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!

Boot Camp Day 2

Let me start by saying I was so excited for boot camp tonight.  I got all giddy.  I was completely piss and camel toe protected*.  I got there early!  Boy did that change 120 seconds into the first set in the first circuit.   Erik was not there today we had Natalie.. She is fit and cute and tall and 100% EVIL.  Which is what we want when you are in boot camp.

Circuit 1 – teams of 8

            Station 1 = plank

            Station 2 = high knees

            Station 3 = butt kickers

            Station 4 = Burpees

            Station 5 = ski jumps

            Station 6 = Rest

            Station 7 = mountain climbers

            Station 8 = running obstacles

Plank and rest where by FAR the easiest with ski jumps and running obstacles, next the butt kickers, high knees.  The mountain climbers SUCK and the Burpees are the fucking worse thing I have ever done in my entire life. watching me do them has to be hysterical!

Circuit 2 – teams of 2 Relay style team against team. One person on the team does the exercise 30 yards up and 30 yards back and the team member ‘resting’ does high knees!

            Race 1 = Spider walk pushups

            Race 2 = Crab Crawl

            Race 3 = Bear crawl

            Race 4 = leg throws

The spider walk pushups tough I was doing a pretty deep pushup because I felt like I was cheating otherwise.  The crab crawl had me almost in tears, I have never wanted to get up and jab cross a bitch in the face more then when I hears Natalie yelling “ get your butt off the ground”.. Bitch my but is not on the ground when I am crawling,, only if I am resting I WILL NOT CHEAT!   I just assumed she was talking to me every time she corrected someone.  Bear Crawl was not to bad on the way up, but the way back all the weight on your upper body begins to take its toll and I found it impossible to breath the last 10 feet.  Leg throws were challenging but by far the easiest for me to do because they were timed and I did not have to  use my upper body… I am coming to terms with how weak my upper body is!

Circuit 3 -  Sevens – one line of people on side, the other line face you 100 feet away. 

            Series 1 -  1 lap

            Series 2 – 2 laps

            Series 3 – 3 laps

            Series 4 – 4 laps

            Series 5 -  5 laps

            Series 6 -  6 laps

            Series 7 -  7 laps

While I did a lot of cussing during this and I was cracking jokes.. I was sure this was going to break me!  I was out of breath every time because I pushed, pushed really hard. By series 5 my whole body was shaking and I wanted to it to be over.  While I was not the slowest, Natalie “Cunty Cunterson” was yelling “This is a sprint, faster faster”  (as I write this I feel my jaw clench and my head starts shaking)  You see the only thing that kind of bullshit does, while I am in respiratory distress, is piss me the fuck off.   JB this is the rage that stopped me from taking the other boot camp.   The in my face, your not good enough stuff will take me from happy go funny Erica to“ ERICA SMASH” Erica.  I don’t turn green and rip off my clothes but I see red, black out, and all of a sudden  you are unconscious……..

Verdict… I am addicted!

Off Day.. Cardio and BINGEING!

As you see from the title of my blog the third entry is "Raw Veganism".  If you don't know what that means google it, youtube it, bing it and make your own deduction because I am not arguing with anyone, this is my journey if you feel the need to correct me FUCK OFF!

Today is Tuesday and there is no boot camp but I still need to do something. My friend H and I go for a walk in the woods with the dog and we end up walking 1.3 miles.  Wooooot Wooot... ( don't be to proud of me yet there is more)

What happens to me when I exercise?  HUNGER.  WAIT, I am lying I have a superpower  "I can eat anytime, I don't even need to be hungry!!"   When H says  "Taco Tuesday"  I scream " Yes,  invite JB and we will make it a party".              

This is the part where my journey goes from healthy to bullshit in 2.5 seconds.

Suffice it to say I do not stick to my diet in any way shape or form because I get beans and rice and forget to tell him to  omit the cheese and I don't send it back, I just eat it.  My tacos are vegan but not RAW. When the meal is finished because I am food addict and I have taken the "first bite" I am going to just get hammered and have desert too!  We share 2 deserts and I am proud because I do not go super crazy  and we actually leave some on the plate (small victory).

The fun does not stop there H, JB, and I sit down for "30 minute chitchat"  and 2 1/2 hours later we go home have discussed friendship, 5k's, immaturity, religion vs. spirituality, weddings, and the all important Things we cannot get away with anymore because we are soon to be 40 and over!

The good and the Bad of the Day

Bad
I stuffed my self with bad food and I payed the price, I felt gross and heavy and I retained 4 lbs of water due to all the salt I ingested!!!!!

Good
I walked 1.3 miles and I nourished my spirit with tears, joy and laughter during my "30 minute" estrogen festival.

I strive to do better tomorrow!


 

Boot Camp Day 1

Let me begin saying that I was talked into this "Boot Camp" mess by my friend JB.  She has done this many times and thinks I will love it and it will get me off of my current fitness plateau.  $99 for and 8 weeks, 3 days per week for an hour, I AM IN!

Day one begins with my stomach rolling from nervous energy. Soon I am in the bathroom every 40 minutes sweating and praying for someone to save me!  5:30 is here before I know it and the dread has set in.

I arrive at the gym, JB and I make our way back to the yard where boot camp begins. There are 40 people signed up for this thing!  I am instantly relieved that I am not the only fat person and I am not the largest person (phew).

Training begins with running.. (umm are you kidding running on day 1) three laps around the parking lot, I come in 37th!  I was told that we made the other people wait so long that their heart rates went down.  We are broken up into groups of 8 and begin our first rotation of 5 stations:
                                       Station 1- Burpee sprints
                                       Station 2- tricep dips on a tractor tire
                                       Station 3 - hovers
                                       Station 4 - downdog pushups
                                       Station 5 - Burpees
We did 30 seconds with a 15 second break for 3 sets.  If you don't know what a burpee is, you are lucky because they are bullshit and make me aware of just how out of shape I am!

                  Second  rotation
                                       Station 1- Walking lunges in the sand
                                       Station 2- arm circles
                                       Station 3 - jump lunges
                                       Station 4 - some arm thing I have no idea what it is called
                                       Station 5 - Supermans

This circuit was much easier for me and I felt like he was teasing us.  Except when he was screaming at us to walk our lunges faster.  I yelled Fuck You! Because there is no way I could go any faster and not die.

                   Third Rotation
                                       Station 1- Sprint, 10 burpees or 25 jumping jacks sprint, repeat and sprint home
                                       Station 2- 30 second wall squats
                                       Station 3 - walking pushups

In station 1 I chose jumping jacks, WORST IDEA OF THE DAY.  I peed myself with every jump, thought I was going to die by the time I finished my second set of "Piss Jacks" just in time to have 15 people watch me slowly sprint back to the finish!  Did I mention we were running in the sand!  While I begin my second set of this torture he called time!  I announced to my team that I pissed myself and High five'd the shit out of anyone who would indulge me!


I came home showered and ate a delicious Vegan meal of balsamic green beans and a huge salad!!!!! The beans were cooked because I am not 100% Raw yet, but I am working on it.

Stay tuned for a report on how I feel tomorrow!