Joining the army, any ideas for improving entry standard fitness?

>>42322275
in the finnish marines atm

start bench pressing and dipping if you want to improve your push ups

for sit ups do planks and ab exercises with weights

run instead for 30 to 60 min to improve endurance

>>42322275
>press ups
Gonna assume you mean push ups. What country is this? These standards are abyssmal, but I guess that's just for entry

Do cardio every day, instead of running only 1.5 miles work on your 3 mile time and make it your goal to get that to below 20 min

The thing is, instead of strength training, you're going to need endurance. I suggest training all of these every day, and while you can time yourself make sure you do much more than just posted here

Don't forget pull ups

>>42322359
Press ups are what they are called in Ireland and the UK

For run times do 30 seconds sprinting and 60 seconds walking. Also you can do 60 seconds sprinting and 120 seconds walking. Repeat until you want to puke. Also hill sprints are good. You can throw in one relaxed distance run a week, but really the intervals are what improve 2 mile times.

For pushups I usually just do bench press and weighted dips.... when it's close to test time I throw in high rep sets of regular pushups.

For situps do weighted cable crunches... kneeling or standing. An ab wheel is good too.

Thanks guys, good advice. Will give it a shot