I will try to make this short as possible. I got around a month and a half to go till I go to Recruit training. What I wanted to know is when is a good time to get up in the mornings to get up and for how long should I run and do pt. I am not the best sleeper and would figure it would be best to just prepare for one more thing for Recruit training. Thanks Marines for any advice. I do understand I will be getting up at Parris Island at 4 am.

Well, can't directly speak for Recruit training, but I would suggest just not getting used to sleeping for 9 hours or so (ie: like most kids do in the summer). Get 7-8 hrs of sleep. I will let those who have been to PI speak for how many hours you will get on average. You will also be exhausted too, once you hit that rack, you will be out. I am sure you will be a good sleeper there.

It would be a good habit to get up in the morning and PT for an hour or so. Get used to running after just waking up.

What Jagges says is right but to be honest I think you are looking too far into it.

Don't worry about getting up, you WILL get up in boot camp. Once the lights come on it's just chaos - yelling, screaming, 80 bodies running around trying to get dressed and open footlockers. You don't even have time to think about what's going on until you reach the chow hall. After about 4 days, you'll already be used to it.

Sometimes you will have fire watch that lasts for two hours anywhere between the hours of 2100 to 0500. This doesn't mean that you get eight hours of sleep everynight except for nights you have fire watch. These are just the standard sleeping hours, but they change due to the training schedule.

Sometimes you get good sleeping hours, sometimes you don't. I slept great in boot camp. I was never awake for more than a minute after my head hit the pillow, I was so tired.

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Originally posted by frmr8511:
I was never awake for more than a minute after my head hit the pillow, I was so tired.

+1

I remember one time before lights out, my platoon mounted racks at the Position Of Attention, and ready for the command to "adjust." Next thing I remember was waking up around 0030, and I was still at the POA while everyone else were under their covers. I was that exhausted.

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Originally posted by HollywoodMarine:

I remember one time before lights out, my platoon mounted racks at the Position Of Attention, and ready for the command to "adjust." Next thing I remember was waking up around 0030, and I was still at the POA while everyone else were under their covers. I was that exhausted.

LMAO. I know, right?

I once saw the recruit directly across the squadbay from me falling asleep on line while getting a count to hit the rack....lol!

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Originally posted by HollywoodMarine:

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Originally posted by frmr8511:
I was never awake for more than a minute after my head hit the pillow, I was so tired.

+1

I remember one time before lights out, my platoon mounted racks at the Position Of Attention, and ready for the command to "adjust." Next thing I remember was waking up around 0030, and I was still at the POA while everyone else were under their covers. I was that exhausted.

LMAO That happened to me a couple of times except I didn't wake up until the next morning. They're right if your not a good sleeper you will be. You're so tired you fall asleep if not constently. Luckily that only happens between the hours of 2100 to 0500.

Taylor no need to train for sleep as you can see by the posts above and no matter what you try to prepare for your DI's will alter their schedule to make you uncomfortable trust me.
The culture shock alone will exhaust you so just go open minded and in shape and you should be fine.

I am definetly going in the best shape of my life. I think that question I aksed was kind of odd cause I never can sleap all that well it was just something to link not sleaping to.

there's no real way to prepare for it. just count on being pretty tired for about 3 months.

if anything, just get used to waking up early and going to bed early.

get on a regular sleep schedule of some kind.just don't party till 3 in the morning and sleep till noon.

Start eating healthy (give up the twinkies), and get off all of the caffeine.

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Originally posted by Lyle0861:
Start eating healthy (give up the twinkies), and get off all of the caffeine.

I was the house mouse and I would always eyeball the DI's coffee pot because I was a big coffee drinker. They caught me one day and after that, they put the coffee pot in the duty hut's window for all of us to see. Torture!

well part of its I got a x box 360 and some games and I seem to play them staying up and I drink monster energy drinks. Other then that I rely dont drink anything bad at all. I am just excited to leave this place.

Get off of the energy drinks. You're shipping in about 6 to 8 weeks. Get off of what you won't get on the Island.
You'll get red and orange bug juice (kool aid, sort of). Get used to it.
Keep taking mega doses of high quality vitamins now, as that could help you not get sick, or as sick, with squad bay crud.
But as for the rest of the energy drinks, caffeinated drinks, big sugar content food items, taper down on those for a couple of weeks, then stop (to avoid "DT's") those things.
You can't get them where you're going, and you don't want to be dealing with the issues of using them right up to the moment you ship.
Best of luck to you.

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Originally posted by taylorsgreatest:
well part of its I got a x box 360 and some games and I seem to play them staying up and I drink monster energy drinks. Other then that I rely dont drink anything bad at all. I am just excited to leave this place.

it sounds like you're really preparing yourself well for what you're about to do....

please enlighten us with how you think staying up late, playing video games and drinking rockstar will prepare you for Marine boot camp.

don't worry, each night the Drill Instructors will allow you an hour to play XBox and you'll never have fire watch in the middle of the night. each morning they'll gently rouse you from sleep and you'll get to drink a red bull with breakfast to get you going.

I realize trust me that I will not be able to play x box thats fine with me. I also realize Energy drinks are a no. Other then that I realy dont eat anything bad.

Just let the DI's know you need some extra help getting up in the morning....They will love to help.....lol....

No its not even that I can get right out of bed to is the thing. I ran the other day at 6 am no problem felt great as a mader of fact.