Day 3

Today was a day where I really wanted to skip everything that was life and stay at home. It was snowing outside and gross (yesterday it was 50 and beautiful) plus before my scheduled gym time I ate probably 8 mini cupcakes from Hippies birthday. My entire upper body was sore from my work yesterday and sitting sounded a whole lot easier than doing. The sugar from the cupcakes was making me feel sluggish and not excited about going to boot camp, but I did anyway knowing that I would feel better afterwards.

Which is not a lie, I did feel better after my workout. But during it it was hard. Really hard. I blame those damn cupcakes (they were really good, just not good an hour or so before the gym.) On Wednesdays, my absolute favorite bootcamp instructor teaches class at 3:30 so that made it better. She is just the right amount of fun, motivating, and funny. For anyone who doesn't know what bootcamp is, it is a total body one hour workout that you do at your own pace but still in a group fitness setting.  So in an hour you do both cardio and strength exercises back and forth.  I couldn't tell you everything we did in class today, but one thing that I remember was towards the end we did a leg circuit which consisted of basically 7 or 8 leg strengthening moves with weight that you would do 20 reps of one exercise and move on to the next one at your own pace until you completed the list. Once you completed the list, you would start back at the top and keep going through this cycle until the allotted amount of time was complete. I thought ok, this is fairly simple no big deal and when time began I started my round. After a few minutes, the instructor decided it would be fun to hold up a sign that said Burpees and shouted that it was now burpee time. So you had to stop where you were in the circuit and do burpees until she put the sign down. I silently cursed the instructor in my head the entire burpee time because I don't like surprises, especially in my workout. Then she put the sign down and we continued, but before I finished one circuit she held the sign up two more times only with 'squat jumps' and 'star jacks' written on the board (which wasn't as bad because I was expecting this now.)

I always feel better after the gym but somedays getting there seems so difficult. I can't wait for it to finally get warmer outside and stay warmer so I can run more outside. I probably won't always make a post for Wednesday's because Wednesday will be my bootcamp days and there's not really a lot to say about them except for that they are usually a good workout.