Thursday, January 14, 2010

“Grunt” punishments and continuing Day 5



As we waited for Day 5 to start, was told by my team mates that because 5 team members didn’t turn up on Monday without notification – going AWOL (me included as i couldn’t find the mobile number to sms – will save the number in my mobile from now) plus a team member attending without Bootcamp t-shirt, the entire team had to do 60 grunt punishment exercises before they start the session! It was really tough – i felt so sorry that i was responsible for 10 of the grunts.

Firstly to explain what grunt punishment means – it is hard to explain (for a person like me who don’t have much exercise training experience) so surf the internet and found some photos to illustrate...essentially, it is the combination of this 2 routine to count for “1” grunt. Go down then jump up.....try it – unless u are fit, after non-stop 20 times, you will feel it!

Day 5 started at 6.45pm sharp – roll call was the first item of the day. Good start for the day as no one went AWOL today! Yeah!

We started our usual warm up routine of jogging, knees up, lunges and stretches. I thought we were off the hook for the grunts but it was not to be....someone came again without Bootcamp t-shirt so we have to do 10 grunts before the start.....and as we hit the field to start, half way thru, we were told some of us not doing right, so additional 10 grunts added! So in total 20 grunts and it was tough......

We were then put into our 3 groups of Delta, Seals and Rangers – because we had such a big team in rangers, we were randomly (mostly the guys at the back) placed into Delta and Seals team. I was put into the Seals team....lesson learnt here is to stay right in front of the line in the rangers group so that i don’t get moved to the other teams again! Because i went to the Seals team, i had to follow their longer time count! Never again, from now on, I will be staying right in front!

It was a 3 stations exercises again...and i can see for the first time we will be using props for some exercises. But for my first station, it was still cardio exercises.

Station 1: Cardio exercises. We had to do 40 seconds followed by 10 seconds of Cardio exercises. Cardio exercise including Jumping Jack, squat thrust, Star Jumps, Mountain Climbers, Squat jumps....this was a really tough station. I think because I am starting from ground zero of fitness level, i just could not keep up with the 40 seconds workout plus 10 seconds rest on each routine...we had to keep doing that for 12 minutes, and because a few of us stopped (including me) time was added on – another 2 minutes of hell.......the end was welcomed gladly

Station 2: Sand Rifles exercise. In this station, we were made to carry a rifle - “rifle length pipe filled with sand” . We had to hold the rifle horizontally on both hands high up with arms raise, run forward with arms kept up at all times. Then after 10 meters kneel down and get back up, continue running to the next cone 10 meters ahead for the same and the final 10 meters of the same. We then have to jog back. We had to do this for 4 minutes and for every one that stopped 30 seconds were added...we ended the first set with 6 minutes as we had 2 minutes added on punishment. The final set in this station was the same running but instead of kneel, we had to go down on our back and do 3 sit ups on each 10 meter cone....this was a 4 minute run too...we had 1 minute added on here.

I didn’t feel as bad as station 1.

Station 3: Biggest Tyre I ever seen! In this final station we were divided into teams of 8 and 4 was sent to each end of a 15 meter track. When the exercise started, one member starts squatting down carefully and lifting the big tyre to flip it forward. Flipping in from one end to the other end on the team member on the other side then takes it back to the other end. Sounds easy but a combination of this being our final station (after 2 long hard ones) plus the big tyre, we are soon to realize, is very heavy! Some of the ladies had trouble lifting it.

And while we wait for our turn, the rest of the team had to do push up and squat holding positions – tough and painful wait......in fact, i find this part tougher than the tyre flip. I was actually happy with the tyre flip. Despite the heavy tyre – i find this as the one exercise that i could actually do well!
Great way to end Day 5!

After the important warm down session – it was HOOYAH! And looking forward to Day 6 of Friday.

And hope that tomorrow i will wake up with less DOM pain....

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