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Princess Finishes Boot Camp!

I did it!  I have finished boot camp training!  Today was pie.  We did our pt test again and I have come so far!  Then we did two laps and got to turn our shirts right side out!!  We had a nice little ceremony and I finally got to look at AND smile at our instructor!!!  I got a beautiful gift certificate and a confidence boost to boot!

Number of situps in 2 minutes:  52

Number of pushups in 2 minutes:  40

Time for one lap:  5 min 40 secs

Time for two laps:  12 min 40 secs

Number of people hospitalized:  Two

Number of people that came down with Mud Lake Infections:  Two

Number of bruises I have at this moment:  5

Number of Bandaids I used:  22

Number of Graduates:  9 out of 15

Much improvement!  I am looking forward to continuing my work out, though I think I will skip the 200 Eight Count body builders.  Those REALLY BLOW. 

Thanks for all the support you guys have given me, thanks for reading my thoughts as I challenged myself well beyond the norm.  I know that I can do anything I put my mind to, pain or not!  Thanks to all my new friends I met along the way.  I gained something from each and everyone of you!  I will be ready to do this again!  It was AWESOME!  HOOYAH!

Day Four of Boot Camp

OH MY DAD.  Insanity...March Madness at its finest.  I am delirious right now.  Pardon the typo's!  I keep going back to previous posts and correcting many errors!  (feel free to reread as I have corrected actual feet and miles after finding out the truth!)  All I can think in my mushbrain right now is, "I MADE IT".  This is the real deal kiddies, but without the "real" punishment of cleaning the toilet with your toothbrush and eating mush for days on end....I told you today would be brutal and that is NO LIE.

First, he tells us to jump in the lake.  Forget the pier this time, for we have been bad.  This makes me mad because a girl asked me to walk with her last night  because her back hurt, and I was torn between that and helping some other girls.  They said they didn't need help so I walked in with the other girl. BIG BAD MISTAKE.  Both teams got in trouble.  So no more pier.  And since we couldn't climb out of the ledge fast enough, we had to jog to our places and jog BACK to the water and go back again!!!!!.  This time with our backs and hair dipped in and had to STAY there while we again got lectured on teamwork.  I am struggling with this concept because I don't know who to help!!!!!!  Mind you, the lake is FREEZING right now......

Then, back to our mats for the REAL punishment.  This included, but not limited to.....

BELLY CRAWLING WITH OUR 20 LB PACKS FOR 100 FEET, ELBOWS ONLY NOW!!!! Reopening my bloody wounds!!!!

Lifting our 20 pound bags (mine was stuffed with kitty litter)  up and over our heads about 40 times.  Then, doing 10-20 reps EACH of squat thrusts, push ups, crazy bobs, eight count body builders, chase the rabbits WITH OUR PACKS ON.  So all that amounted to aprox.100 reps with 20 pounds on your back.  Fun and Joy Joy Joy!  Then as a small celebration, we took the packs off and did situps.  for 2 minutes.  THEN as a nice gesture we got to do the following exercises PACK FREE!!!  YIPPEEEE!!!

number of sqat thrusts:  75 (each team member counted off 5)

number of eight count body builders:  75

number of crazy bobs:  75

number of chase the rabbits:  75

Followed by a sprinkling of more sit ups, push ups and jumping jacks.  A hot fudge sunday at its finest......

Oh, did I mention what a chase the rabbit is?  That would be staying in push up position and switching your feet back and forth...almost like running in place with your hands on the ground.  This is crap.

So all in all we did a good 400-500 reps of pure joy.  After that nice little warm up, it was time for our two mile hike with our 20 lb packs on.  If you happened to be driving around at about, oh, say 7:15 on Thursday night and saw 14 soaking wet freaks with their shirts on backwards carrying backpacks full of sand, well that was ME!!!!  By the end we had a girl that could not carry her pack any more, so I carried it for 1/2 a mile or so.  So that would be 40 pounds over my shoulders....IF your counting.  Thats like a first grader or something!

My body hates me.  It doesn't love me anymore.  It wants to go back to the way it used to be....all soft and mushy and so UNsore.  It wants beer and cigarettes and cheesecke.  What have I done?  Will I make it?  Tonite was absolutely BRUTAL.

Boot Camp Blog

hey there....for those of you interested in my mad house adventures of the two week boot camp go to:

www.heavenshaven.blogspot.com

There will be a daily update on our madness.  I would type more, but it is seriously painful to do so.  My body aches and burns in places I never knew I had.  There is no amount of weight lifting or cardio you could ever do to get in this bad of shape!!!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhh.  I hate belly crawling.

Day One of Bootcamp

Good lordy!  I am done!  With DAY NUMBER ONE mind you!  It was so freakin hard!  And from what I hear, this is just a "test" day to gauge the general fitness of the class.  Then after that things get a little more dificult....

First thing he said when we got there is "Everyone put your crap down and jump off the pier!"  We just looked at each other like, WHAT?  So we all run over and jump in the water...and he says "Ladies, I want your hair wet too!"  I'm like holy crap dude....I jump in the icey water and dip my hair in backwards because I don't like to get my face wet.  I just splashed a little on me to make it look like i did.  We run back and get in to formation and begin our 2 hour song and dance while soaking wet.  We start off with timed drills, two minutes each.  How many push ups, situps, jumping jacks, etc. you can do in two minutes.  I lost track of my count every time, not only that I would not have remebered all the various counts anyway so I just concentrated on good form...

We had to run across the park about 5 or 6 times, and around the park as well.  I have no idea how many miles it is!  I am going to try and figure it out.  Also, we were on a hill, so our push ups were facing down the hill and our situps were facing up.  Stupid me makes the first mistake by asking a question.  All I said was, "Same place?"  to run to.  Big mistake. He looked at me like I just asked him if he'd like an anal probe.  So he made me stay behind and do push ups.  I feel scared cuz I can't always figure out what he is asking us to do so I have a natural tendency to question!  He took our mats away because the women kept doing push ups on them,(he did not like this.....sit ups only he said)  made us do push ups for one girl putting her hand on her hips too much!  We did lunges up a hill, down a hill and we ran and ran and ran.  Hopping squats up a hill...all sorts of fun Quad Pain of Death exercises...

I am too tired to go further!  I hope I get some rest and I am terrified of how sore I will be tomorrow and how many miles we will have to run!  AAARRRGGHHH!

Number of total attendees: 15

Number of Drop-outs on day one:  1

Number of people who puked:  3

Stay tuned for more......

Ready for Boot Camp!!!

So today is the day we have all been waiting for.  Little Princess Girl goes to Navy Seal Training.  (not the REAL Navy Seals, just a two week training given by a Navy Seal modeled after boot camp.)  Can she do it? Will she survive?  Will Micheal find out Priscilla's baby is really Ryan's?  Oh wait, different story....

So yesterday I thought I would eat myself into total oblivion.  It was like my last hoorah!  I thought surely I would burn most of it off tonite.  So I started with Korean style eggs...(veggies cooked in chili oil then scrambled with eggs.)  And a side of biscuits and gravy.  Then I went to lunch at La Brisa and had the "Playa Car" special.  The main feature is a giant avocado scooped out and filled with chicken and mozzarella...then DEEP fried....then covered in a creamy avocado sauce.  It came with a side of chicken AND beef fajitas and 2 pork ribs.  None of that stuff I ate because I was freakin stuffed.  Oh yeah, and I had a coconut margarita along with it.  So I took the fajitas home.  Then I went to a friends house and had a chunk of praline cheesecake.  Then he made Thai Ribs (insanely good....) homemade garlic mashed potatoes with butter, sour cream and cheese. And some garlic bread on the side.  Then I had a hot warm gooey peanut butter cookie.  Add in about 7 beers and another hunk of cheesecake later.  (small piece.)  Oh yeah, and about 1/2 a tube of pringles.  i also bought some Reese's pieces but i didn't get around to eating them.

So I will have the rest of my fajitas before boot camp and then we will be prepared to work!  And NO more bad food till I am done!!!!!  Jeez, I feel like a cow!

Anyway....wish me luck....I just hope I can finish the thing!

Back on the Cheese

Well yes.  I am back on the ole cheese wagon.  Who can live without cheese?  This is just ridiculous.  I am trying to eat less of it.  But I must have it.  And ever since I have started eating it again I have become a monster idea box.  Man, if only I had the money to follow through on all of my amazing ideas....I would have it made.  I have such good ideas I can't even mention them here.  Because maybe, just maybe I will be able to do something.

I attribute it all to cheese.  I was so lost without it.  But NOW, I am back!  And working on my wonderful line of Cosmetics!  Won't mention the name yet, till I get it going....but all seems right and good with the world right now.  Anyone willing to advertise my wonderful line for me??  haha....

Body Fat Down!

I had my body fat tested and thats right kiddies!  I have gotten more chunky out of my monkey!  Down to 28% Body Fat.  Jeez.  From 35% mind you, so I am not doing too shabby.  My weight and measurements are the same, but all my clothes are looser.  It feels nice.

I ran 2 miles nonstop today.  And for those of you laughing at me, that is a true feat.  I am very proud of myself. 

I am still trying to get in shape to go to Cancun, even though my best friend blew me off on the trip.  We have been planning to go for a year, and she decides to go with someone else.  So sad :(  I am still going.  Yes!  I will go!  And I will be THIN!  woohoo!!!!!

Eight more percent to go.  Wish me luck.

Running...

Man I have been a busy girl.  To one it might seem I am putting the ole bod through the ringer, but really I feel GREAT!  I have been running.  I can't do it for long...but I am trying. 

Run #1   1.87 miles in 25 minutes

Run #2   2.3 miles in 35 minutes

Run #3   2.67 miles in 38 minutes

I have to stop about 4 times, and walk a little but I only do it for one minute.  My goal is to be able to run 3 miles with out stopping in about 40 minutes.  When I get that down I will start speeding up and hopefully get conditioned enough to run 5 miles.  Thats a freakin lot.  Holy Crap.

I bought the Carmen Electra Striptease workout videos and now I can do that at home and have a little fun too!  I did that tonite, fun stuff.  Monday I will work out with my trainer, and take a one hour hip hop dance class.  Tues. is my 2 hour advanced yoga class. Wednesday is 9:00 am with my trainer and then 5:00 I go back and do 40 min cardio.  Thursday i am OFF!!!!  that night is saved for Survivor.  Friday is 40 min cardio and workout what ever is not sore.  Saturday is cardio, stretching, abs and lower back.  Sunday I am OFFFFF!  All cardio has been replaced by RUNNING.

Are you tired yet?  I am.  But I have to keep this pace up to get ready for Seal Week!  1,000 crunches a day.  I have a hard time with 200.  But maybe I will get those abs I have always wanted.  I have never had abs.  I WANT THEM NOW.

So i ate like a freakin pig for two days though.  PMS.  Its a killer.  I have absolutely NO will power then.  What the hell is wrong with me?  I had fried fish, crab cakes, coconut shrimp, fettuccine Alfredo, ranch dressing......ALL in two days.  Cow.

Anyway, why am I talking about this crap!  I guess only because I am bored and I have absolutely nothing to say. 

Still Training!

So now that I have signed up for the Navy Seal course, I am terrified.  What if I will not be able to run 5-10 miles per day?  I have never run anywhere.  I think I ran to the phone once.  No seriously, I do lots of cardio, but not running.  What if I pass out?  What if I throw up?  I guess they would all be fine with me, but I am going to get myself going as much as possible. 

SO...Monday,  I worked out with my trainer for a full hour and did monster leg/ass work.  (He INSISTS that my butt needs help....)  I also got on the treadmill and surprised myself by running almost 2 full miles in 25 minutes.  I guess all the hip/hop dance classes must have increased my stamina because I didn't think I had it in me!  The I took a 2 hour advanced yoga class and was pretty much jelly after that.  For anyway who says yoga is not a cardio workout I challenge them to the Tuesday night yoga institute classes.  YIKES.  Today I will attempt to run again.  I will try to either beat my time, or maybe not slow down as much.  I think last time I slowed to a fast walk maybe 3 or 4 times for one minute.  So I will try to do it only twice today.  But, my booty is sooo sore and my triceps are in pain, my wrists hurt, my hams are tight and my ego is bruised.  But that is okay, I will persevere!!!!

Navy Seal Course!

So today I signed up for this two week Navy Seal physical training course.  OMG.  I don't know why.  I guess I just wanted to see how much torment I could take.  I have been reading lots of net things on it and apparently its pretty difficult.  Its not until March, but I am already very excited about it!  I wish it was now.  I am hoping this will really get me into good shape.  I am so close to where I want to be, but i just need to burn, burn, burn those calories!  I bet I could eat some good stuff during those two weeks.  Yummy stuff!  You know, I will need the extra food and all!!!!  I am going to try to get some one to do it with me.  Wish me luck....