Boot camp. Week 5. Every day at 6:05 I am jolted into the reality of what the morning has in store for me and I head to the MKG gym for my morning fix of butt whuppin’ (me getting whupped). I enrolled in a 10 week, mixed martial arts, cardio and strength training course and I’m in the thick of it. I felt like it was just really time for a taste of being in shape again, some consistency, follow through and hopefully results. The gym had become my nemesis. I loathed the stair master and any other machine that promised a sweat. I couldn’t do it anymore! Enter boot camp.
It’s been a long 5 weeks of pretty intense workouts that have engrained in me a sweet, renewed sense of my body’s intrinsic strength. I feel great, actually. I have more energy (besides the less sleep thing), my body is changing slowly but surely for the better. I can see my arm muscles again, my pants fit a little nicer. The massive changes that I hoped to see immediately have still eluded me and I mark this as another reason to keep up. Before, I would get really gung- ho about the gym, only to find my enthusiasm wane at around two weeks. When I didn’t see an immediate six- pack of abs, I’d just loose motivation, realizing that the idea is to look long term, rather than a quick fix. Quite honestly, I’m a quick fix girl at heart.
We did a fitness test at the beginning of the boot camp and again last week. Every day in class, I swear I can only do five pushups before my arms give way and refuse to budge. Somehow for the test, by the same miracle that someone can lift a car to save a life, I was able to do 28 pushups in one minute (Are you kidding me? I’ve told everyone who will listen). If these entire ten weeks are dedicated only to eliminating these mind games that hold me back, it will be worth it. I realized that I just had to have someone say, “ I’m timing you: GO!” for me to see what I had in me all along. Awesome. Definitely worth it!!
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28 push ups in aminute, that is a lot! at least for my thin body ad some self judment that doesn’t aloow me to see beyond what I’m capable of doing. We all have mind tricks, I ve decided to give them abck to our mother earth, so they can transform into something more powerful, maybe a belief.
I believe in myself, and I believe in you. we are capable of great features that are unknown for us, but we are opening some cracks every day to see far, far away.
Congratulations on your great journey.
Thanks so much! It’s really cool what happens when you put the mind aside for a bit. We just have to get ourself to that place first. Good luck to you in your journey and maybe someday we can have a pushups contest together. And then send it back to mother earth!