Plyometrics

Todays pilates class at lunch hour was pretty uneventful. Some pain some problems balancing. A normal class really. However, last nights bootcamp class was all about plyometrics.

Basically this means running and jumping around with little to no breaks, to increase cardiovascular fitness, while trying your best not to throw up or die.

We did sprints, burpies, step ups on retaining walls, mountain climbers, pushups, kicks, jumping squats, jump lunges, and we did a whole bunch of jumping exercises using little orange pylons.

I found out, interestingly enough, that jump lunges are also referred to as mary catherines. Who knew? A nun reference maybe. I'm sure I was praying for my life at one point there myself.

Here's a helpful tip. Before you go to a class called "Bootcamp", don't eat 7 chocolate chip cookies for supper. Besides the fact that they sit heavy in your stomache, they also haunt you while jumping around doing plyometrics. You've been officially warned.

Project 2: 5DPWAK

I am starting a new fitness project. I'm calling it the 5 Days Per Week Ass Kicking, or 5DPWAK for short. Okay. So I'm still ironing out the name.

The premise is that I work out 5 days, Monday to Friday, every week. My schedule is set up for Monday Core Classes, Tuesday Bikini Bootcamp, Wednesday Pilates, Thursday Bikini Bootcamp & Friday Personal Training.

I was told by my trainer that I should take weekends off to rest. So that's the plan. I hope to motivate my friends to get active, build my endurance and fitness level. Here goes nothing...

Birthday Bootcamp

Today is my 30th birthday. Wow, where does the time go. Everyone keeps telling me that life gets better in your thirties. So here's hoping that it's true.

Tonight the plan is to go to bootcamp for an hour or so and try to work up a good sweat while trying not to injure my sore left knee too much. That car accident last May is to blame for my knee pain. I'm sure of it. Oh well, I guess I just wait for it to heal. Which I hear, can take a very long time.

After my workout, my wonderful husband is taking me out to birthday dinner, just the two of us. Then Friday we are doing something to celebrate with friends which is still a secret to me. I'm sure it will be a great time!

Bikini Bootcamp Begins

Last week Tuesday, Bikini Bootcamp began. My primary goal is just to make it through class and come out the other end alive. I have no delusions of sporting a bikini for everyone to see. At least not from a fitness class, after cosmetic surgery maybe, but I digress.

Bootcamp is a class where you pay to be tortured, where you run around in various local grassy areas and have your arse handed to you. To do things you never thought your body could do and then when class is over to head home thinking "Why am I doing this again?" The answer? Insanity.

We've had two Tuesday classes so far and Thursdays will be tossed into the mix starting this week, on my birthday, just for fun. Yes, I am spending my birthday getting beat by a trainer. I hope that having my 30th birthday be about working out will somehow rub off on my future as a sign of things to come. A lifestyle I strive to achieve.

There'd just better not be a lot of burpies..