Hello! Please forgive me if I am poating this in the wrong area. I am new and this is my first posting attempt. I am a 35 yr. old female, striving to join the CF by Fall of 2005. My biggest challenge is to meet and exceed the fitness requirements. I am currently trying to lose about 50lbs and gain the strength necessary to do pushups. I can not even do 1 pushup at present. Also, I have VERY low cardio endurance at the moment... I recently did 12.5 laps (which = 2.5 km) around the field house at the base gym (A very nice indoor track)... and managed it in a SAD 19:00. Mostly walk/jogged it. I know I have quite a way to go to meet my goals. I want to be able to run the 2.5 km in under 15:00 and do 10 full male pushups (even though the min required for my age is 7.... I want to aim somewhat higher. I am hoping to get some advice on a good starting point for my training, I really do not want to waste time, because I am only getting older each day that passes! ;D I have a plan of Full body weight trainig Mon/Wed/Fri and walk/jogging on Tue/thur/ Fri on the track.... Walking only to recover and trying to jog as much as I can in between. I find running is a bit hard on me right now because of my weight, but I am hoping it will get easier as I reach my weight loss goal. I don't want to injure myself, so this is a big concern in planning my Cardio training. Sorry this is a long post, but I wanted to give an idea of where I am starting and where I want to end up. Lastly, I want to join Reg force as an RMS clerk. Thanks in advance for any insight/advice.