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Captain Ed's Journal
 The more that I work out with MAP, the more thankful I am that I train with it. In the Army, specifically in the Infantry community, you do not have time to be sore or laid up from a particularly hard workout or training session. MAP helps tremendously in this area.
After training with MAP regularly for the past 6 months, I rarely get sore, even after some of the most difficult workouts. Only three days after running a difficult 26 mile mountain race this summer I was able to run pain/soreness free thanks to MAP.
Right now I am working at building overall general fitness for the Ranger Orientation Program selection course in January. This is a 3 week selection course to determine potential selection for an assignment to the 75 th Ranger Regiment, the U.S. Army's most elite Infantry unit.
I strength train, run, swim, row, foot march, and do Army combatives training. Cross training, especially through an Alaskan winter, is absolutely essential to staying sane, as well as building some good overall general fitness in the ‘off-season,' if you consider the spring and summer the primary racing season for everything from 5k thru marathons.
As I build for the 3 week selection course in January, I have set several goals. For the Army Physical Fitness test: Complete 85 pushups or more, Complete 90 sit-ups or more, and run 12:15 or lower for the 2 mile run. I want to run sub 34 minutes for the 5 mile run and complete the 12 mile foot march in under 2 hours and 10 minutes. These are all required events at the selection course.
After completion of the course, I will continue to work on general fitness through the beginning of March, at which time I will begin putting on a few more miles in an attempt to rebuild my mileage base and compete in a Half-Marathon in the spring, and potentially a full this summer.
MAP helped me recover from wounds sustained in combat much quicker than I thought I ever would…and helped me regain the fitness that I lost while healing up. I look forward to this period of train up and continuing to see where hard work combined with MAP can take me.
Thanks BodyHealth and MAP.
CPT Ed Arntson
3-509th Rear Detachment Commander
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