Boot Camp Day 9

I woke up this morning sick as a dog!!!! Feeling like someone punched me all over my body and my nose was so stuffed I could not breath.  I resigned early in the day that I could not go to boot camp!  Around 4:30 my nose suddenly drained and I felt great. So I got dressed and headed to the gym.

We started the todays training with a run, inch worms, and side lunges.  Then within 25 seconds of finishing my stretch the HELL began.  Erik is making our workouts harder and harder and harder  to was so intense I wanted go quit!!!!!

Sprint Drills -  You do each exercise and then sprint,  descending reps beginning with 20 reps, sprint, 16 reps, sprint, 12 reps, sprint, 8 reps, sprint, 4 reps sprint.  The first person to finish signals the beginning of break time 90 seconds.. If you don't finish before break you don't get one 

Exercise 1 - Squats with dumbells  

Exercise 2 - Shoulder press

Exercise 3 - lunges

Exercise 4 - Rows

Sprint drills with weights- Same concept as before except you sprint to the end point do a second exercise before sprinting back to start

Drill 1 - squats/shoulder press

Drill 2 - lunges/lunges

Drill 3 - rows/ shoulder press

4 minutes shoulder killer!!! as fast as you can perform the exercise for 20 seconds 10 second rest.

1. Curl to press (press position)  * I got in 13 as my  highest reps.

down dog to up dog stretch.  Finished.

Today was tough! No tears , but there was a bloody nose and SEVERE pain.  Running in the sand kills me body, and it was such a difficult workout that I wanted to quit!  I seriously wanted to say fuck it.  But just when I get to the point Erik gets in my face and pushes me harder.   It started to rain tonight and that made little cool breeze made the last bit of the workout bareable and made the stretch super relaxing,, the smell of the grass with the light rain.. One of my favorite smells ever!!!!

Me and JB talked for an hour after with our post workout high!  There was laughing and almost peeing of pants ( on my part at least).

Dinner, shower, BED... I am completely wasted!

Day 8 * Boot Camp with Natalie.

Rewind  a few hours to the very stressful workday I just left.  It was full of issues and a awkward discussion with a passive aggressive co-worker that just added the sprinkles and cherry to the top of my shit sundae.

HOWEVER....

I walk in with JB she is discussing her day and it was equally as stressful and shitty for her.  I find relief when I lend an ear to my friends, it helps me realize I am not the only person who has bad days and that sometimes you gotta pick yourself up and walk toward the light at the end of the tunnel.

When we get outside RS is her normal perky-ass self (perky is outside my understanding but no judgement, she is great)  talking about Indian runs and Trainer Natalie is very excited her as well.  I am immediately suspicious and my muscles tighten like a testicles in cold water.  She leads us out the door through the gym jogging until we get to the road, splits us in groups and says " You will jog and when I say sprint the last person in line will sprint to the front of the line, rinse and repeat"  HUH!!!!! jogging and sprinting in a team fashion.. Um team remember I am in line and don't kill me??????  Well to make a long story short, I was so stressed out about lagging or walking that I only made it through one sprint before my chest started burning.  Thank you acid reflux  So I walked and was joined by another lady who was struggling and we started our own indian run line......  And that was just the warm up!!!!

Partner Drills (JB and I)
The drills consisted of Exercise A, Sprint, Exercise B, Sprint by partner 1.. Partner 2 would be doing an ab exercise until their partner completed the sprint drill. The exercises were paired as follows.

1. Skip, sprint, butt kicks, sprint  /  Plank
2. Power skip, sprint , high knees, sprint  / Plank
3. High knees, sprint, broad jumps, sprint
4. Broad jumps all the way up and all the way back.

60 second drills
1. ladder sprint
2. Burpees
3. High Knees
4. Jump Lunges
5.   break
6. butt kick
7. frog jumps
8. sprints.

Abs
1. 6 inch leg raises (in out up and down)
2. Crunches
3. Bicycle Crunches

SEVENs.... fucking SEVENS  we run SEVENS to end our session every time.

Here is where it gets interesting.. During partner drills I had to use the restroom, during that restroom trip I started to feel the urge to cry.  When I say cry I mean BLUBBER boohoo like a child.  I was mad that I had to pee, that I was struggling with my workout, that couldn't run the indian run...We break before 60 second drills and I had to walk away from the group to keep myself from crying.... I was ok as long as I was pushing myself, as soon as it was break time or wait time I would have the overwhelming urge to get hysterical and cry.

During drills I went from sadness to anger when I noticed the slackers bitches who do not even sweat or get out of breath (not because they are fit, because they are dicks).  All of  a sudden when the workout gets hard,, these lazy mother fuckers  pull "OWWWW my shin splints".. I wanted to walk over and jump on their shins and scream ..."How about some REAL pain you lazy cunt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ...

These bitches proceed to be able to run the sevens without a complaint... My eye is twitching just thinking about it... I would rather vomit then give up and when I give up because of chest pain I get so pissed off I end up crying!!!!!!

Day 8 ....... phew!

Boot Camp Day 7

This was only a few days ago but I cannot remember what we did..

There were weights involved the day was heavy quads and back and shoulders... with sprinting... What is with the fucking sprinting... My heart rate is not going to go down enough in the 10 feet I walk to the next station.

But I digress.... It was a tough day and I felt it in my shoulder blades and my back right under my shoulderblads..


Short Blog, Day 8 will be better

Boot Camp Day 5 and 6

Day 4's weigh in and body fat percentage really got me down!  Had to see the numbers.. the NUMBERS!!! Oh well I thought about it, made a decision and kept going!

Day 5 - measurements!!!!!  yuck o yuck!  But the workout was ridiculous!

Teams of 8
      Station 1- Wall Sits with weight arms out straight ( 60 seconds )
      Station 2 - Fast side lunges back and forth (60 seconds)
      Station 3 - Push up.. FUCKING pushups (60 seconds)
      Station 4 - Frog Jumps   (60 seconds)
      Station 5 - Block Jumps (60 seconds)
      Station 6 - Plank push ups (60 seconds)


Teams of 2
    Drill 1 - Up downs...... quick feet, drop to the ground get up as fast as you can... ( I am sllllooooowwww)
    Drill 2 - Sprints
    Drill 3 - Backpeddle  ( I rule at runing backwards go figure)
    Drill 4 - Bear crawl
    Drill 5 - Crab walk ( second most difficult drill for me)

Sevens!!! we run  a serious of  sprints each time the length doubles.

Day 6 - Erik is on a fucking mission to kill us!
- It is raining so we are in the basketball gym, which is stuffy and smells like basketballs and dirty balls ( I am not talking about basketballs)

We warm up with running 3 laps round the gym then we do inchworms to warm up our calves.
2 teams of 8
4 minute drills -
Exercise 1 - 15 squat thrusts as fast as you can
Sprint
Exercise 2 - 15  lat raises
Sprint
Exercise 3 - 15 squats
Sprint
** Go through this circuit 3 times without a break **

10/20/30 drills -
 Exercise 1 - 10 Burpees
SPRINT
Exercise 2 - 20 pushups
SPRINT!
Exercise 3 - 30 side skater lunges

20 second drills - Circuit 1
Exercise 1 - bicep curl to overhead press for 20 seconds fast as you can
Sprint
Exercise 2 - Arnold press to over head press for 20 seconds AFAUC
Sprint
Repeat for 4 minutes

20 second drills - Circuit 2
Exercise 1 - Alternating jump lunges (20 seconds)
Exercise 2 - Frog jumps (40 seconds)

20 second drills - Circuit 3
Exercise 1 - Plank
Exercise 2 - Plank alternating leg raises

Stretch with Sun Salutation!

Today was fucking tough Frog jumps make me feel like I am completely uncoordinated!  If you want to get your heart rate up do a standing frog jumps.. 3 jumps and you are in crazy heart rate town!!!!

Tonight was an example of how crossfit works.. I really like it!!!! Addiction is forming!  I do have to say that there are some folks in this class that I wonder if they are trying to lose weight or if it is court ordered exercise?  I was by far the heaviest person in class today and I was lunging deep, running fast and trying make myself work.. But some folks just don't.   I even asked my girl JB to call me out if I started slacking because I did not want to look like I was playin up in this damn boot camp!!!!  She did not call me out, but our buddy RS was slacking on the jump lunges and JB said.. "Honey, what are you doing we are lunging here!"  hahahahaha

I will rest my joints until Monday, just some zumba practice on Sunday afternoon.

Boot Camp Day 4

Weigh in and body percentage...

I am honestly struggling with the numbers folks.....been in my head all night.  I want to sleep on it before sharing....

Boot Camp Day 3 - We made it one week!

Erik came back with a vengeance today!  He "heard" that Natalie's Wed class was harder then his first class.  So he starts us out with 3 laps around the parking lot which does not suck as bad as it did the first day!  He has us in circuts before we know it.

Today we are in teams of 6 our core group is EP, JB, HD, RS, and Travis.

Circuit training
     Circuit 1 (4 sets)
            Station 1 - Spiderman pushups
            Station 2 - One legged mountain climbers
            Station 3 -  plank row or squat row with bands
            Station 4 - Squat Thrust

            Station 5 - Burpees
            

     Circuit 2 (4 sets)
            Station 1 - chair to jumpsquat
            Station 2 - Wall climbers
            Station 3 - Chest Press with bands
            Station 4 - Over head press in boat pose with weights
            Station 5 - Bear Crawl

      Abs "on the fly"
            Exercise 1 - Plank pushups
            Exercise 2 - Boat flutter
            Exercise 3 - Down Dog kickback
            Exercise 4 - Plank butt kickers
            Exercise 5 - Down dog to cobra
            Exercise 6 - Leg windmills

Today was PAINFUL, my heartrate was consistently raised to 140- 150 from running through the circuits.  The abs were tough  really tough.. But I will tell you it was WONDERFUL watching Erik demo all the exercises 3 times because we kept pretending not to understand  (we are old perv's JB!)

Right now by upper back and shoulders are on fire and my wrists hurt like crazy...

After class we giggled like crazy people and talk to the other trainer about running.  We found out she is going to be doing a running clinic in the summer~  OH CRAP guess we are signing up for that shit too!

There were many funny moments but I am in so much physical pain that I cannot share them tonight.  Tomorrow is rest day!!!!!!

    

Lets talk about pain for a minute.... shall we

I woke up this morning feeling like I was in a the losing end of an unfair fight. In my head the fight was the women soldier from Game of thrones and the dwarf!  She beat me about the shoulders, chest and upper back and he got my knees, quads, calves, and obliques....  NOT A FAIR FIGHT AT ALL.

Because it is Thursday I went to Zumba with AE where she proceeded to beat me into submission using intense cardio wrapped in good music and lots of energy.   The energy in the room was really awesome tonight and that keeps me going at a high intensity.

Dinner with NW,MD,BW,HB  was filled with a laughs and some serious moments due to an ailing father.  The meal was a veggie sub, baked chips and a cookie.  The trouble came when we all tried to stand and move.  The joints were all locked tight and have been getting tighter by the minute.

So I continue to work this fitness thing pretty hard, but I need to tighten up the food!!!!  Because that is my downfall.   Keep on keeping on!