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According to the above video, the drag is to be performed by grabbing shoulder straps in the way you've described.  No one believes that the cheap piece of fabric on the back of the TV (where the drag handle should be) is going to hold anyone's weight.

You guys are killing me. This thread is making be dumber.

I'm just trying to help the new guy who types "weight training" into the search function sift through the bullshit.

This thread is not about two meatheads splitting hairs over the finer points of military fitness.  This thread is about  bodybuilding (scottyg) vs strength training (Kratos).  In should be overwhelmingly obvious that one side of this discussion is offering much better advice than the other side.

You're right. Everyone thinks they have the best way. But... The training principles that Kratos is describing are being applied by REAL soldiers on REAL courses.  His advice is VERY much in line with the solid advice Stymiest offered in the Infantry Officer Phase 3 thread: The 5x5 program...

Thanks for the post, Stymiest.  I'm not a pointy-head, but I know solid advice when I see it. Guys joining the infantry on the enlisted side of the house would do well to read the above, and apply those principles when completing their own courses.

Your opinions then, don't necessarily conflict. I'd imagine that conscripts in Vietnam were, for the most part, motivated to do their jobs well because their survival depended on it. Conscripts in a peacetime army, such as the one Petamocto was exposed to, could have been less motivated...

Man, the army is what you make of it. There's a thread in the Infantry sub-forum about comparing the Regiments.  You should check that out.

I agree. Officers may have a tendency to be pretentious and aloof, but to cast them all as unwashed masses is an unfair generalization.  As a matter of fact, I've known a few (in the artillery) to have very good hygiene.

Why won't you just give me the answers I want? Give them to me nooooww!!!

Quit trying to alienate me.

What is "I hate George Bush"?

I used to.  Now I'm a student.  What is "a living"? It sounds socially constructed, and therefore not actually real...

Hell no! I'm just a worn out and washed up CPL, formerly from The RCR.

It usually comes up fairly early in conversation: "So what do you do?" Tell the truth, of course, but play it off like it's no big deal.  To 90% of women, it just isn't.  While being an army guy is pretty bad-*** to your buddy from highschool (who's all about the Modern Warfare 2), most women...

1) Get a car. Something reliable, good on gas, and can get you the hell out of Petawawa.  Don't blow your money on some crazy ride out of The Fast and the Furious.  Get something that will get you to where you're going, and have some coin left over to enjoy your time there. 2) Sign up for...

Out of my lane, but... I think most guys who're using shotguns tactically use them almost exclusively as breaching tools.  For that purpose, the trend seems to be toward a single point bungie sling with some kind of weapons catch.  The idea is to keep the shotgun tucked away when it's not being...

Right here: http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/92953.0.html

I think this snarky bit of passive-aggression was uncalled for. I don't think Zip was being unreasonable when he asked you to clarify how you got PTSD from the obstacle course in St Jean.  Your offhand reference to PTSD caught me off guard too.  It's just not the kind of trigger people...