Step It Up Fitness - The End
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Off on vacation for the past week, I forgot about filling y’all in on how the Step It Up Fitness bootcamp wrapped up. When we last left off, we were attempting to taper off in the final week in preparation of post-evaluation day.
The next to last day was filled with fun and games (okay, really they were a lot of sprinting drills). We teamed up for the drills and counted points. The big game was for Harold (our fearless leader) to throw numbered tennis balls and we were to run after them like a golden retreiver, only we had to find the ball with the number assigned to our team. Let’s see a dog try that. Not that I’m competitive, but my partner sure was so we were busting our — to get the most points. We did well and after about 15 minutes of this game, we moved on to the next round in the lead.
The next “game” involved cones spread out in a large circle with an inner circle of cones. We took turns sprinting, skipping, or whatever around the external cones to our original cone and then sprinted to the center to get the highest ranking cone for our team. As you can imagine with lots of sprints, there is always a danger to the old hammies. I kept feeling it, but it was hanging in there. That is until the last drill, in fact the very last sprint of the last drill, which somehow I got to anchor. That added pressure took it’s toll and I managed to pull my hamstring. Oh joy, but at least we won.
The next day was Post-Evaluation Day and doing all the tests we did on our first dat at Step It Up in Smyrna. I tried to do the warmup jog and just couldn’t do it with the hamstring. After some serious stretching, I decided to give the timed run a shot. It didn’t start out well, but started feeling better about 20 feet before the finish line. But even with my little hobble run, I beat my previous time by 20 seconds. We performed all the other drills (pushups, situps, bows & toes and dips) and I improved dramatically from my original marks.
There must be something to this whole fitness thing. Anyway, we are now on the eve before Step It Up resumes, this time back to their traditional four-week schedule. And while I really enjoyed it and will continue to step it up, I’ve decided to sacrifice and sign my wife up for this session (somebody has to stay home with the kids). Needless to say, she was a little surprised when she received the email notifying her that she was registered and her co-workers were apparently astounded at my generosity. But hey, I can’t keep this all to myself.
So with that said, my future updates on Step It Up may have more to do with spousal abuse when my wife comes home tomorrow morning after her first workout, but we’ll see. All they ask is that you bring water, a towel and a great attitude. Hopefully, she won’t leave the great attitude in the grass and will still have it when she gets home.
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