Fitness Anywhere attended the Infantry Warfighting
Conference 2009 in Columbus, Georgia this week. The event was explosive! I walked into the south hall and stared
down the barrel of a bazooka. The TRX booth was the place to be. We talked to soldiers who had never
seen the TRX and those who had been using the TRX both locally and on their
deployments.
The first day we had a Low Row contest. In all fairness, I had them do Dead
Rows. Participants hung directly
under the anchor point for their pulls.
The first person on the TRX was officer candidate, Norma
Drayton. Drayton completed 39
rows!
With the bar set by a petite, yet fierce female, the day was
full of soldiers trying to knock Drayton out of the lead. Many, many tried. Sergeant First Class Shanaman arrived
at the end of the day and was able to tie Drayton’s 39 rows and win himself a
TRX Force Kit.
The winning wasn’t over. Major Clipp was our lucky drawing winner for day one. Clipp ran into me walking through the
expo hall earlier in the day and said, ‘TRX - I want one of those’. I encouraged him to enter to win and 6
hours later, he was our winner. Congratulations Major.
Day Two started off strong with a new contest and more
challenges and trash talking. The
Atomic Pushup was the exercise of the day. 2nd Lieutenant Daniels was our winner with a remarkable 54
Atomic Pushups.
Our lucky winner of the day was lucky and timely. Master Sergeant Woodall had entered to
win earlier in the day and happened to swing by the booth at the time of
pulling the card. Woodall said
joking, “Did you pull my name?”
Shockingly, I had.
The event was a huge success. Thanks to my team, Ken Taylor and Tom Keane for working so
hard and having so much fun.
Tricia Fitzpatrick
Event Manager