I Wonder if Methadone Curbs BC Withdrawls.....

Since I (along with my other lovely ladies I work out with) have been going 5 days/week to OK Fit, it has become an obsession.  Like if I don't workout on my day off, I feel guilty.  Or if I don't work out for FOUR days over Spring Break, I have the shakes/can't sleep/have Josh and Terri in my nightmares screaming at me.  Okay, maybe not THAT extreme, but I feel like I have probably gained 10 pounds and my cardiovascular system is shriveling away.  Do you see what this place does to its members?!?!  You feel like your body is literally rotting away if you don't work out at least 5 or 6 days a week!  Curse you, OK Fit!!! :) 

OK Fit was closed Thursday-Sat this week because Josh and Terri wanted to spend time with their kids on Spring Break.  This equals disaster for Katie....because now that I am used to Josh or Terri pushing me to go harder or faster, I totally suck at working out by myself.  TOTALLY. SUCK.
I ran on the treadmill - intervals of 7.0 and 5.0 - for 30 minutes and then did some strength training.  However, at the end, I knew I hadn't pushed hard enough - I didn't feel like I wanted to die/vomit/collapse, so I knew I did not work as hard as I would have at OK Fit. Therefore, I proceeded to throw a pity party for the last 4 days and do nothing but take a walk around my neighborhood with the kids as exercise. 

Soooo....I am looking into some sort of intravenous caffeine therapy tomorrow morning to prepare me for the HELL that awaits me at BC.  It should be fun, folks.   Look for an update this week on how my body is dealing with the shock of having to actually work hard again.  Most likely, there will be tears, vomit, inappropriate bladder issues.......and that will all probably happen on Monday.

If you are a praying individual, throw an extra one in there for me tonight! :)


Here are my kids and I running in the St. Patty's Day Run to benefit Special Olympics - we had a blast dressing up and running for a great cause!

Here are the kids over Spring Break - they went on a business trip with me and had more fun swimming at the hotel pool than anything else!

Wall Ball Squats - A Whole New Kind of Hell....

Hi.  My name is Katie and I am a bootcamp-aholic.  No, seriously, I  possibly need to be committed.  I don't know what Josh and Terri put in the water jug at that place, but it makes all my common sense go away and brainwashes me into thinking I need to do boot camp twice a day.  Ya that's right - you read that correctly - TWICE today.  And I could not have picked a WORSE day to go twice- SO. FREAKING. HARD.

We did Crossfit on crack today....as I kindly refer to it.  There were five stations set up and three exercises at each station.  We stay at each station 7 and a half minutes and just repeat the exercises until the time is up.  I'll break down the stations for you (mainly because it is part of my therapy to write these all down so I can face the reality that I am actually going insane for loving every minute of it!):

Station 1:
10 Clean Press (barbell with weights that you dead lift into a squat and then shoulder press it up over your head)
10 Handstand Push ups (EXACTLY what they sound like)
10 Burpees

Station 2:
50 Squats
30 Push ups
20 Thrusters

Station 3: (all on the TRX suspended rope things)
15 Pikes (both feet are suspended and while in the push up position, you raise your butt in the air in a pike position and then straighten out again)
15 Tricep presses
15 Rows

Station 4:
15 Kettle bell Swings
20 Wall Ball Squats (With both hands, throwing a big weighted ball up high against a wall and then catching it and go immediately into a squat and then throw it right back up...I'll write more about these in a bit)
10 High Knees Sprawl (run in place with your knees high 10 times and then drop to the ground where your stomach and chest are on the floor and push yourself back up and start over)

Station 5
Max number of Pull Ups (go until you cant pull yourself up anymore)
15 Box Jumps
50 Jump Ropes

I would like to focus on Station 1 and Station 4....mainly because those are what should be listed in the medical report as my Causes of Death.  The Clean Press (I think that's the name of it - who knows?!?! All the blood left my brain to help assist my legs on this one) was difficult but I managed to do 22 of them.  But SO much energy was put into those, that everything after that was hell. 

By the time I got to Station 4, I was exhausted.....like didn't know if I was going to puke or poo my pants, exhausted.  Luckily, I did not do either of those and was able to start Station 4.  The kettle bell swings are not that bad - not fun - but not the worst thing ever.  The next exercise is the worst thing ever- wall ball squats.  It seems like it would not be that big of a deal to throw a ball into the air but, holy crap, I felt nauseated and like there was a vice around my lungs during most of them.  And then to move right to High Knee Sprawls?!?!  I'm sure Josh and Terri sat and just laughed when they were writing up all these exercises.....it gives them pure joy to see us on the verge of puking.  Sickos. :)

After Josh called "Time!" on our last station, it was literally quiet in the room for like 30 seconds.  And suddenly Amy, who normally talks all the time, just said, "Yep, I'm going to be sick".  And right after that Josh said, "Why is there a jump rope in the bathroom?".  To which I replied, "When you said 'Time', I literally threw my jump rope as far as I could". 

It was THAT kind of day....Josh started the workout by telling us we should all feel like s*# t by the end and guess what?  We did....FO SHO.

Shawntia, Me, and Molly (CrazyTrain Crew) after the workout today---

This is poor Susan's leg after the Clean Press.  She got it up (awesome!!!) but when she dropped it, it hit and rolled down her leg.  Battle wound!!!!

Hacking and Five Days.....

Holy toledo, its been over a week since I've blogged!  Perhaps it is because my body will only allow so much energy to be exerted and it is getting all used up during BC.  Let me go back a week or so.....

I'm finishing up a workout at BC and Terri asks me if it is about time to take my measurements again to see my improvemements.  I was so excited to see my results!  I had lost body fat percentage, weight, AND inches!  Who knew this whole exercise thing worked?!?!?!  Urgh, I hate admitting when Josh is right.  Terri told me all that stuff too, but she's sweet so I can admit when she was correct about something! :)

ANYWHO, after getting my awesome results read back to me, Josh proceeds to tell me that I will continue to maintain some of my changes but, at some point, 3 days a week will end up with me plateauing.  I knew what was coming...don't say it, don't say it...."We think you would really benefit from 4 or 5 days a week"......crap, he said it.  Sigh.  Therefore, guess who has been 5 days/week for the past couple weeks?!?!  That's right - THIS GIRL!  Molly, Monica, and I have been religious about going - if we can't bounce quarters off our asses by June, we're raising hell. :)

Oh, and I have officially boarded the Crazy Train (I tease a gal I work out with, Shawntia, that she is the conductor of the Two Workouts Per Day Crazy Train because she comes twice a day!!!!) because I went twice last Thursday, which was Fitness Test Day. 

Freaking Fitness Test day....urgh.  The first time I found out we were being tested, I imagined it would be like when I was 9 years old and I had to complete the Presidents Physical Fitness test in gym class.  Remember?  We had to try to do a pull up and some sit ups and then run from one side of the gym to the other and place blocks on the floor.  Fast forward to Josh and Terri's fitness test.....O. M. G.

We first saw how many military sit ups and man push ups we can do in 1 minute.  Then we count how many jump squats we can do in 2 minutes.  No, that is not a typo - we have to jump in the air and land in a squat repeatedly for TWO minutes....might as well just take a cigarette lighter and burn my quads because it is the same sensation as doing those!  Then we hold a plank for as long as we can and record the time.  That all seems doable, right?  That's what I thought, too....and then they announced that we were starting the second part of the fitness test.  Say what?  SECOND part???  What if my body is going into Operation Fetal Position and cramping up after the FIRST part?!?!?!  Plus, I have some sort of upper respiratory stuff that will NOT go away.  It sounds like I have been smoking for a good 30 years when I cough.  So you can imagine how I sound during exercise - like a wheezing, hacking mess.  Everyone around me is probably THRILLED that they get to experience my illness firsthand! :)

The second part of the test is the real kicker.  We have to perform 21 mountain climbers, 21 box jumps, and 21 squat thrusters, and then sprint approximately 150 Meters.  Then we start over and do 15 mountain climbers, 15 box jumps, etc, etc.  By the end, we have done a round of 21, 15, and 9 (and sprinting after each set).  All of that is timed so when we have our follow up fitness test we, hopefully, get faster at all of it!  Honestly, the fitness test sucks but it does give you a good idea of how far you've come!  My time improved BIG TIME the second time around!

I now have to brag on someone!  Kate, my best friend since we were kids - seriously, I have known her since 2nd grade - started BC last week!  And I am so impressed with her toughness!  She started last Wednesday and went Thursday AND Friday too!  For those of you who remember your first week of BC, trying to work out when you are that sore is absolute torture.  Plus, Kate has basically been out of commission the past couple years because she had her babies so close together, so she has totally thrown herself into BC and actually really likes it.  That's right, people - I got her to drink the kool aid.  Because how else do you convince someone to put themselves through the crap we do at BC?!?!  Seriously, start saying some of the stuff we do out loud ......it is quite humorous.  Humorous, insane, ridiculous...it all blurs together after a while! :)

This was after the Fitness Test so we all look BEAUTIFUL! :)  We were missing Molly - she was galavanting up in Nebraska while we were dry heaving during Mountain Climbers.
Left to Right:
Whitney, Me, Shawntia, Monica, and Sara

This is one of my favorite pictures of me and Kate.  It was on my wedding day- just love that girl!