Hi, I'm leaving for boot camp in a month and a half and have been working out very hard for 2 months. I can do 100 crunches in 2 minutes and can do 10 pullups and am a decent runner. That being said I only have a month and a half left and I would like to be as close as possible to a perfect PFT. My daily workout is to run a mile to the gym, do 10 pullups, then 100 crunches, then 15 dips, I repeat that 3 times then I run back home. My question is should I do this workout everyday, or should I do it every other day to give my muscles a rest. I know with weight lifting the muscles need time but is it the same with body weight?

It sounds to me like a good base to build off of, but I do wonder why you're only running 1 mile. That's not even as far as the initial strength test and only a third of the way through the run for the PFT.

You started too late and you're doing too little but, like PapaVictor stated, it's a good base to build on.

If you could do 10 pull ups, don't stop just after one set. Try doing 3 max set of pull ups, then boot camp will take care of the rest. I don't see why you shouldn't be doing 20 coming out of boot.

I am doing three sets of the routine posted above. It comes out to 30 pullups, 45 dips, and 300 crunches. I was running 4 miles. I havn't ran in a few weeks so I started with 2 miles for now. I have been lifting weights for 5 hours a day for 2 months also. If there are any other callistenic exercises I should be doing please let me know.

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I have been lifting weights for 5 hours a day for 2 months also.

I am a certified AFPA (www.afpafitness.com) Personal Traininer and have been for almost one year. 5 hours a day is on the brink of insanity. You are not even working out your muscles, and I am calling the BS card on you if you tell me you spend 5 solid, gut-wrenching, balls to the wall hours in the gym. If you are BS'ing with your buddies and whatnot, then whatever. 45-90 minutes MAX is all it takes to totally devastate your muscles of all reasonable strength. Just work out fast, hard, mean, and intense. Train how you fight, right?

I have been lifting weights for a few years now. I am a triathlete so I do not pack on muscle too much, but I will tell you that a 45 minute lifting session NOW versus a 2 hour lifting session that I used to do 2 years ago is so much harder. You will learn over time how to crank your body into overdrive for a short time. If you are really trying to get in shape, learn to swim and bike and run a few triathlons. Good endurance training there!

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You are not even working out your muscles, and I am calling the BS card on you if you tell me you spend 5 solid, gut-wrenching, balls to the wall hours in the gym.

Bump that.

I am not a triathlete (maybe someday Hey NJRUSMC! wanna train someone) only a many times marathon finisher. I will only comment on running. Break it up, with speed work comes faster times. Run distance and run short and and fast. Some days do 30 seconds sprints with 30 seconds slow easy jogs. Do these until you can't do anymore then do one more. Limit your gym time muscle is heavy and you have to carry all of that on your runs.