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So, did I tell you all that I started a new work out class? Oh yes I did, and oh YES I was sore!! Well I figured the classes I was taking so far hadn't killed me, so what the heck lets try the: Warrior Session at the boxing place. Yep, I said Warrior Session. I think the name came from the sounds of the screams and groans near the end of the class, or from the battle you're having with your body not to give up and die. It was hard, it was hot, it was sweaty, and yes I have signed up again for this week. Oh ya bring it on, well at least until I can't do another thing and fight the urge to quit.
One must ask: Why, oh why do you do this? I ask myself that question right before these classes start. I look at the clock, 3min till we start. 3min to decide if I stay or bolt. 3min to decide if I really want to do this. 3min to decide if I can make it for the full class time. 3min, not a long time but seems like an eternity when your fight or flight mode is on red alert! Then the music starts. So loud you can feel it pulsing through your body. Then you feel your heart rate adjust to the rhythm and your hips start to move. You close your eyes and absorb the music; and then you open them...the 3min are gone and it's time to kick some ass. Not any ass, but your own ass that you've let fall to the back of your thighs instead of it being up where it belongs. Your ass that has become flatter and wider from years on the couch. Your ass that is full of lumps and bumps from all that bad food. Yes your own ass that is connected to your body that you are fighting time and gravity to get back. Then you feel the sweat roll down your neck and the sound of your breathing as your fill your lungs for the Warrior scream of determination as the class lets one go, and you laugh to yourself: Ya right as if I was really going to bolt!!!
This is the feeling that I describe to the nay sayers who think I work out to hard and/or to much. This feeling of determination, persistance, and accomplishment that comes from confronting the enemy and taking it down. Some do get it, but others don't. So when it is time to beat the crap out of the bag in boxing, or hold 1 more minute of plank in Pilates, or kick higher in Zumba, or twist deeper in Yoga, or now to push and scream louder in Warrior; it is their face I picture as I say if you're not going to support me get the hell out of my way!
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