Bootcamp Blog Week 12

Three months.
Three long, hard months.
Despite the few 'blips' along the way, the most recent being Abie's Hen Do, I am still consistently loosing weight and inches each week.
It doesn't get any easier, infact sometimes it is harder.
Harder to leave the children at times they need me.
Harder to keep dragging myself there on very little sleep.
Harder to keep to a diet I have now been trying to maintain for months.
But it is worth it.
I feel much, MUCH fitter.
I can now lift 3.5kg on each weight. I don't feel such a pathetic wimp in the body pump classes any longer.
I can just about do most of the classes for the whole of the session without giving up and lying in a heap on the floor, and although I still ache, it's not the intensity of pain I once felt.
If I had tried to do this on my own I would have failed, miserably.
I am not sure exactly what it is that makes it so successful, or if it is simply a combination of many factors.
Firstly you have to want to do it. If you don't then you will fail at the first hurdle.
The instructors are all fantastic and so encouraging. Yes they push you, but we need a push out of complacency.
There is the fact that the classes are made up of so many different shapes and sizes. Everyone there keep fit for their own reasons, from the granny in her 70's pumping iron too the teenagers and all sorts in between. Everyone is friendly and accepting. There is so air of superiority or judgement.That helps a lot.
Then, there is the fact we have paid to come along. We want to keep going to get our moneys worth.
The classes offer a huge choice from circuits, body pump, zumba, yoga, weights, fighting fit, boxercise, high energy dance to name a few. It means that boredom does not set in and because they are all too music with routines that keep your mins and body active the 45 mins flies.
I have initially signed up for 6 months. I am now half way through. If I make the same improvements in the next six months I will be thinner and healthier than I have been for 15 years! Now there is an incentive!
Middle age fat?
Begone!