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The article discusses the reasons soldiers of the U.S. Army should be enthusiastic about its new Combat Fitness Test, with topics including the test's focus on core training exercises, deadlift training in the test and the inclusion of sprinting and drag exercises in it.

The article offers the author's insights on several multiple workouts along with instructions on how to perform the exercises. Workouts or exercises that were mentioned include the deadlift, the bent-over row, and the push press. Also mentioned are the importance of techniques when performing an exercise and various equipment to be used to perform the exercise such as barbells.

The article presents several uncommon strength exercises recommended by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Matt Stemmler. They include truck push, single-side dead lift, concentration curls on a low row machine, and single-shoulder bar squat. Descriptions of how the exercises are performed are also presented.

The article offers information on several strength training exercises for women military personnel. It states that the dead lift is the number one strength exercise, in which it enables almost all of the muscles in the body to work. It says that through pullup, spinal protection and overall back strength can be achieved. It adds that the ball slam is one kind of fun exercise which boosts core and upper body stabilization.

The article offers three-day CrossFit exercises for soldiers. For warm-up, it suggests Samson stretch, air squats, back extensions, push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups. The author recommends running at 800 meters forward, 400 meters backward, 800 meters forward and another 400 meters backward for the first day. For the last day, he advises making thrusts, hang power lifts and deadlift high-pulls with weights at 95 pounds each.

The article offers step-by-step instruction of performing various exercises. It suggests selecting a weight that is about 70% of one's body weight when doing a dead lift exercise. It cites the number of repetitions required for each round of squats. The author recommends doing abdomen crunches for 60 seconds in each round.

The article discusses the importance of the quality of performing the exercise against the quantity of repetitions. It explains that dead lift and martial arts skills both require good form and technique. It asserts that doing exercises the wrong way risks injuries. It suggests that slow and steady movements are better than rapid-fire repetitions.

The article presents information on the standing weighted arm raises and the hot potato exercises, which develops abdominal muscles for dead lifting. The standing weighted arm raises utilized one or two light dumbbells and was done by squeezing the glutes and tucking the pelvis under and forward. The hot potato exercise was done by holding a medicine ball or a kettle bell hand weigh in one hand in the rack position.