I don't remember pushups at the end, unless that part changed.
@@bridgesbane7032 Also the guy you were dragging they would be dead weight not knees bent assisting lol. Also yea they were the ammo cans that the 50 cal ammo came in if i remember right and we were not allowed to bounce. I definably would have a mark cause i would blast my chin a couple times. Also was it 30 lbs? i though they were 50 lbs but i could be wrong there.
Also there was no rest period when we did it it was the run strait into the lift straight into the rest.
This is not discounting what these girls did they are beasts and killed it just some elements missing for those non military folks out there this is only half the picture of taking these tests lol.
Bro i swear these vids are so motivational !! ❤
Waiting for Austen to train for a marathon so I can race him 😤
These athletes are real devils 🙌🔥
You should get some of us olympic bobsledders out there doing this against y’all! Lol
Quite a few of the men are army guys.
Wow Kendall surprised me lifting the ammo. Excellent work ladies.
Anytime we did any kind of pt testing in the Army, we did so with the element of about 4 hours of sleep because of sleep deprivation. Everybody does great when that part gets left out.
YOOOOOOOOO, Kendall and Keturah used to go to my church!!! Good seeing you ladies! Oh, and Keturah my wife still wears her Olympic shirts from you!!!!
Are they from the same place??
Kendell didn’t complete a single push-up properly. None of hers would have counted.
Is that ammo can small? Or is it just me?
its small. those are 7.62 cans which are about half the width of the normal 5.56 cans
No these ammo cans are definitely small!
No definitely smaller. Easy to grab which makes this way easier. If they are going to do it they should do it right.
Damnn, beasts. But those pushups on the last challenge were... debatable
Not debatable, none of them counted.
@@exotikinc3397 I was waiting to hear one... one... one... 😂
@@djangomarine6658 😂
Loved this one! Go ladies 💪🏼
This was a great competition these girls pushed themselves to the Limit and I am so proud of each and every one of them go girl power I love it great video❤🏆🎈🥰