Week 2 - Off With a Bang!

Week 2 of Boot Camp started today with the biggest crowd yet. Nine intrepid athletes were on hand to see how far they could push their lungs in what was the warmest workout yet--a balmy 37 degrees!

We ran single-file on the levee and did fartleks for a warmup. Look it up--it's a real word. Then we took it up a notch.

Week 1 was not to weed out the "sick and the old," as someone suggested, but to give everyone's body a chance to adapt to the cold and to massively increased anaerobic requirements. After minor barfage the first week, and lots of effort, our bodies decided that if we're really gonna do this, we're gonna do it right, and our bodies started adapting.

Now we can step it up a little, and go faster, harder, and with fewer breaks. If you just joined or are thinking about joining, don't let that stop you--your body will still adapt if you start now, it'll just adapt to a higher level. You'll be fine--seriously.

We ran cones, sprinted hills, did shoulders, did pushups, did berpies, did tree-sits, did abs, did obliques, and finished with some minor stretching. And we did it with much less breaks than usual.

If you were there today, and thought it didn't feel that much harder than last week, that's GREAT! Because it really was harder than last week, so your body is getting fitter already.