Trunk Twister “ (replaced by Army’s helicopter).Four Counts Push-ups * (replaced by Alligator rolls).The following were the original army dozen exercises In order to provide to correct exercises the following exercises originally came from the US Army, adopted by the Philippine military as a means warm-exercises daily. Many introduced irrelevant way and procedures such as the match-stick measurement of a distance, transferring of drum of water to an empty drum with teaspoon which this author recognized as non-sense.
The term refers to a commitment to maintaining a certain fitness level, but the phrase no longer appears in Army handbooks.Īs adopted means of screening, generation by generations of Guardians, different styles, and different opinions changes turned into a fraternity-style recognitions. The dozen exercise was renamed by the Army as “Army Dozen” and outside the Philippines, in 2000, RMG Mel, re-adapted and renamed as the Guardians’ Dozen when he introduced first abroad somewhere in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, unknowingly it was the same name by out forefathers in 1980s as sort of screening test. Walter Camp in 1920, the “daily dozen” originally consisted of 12 simple exercises that took about 15 – 30 minutes to complete.