Monday, March 14, 2011

Military Workout Tue 15 Mar 11

30 min of various water based exercises.
Water Running, Swimming, Lung Capacity Training.
Followed by 20 min of stretching


This is a recovery session to help loosen up the muscles and whilst increasing blood flow to the entire body.


During the stretching session I will be yet again explaining the reasoning behind their training and why they are being made do what they do. It is understandable that some of them have never done training like this before, it's expected that initially they may be apprehensive about having to do sessions that will put them out of their comfort zone or well beyond it. 


The simple fact is though that it works, as a group, the average fitness levels (based on the military requirements) has increased by 25.4 percent in 6 weeks, as opposed to the control group (whom chose and conduct their own PT) which has decreased by 8.9 percent. Strength capacity has gone through the roof, one member has increased his anterior strength capacity (bench press) by 184 percent. That's not a typo, 184 percent. Another member took his deadlift (after being taught how to deadlift) from a 1RM of 70kg to 3RM at 145kg (approx 1RM of 156.45kg) in 3 weeks, that is an increase of 123.49 percent.


Some of them are still not getting it, it's certainly not rocket science but heck, if the cold hard data I have been producing for them from their efforts isn't enough and the fact that they all performed better in their Basic Fitness Assessments isn't enough proof. Perhaps it's time to start drawing pictures for them.

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