Friday, October 10, 2008



Army PT is fun. The first day I went we had to carry a log around the perimeter of the campus. Its only one mile. The 'log' however is actually a telephone pole, that maybe weighs, a billion pounds. So I was in a group with Amber, Saintoange and one of the tall skinny guys. Just the four of us. It was hard and we had to carry it the shortest distance. It was fun though, and my shoulder hurt for about 3 days.

The next day we did a variety of exercises in a musical chairs sort of way. There were 8 stations, each marked with one of the following exercises; wide arm push up, closed hand push up, mountain climber, crunches, sit up, running in place, butterfly crunches, and push ups. I am excellent at push ups. Pause. Not. Then we had to do lunges across a softball field and back, and then run arcoss again and climb this hill that was man made(piled dirt)with weeds growing on it, twice.

The next day we did a little running, we had a giant ball as tall as me, and a bit wider, and we were split into teams. Two orange cones marked each teams goal. It was the same concept as soccer, get the ball into the other teams goal. However, the ball was so big, you had to body slam it. I had a lot of in air collisions.It was fun.

The following Monday, (this past one) there was lightening, so we went into the gym and watched and participated in an offical Army PT training video. I learned some very interesting training moves, such as the High Jumper. I love the practice of the Vertical Run though.

Wed. Haley my Mgr/Co worker went with me. The entire morning was a series of running. Indian Runs. Since I was a little dehydrated and a lot out of focus I did not do well. I did however, do it. Thursday was a day for ACL uniforms to break in their boots on a three mile walk. I did not participate since I do not have boots or the ACL uniform. I'm looking forward to Tuesday.

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