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[@ferguscrawley95]

Whatever comment suggesting the next military fitness test gets the most likes - I’ll do it 👀

[@oliverashley2189]

Do a collab with @craig Holman below!

[@rob5694]

Sub 8-hour 30 mile yomp whilst carrying 32lbs of equipment 🗡 (Actually, make it sub 7-hour as you sound pretty posh 😉)

[@James-C24]

Indeed a collaboration with craig would be a great idea. Although the RM 30 mile challenge also suggested sounds like a brilliant idea. Perhaps you could combine the two.

[@CombatReadyHQ]

I'll do the commando 30 miler for sure or the Fan Dance with him

[@colinbarton8720]

The fan dance is a good one - hills, weight and weather!

[@sismith5154]

Hi Fergus - thanks for coming to the Regiment and I’m glad that the workout went well. Great to be able to host you and thanks for an inspiring talk about your own experiences with mental health. Hope you’re well. Simon

[@ferguscrawley95]

Thanks for having me Simon - massively appreciated 👊🏼

[@CombatReadyHQ]

Wicked video mate, great to see you attempt this. Would you be up for a Collab one day? We can do the 5 mile run together carrying 20kg or something like the P Coy 10 or 2 mile tab carrying 36lb?

[@ferguscrawley95]

Love to mate - what’s best way to get in touch properly?

[@user-my9dx6dh5e]

It's good to see you doing a great warmup for a Royal Marine's video.

[@miamidolphinsfan]

oh the shade thrown there

[@Steve-nz6ek]

Test week or hill phase at Lympstone if you're feeling brave Fergus. Even as a pro/semi pro athlete you will find it tough.

[@ferguscrawley95]

😂😂😂 shots fired!

[@ferguscrawley95]

@@Steve-nz6ek happy to take anything on - if Lympstone will have me then I’ll head on down for sure!

[@user-my9dx6dh5e]

In all seriousness mate, great video and great effort. But yeah, RM test week would be right up your street.

[@andrewcummins1976]

dude.. when you walked in with your uniform (OCPs here in the US, dunno what they're called over there?) and you were wearing your Vivos, I cracked up 😂 Great vid, mate. Being in the military, I found this video concept quite fascinating. Great work, chap. Hope you're doing well, have a great new year, Ferg!

[@ferguscrawley95]

Me and inflexible boots do not get along - and a few of the staff on site tried to pass those ones through their DS (sadly denied) but they’re popular with some of the lads 👀 thanks for watching!

[@ferguscrawley95]

Hey everyone! Thanks for watching and Happy New Year! Don’t forget to like the video (do it right now, cheers), subscribe if you haven’t already, and please comment below what videos you want to see next 👀

[@keithronson2624]

Fergus. Thank You. As always a brilliant video. And inspiring. Your work with the army so important.Has indeed is our fantastic Armed Forces! All too often recruits take their own lives. Your honesty and experience is invaluable. Thank you. The video was great to watch. [Assume filmed in November?] You are an incredible person! Young or old we all will benefit from your insight and inspiration and down right commonsense. Here is wishing You & Erin every happiness and HEALTH and some calmness in 2022! Take care Big Man!

[@mrtyanthropocentrist]

The loose pack straps had me laughing. It's like the white hot rage you get carrying something awkward to the car. 😅 fantastic video though. Glad you showed the test and the talk

[@Rokman]

Definitely need to do elite forces then special forces selection next 🙊

[@Abcder-c5z]

Yeh no worries, he can go on selection lad 😂😂 ffs

[@ferguscrawley95]

To do this properly is pretty much logistically impossible - as 4 weeks on the hills isn’t that easy to make work around normal life 😂 but I’ll see what I can do!

[@Rokman]

@@ferguscrawley95 lol, yeh, maybe don’t go wild camping for 4-weeks in the hills 😂 Maybe just tackle some of the key/significant tests? The Fan Dance is a good one for the SF. Would mean a trip down to the Welsh hills which is never time wasted 💪🏻

[@Steve-nz6ek]

Respect Fergus, these are not easy challenges and the recruits have to build up to them. 2km effort particularly solid even with daysack and webbing flapping around like crazy (The directing staff should have helped you adjust them properly) running with webbing/rifle etc. is harder than it looks as i'm sure you found out.

[@ferguscrawley95]

All borrowed from one person so had to work with what I had sizing wise sadly - but got through it even with the sun optimal kit standards 😂 the daysack was driving me mad though not gonna lie haha!

[@Steve-nz6ek]

@@ferguscrawley95 Shame, I think you would have gotten sub 10 mins with properly fitted/adjusted stuff, the bounce sucks energy from every step. There is a surprising amount of technique in correctly loading/distributing weight/pouches. Trained infantry will have them rock solid on the hips, strapping/tape/vaseline for chafe areas.

[@francessweeney2308]

One of the things that soldiers do is sanitary towels on both their shoulders and hips to protect them against chafing.

[@owenmorrissey2834]

Love your videos watch at home with my young boys and something so small they love seeing you take your inhaler as they both have asthma so love them seeing you do such amazing things with endurance and have asthma 👌🏻💪🏻

[@Harries88]

Didn't want this video to end. Very good vid 👌🔥

[@anthonygibson437]

Great to see this Fergus and your request to conduct other tests I’m sure will gather traction. Best wishes for the new year

[@James-C24]

This will be like the mdf video but better quality. Cant wait to watch this.

[@ferguscrawley95]

Haha having the regiment on side does help tbf…

[@James-C24]

@@ferguscrawley95 Indeed it does. Watching him and mike running around with those bags of peebles was funny. Although equally as funny was seeing you walking in full kit with those boots on 🤣🤣🤣 Excellent video regardless. Looked like they gave you some of their own (slightly nicer) kit. A good intro showing people the RTF. The mental health talk at the end looked great. Nice to see you doing something for the forces and making some cracking content out of it.

[@lewisp941]

Great vid! A few have already mentioned commando tests or some of the more infamous Brecon marches, and I would second those suggestions - I gather you also have a few former SB contacts, perhaps they could give you some of their nastier swimming tests to try?

[@francessweeney2308]

This is the test for soldiers who are not in ground close combat (GCC). Non GCC troops could be signallers,medics, movers,chefs, clerks or military police. Troops who in GCC have a second march with a 40kg load over 4km to Ber completed in less than 50minutes.

[@hw934]

found your channel recently and really liking everything

[@miggsy619]

Awesome vid man! You should do another collab with Douglas Crayford but this time he does all the work and we can watch!

[@willpow9273]

Go on Lad! Absolutely cracking video! 👏

[@Taylors-OnTour]

A KZbinr that is actually athletic Good video that liked and already subscribed 👍

[@ferguscrawley95]

Thanks Danny, appreciate it!

[@georgeharrison711]

You would’ve got a better time on the 2k if the PTI’s shown you how wear the daysack correctly with body armour

[@deanseymour5024]

Commando test week for sure mate. Great video

[@allyi302]

I see that they dropped the mile and a half run when they saw you coming Fergus!

[@markmcfadden7428]

Very interesting. Thanks for the video!

[@FumerieHilaire]

Honestly look up “archetypal Englishman” and every frame of this video is the image you’d find.

[@tomhardwick6479]

Would love to see you have a crack at the commando tests

[@ferguscrawley95]

Working on it!

[@JammyDodger45]

Save yourself the pain lad and just say it wasn't possible to set up 😬

[@scottcharlton129]

When the spit hits the fan, I want you in my platoon :) Well done!

[@ferguscrawley95]

Haha thanks man!

[@danielfischer3351]

Too many individual tasks that will take to long especially for a whole battalion, just need to do a 4km patrol with a few tasks along the way with a cazzy vac at the end.

[@alexdks8134]

SEALS fitness challenge

[@jacobjones1088]

Will Omnia be doing a military training template at some point?

[@Will_Mitchell187]

Great work mate 👍

[@MiketheMadness]

Saw a bloke get 9 mins on the 2k the other day at work. Lunatic

[@jord74]

Great video ferg!

[@bartgubbels913]

Legend!!

[@ferguscrawley95]

Cheers Bart!

[@Louis-gf1nt]

Do the Royal Marine 9-Miler Commando Test

[@tristambarden510]

Hey Fergus. As a 43 year old who does weekly weights with a PT, do you think with training I could get to that level or am I a bit old? Great video.

[@benjamindover2601]

It's all a mental game, the mind will give up before the body, usually.

[@reasonabledoubt6908]

Course you could . Very doable

[@parsoniareigns]

Well done

[@jamiecrawley7313]

Unreal video!

[@ferguscrawley95]

Cheers geez!

[@JT-xt2wd]

12 mile ruck march with a 65lb ruck

[@Manakaiser]

good stuff

[@trafalgertradingcoyltd]

would be great to see you do the Fan Dance. AEE do great event organizing for it. check it out.

[@ferguscrawley95]

Will try and make it happen for sure - it likely won’t be as part of a registered event though!

[@trafalgertradingcoyltd]

@@ferguscrawley95 understandable, but it's a great challenge. I'll be attending this February's one.

[@luisem9807]

Watched all your videos and always wondered what your stats would be for phyz tests. Deffo a good challenge I'm shooting for in 2022, try the - **Commando 7 miler** (36 pounds, 7 mile, boots, trousers, sub 60 mins) Traditionally done in achnacarry Scotland, your home country.

[@andrewcummins1976]

US ARMY's new fitness test; ACFT!

[@oliverashley2189]

Are you ex or currently serving? Never seen reference to a military career, but assumed that was intentional. No slight on you if not, I always just assumed you were 😂

[@ferguscrawley95]

I am not, asthma + peanut allergy stopped those ambitions before they even began 🙃

[@oliverashley2189]

@@ferguscrawley95 ahh man, that’s gutting as I’m sure you’d have been an absolute machine! Glad you’ve been able to use your ample other skills and inspire in other ways! 👍👍🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@JustAnOrdinarySimmer]

Athletes are just too use to exercising when they feel ready to, ie, when they've had plenty to drink etc etc... the army expects everyone to be able to burst in energy at any given time regardless of circumstance/situation.."oh you ran 10 miles yesterday so your feet now hurt?"....."I don't give a shit you little cry baby now you will do it soaking wet wearing full kit!"..good effort tho! there is a video of some guy attempting the SAS: Who Dares Wins selection and his technique was so shit on a number of tasks he would have failed,.

[@josh_adams_fit]

First 🤣

[@ferguscrawley95]

🚀

[@josh_adams_fit]

@@ferguscrawley95 You made it look easy mate

[@no_excuses]

Great video as always Fergus, it would be good to consider other military fitness tests during 2022. I hope your post test presentation provided a good source of insight for those serving in the British Army.