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!