In my class I do Bo Kata drills with the 6-12 pound body bar!! The exercise you describe has to be hell on the blood pressure, not in a bad way, but in a exhaustive way, not for the older folks. But kudos if you can still do it!
I was 18 and 80 pounds lighter. That was 34 years ago and there is no chance in hell I could do one without breaking/tearing/pulling/etc/etc some body part. As I said, those routines were for punishment, not to be healthy and unfortunately there would be a few Company Commanders to make sure you would do them. Nowadays, from what I gather, they now consider that type of behaviour to be barbaric and todays recruits are not required to do it. Bunch of pussies ....
