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Thankfully, this guy is NOT leading my workouts….
I’m pleased to announce that today was DAY 1 of my participation in Tina Reale’s Best Body Bootcamp (the second one she’s offered, I believe). It’s been far too long since I’ve been on the exercise wheel on anything approaching a regular basis. AND, just to make it extra fun, I decided to put on five pounds over the past two weeks (anyone who read We Came, We Saw, We ATE should have no reason to wonder HOW that happened)!
Tina is a real sweetheart and has provided EVERYTHING we need to get the most out of the camp (sorry, registration is closed for this session!) – we’re getting exercise overviews, nutritional guidelines, weekly exercise plans (as well as modifications, links to demos, and lots of flexibility) for the eight-week camp, PLUS an awesome prize pool. With 270 participants and an active Facebook group, I’m looking forward to getting a ton out of it.
Today’s cardio was “20 minutes of 60/60 HIIT”. Let me tell you that I am such a novice exerciser (despite belonging to one gym or another for years) that I had NO idea what that meant. Thankfully, Tina supplied a very helpful description, and I chose to do my workout on the treadmill (in our basement).
Unfortunately, neither is HE.
You should know that I DO NOT run on the treadmill…..or, rather, I didn’t until TODAY.
First, I warmed up with 30 minutes of Just Dance 3. A bit of overkill as far as “warm-ups” go, but I love me some Just Dance 3, and HAD to do Katy Perry, Cee-Lo, LMFAO, Scissor Sisters, Jessie J, AND Taio Cruz. Just shy of breaking a sweat, when I hopped on the treadmill.
I did my 60/60 intervals as 60 secs walking at 3.0 mph alternating with 60 secs running at 6.0 mph. This was HUGE for me. I felt like I could “just” make it through the 6.0 mph bits, but I did it!
Later this evening, I tackled her Workout A strength training workout…made up of upper body supersets. Three good sets of each pair and DONE!
I’m definitely someone who needs accountability to motivate me, so, if I don’t keep posting about this, ASK ME ABOUT IT!
Not THIS…..but I do love Donald Duck.
squirrel circus 
Yay! Congrats on pushing your limits and doing what you thought you couldn’t. You did AWESOME and that’s what this is all about. 🙂
Thanks!! I’m loving the program so far — and the FB group is terrific support 🙂
Yikes, don’t go crazy here. I had to take a nap after reading this. I’d get a pretty good workout just cleaning off my treadmill w/all the cobwebs on it. My daughter does a boot camp in Boston at least 3 times a week & sometimes will go in at 5:30am before work. Now I could never in a million years do that!
Holy cow! Now THAT is going crazy. I’m not even conscious until about 7:30, and that was even when I’m working. Those young’uns, they amaze me!
That’s what I tell her but she figures she’s only got a few months left that she can go to this particular guy’s boot camp. She’s been a Bruin’s Ice Girl for 3 yrs & they pay for them to be able to go so she wants to make the most of it & hopes to do a 1/2 marathon in October. I’ll go cheer her on but I can’t understand this marathon stuff – hell I don’t even like to drive that far never mind run it.
SO cool — my husband played hockey for years….we don’t watch it all that often on TV, but, if we did, would be see the Ice Girls?
Whew, your husband played? Tough sport w/no sissies like in baseball. I remember a game when Chara got his nose split open – bandaid & he’s back out there. The Ice Girls are on ice during the breaks either doing the t-shirt guns or ref’ing the little kids 5 minutes of fame (that’s always dangerous). The stations switch to the commentators at that time so you don’t usually see the girls except on the jumbotron in the background. The most cool thing was the Stanley Cup parade – over a million people & she got a Stanley Cup ring which is this big honking thing that she kept here because she was afraid to have it at her apartment.
This is my girl, I love her: http://bruins.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=66676
She’s gorgeous! No wonder she keeps working out. 🙂 That’s so cool that they got Stanley Cup rings. I bet it’s HUGE.
Scott played ice hockey, here in Lancaster, for the Lancaster Firebirds club. No schools had hockey as a sport back then. He played from the age of 5 till 17, also traveled to Canada every other year for an exchange with a team from Kitchener, Ontario
By the time we started dating, I only got to see him play once…in a reunion game, when he was 30 years old. All the guys talked a big game….about going out drinking after the game, but they all went to bed early!
Aw, that’s sweet of you to say. The greatest thing is, despite having me for a mother, she turned out to be an awesome kid. Appreciate those boys now, they grow up way too fast. I think all the early mornings & nights driving from the rink to school & back probably made us very close – something about being in a dark car w/o having eye contact makes you open up more I think.
And yes, that Stanley ring is a major piece of bling. We had people stopping by the house to take pictures of it & when John brought it in to work he got nothing done that day.
If Scott played hockey for that long he must have really loved it. Hockey & figure skating are huge time & $$$ commitments. But it does give kids opportunities that most never have. Niki got to train in the summer when her coach would take them to Lake Placid & then Obersdorf Germany. Her coach was insane but she wanted to work with him.
You know the great thing about being married to a hockey player is that he can take a punch. I like that in a husband.
He did! And his parents were really into it to. His dad and a bunch of other guys actually raised the funds together to build the ice rink that the club still uses. Until then, the only ice rink in town was on the lower level of the local mall! Funny coincidence, they used to train occasionally at an “away” rink….. next to the swim club MY family belonged to in the summer. Small world….
Awesome! Very impressed.
Thanks, babe! I feel like if I get, um at least five days under my belt, I’ll be fully committed. 😉
you just made me realise that i haven’t touched my jump rope for along time…i need to get back on my workout routine… 🙂
It’s hard, isn’t it? Life keeps getting in the way. I’m waiting, now, for it to cool down this evening. I want to do my cardio outdoors this evening.