Progress
Boot Camp never gets easy. I've been going at it for a year and a half now and I have never in that amount of time described it as ‘easy’. I get discouraged at the pace of my progress sometimes, which just means I need to go harder.
Tonight I was surprised at a sign of positive progression. It has been around 6 months since I did a side plank. It wasn’t until I went to balance the weight of my body up on my elbow tonight and I realized my ass rose off the ground with ease that I remembered struggling with this particular exercise. I vividly remember being in the old MaxFit Boot Camp building, an early morning battle to balance on one elbow without tipping over. Mainly I remember saying out loud with genuine frustration, “I just can’t get my ass off the ground!!!!” Literally. I couldn’t lift my ass and thighs even and inch up off the ground.
Tonight I rose up on that elbow and swear I felt a breeze between my ass and the ground. An unexpected physical manifestation of progress right before my eyes. OK, so I was balancing from the sides of my knees and not my ankles. My thighs were still brushing the floor a little at times, my arm got to shaking, and I weeble-wobbled….
Boot Camp never gets easy. I've been going at it for a year and a half now and I have never in that amount of time described it as ‘easy’. I get discouraged at the pace of my progress sometimes, which just means I need to go harder.
Tonight I was surprised at a sign of positive progression. It has been around 6 months since I did a side plank. It wasn’t until I went to balance the weight of my body up on my elbow tonight and I realized my ass rose off the ground with ease that I remembered struggling with this particular exercise. I vividly remember being in the old MaxFit Boot Camp building, an early morning battle to balance on one elbow without tipping over. Mainly I remember saying out loud with genuine frustration, “I just can’t get my ass off the ground!!!!” Literally. I couldn’t lift my ass and thighs even and inch up off the ground.
Tonight I rose up on that elbow and swear I felt a breeze between my ass and the ground. An unexpected physical manifestation of progress right before my eyes. OK, so I was balancing from the sides of my knees and not my ankles. My thighs were still brushing the floor a little at times, my arm got to shaking, and I weeble-wobbled….
but I didn’t fall down.
