Day One

***Note*** Day one was March 30th but since I decided after the fact to start this blog, it's going to be posted a day late.

Well today was the first day of boot camp. I expected it to be extremely difficult, but there was also this part of my brain that said "well you have been doing Wii Fit for the last week and it wasn't that hard, you should do ok". Yeah this was NO Wii Fit, not even close. I showed up ten minutes early with my yoga mat and 5 lb weights in hand, eager to get in shape. I soon noticed that most of the people there had already attended at least one boot camp, and a couple of them had attended several boot camps. Great. I was hoping there would be at least one person like me that would fall over half way through the hour. But I managed to stay positive...until the trainer said "ok we are starting, run two laps around the parking lot, go go go!"

run???

I naively thought that we would do the typical warm-up, kick butt, cool down thing. Apparently the hour long boot camp doesn't account for this. (note to self: next time come early and warm up on your own!) I am not a runner, and to start off running without a warm up was a bad starting point from me. My lungs were on fire, and my heart was was beating so fast I thought it would burst. When we got back we started stretching, which was a little break to catch my breath.

As soon as I caught my breath it was "run down to the stop sign and back". Ugh! Then it was on to mat work, which included squats, jumping jacks, jumping back and forth like a skier, and more fun with dumbbells. During the mat work my stomach started to cramp up. I am never sure how long I should wait between eating and exercising, so a little over an hour before camp I had an orange. I figured it would give me a sugar and electrolyte boost, plus it would be out of my stomach by bootcamp. I don't know if it was the stress on my body, anxiety, or the orange but I did not feel good. I just kept telling myself that I could get through it.

"Run to the stop sign and back!" That didn't help. Then it was onto lunges, skipping, and running backwards across the parking lot. I really started to feel sick at this point, and not to be gross, but I wasn't sure which end it was going to come out of. I really didn't care if I threw up in front of everyone, but the alternative was not a choice for me. I excused myself to the bathroom. Nothing happened when I got there, I just sat with my head in my hands while the room spun around and around. After what felt like 5 or 10 minutes (but I have no idea how long I was in there) I finally rejoined the group. I felt like a loser for needing a break, but when I got back the trainer came up to me and said "hey it's ok, I had three people puke this morning. it's normal on the first couple days." I said, "thank you but for the record I didn't barf!!"

I continued with the group, joining in on the second set. I did ok in the mat work, but every time we had to run across the parking lot I was definitely holding up the tail end of the group. I didn't care. At least I was trying, and at least my body was moving. At the end of our three reps, we had more running and then ab exercises. We found a new level of pain. At one point I felt like my ab muscles weren't even connected to body anymore because when I tried to move them nothing happened. As I grunted away I started to talk to the people on my left (Jenna was on my right). One of them (the only guy in the group) told me that this was his second boot camp, and on the first day in his first boot camp he couldn't do ANY of the ab exercises or most of the running, so he thought I was doing great. This made me feel a little better. I may be having a lot of trouble now, but it is the first day and it will only get better right?

When I got home I was pretty sore. I have never been sore on the day of exercise before, usually I'm sore the next morning. I got on my Wii Fit and did my daily test, and then did stretching exercises for ten minutes. I knew the more stretching I did, the better I would feel. (My dad's famous advice by the way) I guess I will see in the morning!

I am not brave enough to put my actual weight on here, sad I know. But I will keep track of my BMI(calculated by Wii Fit), total pounds lost, and eventually inches lost(as measured by my trainer).
Starting BMI, week one: 25.63 (in the overweight category)