Fat Burning Boot Camp

Given the sucess the Lady of Leisure had at the fat burning boot camp run in the early summer, she decided that, it was only fair to share the pain and hunger, and promptly signed me up for Boot Camp 2. Only now it has been rebranded. The "gym" hosting the camp, Shakti. is more meditation than military, so the camp has been renamed the Wellness Bootcamp. I thought to myself, "bit of yoga, some spinning, cut ot mid-week beers and mid-afternoon sweets, piece of piss"

Yesterday morning arrived, 6:30 am and I was jogging up and down a road in Kingston., when normally never even walk anywhere. Gasping for breath, searing pains in my legs and chest, I made it back to Shakti to discover that was simply the warm up. What happened to the first session being an assessment? We were straight in with all kinds of lunges, stretches, weights, and high knees all over the place. Always accompanied by the obligatory and very annoying monotonous thump of mid-nineties house music (140bpm).

The class was mostly female, and largely had people not making too much of an effort on each exercise. A few skinny kids, who shouldn't be there in the first place were putting us all to shame. After 40 minutes, I collapsed. I was exhausted though I think there was a little left in my legs and arms if I needed it. It was my head spinning and my stomach churning that forced me to stop. The urge to projectile vom over the sanctimonious skinny cow in front of me was almost overwhelming. I didn't, rather I sat down and closed my eyes taking slow controlled breaths. I did notice that those apparently making little effort managed to make it to the end of the class. Who's laughing now?

The over all target is to lose 19 pounds in the 8 weeks, which might be a bit ambitious, but it looks like I have to set myself a number of interim targets, like finish a class first. If only to stop the instructors patronising me to the Lady of Leisure, by calling me a "trooper".