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[Tormy]

The majority of parents push towards college. That's it, in my experience.

Well yeah, that is understandable I guess.

[chaoticag]

Bah! Why wait untill you join track when you can start your training today!

30-60min of cardio 3-5x a week is good.
Strength training is at 3x a week, no more, no less. (Think push ups, sit ups, as those are free. Slow squats, and plank (Push up position for 30-60sec) also work well.)

Stretch after every workout session, and have 20 min worth of warm up before each session and you should be fine.

A good stretch is around a min long, but 10-20 seconds should be long enough.

Also, a focus on strength alone is not good, as you will lose flexibility, which you will have to stretch to get back. Yoga helps in this regard, but whether or not you take classes is purely up to you.

[Martian]

Sadly the answer to all 3 is put in more effort and work more efficiently. School results, physique etc. are all directly related to how many hours you put in and how you use those hours.

Try revising an hour or two in the evening. To do well with English, read more books. Older books that use more elaborate English are not necessarily boring. Shakespeare has some extremely rude humour and Dracula is a pretty good thriller. Sherlock Holmes stories are also pretty good mystery. You might want to try listening to some free audio books from Libriviox.

If you're already putting in lots of hours, you're probably working inefficiently. I'd highly recommend a spaced repetition program. In particular I'd recommend Mnemosyne. It's free and it works. It has helped me a lot with my exams. Try identifying where you are failing and work on those areas. You should definitely use more sources than your teacher gives you. For math you are usually going to find a better explanation online. Also, remember to consolidate new knowledge with revision.

You should also try to be healthy, sugar really does not help your mental abilities. Caffeine is also bad on the long run. When putting in more hours, be careful not to sleep less. That would be self defeating, sleep is very important for memory. You should try to get a healthy amount.

[Muz]

I doubt going to West Point makes you a grunt My cousin used to play Battlefield 1942 all the time.. he thought being a battlefield medic is cool.

Few years later, he signed up for the army to study as a medic.

[Jackrabbit]

I hope it wasn't battlefield that made him of he's in for a rude awakening

[Daft]

Oh. About that. Thank you Muz for bumping up my self-centered thread and simultaneously reminding me of something.

"Oh hey, useless idiot child," my mother said to me the other day. "Why don't you go be a medic or something. Maybe then you'll finally be profitable, and then with the additional monies I can buy an excessively large car and a house with a kidney-shaped swimming pool. It's the American Dream, man."
"Hurr durr. I no good with science hurr," I said. "Hurr, accidentally kill own team hurr hurr."
"Whatever," she said. "They'll teach you and then when you get out, you can do something like use your impressive resume to barge into fancy medical training for a field that idiots like you don't actually belong in."
"Hurr."
"Step four is profit."

The more I thought about it, the worse the idea seemed, until it was such a bad idea that it went right back to being a good idea.

Uh, your opinions, folks?

[Jackrabbit]

Do you want to become a medic, or are your parents pressuring you into it?

[Daft]

Uh, both? Though I'm not sure how much of my will is actually free will and not effected by the will of my parents anyway.

[Jim Groovester]

Don't shoot down your parents's ideas just because they came from your parents. They talk to you about ideas because they think you are directionless, without a rudder, going with the flow, etc.. Remember, they're only trying to help.

Of course, that doesn't mean you have to do what they say, but just appreciate that there are people who care about your future.

Anyways, if you make a decision, and clearly declare it to them, and unless they totally disapprove, they should stop nagging you about it. But the thing is, you need to make a decision, and then work toward it. Until then, you'll have to suffer through hearing your parents talk about potential career paths.

Also, I'd be surprised if you didn't completely roll your eyes at this post.

[Jackrabbit]

Uh, both? Though I'm not sure how much of my will is actually free will and not effected by the will of my parents anyway.

Being a medic is a good job, I'm a friend of Darren K. who (if your British) you may remember as the first person to be called up to serve in the war in the Middle East. He's now a paramedic and loves it so if you want to be a medic, its a good calling. A word of warning, you can't be squeamish (obviously). If you're a medic, you're going to see a lot of nasty things (Darren saved a man who had his throat cut, right in front of him. I like Darren)

[Daft]

Okay. Sounds pretty good. So on the off chance that I/my parents don't change my/their mind/s within a few days, how do I sign up?   

[Strife26]

Getting into medical via the Military is a good way to do it. Free education + Experience and all.

You have three real avenues to get a doctors job.
1st, Academy. Get into USMA picking some relatedish major (I checked, and medical isn't on the list, it'd be specilization training).
2nd ROTC. The army ALWAYS needs medical people, so applying for ROTC with a medical major is relatively easy (a buddy of mine got a ROTC spot with a highschool GPA of under 2.0, becuase he picked nursing).
3rd talk to a recruiter. Most of them are decent guys, and I might not know what the hell I'm doing.

My JROTC teacher was a former doctor, so I'll ask her about it.