Running in morning, lifting in evening?

[Anonymous]

Pretty simple to understand. I'm leaving for Marine basic training in two months and want to start running everyday to get into the routine of it. I've got a running split of running 1.5 miles on Monday and interval sprinting on Wednesday and then repeat. Lifting Monday-Friday and resting the weekend but I also want to start lifting everyday, with how its split I'm fine as far as recovery goes. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

practice running with a backpack filled with as much weight as possible. Ruck runs are very routine. Also practice swimming that's part of marine training. Develop your lats since pull ups are part of your pft test even if they are assisted pull ups.

[Asker]

I'll start running with the weighted pack, I've been doing hikes with it already. I've been swimming a lot and I'm already at 16 pull ups and I'm trying to get to 20 before i ship. Thank you:)

[Xfitchick]

See that give each muscle group at least a 24h rest to recover (longer is even better) to gain maximum yield of the weigth training. Exhausting the muscle every day will only lead to muscle breakdown instead of build up.

[Asker]

I know that's the best way to do it, but I'm preparing for basic training which is constant physical training where they dont care if your muscles are tired so I'm trying to get into the hang of that right now, but thank you anyways :)

[Xfitchick]

thats OK. But do it gradually. If you already trained the way I described, OK, then you can switch to your way of training. Your muscles should be ready for it. But don't forget rest days. You don't want your muscles to be completely used up when you enter the army ;-)