i have just completed my fourth session at the dailymuscle transformation camp. my thighs are promising to hurt a lot tomorrow. actually, I’m doing a lot better than the first week i went.
i’m not exaggerating when i say that that first week was one of the toughest things i’ve ever had to do.. it was comparable to climbing mount kinabalu, which is another story for another day. back to the first day, the warm ups were so tiring that i was starting to wonder if i could do this thing. the instructors were cheerfully piling on the torture and made all the workouts look so easy. by halfway, i had to stop and fight the waves of nausea that were coming over me. all desire to ‘save face’ were gone, i knew i couldn’t go on. the real pain, however was the next 2 days! i couldn’t even close my car trunk without getting cramps.
and why did i decide to do something so extreme when normally climbing the 3 floors up to my music school is all the exercise i’m getting? well, i wanted to get fitter, and look better. just without quite so much sweat and hard work. yes, yes that’s sounding ridiculous now i know. haha.
one thing for sure, when you’re doing your 10th push up and your muscles are screaming at you (yes, i know, ten isn’t many..) you start to have flashbacks of your past life.. erm, i mean your past meals. like the nasi lemak breakfast, the chips, cheesecake.. at that moment, they stopped being yummy meals but villains taunting my feeble attempts to work them off my waist.
do i feel better? am i looking better? i can’t really tell whether i’m looking any different, but i certainly am getting stronger! like how every week i feel less and less like throwing up. :) and there’s something fun about doing all those lunges, squats, push-ups and crawls with other trainees. oh no, did i say it was fun?
looking at how great our coaches look is a definite motivation. our female coach has such an amazing body and absolutely not a trace of tummy fat, it’s really a motivation to keep going. watching the other trainees push themselves hard also makes me wanna be less of a wuss.
no pain no gain, right?
my dear friend, try running!! fun stuff!! *serious face*