Posted on Feb 22, 2015
When you leave the military, do you or will you still do PT?
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If you heed no other bit of advice please heed this...Keep up with the PT. It doesn't matter what you do as long as you do it. I let myself when I got out of the Army so many years ago. At my peak, I was almost 400 lbs at my highest weight. I can show you the picture. With diet and exercise, determination, and sheer hard work, I've lost to date 165 lbs. I kickboxing and Muay Thai 3 days a week and have started running again and doing weights. So I say from experience, don't let this go. You and your health are worth it!
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SPC Philip Hoffman
I feel you with the knees. I have been recently diagnosed with osteoarthritis in both knees and tri compartment syndrome in my right knee. Makes it tough to work out with the chronic pain, but if I ever want to get back in and kill off this diabetes, I need to start PT again
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Yes, not the same PT I was forced to do 5 days a week, but the PT I learned about in Master Fitness Trainer School in 1991, or later as an ACSM Certified Personal Trainer and now as a 50 years old, a semi retired Infantry Sergeant Major, 4 combat deployments, almost a 100 parachute jumps, years of abuse to my body.. I’ve broken or fractured bones in both feet, legs, left arm, left hand and spine, left patella, over the years, concussed, punctured lung, broken ribs, fingers and eye socket.. Raced off road motorcycles and crashed my fair bit.. Been mortared, shot at, rocketed, blown up and slept in the snow of Alaska, Deserts of Iraq, sand storms of Kuwait and mountains of Afghanistan.
Pain is a way of life, exercise as part of physical training (training and exercise is NOT the same thing) help ensure I continue to be physically active..and without that...I have little reason to get up in the morning.
Pain is a way of life, exercise as part of physical training (training and exercise is NOT the same thing) help ensure I continue to be physically active..and without that...I have little reason to get up in the morning.
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SSG Buddy Kemper
Amen and amen, Sergeant Major. Thanks for your service and motivating me today!!! I need it...we're freezing here in East Tennessee! Hooah!!
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