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Originally Posted by Auridan

If you're a division yeoman at boot camp, or you just get a chance to look at your hard card (your RTC training record), you'll see the whole PT schedule. You'll go to Freedom Hall two or three times a week, if I remember, and that's when you'll do running, but it won't be every time. Sometimes you'll do sustained run, sometimes shuttle run (run 1 lap, do an exercise, repeat), and sometimes you'll do some other stuff.

Good to know. That's a cool perk for the yeoman.

[Auridan]

The yeoman's job is to know everything that's going on with the division at all times, even moreso than RCPO. They're sometimes called the 4th RDC. That said, it's a CRAP job.

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I plan on taking the "keep your head down" advise. But even in my recruiting station they have me show all the new deppers how to enter the office and fill out recerts. But on the positive they let me leave the dep meeting first today because I'm "the most squared away future sailor" I have a feeling the RDCS will also sense that and place me in a leadership role. Hopefully I can slide under the radar.

I totally directed this topic adrift. Oops.

[jonc2006]

One other question, about how long is a typical PT session, and are they a daily sort of thing?

[Auridan]

Originally Posted by jonc2006

One other question, about how long is a typical PT session, and are they a daily sort of thing?

You'll PT a few times a week, either in-house or at Freedom Hall. In-house (in your compartment) will mean stretching, then a bunch of exercises in place in short intervals that ramp up (10 crunches, 6 push-ups, 12 flutter kicks, 6 wide-grip push-ups, 15 sit-ups, etc.), and then cooldown. Freedom Hall will be much the same, except the exercises will be traveling (cherry pickers, lunges, crossover side steps, and so on). In-house takes about half an hour. Freedom Hall takes longer, since you have to march there and back.

As I've said before, it is not all that challenging to get by. Nobody's going to come scream sweet nothings in your ear for doing exercises wrong, unless you're really spectacularly wrong. So if you want a challenge, do everything with your very best form and don't give yourself breaks in between.

[jonc2006]

Originally Posted by Auridan

You'll PT a few times a week, either in-house or at Freedom Hall. In-house (in your compartment) will mean stretching, then a bunch of exercises in place in short intervals that ramp up (10 crunches, 6 push-ups, 12 flutter kicks, 6 wide-grip push-ups, 15 sit-ups, etc.), and then cooldown. Freedom Hall will be much the same, except the exercises will be traveling (cherry pickers, lunges, crossover side steps, and so on). In-house takes about half an hour. Freedom Hall takes longer, since you have to march there and back.

As I've said before, it is not all that challenging to get by. Nobody's going to come scream sweet nothings in your ear for doing exercises wrong, unless you're really spectacularly wrong. So if you want a challenge, do everything with your very best form and don't give yourself breaks in between.

That's not too bad. I was worried I would be spending the better part of the day exercising and end up being so sore the next day that I would feel it would be next to impossible to do anything else no matter how bad I wanted to do it.

[Auridan]

In my experience, the cooldown is a big part of not feeling sore the next day. I worked harder than I ever did at home, but I never woke up wishing I had a cane to hobble around with.