Kaylee Munson and the Viking cheerleaders
In the aw-how-cute category, we have Kaylee Munson, a Vikings cheerleader, who compares her workouts she and her girls do to those found in the Navy or Marines:
A lot of people hear ‘cheerleader’ and think pageant girl or bimbo, but we are so different than that,” Munson explained. “This is the hardest workout I’ve ever done in my life. On game days we’re moving for three hours straight — dancing every break and trying to get the crowd involved. As part of our military performance tours, I’ve worked out with the Navy and Marines and those were all tough workouts but, no offense guys, I have to say that our cheerleading workouts are harder!
My Leading Petty Officer (LPO) was a SEAL when I was junior enlisted. And we used to work out three times a day sometimes. I slept like a baby because I was so sore. Of course, Kaylee, I am no good with pom-pom workouts. So that part would be strenuous for me. Plus, I would look stupid in knee-boots and pom², not that looking stupid has stopped me in the past. . .
You need to keep work outs in perspective. I have humped my ass all over Camp Pendleton in full gear including mop level 4, with the worst being in an overnight movement, my guess was about 15 miles in just under 4 hours. As you get older it seems like you go farther and faster…
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Navy One- I like poking fun at the Navy which is the Marine Corps cab company, and Berkley, but I truly enjoy your posts and respect your service to our country. Please keep posting the oddities of the military.
Wings level cleared hot danger close.
Wow Don, that is crazy, rucking around Mopp gear. And thanks for the compliment. I enjoy poking fun at Berkeley too. The place is always good for a chuckle or two!
I tend to suspect what a Vikings cheerleader considers a workout is something less than what the Marine Corps or a Navy SEAL experiences….she couldn’t possibly be able to compare those two disparate situations….so…I just suspect she’s talking through her hat, to use an expression ….k
Cheerleading is somewhat dangerous. Lots of injury. With all the throwing around
The girls get injured. Esp in colleg.e
Apples to oranges! I’m sure those cheerleaders workout hard, but not like Marines or Navy. I don’t normally think of cheerleaders as pageant girls or bimbos, but I may start.
Hmmm?
Strange old thing,
I have done mountain training in the Arctic, pulled heavily ladened pulks on skis (and snow shoes) up and down the ‘Glittertind Mountain’ ranges of Norway,
I have done mountain training in the Highlands of Scotland and Wales,
I have walked and cut my way through secondary growth jungle on two week stretches [active] over six months, carrying everything required to survive on,
I have run across Dartmoor and around it’s roads and hill climbs [daily],
I have done circuit training until I brought up the ‘day before’ breakfast; and then cracked on with more followed by a 10 miler [more often +],
I have run 5 & 10 milers with the GPMG [M60] & full equipment,
I have load carried and speed marched 30 miles carrying the 84 mm Carl Gustav A/TK Gun,
I have ‘yomped’ 76 miles over peat bogs and rock screes across the Falkland Isles carrying 200 pound of gear; and then fought through on ‘Two Sisters’…
I have trained so hard that I have burst blood vessels and tasted blood from the walls of my lungs; with stars and flashing lights in my head that NASA would freak over…
I have pushed an elephant up the stairs so many times that I have lost count…
I have done all of this for long deployments not knowing if I would ever return…
And I have thought long and hard about all that I have mentioned here; and guess what?
I have never, ever, seen a cheer leader at anytime doing the same bloody thing (and I know I would have remembered if I had)!
Yours Aye
(sat bewildered at such a stupid statement from a cheer leader)
Ex Bootneck
If cheerleaders trained in the Highlands of Scotland and Wales – I would want to be one.
Lou
In the winter winds on the highlands you need more than a kilt on to keep the nether regions from freezing over, but the sunsets are to die for…
Yours Aye
Kris: She is talking through something. . .
Wren: I’ve heard that too. Lots of injuries, like twisted ankles.
Lou: Apples to grapes!
Brennan: That is some serious PT. I’ve never pushed elephants, but I have cleaned up after one. . .
NavyOne
There are not many Naval Officers can put their hands on their hearts and say that…
Thankfully they do not require it wiping afterwards…?
Yours Aye
Ahhh, I forget the punchline! I meant to say, I’ve cleaned up after horses who thought they were elephants. . .
Very early this morning I cleaned up after a dog who thought he was a ‘gorilla’ (I left half a packet of fig roll biscuits on the coffee table last night).
Luckily we [he] made it into the field before the eruption.
I now have a very sorry looking ‘Joss’ sat at the bottom of the stairs as he does not like the Slippery Elm cure.
Just another day in the life of…
Yours Aye
Ah the poor fellow. Good thing, he is all cleaned out. Bad thing, you are all cleaned out- of Figgy Newtons!
I’m sure she wields that mascara with the same precision as a SEAL handles his weapon.
Wouldn’t want to get poked in the eye now would we?
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