Back in Session

Last night I felt like a kid on the night before a new school year starts. I was anxious and excited. I laid out my clothes for the next morning. I tried to go to bed a little earlier but couldn’t fall asleep because of my nerves. Why the child-like jitters? Because this morning was the start of a new bootcamp session.

Lucky for me, I knew what I was getting in to. Unlike a kid on their first day, I already know my teachers. I know what Mike and Jen expect of me. And I have come to know what I expect from myself. But that’s what I was worried about. With a two-week break between camps I was concerned I would have been a bit set back.

Another first-day-of-school comparison has to do with making new friends. As a student I would stay up late at night praying that I would make a friend to sit with at lunchtime. My number one fear was sitting alone at a lunch table. As a bootcamper I cross my fingers and hope that the new attendees will be motivating and excited to be there.

And if I had been a kid on my first day of school, I would have come bounding off the bus excitedly chattering to my parents about how it went. I feel good about my fitness level starting this 4-week session. I made it through the run easily, huffed and puffed through some lunges and shoulder presses, and barely got tripped up while jumping rope. And the other campers seem great. They are just as anxious as I am to improve their physical well-being and to be pushed to the next level.

It’s going to be a great school year, uhm, I mean bootcamp!