Mid 90’s .... Was watching Grossman get the Eisenhower award for starting first gym in 2011 so am assuming the concept was way before the first real “gym” based on your comments.
Our PT when active duty was 100 yard sprints, push-ups, sprints, pull-ups, sprints, squat thrusts, sprints, crunches, do a 440 around the track then repeate the sets 3 more times. Then it was life cycle or rower at the base gym, then break all the nautilus equipment to work back, chest, legs and shoulders. Swim laps for 30 minutes to an hour to cool down and then go do free weights to either bulk up with heavy weight and low reps or tone with light weight and high reps.
End of the day was a six mile paratroop shuffle from our shop to the back gate and back to the shop, shower and home.
Each one of us had our own concept of carb loading, Weider supplements , hydration etc back then. Sports nutrition was not prevalent in the service so we “winged it “.....:o)
Endurance was our goal... Asics were the gold standard....:o)
Yeah, I don’t know what the 2011 thing was about.
Good Lord, when did you guys train?!