Sneaky Bastard

I signed up for a Boot Camp program at Gold’s Gym. It’s conducted by Steven Davis and Vickie Olney and starts at 0600 hours every weekday morning for six weeks. The cost is $299, which works out to about ten bucks a session. It started on Monday with measurements, body weight, and percentage body fat. Hopefully I won’t be insanely sore for much longer. It feels a lot like Hell Week from hight school football, but with more women and less whistle blowing. Getting up at 0445 to choke down some coffee and breakfast is not pleasant, but maybe it’ll force me to have a normal sleep schedule.

I’ll be happy to have this week of workouts behind me. Hopefully I can build up my core strength quickly, as most of the exercises make use of abs and back. Just doing the strength portion, I average 150 BPM and max at 175 BPM. Who knew that the act of moving one’s body around could take some much energy. It’s easy to understand how quickly a human would turn to Jell-O in a weightless environment (or a desk).