Hey everyone! This is my daily blog tracking my exercise / diet / fitness / discipline program.
I have only a few goals that I hope to attain over the next 6 months all towards an overall theme of increasing my self-discipline:
1) Write something in this blog on a daily basis
2) Exercise on a daily basis
3) Improve my diet
4) Lower my hours at work
With that....
....today was my first day at Boot Camp at the Cheviot Hills Rec Center. I was hoping to wake up early enough to take it easy on the way down there (~10 min drive); however, it didn't happen. Sarah, Dante and I had an amazing dinner at Shamshiri Grill in Westwood (lamb koobideh is now my favorite dish, surpassing the chicken tahchin).
Anyway, back to the Boot Camp - I woke up at 5:51am...booked it out the door and made it by 6:02...close enough, but it was obvious they got started without me (I'll definitely need to get there earlier so I can stretch out)
The exercises were tough, with the majority of the program focused on core strength and calisthenics - lots of push ups (and variations), lots of ab work, and we even did a 3 minute jog in the sand...Nandor, the instructor, has a great attitude, and he succeeded already as drill sergeant in getting me to almost puke on two separate occasions in the span of 45 minutes!!
This really wasn't the ideal start I hoped I'd have...on top of waking up late and realizing that I'm WAAAYYYY out of shape, I didn't go with my own towel / mat....VERY BAD IDEA...we did most of the exercises on the blacktop / basketball court so you can imagine that it wasn't very comfy.
As for my performance, I probably did 50% of the exercises, either half as fast, half as many, or half the weight depending on the exercise. The full range of fitness-levels is there in the class...which makes it nice to set a goal and strive to that next level.
Next up:
1) Buy an exercise/yoga mat
2) Get in a 3 mile run tomorrow morning (gotta do it at 6am!!!)
If you're interested in seeing what I'm doing - hit up the West LA Morning Crunch boot camp site here
I saw a picture of myself sitting in the hot springs at Tabacon in Costa Rica and I actually had fat rolls! Can you believe it? I was 145 H.S., 165 in college, and now? 205! I've got to do something about it! So, I'm logging exercise routing to be accountable. Please read through the posts - and please post comments to let me know you're watching! I'll try to include some details about what I've been up to including running routes and boot camp exercises.
1 comment:
way to turn over a new leaf, Patel! Let's see if you can keep it up. I'm trying to think of a way to keep you on track... maybe a week's worth of having your profile up on shaadi.com for every day you miss?
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