Last month I wrote about my journey of walking more, getting up to 10,000 steps per day. I’m still reaching my 10,000 steps, and usually going out for walks at 10:00 at night. But I wanted to try something new, something way out of my comfort zone, an activity I never thought I would try. In fact, I’ve told myself countless times that I would never, ever try it.
Well, I joined a bootcamp, here in Niverville.
The bootcamp covered a lot of different exercises and included lots of cardio, sort of like what I tried to do at home in my basement but a hundred times harder with the
instructor encouraging me to push myself to the limit.
The first day, I was excited, nervous, thrilled, anxious, fired up, overwhelmed, and energized with emotions. I should mention that bootcamp took place twice a week in the evenings for a 5-week session, and there were roughly 12 participants. Some were newbies like me and others had been doing this bootcamp for years.
Each class was totally different. We never did the same workout routine twice. I was honestly expecting to do the same thing for all 5 weeks, but what was coming next always remained a mystery. It kept me on my toes during class, bare-ly able to brush my teeth the next morning from doing 200 push-ups.
The last class was different from the rest. We didn’t work out as a group as we normally did. It was an individual class and everyone timed their own workout session. It consisted of 5 rounds, with 12
different exercises ranging from doing 30 jumping jacks to 10 push-ups to 1-minute wall sits. It took me 6 minutes to complete the exercises, and then I had to do it all over again, and again and again and
again. Each round my time got longer. When I reached the fifth and last round, the instructor watched me almost the whole time, encouraging me, pushing me… and what do you know, I did that round in 5 minutes and 36 seconds!
I felt great after each class, and I’ll be joining bootcamp again.
I encourage you to try an activity outside your comfort zone. You never know, you might really enjoy it! Come join me at bootcamp, or Zumba, or yoga, or cardio kickboxing.
