Hey Friends! Hope all is well. Ms. Girl has been trying to get active. I fell off the work-out truck awhile back... and I fell hard. Zero workouts. Zero activity. Zero loss. I've been trying to get into a routine, but it's so exhausting, LOL.
Decided to try out an exercise class today. Things got off to a rough start as soon as I arrived. I was 5 minutes late. That wasn't the bad part. The bad part was that the entire class was already in a full-on trot by the time I got there. They were all "running," not jogging, but running around the room. A big room. Whatever happened to the warm-up? I was just about to turn around and leave when a friendly hand from the sprinting group waved me inside to jump in line. She was very thoughtful, but I should have followed my gut and bolted. I'd only been running a few minutes and I thought I was having a heart attack. I don't run. I don't even walk fast.
The class schedule said it was supposed to be a cardio class, but I quickly learned it was a BOOT CAMP class... that's because the instructor kept yelling, "This is Bootcamp people!" Bootcamp?! What the heck?! Where was the sign that said that? Who do I have to talk to about this crazy mixup, I said to myself, because someone... ME... could get hurt. I was already in big-time pain and I'd only been in the class 10 minutes. The instructor made the class do a crazy rotation of steps, weights, punching bags, sit-ups, etc. Seriously? What am I training for?! I cried to myself. I think I cried. Tears, sweat... all the same thing. I was delirious.
My heavy gasps were actually drawing looks from the girl next to me... the same girl who waved me in. Was this a setup? "You can do it!" She said. I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked crazy, disheveled, exhausted and in shock. "Does she not see what I see?!" LOL. She was lucky I was virtually unable to speak. I suspect she was probably the same person responsible for the mix-up. Not really, but I needed someone besides myself to blame. :-)
I'm pretty sure my heart has never beat that fast before. If I could've made it back across the room to my cell phone I would have called 911 but I thought it might be a tad embarrassing to be carried out during a workout class. Although, it couldn't have been more embarrassing than the way I looked. LOL.
So I continued to gulp air, wince in pain, and suffer through the rest of the bootcamp AKA fake cardio class.
My joy moment for today was "cool down" time. Oh, how I LOVED the cool down. I laid down on that workout mat like it was my bed. It was a wrap for me, LOL! I only moved when he said, "We're done!" Yay, I whimpered, then hobbled to my car and thanked God I'd found a parking spot close to the door.
How was your day, LOL ?!
Stay tuned :-)
Ms. Girl
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