Military Workouts on hold until the end of RTP

Due to the Easter and ANZAC day long weekend and the unit being on a reduced tempo period, organised physical training has ceased. It will resume at the beginning of next week once everyone is back from doing nothing and generally being pretty lazy.


As for me, I will be continuing on with my restoration until we are all back and I'm taking them again for organised PT. The last week has consisted of stretching, low impact eccentric exercises (I have nearly fully recovered from tendinitis in both the IT and hamstring tendons at the knees) and some massage therapy.


Next week marks the beginning of a new cycle in their training (and mine). During the previous cycle of three phases the troop have improved their fitness by 43.4 percent. Nearly all of them can lift twice the amount compared to their initial efforts, VO2Max has increased by over 30 percent and both posterior and anterior (combined average) strength has increased as an average by 74.3 percent, with core strength improving by 77.9 percent.


This next cycle will be some exciting times for us all here. I'm losing three of my fittest guys as they head of to do promotional courses for two months, this will definitely close the void, creating a more competitive arena for the rest. We have a new boss (a new LT straight out of the training command) who's only directive is that he wants the troop 'fit as fuck', but want's to have one session a week dedicated as a 'Battle PT' session. Wednesday's PT sessions are now to be conducted by a senior NCO in accordance with the programmed type of session it is to be (let's see how long that lasts) and I am to take over as the unit's go to man for all things PT related. The guys running PT for the other troops have started to take notice of the vast improvement in the fitness levels of the people I am training and have began to run some similar PT sessions, the jury is still out on whether they fully understand the science behind it, or the concept of continual adaption and recovery, multiple pathway training or the idea that some sessions are hard, others less hard and some easy.


Back on next week, I want to start getting some photo's of these sessions, security is an issue though.