Boot Camp

(c) Square Fitness, York, PA

 

Yesterday, I signed up for my very first boot camp class. It was an introductory class, low impact. I had never done one before and was a tad bit nervous. A. It was a new facility I had never been to before, so I didn't know what to expect and B. I didn't know if I could handle it.

There were 10 of us yesterday, which is a bigger class than they usually have. I thought it was fine. The instructor set up 10 stations and we did each one for about 30 seconds, could have been a full minute. Honestly, I was paying so much attention to the station to think about how long we did it. We did two stations, then came to the middle for some cardio.

It went very well. I was able to do most of the harder variations on the routines, which made me happy. It felt good to go out and do something since I've been sitting on my butt for about a month due to that stupid sprained ankle. It hurt a bit while working out, but I ignored it. I'm tired of letting it keep me from doing things.

There is talk of a Monday night boot camp class. If so, I believe I'll be attending a few. I don't know if I'll go every week, but I woke up this morning feeling sore, so I know I got a workout. I liked that it worked all the muscles, though it has been hard moving around today. LOL! I suppose in the long run that's a good idea.

Have you tried a workout you were nervous about? How did it go? Did you go back?
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TRX journey started last night

East Shore YMCA TRX room

Tonight was night one of my TRX classes. I signed up because it looked interesting and I need something to challenge me. When the West Shore Y started offering them, I remember telling my trainer that I could never do that, I don't have the balance. Amazing what a year can do for one's attitude.

So, after helping arrange someone to go to tonight's Oriole's game tonight with hubby (kinda forgot we had tix), I arrived at the gym and made my way to the studio. Set myself up there in the back left corner, so I wasn't totally visible from the front door, and got ready. We started out with some stretching that kinda got the heart pumping more than I anticipated. LOL! 

Since it was the first class, we did the very basics and wow, could feel it immediately! I felt good about myself because I wasn't the only one who struggled a bit with it. You could hear people in the room breathing hard, grunting, and kinda laughing. I tend to laugh when I can't do something and it seemed like I wasn't the only one who does this. 

After the class, I could already feel the soreness in my quads. I walked down to the ladies locker room saying to myself, don't fall down the steps and land on the nice lady in front of you. LOL! I didn't. 

I then managed to walk back upstairs (4 flights of stairs) to the fitness center. I somehow managed to run my interval routine. That first mile of running almost brought me to my knees! My quads were just not happy. I got through that mile and each running mile after felt easier. Hopefully that means I ran out some of the soreness setting in from TRX. If you're interested, here's my interval routine. Going to change it next time, move up the speed.

30:00-29:00 ~ Run 5.4

29:00-28:00 ~ WALK 3.5

28:00-27:00 ~ WALK 3.5

27:00-26:00 ~ Run 5.4

26:00-25:00 ~ WALK 3.5

25:00-24:00 ~ WALK 3.5

24:00-23:00 ~ Run 5.4

23:00-22:00 ~ WALK 3.5

22:00-21:00 ~ WALK 3.5

21:00-20:00 ~ Run 5.4

20:00-19:00 ~ WALK 3.5

19:00-18:00 ~ WALK 3.5

18:00-17:00 ~ Run 5.6

17:00-16:00 ~ WALK 3.5

16:00-15:00 ~ WALK 3.5

15:00-14:00 ~ Run 5.6

14:00-13:00 ~ WALK 3.5

13:00-12:00 ~ WALK 3.5

12:00-11:00 ~ Run 5.6

11:00-10:00 ~ WALK 3.5

10:00-9:00 ~ WALK 3.5

9:00-8:00 ~ Run 5.8

8:00-7:00 ~ WALK 3.5

7:00-6:00 ~ WALK 3.5

6:00-5:00 ~ Run 5.8

5:00-4:00 ~ WALK 3.5

4:00-3:00 ~ WALK 3.5

3:00-2:00 ~ Run 5.8

2:00-1:00 ~ WALK 3.5

1:00-0:00 ~ WALK 3.5

I think it helped me on my 5k this past Sat. I felt like I was going faster throughout my race and my times reflected that. I'm happy to see such a noticeable difference so quickly. Makes me want to keep doing the above. I've got less than 2 weeks til Zooma. Gotta do whatever I can to be as ready as possible. I think I'll even keep at this routine come summer when I take a break. It's tough. It's challenging. It's making a difference.

Hoping I'll be able to walk today...

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