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Kellie Clements, the High Intensity Tactical Training (HITT) center manager at United States Marine Base Camp LeJeune, NC, leads a kettle bell class. The gym is the first of its kind aboard a military base and uses ropes, sandbags, running parachutes and other exercise equipment to get service members in shape. Photo by Lance Cpl. Victor Barrera.
Marines at six U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) stations are the first to participate in the new High Intensity Tactical Training (HITT) strength and conditioning program that will be rolled out across the branch by January 2012.
Like programs recently launched in other branches of the military, the HITT program is based on principles of functional fitness. It is designed to ensure that active-duty Marines are combat ready, says Ryan Massimo, combat fitness program manager for the USMC.
Semper Fit, which is run by the USMC’s department of Sports, Recreation and Fitness, is beta-testing HITT at Marine Corps air stations Miramar (CA) and New River (NC), Marine Corps bases Camp Lejeune (NC), Pendleton (CA) and Quantico (VA), and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms (CA). After the trials, the program will be launched at all Marine stations in the United States and abroad, Massimo says.
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