"In 1991, when we shipped our tanks to Saudi Arabia from Germany, in addition to the 40 main gun rounds, 25,000 rounds of 7.62, a case or two of 5.56 and a couple boxes of mines, we packed something personal; a curl bar and 50 pounds of free weights.
 
That was it.  Our entire fitness center.  It wasn’t so much a case of that was all we wanted to bring, but more an issue of we didn’t have room for anything else.  A real bench?  A bench bar? 45 lb. plates?  Where would we stow them (it’s not like our tanks didn’t look like gypsy wagons already, but weights and their accessories take up a LOT of space.  So we worked with what we had.

Fast-forward 17 years to today.  Now I’m using the TRX suspension trainer.  I admit it, I didn’t know about this thing until I saw it on our website and my first impression was, “damn, I wish we had one of those in ’91.”  Nonetheless I was intrigued enough that I actually got one, just to try it out."

Read the rest of this success story at http://kitup.military.com/2008/08/gym-in-a-bag.html