Everyone Is Back

The class has really gotten popular and large.
Last night somewhere between fourteen and eighteen people showed up to Anaerobic Hell previously known as Boot Camp.
The original group, Ammo, The Ambassador, Cheshire, along with OD showed up. Only Transformer was counted among the missing.
Sparta in the meantime has developed new routines that keep you right at the level of metabolic catastrophe but allows just enough time to avoid collapse.
I can feel my liver squeezing out the last drops of glycogen to keep the machinery running.
The sweat dripping down like a cooling tower keeps it all from meltdown.
The heart keeps trying to push to new levels of performance by beating faster and faster, always beyond target and frequently beyond the max.
But in a really strange way it is fun.
I think that is why the class keeps growing.
That is why the original group continues to come night after night.
People are having fun and are secretly pleased when they push themselves beyond their preconceived limits.
Last night during the ab routine, it started with fifty planks.
At the count of fifty came the command, “Hold”, wait ten seconds and then ten more, “Hold”, then ten more, “Hold”, five more, finally the total, seventy five now flip over and do the same seventy five on the other side go back to crunches and then repeat the planks, seventy five more per side. In the end one hundred and fifty planks per side; unless you do these it is hard to imagine the pain and exhaustion.
Groans, moans, all struggling to meet expectations, imposed by and upon themselves.
Finishing is the “Apple” for the teacher and hopefully a pat on the back or “Hey, job well done”.
But in the end it really is the “fun” that keeps everyone working.
Now I am curious, with spring just around the corner how many will stay through the summer?
Golf will attract some; outdoors will pull like a magnet, cookouts, hotdogs, ball games, summer trips beer will all compete with this routine.
But in the end there is no substitute for this “fun”.
Remember the best part is yet to come because as soon as the weather finally turns we get to go “Tire Flipping” and Car Pushing”.