Introduction to the Air Force

Today was a training holiday so our three-day Columbus Day weekend becomes a nice four-day holiday. One of the perks of being in the Army. I decided to head to the local Air Force base to check out their brand new fitness center. I read somewhere that they spent $1.9 million on equipment. I was really hoping to find a brand new Concept II rower so I could log my PRs in the 500m, 1000m, 2000m and 5000m all in one day. Unfortunately, the only thing that place didn't have was the rowers. It looked like a Lifetime Fitness mega-gym with machines galore, huge aerobic rooms with cool group circuit PT weights from Iron Mind. Gonna check those out. The building also had a running track around the outside near the roof. Pretty cool. The other huge difference was the change in mentality on the base compared to any Army post. On an Army Post everyone is dress right dress and most people are running in formation along crowded roads. The lucky few that get to utilize the gym are crowded in those sub-par facilities only from 0530-0630. After that, it's a ghost town until the retirees shuffle in to try to extend their quickly shortening lives at lunchtime. No rowing today but I was able to get in a nice workout with the weights. I think they had a dozen flat, incline and decline benches and only one squat rack. Once I kicked the two B.S.-ers leaning on the rack, I went to work.

FRI 5 OCT WOD

Dirty Dozen
1x12 Thrusters with 60#
Green Monster 1-1-1 with 1-min rest btw
1 set of situps for 1-min (39)
Deadlift 2x12 @ 135#; 2x5 @ 185
Squats 2x6 @ 135 (deep)