fitness challenge 3 — boot camp

Clearly I am doing poorly on the fitness challenges. My goal was one per week. I'm barely making one per month.

Tonight Megan and I tried Boot Camp at the Rose Garden. It's one of the Fitness in the Park series. I've never experienced fitness boot camp. Megan has in Kentucky.

I liked that we were outside. I liked little else—except pushing/pulling the sled. That was sort-of fun.

Our first indication that it was going to be crappy was upon our arrival. We parked where I always parked and waited. And waited. And waited. Nobody. They usually meet near the bandstand. We saw someone arrive and followed her. She went to the playground area and there was lots of people.

The instructor came over and greeted us. But he left the wavier at home. He also forgot to collect our money. Don't think his bosses would like that.

It bothered me a lot that he was on his phone constantly. I hope he was checking notes and not twitting or texting. Megan said he also used it for the stop watch.

It opened with a run. Megan and I power walked. That should have been his first indication that things would be different. While he was running backwards with us, Megan told him we both had bad knees, and that she is post pregnancy.  He clearly understood that adaptions would be needed. But he didn't show any, and that pissed her off. At one point he said something like, 'if you can't do this adapt it'. But never said how.

The bulk of the exercises were on the ground. A lot of body weight, and pretty much all legs. No upper body workout except holding yourself up. I discovered I can no longer do jumping jacks. I could doing them for hours at 10.

I'm guessing the ladders were the aerobic part. Here I discovered that I cannot do more than 3 hops in a row. Again, the 10-year-old in me was disgusted. At this point I could no longer see out of my glasses. The sweat was dripping uncontrollably. There was only 2 ladders and about a dozen people. Though it kept moving. So there was no break time

The sleds were last. Again, there was only two.  It was a long wait—Megan and I were last—and I was totally cooled off by the time it was my turn.  The sled weighed about 10 and it had a 10 pound weight on it. I probably should have had added 5 more pounds on it. Some people were using 45 and a 10 or a 25. We pulled it up hill and pushed it down.

Then the class was over. Everyone high fives and you go. I realize I cooled off while waiting but there was no real cool down. No stretching. We stretched a bit and then walked around the block to get to the car.

The a/c int the burple people eater felt good.