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Answers, with the working shown.

Straight answers to the questions I actually get asked, with sources you can check and no padding. Every article names a date, cites where its numbers came from, and gets updated when the source does.

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Nothing published yet.

I would rather have an empty page than fill it with articles written to rank. The first pieces are being written now, and each one will answer a question I have actually been asked, with its sources named. In the meantime the pillar pages below already answer most of it.

What is being written first

ADF Prep

How many push-ups do you need for the ADF?

The figures by Service and entry category, where they come from, and what the numbers do not tell you.

ADF Prep

What happens at the PFA on the day

Order of events, how sit-ups are assessed, and the 12-week rule most applicants find out about late.

Powerlifting

Cutting a weight class without losing your total

The 28-month version, with my own numbers, rather than the fortnight version.

Rugby

Lifting for teenage rugby players

What is appropriate, what supervision means in practice, and what parents should ask a coach.

These are commitments, not published pieces. Nothing appears in the list above until it exists.

How these are written

Four rules, stated so you can hold me to them.

The answer comes first

No 400-word preamble before the number you came for. The answer is in the first paragraph under the question.

Sources are named and dated

Where a figure comes from Defence, OpenPowerlifting or Rugby Australia, it is cited with the date it was checked.

Written by a person

I write them. If that ever changes, the byline changes with it, and the byline links to a real record you can check.

Updated, not abandoned

Standards change. Anything carrying a figure gets a last-checked date, and gets rechecked rather than left to rot.

Find your window. Then move it.

10 founding places at 20% off, locked for as long as you stay. I read every application myself.

Last reviewed . Figures on this page are rechecked against their sources rather than left to go stale.