End of week 3 - dog city USA

End of week 3

I believe I may have rocked it today for the following reasons:

I was actually able to do some push ups

I didn’t sit out of any of the drills

I was still in last place in MOST of the drills but not ALL of them.

Our trainer had us do an obstacle course on a hill. I actually have nightmares about not being able to walk up or down a hill because it is so steep. In these nightmares, I am clawing my way up and I just keep sliding back down (crazy town) The hill today came right out of one of those nightmares. To add to the insanity of the drill, people decided it would be a great time to walk their dogs right through our drill. At one point, I was running down the hill, aka shuffling at high speed making sure I didn't fall and break my face, I look ahead and there is a dog running at such a rate that we were going to collide head on if I couldn't get a handle on my shuffle speed. The dog looked about as scared as I did and as I put the breaks on my running he/she/it started running and we just missed each other.



Heart attack ensues.



As we were doing squats, another dog ran up to me and starting sniffing my backside. I asked him if he would let me ride him back up the hill, he politely declined.


BONUS MATERIAL!
As a special treat for today's blog entry, guest artist, Taylor Newhall of Bastards Inc. provided us with some beautiful artistic interpretations of what went on in our boot camp session today.


Enjoy!

I will call today “no way, knee-how”

I think I’m over boot camp. Every morning I get up I seriously consider any other obnoxious task
-I really need to work on cleaning the tile in my bathroom
-Color coordinating my underwear might be nice
-Maybe my plants need new soil
-Those boxes really look like they need to be broken down
-I need AAA road side assistance

Urgh….the tiredness. We had trainer 2 which was nice. You can tell she has genuine enthusiasm and passion for her work. Unfortunately, she is outtie 5. I guess on vacation for our last week. We had our replacement trainer incongnito in our class today. I wondered if she had been with us on the first day since I didn’t recognize her. You know who never came back? Velour Suit! She gave it the good ol’ college try but no dice.

So im tired and there is no way around it. I haven’t posted because im tired and frankly forming sentences and deep thoughts are bit of a stretch (no pun intended). My birthday celebration was on Sunday, yay! Though, again, we missed boot camp on Monday because I drank 12859726498579845 beers. Its my birthday and ill do what I want.

I came back from boot camp yesterday and the there were tire bits in my underwear. It was weird and they were all over my bathroom floor. Now I have to sweep, dammit. I don’t think they are toxic they were close to my hoo ha and I don’t feel weird.

I hurt my knee somehow. I know exactly when. We were stretching after boot camp on Tuesday and as I turned to get up my knee felt weird, it bothered me for a bit but then it went a way. Then on Wednesday boot camp I decided I was Jackie Joyner Kersey and sprinted to the beginning of the Indian run like I was running from the cops. I powered through, but today not so much. At the end of every challenge and even sucked at the modified exercises. Knee injury definitely hurting morale. Instructor said I should go if that bad….I wasn’t looking for her pity so I stayed and pushed through. I took 6 ibuprofens this morning.

Side of the hill
We did an obstacle course on the side of a hill. Bear crawls uphill, lunges midway, jog uphill, reverse pushups at the top, fast sprint to the bottom, 15 sqats. It was fun and I liked the momentum of the tasks. If I was dealing with my bum knee running downhill would have been so cool. My knee is a buzz kill.

Janine is drawing a picture of boot camp, im sure it will be drawn to scale.

The tiredness set in once I got home and crashed on the bed. I woke up super late to work and I am now falling asleep at my desk. I have been od’ing on caffeine lately so im taking it easy.

i wish a snuggie was work appropriate.

Week 3? day 3?

I don't even know what day we are on. I dropped out of the first drill 5 minutes in because I felt like blood was going to start spewing from my throat. We all had to jog in a line around the track and the last person had to sprint pass everyone to become the first in line and everyone was supposed to have a turn twice. After it was my turn to sprint and pass, I dropped out. I don't even feel embarrassed anymore and I am not sure that is a good thing. I hate not doing well at things let alone being okay with being THE WORST in a class. Embarrassment was my ultimate motivator, now I just don't care.

I have had some serious mixed emotions about boot camp. I began with dread, then excitement, then back to dread, then enjoyment then ultimately back to dread. So far, it has definitely been an experience. I say I would like to do it again, but I am not too sure. It has affected my lifestyle in the craziest way. I feel like I am missing out on things because I need to be in bed by 9PM in order to really give boot camp my all and then be able to focus at work and not screw things up. I think after boot camp is over, I will either go back to working out AFTER work or working out at 6:30AM. I don't know, we shall see.


We did a lot of working out on the ground today which means grinding your flesh into the bits of the ground up tires that cover the field. They do not feel like rubber, they feel like shards of glass that are slowly burrowing into your skin. Every time I press my body into them I think how they can't be too healthy to be around. I also thought about that bloody band aid I had to dodge during bear crawls today and it lying on those porous pieces of rubber. I wonder if they possibly have a bunch of nasty bacteria on them (and if you know me well, you know that I am not the neatest person, so this type of thing doesn't normally bother me.)

After a quick search, I find a website discussing the potential risks (from Allergic Responses to Cancer) of rolling around on these rubbery bits o' death Artificial Turf: Exposures to Ground Up Rubber Tires

I wonder if I can sue the boot camp, win a ton of money and use it for liposuction and cosmetic surgery...

we are fighting the good fight, janine.....

Return to Bootcamp

My theme song for today's bootcamp

Week two- Wed

Best Friends!!!!!!!

Today was pretty much workout with a partner day. Guess who my partner was!? That's right, my platonic wife Evelyn. I bet she wishes she had a better partner...at one point she commented on my performance today saying it was, "sub par"...I know right!?

I thought wearing my Gibbons School 1992 lip synch shirt (what what!) would give me the inspiration I needed today. Instead, it just made me look like an out of shape person in an, "lookatmycoolretroshirtthatisn'tfakevintage" shirt.



"CCCHHHHIIIIICAAAAGGGGOOOOOOO"- Evelyn

We teamed up and one of us had to follow the other and mirror everything they did. Evelyn was the leader and I had to chase her around the field doing high knees, sprints, butt kicks and grapevines. The second we started doing grapevines, Evelyn starts singing/screaming,"CCCHHHHIIIIICAAAAGGGGOOOOOOO." I laugh so hard I stop what I am doing, the trainer glares at us then busts out laughing. Evelyn says,"I always feel like I am performing when we do this, I can't help it." Amazing.

Throughout this drill, I kept repeating, "I hate you." over and over again. This was directed at Evelyn not because she was doing anything wrong, but because she was merely alive and making me move.

"Bessst frieeends!!!"- Evelyn
We had lay across from each other with our feet touching and do sit ups. On our way up, we had to give a double high five to each other. Of course, we act like children and laugh everytime we come up to touch hands. Evelyn yells, "Bessst frieeends!!!!" everytime we sit up. More dirty looks from trainer.

"We have never been this close before."-Evelyn

This drill consisted of Evelyn on the ground and me standing. While she lowers to do a push up, I had to jump over her body. Then she raises into a downward dog position and I had to army crawl under her body. Then we switched places. Evelyn rocked it and I could barely move. This drill also produced the following quote from Evelyn to me. "You would never make it in the army."


"Essskimooo RAAAAAAAANDY"-Janine

I have been on an Aziz Ansari kick lately and througout the session today I would start yelling, "Essskimmmmoooo RAAAAAAANDY" out of nowhere. I can't explain why.


"Kill me"-Janine
I said this to myself. No one heard me say this. No one heard me say this because we were running up a hill and I was so far behind I could not see a human for miles.

Week two

This video sums up how I felt about my performance at bootcamp today.


Janine at Bootcamp