Hope you are all well and enjoying the first tell tale signs of winter coming!!! (Hey, stop your groaning lol I LOVE Winter!!! AND CHRISTMAS!!!)
While there are valid arguments to be made for keeping the past in the past, there is also a benefit to not forgetting where you started.
I'm actually writing this because I made a promise to a couple of the ladies at bootcamp.
This whole weight loss/ lifestyle change has been 2years in the making for me. I tend to forget that many of the women I meet don't know that I was obese until they add me to Facebook or hear my story through others at camp and check out my blog.
Each time a new boot camp starts, I get the chance to meet the "newbies"! lol This truly is a term of endearment as you are only a "newbie" for one hour... after that, you're one of Coach Compton's Beauties and therefore... a sister!
I'm a social kind of person (understatement of the year ;) and love chatting it up before and after camp.
It's inevitably, during one of these conversations that someone asks about how hard it was for me to start.
I've unfortunately seen too many women give up on themselves because they thought, like I did, that they were a lost cause OR that working out is too hard.
Well, here is the story of my very first training session with Sam... it's my way of showing you that it is possible if you want it bad enough...
Late August 2010, (stargate log... hahahaaaa sorry my inner nerd wrote that! ;)
It's a Tuesday morning, the first day of my new "journey". I'm determined to make it stick this time... I'm PUMPED!!!
I'm wearing size 22 black yoga pants and a red tshirt that is bedazzled with the words... ADDICTED TO GLAMOUR (still have the shirt btw!) OH and I'm wearing mascara!
Sandra comes to my home (can't go AWOL at your own house lol) with a duffle bag of stuff and a blue exercise ball.
I'm all stoked because I have an elliptical... wooooooo me!!! lol
I'm told to do a warmup of 10min on said elliptical, on the easiest setting I might add.
10min pass... I'm winded as HELL and beet red in the face I'm sure!
Sam brings out the big blue exercise ball and shows me how to do wall squats with it.... I do one set, then get 3 into the second set....
BOOM!!! Dizzy, seeing spots, want to hurl badly.
Next thing I know, I'm on my couch being fed sugar water.
I have strict instructions to take it easy and eat some fruit. I feel like a complete moron... and a failure!!!
Well, it was nice knowing Sam... even if it was for a short time. There is no way I'm going to see her again, I'm sure she doesn't do lost causes!
I get a msg from Sam a few hours later... asking how I'm doing. That's nice! Making sure I'm not dead lol I'm fine, she can move on knowing I'm still breathing.
Wednesday, another message making sure I'm ok and telling me to go for a walk. Wow, she's really going above and beyond before she fires me.
Thursday, HOLY $#!T! Sam's at my door! I really did not think she'd be coming back.
While I thought I was a lost cause, she clearly did not agree.
SO if this woman is willing to give me another go at it, who am I to waste her time?!?!
Guess what? I did that entire 1hr session. Was it hard? You'd better effing believe it!!! I will never forget the training sessions at my house!
Walking lunges from my kitchen to my living room, wall squats and pushups on my stairs. Each one of these were the hardest things I've ever done... until the next thing!
Incase you missed the "secret" here it is... regardless if you're on your first workout or your 700th, this is the one truth...
Your workouts will never get "easier"... it's YOU thats getting stronger! PERIOD!
Stick with it... one day at a time.
And on that note...
Here is one of my fave "getting pumped up" jams ;)
Till next time,
Hugs from memory lane!
-Crystal :) xo
