Why you (and your chain of command) suck at training for the PST
You know you have a PST coming up in the near future. You start doing push-ups every day. Maybe you max out your push-ups every night, striving for just one more push-up every time. You feel fit. You feel ready. You're definitely going to crush it this time. The day of the PST comes, and you finish your push-up portion having performed similar to the last time you did it. You may have increased your push-ups by 2-3, but you feel frustrated that you put in so much work to only stay in the same ballpark as you originally were. This is a very common problem that almost every sailor, marine, airman, or soldier has either experienced themselves, or knows someone who has. How can you put in so much time and energy into improving something, only to stay at the same level you were before? The answer: you and your chain of command (yes. Even the Petty Officer or Gunnery Sergeant who acts like they know literally everything) don't know how to train properly and efficiently . Imagine bein...