Last week I started something that I never thought I would try – BOXING!

With a lot of encouragement (a.k.a frequent reminders!), my friend Julie convinced me to sign up for a four-week boot camp at a boxing gym in the city.  That’s four weeks of Monday-Friday-6 AM-90 minute workouts, my friends.  Since I also need to keep up with my cycling training, I’ll be doing three boot camps and two cycling workouts which = no week day social life for this gal.  BUT hopefully it will be the jump start I need to drop all these extra LBs I manage to pile on during the holidays.

I totally surprised myself on the first morning – I jumped rope for the first time, in, I don’t know how long.  I was a bit slow and apparently had one too many jumps as I slung the rope round and round.  But jumped a friggin rope!  And surprisingly improved as the week went on.

In fact, the only thing I was unable to do during this first week was the running around the block.  My hope is that will change as early as next week when I get my new running leg!  I really cannot wait to try out the blade with the boxing.  Richard (my awesome-sauce prosthetist!) and I think it will actually help a ton with the fighter’s stance and movement – float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

At the end of class on Monday, we set our baseline for our weekly Friday Tests.  These Friday Test will consist of four 60-second drills where you try to do as many reps as possible of that specific drill for the 60 seconds.

In theory, my numbers will increase over the next four weeks…we shall see…

Monday Baseline #’s:

1st Friday Test #’s:

• Burpees – 17
• Pushups – 35
• Situps  – 27
• Suicides – 50