Bootcamp started with the usual “grunt” punishment on Friday after the warm up.
4 team members were late so 40 grunts for all!
Noticed the instructors placing 3 stations of cones so was reminding myself to rush to the front of the “rangers” line-up to avoid what happened on Wednesday when standing at the back got me booted up to the higher “Seals” team.
After the grunts torture (i still not feeling any better doing this), Sgt S shouted for us to get into our Delta, Seals and Rangers Group.
Note on Grunts: For friends who doubt the “torture” of grunts – do follow my diagram in my last blog and try doing them! Unless u are super fit, i think you will find it a challenge. I still debating whether it is the jumping up or dropping down that is the real torture or both.
I rushed to the front half of the Rangers line-up. Feeling good with myself as i was definitely in the first half....as we prepare for the realignment, Sgt S ordered, “Rangers whom i placed in the Seals team on Wednesday – PLEASE GO BACK TO THE SEALS TEAM!” All my great planning! In one simple order, my Day 6 training was doomed to be tough!
Sgt S told us that today we will be training in 3 stations for 10 minutes each focusing on “Upper Body”, “Abs” and “Lower Body” in the 3 respective stations.
Seals team were assigned to Station Upper Body first. Rushing to the Station in 20 seconds (to ensure no grunts punishment) we were then asked to each pick up a “sand pipe rifle”, same as the ones from Day 5.
The exercise in this station comprises of stationary exercisers using the sand pipe rifle plus crawling exercise from one end of the cone to the other end about 30 meters away.
We started with the stationary exercises – as Seals, we had to do 12 repetitions for each exercise. Started with push-ups while holding the sand pipe rifles on the ground, then stand up and hold up the rifle with both hands going up and down holding the rifle, next exercise was to hold the rifle forward with both hands and again bring it up and down. And the final exercise was to hold rifle up high and squat.....once we complete the stationary exercise, we had to “bear crawl” forward from one cone to the end about 30 meters away. Then we had to do a “reverse bear crawl”, this was the toughest for me as apart from trying to manage balance, my legs and hands are aching, and also don’t forget we had to turn back to ensure we don’t know our team mates as everyone was on different pace.
When we finish the reverse bear crawl, we had to continue with the stationary exercise with the sand pipe rifles and the continue with the crawls – we had to keep repeating these till the 10 minutes were up! Tough!
Station 2 – Abs. This was lead by our Australian Corporal. Here we had to repeat “12 times” again (For Rangers, the repetition is “10 times”) of floor abs exercises like sit ups, jumping jacks etc. Was pretty fair exercise in the first 5 minutes BUT after that, the strain was felt and my stomach/abs was burning! And as i work on this blog entry on midnight Sunday – I am still feeling the pains here!
The final 5 minutes was really bad as the burning feeling was bad. When the set ended, the Corporal made us do some stretches that temporarily helped the pain sensation to get us going into the final station.
Station 3 – Lower body. Here, we each had to pick up a small sandbag – first time using sandbags. We were warned that anyone that dropped the sandbag during the 10 minutes exercise will had to do 30 grunts!
So for the next 10 minutes, you can see all of us holding tightly to our sand bags! Similar to Station 1, we had sets of stationary exercises followed by running ahead 30 meters and back again holding tightly to our sandbags....then repeating the entire set again.
Focusing on lower body – the exercises were squats, forward lunges, jumping squat and sumo squat....then off to the run forward and back.......a team member’s sandbag dropped during the run (I must say it gets really heavy after 3 minutes of holding and doing exercises)...so she had to do the grunts....
Day 6 ended as usual when it has already turned dark but the warm down session always helps.
Time passed so fast – we are now back to Monday and Day 7 will be happening soon....had some good food all weekend but hopefully that doesn’t impact my Tuesday weigh in......
Till Day 7....Hooyah out!
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