I.Can't.Move.

My body is screaming at me... "WHY Did you decide that bootcamp would be a good idea you idiot?! I hate you! Take me back to sleep!"

I can't barely walk or move and I have discovered muscles I have that I didn't know exsisted... and this is only day 3 of round 2...

Getting Your Masters is Overrated...

... I've decided. Seriously, the LAST thing I want to do on top of everything else is research face transplants, prepare a discussion, outline, presentation and 20 page paper on it for next week! Meanwhile, I am also not so interested in The Importance and Function of Food in the book, The Joy Luck Club however I must write 10 pages on that subject too. by next week. And did I mention I'm planning an event for 150 people on Thursday as well?

It is times like these I want to take a "sabbatical" on school work because ya know what? I think it's overrated!

Thanks for listening to my rant... I just hate homework -

Round 2...

Well, today started "Round 2" of bootcamp and my I was NOT ready for it. Last week I didn't work out one bit and ate whatever the heck I felt like... now my body is laughing at me.... I should NOT have done that!

And the worse thing is - there is only 5 people in this bootcamp session as opposed to the 55 that were in it last session. This means that I am the one who is running in the back of the group... I'm coming in last. Perhaps this is just a bit more motivation to not come in last but seriously when I'm running and I can't breathe - it's time to walk and I don't care. Come to think of it... who cares if I'm walking! Hmph!

I'm sure I'll thank myself later for signing up for this again - but right now I feel like I could just use the extra sleep...

The Results Are In... VICTORY!

Today was the last day of my 4 week bootcamp. I want to thank everyone who has been there along the way to support me! A special thanks to my sister Kelly who made me sign up in the first place and for telling me to keep going when I wanted to walk instead of run... I didn't think I'd see much improvement but to my surprise I did! The results are in...

We ran the mile today and I was able to knock off 1 minute and 9 seconds from my first time! A huge deal for me as I DO NOT run - let alone a mile! I really pushed myself today... go me!

For my measurements...

• I lost 5 pounds! (who knew?!)
• I lost 3.9% body fat (which is a huge deal apparently)

Measurements

• Left Arm: down .25
• Right Arm: down .25
• Chest: down .5
• Waist: down 1.5
• Hips: Down 1.75
• Left upper leg: down .5
• Right upper leg: down 1

Fat Measurement

• Triceps: Down 4
• IL (I think this is waist?): down 7
• Abs: down 10 (!)
• Thighs: Down 5

The trainer said I have tied for first place for the person who has improved the most in measurements for the camp... again! Who knew?! I'm so excited to now sleep and eat!

I'll post more when it starts all over again in a week! (I did end up signing up for the October Express Halloween Camp - you should too!)

Happy Friday!

Cheater, Cheater Pumpkin Eater!

Today was the day before the last day of bootcamp - the last day is on Friday and I'm almost sure I'll have to run the mile again so I'm trying to get myself "pumped up" for that... right. Today at any rate, there was a new lady next to me and I caught her cheating! Truly she's really only cheating herself because by not doing the excercises, she's setting herself back but still!

We were doing these things called zen pushups where you take 2 dumbbells and do a pushup, then you get up and push your arms forward and then your arms up and back down for a pushup for 2 and then 3 and then 4 and so on... well she was getting done WAY before I was and I couldn't figure out why! Until I watched and she wasn't doing the pushup and then she was only extending her arms up - not out and up! P'shah! The nerve!

Again - she's just hurting herself by not doing the excercies... but still! :)

1 Liter Bottle of Water and Other Tall Stories...

So today is the beginning of the last week of bootcamp. I can't believe I've made it this far! But proud of myself for doing so. I haven't lost any weight (blasted!) but I've definitely toned up and can even show anyone my arm muscles who asks. :)

This weekend I spent 3 hours at the grocery store (I'm not kidding - ask my boyfriend Erik who I drug with me and was so spent by the end of it he needed a smoke break) and decided to buy a water bottle that held 1 liter of water. They say you're supposed to drink 2 liters of water a day so I thought cool! Ill get one of these, drink 2 and be set!

Might I say this is not a good idea to drink half of it before bootcamp even starts? Oh yes - that's what I did and today I thought I was going to EXPLODE with water 1o minutes in. Thankfully, I didn't but I certainly learned my lesson!

It was raining again today so my mat was soaked and so was I*. Now all I have to look forward to is running a mile again and pushing a car.

Oh joy!
*Note: I was soaked because it was raining out - not because I peed my pants. I didn't pee my pants; I just thought about it

Now THIS is bootcamp!

So I wake up this morning at 4:50 a.m. (my usual time to get up for bootcamp) and it is STORMING out... I mean pouring down rain, thunder, lightening - the whole bit. I'm thinking to myself "why am I going to get up and go to bootcamp and find out it's cancelled?" But I figure, oh well I mine as well just show up. So I drive there in the pouring rain, get there and everyone is sitting in their cars... finally the rain lets up and everyone gets out and we start stretching. Our leader gets a call from her boss saying he cancelled their camp... so she asks us if we want to cancel ours and some lady says "no way! we're already here!" she had a good point but I was looking forward to going home for some extra sleep! Oh well.

So we stretched out and then ran in the pouring rain for a half hour. Stopping every 4 minutes to do calisthenics... all I could think while I was running in the pouring rain with my pants, shoes, socks and whole self soaked... now THIS is bootcamp! Huah!

My First Bootcamp Injury...

I can't move my head, my neck, my left arm or anything that includes my back. I now know how people who throw their back out feel - HORRIBLE! And I couldn't sleep... word on the street is that bootcamp is HORRID tomorrow - I hope I can at least move by then or I might just be lifting weights in my head...

Bootcamp is not my friend

bootcamp today sucked hard core. I'm not sure if it was because I didn't really feel like going in the first place (I didn't get much sleep over my wild weekend) or if because my body just doesnt like to run... it tells me this everyday mind you but I like to try and ignore it... but today - I couldn't ignore it yelling at me to STOP with the running already!

We had to do an obstacle course which consisted of running one lap around the stupid parking lot (it doesnt sound bad but it is - this parking lot is deceiving - it has hidden hills and stinky outhouses - barf!) then after that jumping over hurdles, squatting and running from cone to cone and then stepping through some ladder thing. I could barely breathe let alone do an obstacle course so I admit I was half assing it -- then I got yelled at by the trainer for doing the ladder wrong so I had to do it again. Today - me and my body are mad at bootcamp. On the upside - I felt better for working out. Now for a nap this evening. :)

"Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do..."

This weekend marked many firsts in my life in which I'm not quite sure how I made it 27 without doing some of them. They include:

• visiting a winery/vineyard (p.s. My boyfriend Erik ROCKS who took me there. Love him to death)
• stealing a road block barrell complete with iridescent striping
• attending Oktoberfest
• walking through a drive thru

I think my favorite of those stories is walking through a drive thru at 3 a.m. ... it was taco bell and we were hungry! We got lots of honks from cars - I like to think it was because I'm so cute and people wanted to tell me that from their cars. :)

Umpah! But now if I ever have kids and I say "don't do anything I wouldn't do" they know it's okay to walk through a drive-thru at 3 a.m in the morning