I didn't see that coming.

So. Yesterday I had a horrendous day, and an attitude to match. I knew going to workout would probably make me even less tolerable, so I text Darin and he actually let me off the hook. With basically a promise to appear at boot camp. Which brings me to today.

When I woke up this morning, I was really disoriented because I hadn't been to boot camp in like 5 weeks and couldn't figure out what that ringing sound was, why I was so cold or where my hairbow was... until I was like oh, snap. That's my alarm and I'm supposed to go to boot camp. Anyways, I ate some peanut butter toast on whole wheat bread in my bed (don't judge me) and then went and picked up my friend Jer. Rebecca, Jer and I were the only 3 boot camp participants, which was nice. Anyways, we started off with some stretches, and a round of squats, a plank and mountain climbers. Then we got down to business and there were 8 stations, and let me say this. I TOLD Rebecca last night, "I haven't had to do any surrenders in a long, long time. I bet we'll do them tomorrow" and station #1? surrenders. It's like I'm Miss Cleo. Not really, because I didn't see the rest of boot camp coming haha. From there, there were bicycle crunches, sumo jump squats, brace squats, step back lunges with an overhead press, inverted rows, incline press and offset fronts and sides. I started with surrenders and this shocked me to my core. They weren't nearly as hard as I remember. Now. Granted, I didn't hold the bar over my head, but they were actually #1 on my list of most hated exercises ever. Which, now I have a new number one. But anyways, I'll tell you what I did hate. Going from sumo jump squats to brace squats and then the lunges. That was leg hell confined to a gym. I also have something shocking to say, which I may later regret posting on my blog but right now I feel pretty good about my life. I didn't hate the brace squats. At all. IF I had to do a squat, I would 100x rather do those than even plain old body weight squats. While I'm talking about squats, efffffffff some sumo jump squats. A)whales can't jump. B)they're really hard. Also. I told myself today before I went in the gym, "Nessie. you didn't work out yesterday so you have no excuse for half assing anything, don't automatically grab for the lightest weight. there's no point in being here if you're not trying". I guess it worked haha. On the incline press today, the first round I used 20s, and then I decided to at least give the 25s a shot, I could always drop them if they're too heavy. Nope. not too heavy. I mean, it was challenging and the last 2 reps I realllllllllllly had to push, and once on the way down I caught myself in the throat. But you win some, you lose some. and by lose some I mean a wind pipe. After we did 2 somewhat merry go rounds of that, we did abs. whooo. I don't have abs. I think I'm missing those muscles. We did some regular crunches with your legs in the air, straight leg raises, transverse crunches and v-ups or whatever. That was all I had left in the tank. Today was leg heavy. I know I may be bragging and other people can do more reps than I did with more weight, but I think today was the best I've done so far. I felt like I did kick ass, and I'm happy with the way it turned out. Which is weird because I never thought I'd be happy with boot camp. I didn't see that coming. at allllllllllll.

Anyways. I guess I should actually get some stuff done today. I feel like I've been awake foreverrrrrr. and 2 hours. Hopefully I'll be able to walk tomorrow, but that's still up in the air. Jer, Becky and I planned on the gym tomorrow. My legs feel really weak right now. Like at any moment it's going to be what I like to call the "invisible gunshot" where you're just walking and you take a tumble because your legs can't hold you. I've never actually hit the floor, I usually catch myself but today may be the day. I dropped my keys in my office and used a broom handle to get them because the hell if I'm squatting down to pick them up. Anyways, here's to hoping. I'm out!