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[Nicole Diver]

So I've been working out most days for years, and at a much greater intensity since I quit smoking.

 

I decided I'd join in on a boot camp tonight.  I have been doing Insanity lately, and do several diff Bob and Jillian videos.

It was kind of humbling, I felt like a real a**.  Not as fit as I thought I was (and I ran 3 miles at lunch today).  It was harder than Insanity for sure.  I hate push ups.

 

Anyone find themselves in this type of situation?

[babs609]

don't be silly!  You are very fit!  Anyone who runs 3 miles at lunch is freakin fit girl...

i've been to a boot camp and they start you off slow...30 seconds each station..so, you must have gone to a really intense crazy class..

[Colleen]

It's okay Ava, sometimes we need to challenge ourselves by doing something different.  Stick with the class and you'll come out fitter and stronger than ever!

[Nicole Diver]

**falls over, dead.**

The instructor kept trying not to laugh at me & telling me how I was doing things wrong, but he didn't show us, just said what to do.  (Weighted burpie push ups!? 300 jackknifes? Really?)  I must have been the only new person.  The girl I went with was like, 'why are you smiling like that?  No one should be smiling in the middle of this.'  But my smile was more manic than anything.

[Jenny]

Let me get this straight....You go to this class called "boot camp" exercise like you never have before and you don't even get new boots for your efforts?  WTF!

 

 

[Leanna]

That does not sound like fun to me. I can't even do a regular burpee, but I have a lot of issues with cartilage inflammation. It just sounds like too much for your first day, but what do I know? You are definitely fit -- the instructor just sounds like a total whackjob. 

[Still winning]

Some people just make themselves feel better by making others feel bad and he really sounds like one of those.

 

You have two choices, stick with it and see if it gets easier or punch him in the nose :)  I don't think it makes you unfit, every type of exercise required different muscles to be stronger, so it will add to your strength for sure, if you want to carry on.

 

Enjoy!!

[bakon]

I did boot camp for 8 weeks. Drill Sgt even told us when to shit.....

 

Push ups. I pushed South Carolina down 3 foot by time I left.

 

Quit that work out 4 1/2 years later after pushing Germany down 27 feet.

[Pippa]

Hey Babe. sounds to me like the instructor was a total knob !! ( umm not sure how that translates in the states - think dickhead, wanker, mother f....... Guess I dont speak American ! :-) ). Boot camp can be fun - in a crazy , did I really pay to do this way !! But only if you have a qualified instructor who walks you through the exercise ... and any d@&k that tells you to do a weighted push-up burpee WITHOUT instructions is just a dick with a whistle and definitely NOT a qualified instructor !!

 

Ps wish you were closer - and I could take you to a real boot camp !! Xx

[Mastergardener]

I did boot camp for 8 weeks. Drill Sgt even told us when to shit.....

 

Push ups. I pushed South Carolina down 3 foot by time I left.

 

Quit that work out 4 1/2 years later after pushing Germany down 27 feet.

Ha, Bakon spent time at Fort Jackson, best boot camp ever.

[bakon]

Alpha 5-1 Old TANK Hill. Bottom unit. Run that hill everyday, not half way.

 

July and August

[Tink]

jeez ava, exercise is supposed to be hard but fun at least

 

sounds like the instructor is power hungry, I bet he  got more mouth muscles then strength in his upper arms!

 

I would not give him my money thats for sure

 

if you go again imagine his really tiny willy as im sure his is tiny winy ;)