The Badass Journey isn't easy. Sure, all those 5ks and squats and pushups and cycling classes make us stronger and leaner. But they also leave us sore, tired and sweaty.
And the oatmeal and egg whites and fruits and vegetables make us healthier, but sometimes we just want a cookie topped with ice cream, right? Fo' sho.
One of my training clients' friends learned the meaning of "sore" this past weekend, when she came with my client to my Badass Boot Camp for the first time. As I type, this Badass Boot Camp virgin is still feeling the burn from all of those ramp sprints, pushups, and trips up and down the stairs of Doak Campbell Stadium.
She e-mailed my training client to explain just how sore she is ("I was asked yesterday if I had blisters on my feet because I was walking so funny due to extreme overworking of my calves on Saturday," she wrote.) My client, funny Badass that she is, replied with a Top 10 List of things she has discovered during her own Badass Journey.
I'm sharing it as we embark on Hump Day, hoping that you Badasses will put it on your fridge or near your computer at work. If anything, it will remind you that you are not alone.
Top 10 Badass Journey Wisdoms
1. I threw up after my first work out and proceeded to lay on the floor still and silent for at least 45 minutes.
2. One night I was so sore and tired, that I actually ate dinner in the bathtub.
3. My vagina is on its second life from the cycling bikes and I've had bruises in weird places from the resista-bands.
4. I've eaten so much spinach, flaxseed, almonds and fiber cereal that I feel like a squirrel.
5. I had to buy WIDE trail running shoes to accomodate my bunions.
6. Once it took me over an hour to get out of bed to go work out.
7. I was in Publix in the produce section and smelled something horrible and just figured it was the vegetables, but then I realized it was me after a workout.
8. My shoulders are getting wider by the minute - now all I need is a Speedo tan to be like my swimming days.
9. I've been hungry for a good ten weeks now.
And the final and most important one . . .
10. I've pretty much accepted that my body only likes to lose .1 lb a week, as clearly shown through the past four weeks.
Coming Friday: Is that fitness "must-buy" worth your dough?