The Brat Fights the Fat

Well, tomorrow is my last day of bootcamp. I went to 17 of the 20 classes. That's 17 hours of exercise over 4 weeks. Not bad. We'll do a timed 1 km run and compare it to our time at the beginning. Plus timed crunches & push ups. Then we'll do a circuit while we wait for our turn to retake all of our measurements. I expect my thighs and arms to be bigger (I've gained some serious muscle) and the rest to be smaller. I can't wait to see. My coworkers are signing up for the next session. I'm not. I want to give my legs a bit of time to rest and heal. Then after a couple of days off, I'm going to workout on my own and incorporate what I've learned into my workout. I want to see what I can do on my own and if I can strengthen my legs before going back. I'll definitely go back as it was the best workout I've ever had. I think it'll be good to switch things up for a bit too; do some biking & swimming, etc.

The speech went pretty good. It was the research your topic speech for toastmasters and I chose diabetes. My dad has Type I and I'm at risk. I think that I got a couple of people thinking, so that was good. It was interesting, through my research I found a risk assessment test. Since I've recently gone from sedentary to active, I did the test twice. Once with exercise & once without. By adding exercise, I dropped my risk factor from 12 (high is 10+) to 7 (3 - 9 is low to med). Pretty cool, huh? I guess I better keep it up, eh?

I think I'm going to go have some bacon for breakfast (thanks for sharing your craving, Goobie!)