Ahhhhhh. The after burn of lactic acid in my muscles. The heavy weight in my eyelids. The realization that I have a shit load of school work to do today......priceless.
This will be brief because I didn't get a whole lot done yesterday like I thought I would. I just got back to the apartment after PT, showered, ate and now I'm waiting another 10 or 15 minutes before I leave so I won't hit traffic.
Today's PT was almost better than mondays. We did stairs at Husky stadium, which is the UW stadium if you're too stupid to put that together. I've never had to do anything like this in basic, AIT, the reserves....none of it. Usually, yeah, we do stairs. But stairs has never meant literally run up and down EVERY flight of stairs in an entire football stadium. FML.
But wait there's more....
After we had completed half of the stadiums stairs we had to start running a lap in between each set and then before we could climb again we had to do 15 situps.
But wait there's more....
As though my thighs weren't gummy after a grueling 45 minutes running stairs, they lined us up. "We're done!!" I kept thinking to myself....but no. We were starting a new exercise. This one involved putting us in teams of three. While one person sprinted to the 15, 20 and 30 yd line respectively, the other two people, depending on our position in the line, had to do sit-ups and pushups. We did 6 repititions of this.
"We're done!!!" I thought to myself.
But wait there's more.....
We did the same thing, sorta. Only this time we had to sprint to the 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 and then finish with a 60 yd line sprint (to and back) while the rest of the people in line had to hold planks. Grueling....painful...just a few words to sum up how I felt.
*sigh* We were done!!! We had to be done, I just knew it....
We weren't. There was more.....
We all got into a big circle and did waterfall pushups. Starting with one guy he performed a pushup while the rest of us held the position of front leaning rest, and then the next guy did a push up and then the next guy, so on and so forth, kinda like a "wave". Next round, we all did two, then three, then four, then five....the waves got slower and slower, my arms got weaker and weaker...till I could barely keep myself off the ground.
Finally we were done.
Is it sad that I think ROTC will be harder than Basic Training? At least, physically....I've been working out on my own for months now. I've been scoring higher on my PT test than I ever have.....and this is KICKING MY ASS.
PT makes me seeeexy.
Now onto school. I have three classes today, have to schedule all sorts of advising appointments, work on my resume, finish a paper, start another paper, work on my chemistry homework, read a chapter in my chem book, hand copy a crap load of stuff to my lab manual....um, yeah, I think that's it.
Can I get a what what?
What What!!!! Glad to hear some things haven't changed too much. OCS made Basic look like day camp, but you just can't describe some things and some levels of pain..
ReplyDeleteEither way, Focus on your school and eat well to keep your strength up, Don't just try and coffee your way through this. Your body needs energy after all that work out. Love you and thinking about you. Might see if you can find a hot tub somewhere to use.
I hurt just thinking about your morning! Try to pamper yourself a little bit and eat well! You are amazing! Such an inspiration, hehe!
ReplyDeleteMan, and I thought I had it tough...
ReplyDeletePT Coordinator: TIME FOR PLANKS!
Squadron: *Moan*
PTC: 30 seconds... GO!
~30 seconds later~
PTC: Good job, moving on...
Squadron: That was Hard! :'( *Cry*
Marines: *Laughing*
In all honesty, I wish we had a PT that kicked my ass every single time like that. Sure, it looks as painful as getting beaten up by a roving gang of Tom Brokaws, but like you said...
PT Makes me seeexy...