Balls to the Wall

Friday's PT bore a painful resemblance to Monday's. Lots of pain and sprinting. There were 3 stations consisting of sprinting with pushups, situps, and the like, another station of pure sprinting, and the third station was a grueling medicine ball workout.

It was a great way to end the week, and send off our Loyola cadets on spring break. Towson students will continue as normal, but we wish the Loyolaians a safe and fun SB.

Rucking in a Winterwonderland

Wednesday's PT was a very early and very chilly ruckmarch through the remnants of Snowpocalypse. The nearly 5 mile route around Loyola University had a few challenging hills that is excellent preparation for LDAC. Everyone who started the route completed it within the time limit, even the BN mascot.

FannyTastic PT

Monday's PT was brutal mixture of strange movements. Crabwalks, bearcrawls, and other various non-typical means of human movement caused many a scrum (bottom left) over water during the few breaks.

Fortunately the painful movements took only half the time; the other half of PT was spent doing sprints like normal homosapiens. Overall it was a very challenging PT that I have tried to purge from memory.

The Strongest Chemical Officer in Maryland

And possibly the country, ladies and gentleman, CDT Steve James. Pictured at the top, this remarkable physical specimen is soon to be a proud member of the Chemical Corps, and will undoubtedly be the most tenacious of his kind. Just his physical presence intimidated my camera, which was unable to focus out of fear it might be caught staring at this half human, half cyborg (the last camera caught doing so started out digital, but ended up a Polaroid). Word on the street is that CDT James can literally bench press the state of Nebraska. He showed off this morning by topping off the ruck packing list with solid concrete blocks.

The rest of us mere mortals participated in ruck PT, only with a more realistic load. The weather has continued to confine us to the gym, so instead of a ruck march we had sprints and ruck strength training. Pushups, squats, lunges and the like made much more difficult by the extra weight.

Olympic Spirit

With the XXI Winter Olympics underway in Vancouver, we had our own version at PT on Wednesday. We certainly have the snow to do our own Winter Olympics, we just lack the equipment. So without skis or skates, we had to settle for exercises ranging from the flutterkicks to group pushups.

The BN was separated by by class, and the larger class sizes were split in two. CDT Neely and CDT Zimmerman administered the PT, and served as the "judges". The intensity was worthy of the Olympics, the only thing missing was a podium and medal ceremony.

Snow Day(s)

A record snowstorm hit the Mid-Atlantic States last week; the storm closed both Loyola and Towson Universities for the entire week. The storm led also led to the postponement of our semester FTX.

After this unexpected break, we started back up with PT at 0630 on Monday. The muscle failure PT was led by CDT O'Sullivan, and facilitated by CDT Brinker. Three stations consisting of push-ups, sit-ups, and sprinting, made for a nice morning workout.

Whoops....

If you're as angry as Cadet Zimmerman, and wondering why the site hasn't been updated in a while I offer these two petty excuses:

1 . Snowpocalypse 1 My Internet 0. The epic snowstorm crushed my poor internet. I tried updating with my cell phone, but the posts looked like second grade macaroni art; so I opted to just wait.

2. I may or may not have been operating outside the legalities of the Department of the Army by operating this site. I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations; however, thanks to Lt. Stewart, I now have a neat certification that should keep things running smoothly.

So things are back to normal, and I my certification should keep the site from being shut down. My apologies for the downtime, but now back to business...