Whew, what a week. As your well aware, I haven't posted a single entry since Sunday. Monday consisted of training, training, and more training. Tuesday consisted of Sprint Training, which I'll post my results in the training section of this post. Wednesday consisted of my first DEP PT. Now some of you may be saying, "wait a second, your not even in DEP yet". In which case you are right. I am not in DEP yet, however I asked Sgt. Bruce if I could still attend the PT's until I take the ASVAB come November. He said it was a great idea. Well as my readers may know from my previous posts, I have made a pact with myself to ride my bike to and from the recruiters office. It's 5.58 miles one way. That's not that far of a distance but when the wind is blowing against the entire way at an average of 15mph you feel like your riding your bike through sand, literally. So by the time I got to the office, which took me about 24 minutes plus some change, my legs felt like jello.
So I get there, I stretch, get some water, etc. At this point I have only met other person who is in DEP. I am the worlds worst with names so I honestly can't remember his name for the life of me. I'm a visual person so I can describe people to the "T" with just one look.
Anyways, we started PT around 1700. It consisted of doing a 50 yard segment of Lunges, 40 push ups, Lunge back, 40 Kettle Squats, Lunge back, 30 push ups, Lunge back, 30 Kettle Squats, Lunge back, 20 push ups, Lunge back, 20 Kettle Squats, Lunge back, 10 push ups, Lunge back, 10 Kettle Squats.
Sounds insane!? Yes, it is. But thats the Marine Corps way. All or nothing.
Next up we Flutter Kicks and Hello Dolly's. Now remembr we just did an insane leg workout. By the time we got to the Flutter Kicks and Hello Dolly's my legs were literally shaking. I could barely stand from such massive muscle failure. The Kicks and Hello's didn't do anything to help that by a mile.
After the Flutter Kicks and Hello Dolly's we started our hump around the shopping plaza. I'd say its roughly 1.5 miles, so its not that bad at all....................when your starting out fresh. Keep in mind I could barely stand at this point and I'm not exagerating one bit. We sung a few classic Marine Corps cadences which literally was the only thing that got me through that run. If it wasn't for focusing everything I had on singing along and robotically moving my legs even though they said NO wouldn't have made it.
After the run, we did Team push ups. I do not know the specific name for the type of push up but its were you have four guys, you form a square by placing your feet on the back of the guy next to you forming a square chain effect. We only did five of these because they were especially harder then normal push ups. Everyone had to yell just to pump out the last strength they had just to complete the push up.
After that we formed a circle to discuse some Marine Corps ranks, etc. We also were informed that we will be quized on our Ranks and our eleven General Orders. So I'll be studying those between now and next wednesday.
After all of that, I still had to ride another 5.58 miles back home. If that doesn't show dedication I don't know what the hell does.
OOH-RAH!
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Training:
Wednesday's Sprint Training:
25 yard: 3.60
50 yard: 7:31
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Diet:
Thursday's Diet:
Breakfast: Cereal Bar
Lunch: Chicken Nuggets, Sweet Tea
Dinner: Honey Covered Chicken Nuggests, gaterade ( yes, i love chicken nuggets from the grocery store)
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