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!