The Marine Daily 16 is a set of calisthenics exercises that Marines “lovingly” refer to as PT (emphasis on the P) which is short for physical training. I’m writing a series of posts about this training program in this series I’ll walk you through the Daily 16 describing each exercise sharing my personal preferences and experience as well as putting together the entire program. My brother is a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, but before shipping out he got to come home and teach me exercise the Marine Corps way. I’m not writing about politics because this blog is about food and exercise. I’m proud of my brother, and hope they can all come home soon.
Home from boot, my brother showed me a series of exercises called the Daily 16. It is a series of warm ups, stretches, core calisthenics, and cool down exercises. The program used to be called the daily 7, but the new marine daily 16 program incorporates exercises for every major muscle in your body. You don’t need any equipment to do any exercises, and they are a safe, effective full body work out.
When you begin you’ll start just by doing the exercises, but as you get more comfortable with the exercises, the marines do what’s called a double. They mix running or hiking in with the exercises. So you go through the warm up exercises, then go for a short slow run. Then you stop, perform an exercise, and then go back to jogging. After a short jog, you stop and do another exercise. The exercises are your breaks from running, and running is your break from exercise. You end the workout with a jog and your cool down exercises and stretches. I’ll walk through each of the exercises in the series, and provide links to the very little information that’s available on the Internet about this exercise program. While the program was designed to turn boys into physically fit soldiers, the program works remarkably well for people of all ages and fitness levels. It’s fun and entertaining.
The marine corps provides a rough PDF file explaining each of the exercises: Marines Daily 16. The next post will follow shortly.
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Chandelle // January 04th 2010
That does look like an excellent workout! Thanks for the link. I’ve been looking for something new.
(And you’ve been awarded a special place in my heart for linking to Nader. I love that man.)
Nick // January 06th 2010
Strength and Conditioning runs. Don’t forget to call your cadence.
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