Day #18 Take it to the Limit

Saturday, June 5th, 2010... Day #18... the day I was prepared to be pushed to the brink, did just that and couldn't wait for more!

Waking up before 8am is an anomaly for me, in that it doesn't happen very often. But this morning I rolled out of bed at 7:30am, drank a few cups of coffee, ate my egg whites with dry toast and left for the gym at 9:00. When I got there, Scott (who is also fighting in July) told me we had to do five 3-minute rounds of jumping rope to warm up. Fat kids are not meant to jump... which is why you don't see any frumpy basketball or volleyball players, or for that matter, high jumpers! But I did it and then did another 15 minutes on the treadmill to warm up. When Barbara got there (along with Bryan, another fighter), we did three rounds each in a circuit... one punching the pads, one shadowboxing and another jumping rope. At this point, we had been doing an hour of intense workouts. But evidently, we were just starting.

We went into the group exercise room to hang up the heavy bags, put the kickers and gloves back on and got to work. We did another five rounds of kicking and punching the bags non-stop. Towards the end, I was so exhausted I could barely move... but we did another round of sit ups and tried to do one of push ups until she realized none of us could so much as lift ourselves off the ground. I'm pretty proud of all three of us though, as little as we could do toward the end, nobody gave up. We learned what our weekly routines will be like along with a cardio and plyo workout from the head trainer, Eric. One of the members of the gym stopped me on my way out of the training and asked how it went and how did I feel, I said "That was awesome, can't wait to do it again!" Go me!