"The Human Motherfucker" was well-known to anyone in the 70s Army so let's relive that joy.
Lie on the floor on your back with your arms outstretched at ninety degrees to each side. Oh, and you are wearing your combat boots, correct?
Kick back to enjoy the schematic:
Lift feet to fifteen degrees and hold for thirty seconds
Lift feet to forty-five degrees and hold
Lift feet to ninety degrees and hold
Rotate left to forty five degrees while keeping arms firm and outstretched
Rotate left to fifteen degrees and hold
Rotate back to forty five and hold then back to ninety and hold
Repeat that rotation to the right
Repeat the original elevation to lower your feet straight back
That one was one count of "The Human Motherfucker" but, noooooo, you're not finished yet.
On my count, repeat.
Laughing big just now. I wouldn't even want to watch someone doing that but we enjoyed much quality time doing that in 1970.
The original Arrrrrrmy training, sir:
That exercise is funny now but it probably held me in good stead since I never exercised regularly after the military and I never had a fat gut either. When my belt hit 34", that was unacceptable and it never went any higher. These days I don't even wear one (larfs).
Note: I'm also shrinking and that's a bit unusual since apparently a couple of inches aren't there anymore. Unknown where they went but they're definitely AWOL. It's not a big deal, just unusual.
The moral in the story sure as hell isn't to join the Army but there's got to be one in it somewhere. Maybe exercise when you're young pays off more than you think even if you never do it again but you do need to get it done during that time. That one's an ok moral for the story.
There wasn't even that much exercise since Basic Training runs for two months. There's all kinds of marching around but I don't recall if PT (Physical Training) came on every day or just most of them.
Two months gives forty training days so at most there were forty hours of PT. That's really not a whole hell of a lot and yet it seemingly may have yielded lifetime benefits.
Getting those forty hours logged sure won't take signing up for the Army so that seems like it ought to be a high priority for everyone.
Ed: shut the fuck up, Uncle Silas
Nope, not on this one. It's been evident on Ithaka I've lived a somewhat abusive lifestyle yet I'm well on the way to seventy and still as abusive as it's in my power to be. Therefore, anything which has offset the obvious damage now seems it may have heightened value from that perspective. Maybe that reads as enabling personally abusive lifestyles and, wtf, do what you want but it does seem logging that early hard exercise time is a big requirement.
Lie on the floor on your back with your arms outstretched at ninety degrees to each side. Oh, and you are wearing your combat boots, correct?
Kick back to enjoy the schematic:
Lift feet to fifteen degrees and hold for thirty seconds
Lift feet to forty-five degrees and hold
Lift feet to ninety degrees and hold
Rotate left to forty five degrees while keeping arms firm and outstretched
Rotate left to fifteen degrees and hold
Rotate back to forty five and hold then back to ninety and hold
Repeat that rotation to the right
Repeat the original elevation to lower your feet straight back
That one was one count of "The Human Motherfucker" but, noooooo, you're not finished yet.
On my count, repeat.
Laughing big just now. I wouldn't even want to watch someone doing that but we enjoyed much quality time doing that in 1970.
The original Arrrrrrmy training, sir:
That exercise is funny now but it probably held me in good stead since I never exercised regularly after the military and I never had a fat gut either. When my belt hit 34", that was unacceptable and it never went any higher. These days I don't even wear one (larfs).
Note: I'm also shrinking and that's a bit unusual since apparently a couple of inches aren't there anymore. Unknown where they went but they're definitely AWOL. It's not a big deal, just unusual.
The moral in the story sure as hell isn't to join the Army but there's got to be one in it somewhere. Maybe exercise when you're young pays off more than you think even if you never do it again but you do need to get it done during that time. That one's an ok moral for the story.
There wasn't even that much exercise since Basic Training runs for two months. There's all kinds of marching around but I don't recall if PT (Physical Training) came on every day or just most of them.
Two months gives forty training days so at most there were forty hours of PT. That's really not a whole hell of a lot and yet it seemingly may have yielded lifetime benefits.
Getting those forty hours logged sure won't take signing up for the Army so that seems like it ought to be a high priority for everyone.
Ed: shut the fuck up, Uncle Silas
Nope, not on this one. It's been evident on Ithaka I've lived a somewhat abusive lifestyle yet I'm well on the way to seventy and still as abusive as it's in my power to be. Therefore, anything which has offset the obvious damage now seems it may have heightened value from that perspective. Maybe that reads as enabling personally abusive lifestyles and, wtf, do what you want but it does seem logging that early hard exercise time is a big requirement.
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