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Bootcamp Workout: Bringing the War Home | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
Sept. 24, 2014
“I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. Fortunately, we were on the winning side.”
- U.S. General Curtis LeMay,
after the Good [sic] War
When you’ve worked in gyms as long as I have, you become numb to the fitness-as-military-worship motif. For example: Bootcamps, civilian-military combines, Navy Seals this or that, and the ever-ubiquitous “Train Like a Soldier!”
This approach not only normalizes the dangerous “soldier as hero” myth but also has the potential to turn something healthy like exercise into a dysfunctional obsession. With this in mind, I allowed myself to imagine what it would look like if I were asked to create a “realistic” Marine bootcamp fitness class and make sure my students ended up on the “winning side.”
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