<p>If you want some advice from a former enlisted diver, I’d say start with free weights.</p>
<p>If you are more than two weeks out, you should be doing mostly free weights and cardio. After you have solid strength gains, you can improve much faster in body weight muscle endurance exercises, like push ups. Make sure to hit everything, especially chest, tri’s, and shoulders.</p>
<p>Mix pushups into the free weights one month out, though. At least by two weeks out, do them to failure three times a day, three sets each time, two days on, one day off. If you do them every day, your muscles will never have time to repair. If you hit a plateau, try one tactic at a time, reduced time between sets, forced reps, different types of pushups (google that ****). </p>
<p>And at least 50% is nutrition, lots of whole grain carbs, lean meat, fruits and veggies!</p>
<p>Hooyah,
Deep Sea</p>
<p>Boot camp '01
UC Berkeley '10</p>