Requisitos de salud y aptitud física

Transcripción

My name is Jose Guevara Cortez and I’m an Air Force staff sergeant, stationed at Joint Base, San Antonio. I’m looking to find out what life in the military is really like and how it may be different than what you think.

Today I’m meeting up with Senior Airman Michael Stennis. We’re both physical training leaders, who help service members stay in shape. I hear Michael brings a lot of fun to his workouts, so I wanted to learn how fitness plays a role in his life.

We’re both PTLs, Physical Training Leaders. Let’s talk about some of the things that we do to incorporate not only fitness but a little bit of fun and morale boosting to our flights.

One of my main things is just going around finding out what people do on their off time, when it comes to PT, and so people like -- “Oh, I do leg day.” “Well, what does leg day consist of?” Then I’m able to give them something that’s kind of like a little bit more aggressive. So you’re constantly going from this exercise to this exercise to this exercise. Never the same thing that we’re doing. Like, “What are we doing this week?”

“Well, we did that last week,” I don’t ever get that.

All right. So we kind of talked about fitness in the military. Right? We also kind of do

a lot of stuff outside. Like look where we’re at right now. We’re in a beautiful park.

Being outdoors, it gives you that sense of freedom. Hearing birds chirping and things

like that kind of puts your mind at ease.

You get -- yeah, get like --

Yeah!

-- this sense of serenity, you know. I like doing stuff like that, because it kind of

gives me time to focus on me as a person.

Every base has its own fitness center we can visit whenever we want, so earlier in the

day, I joined Michael for a workout at his gym.

Two.

He got my heart pumping and I learned some new exercises I’ll add to my own PT program.

All right. That’s...

Switch!

And...

That was good.

And we loved it!

Right!

It hurts!

Yeah.

That’s good.

After you get off work, what are some of the things that you choose to do for fun?

Last year, for a week, my brother came to see me during spring break. He stayed on base

and everything like that. Play basketball together, work out. We go to the movies, go

laser-tagging. One of the things that I get, especially from like family members and stuff

like that, they always ask you, “What is it like? What is it like?” And it’s just

like any other job. You got a time where you’re supposed to be there.

Sure.

You got a time that you’re supposed to be off.

Oh, yeah.

But I had MTIs and everything telling me that when I was going through basic, it’s

totally different. You got to get through this certain portion of your career, of course,

because everyone else had to do it. But once you finish that and you get out there, you’re

able to live life the way that you want to live it.

From working out at the gym to trail runs to everything in between, you can see the

way we stay in shape is far from the stereotypical formations and screaming drill sergeants.

While we still have to pass an annual fitness test, how we prepare for the test is really

up to us. And there are so many ways to make that happen.

Oh!