Well done everybody, smashing it this week.
I did BodyCombat Cardio Combat with lovely Anna Sensei yesterday. Had a couple of random men join in. One was your typical pretty fit 50s gym bloke who fancied giving it a go for the lols. The other was a slightly overweight guy who was clearly there to keep an eye on his wife his wife company (training fully covered head to toe and hair covered). Hopefully see them both next week! Other notable participants was the young ND woman with her support dog sitting quietly on a blankie in the corner, a couple of yogics from the prior class and the yoga instructor herself, and one of the old crew who I haven't seen since I was teaching almost 3 years ago.
Anna is such a great teacher and it's no accident her class has gone from 0 to pretty much full almost immediately. Hopefully we'll get a few more of the old BC diaspora coming in the next weeks.
I had 10 at Boxercise on Monday, same as last week. It's a decent number, but a little down from the crowds from Q1. As long as I get 10 tickets a week I cover my expense, and I'm getting about 16 total at the moment, so it's probably time for a bit of advertising to fluff up the numbers before the summer as usual wrecks attendance!
Overall I'm really happy with how the class is going, we have such a great crew. NGL it's a big commitment - I literally only have Friday night free and that's family time - so it's hard to find the time for my own training. I've gone back to basics since 2 weeks past Monday. I decided that I really need to lose this winter fluff more than anything and so it's more about diet and routine at the moment.
It's just about time to get in the sea (got a big swim on 1st August that I cried off last year due to lack of training and inability to fit into my fast wetsuit). I was sat in the sauna a few weeks ago with a really interesting woman who had done iron man triathlon - and you would not assume that looking at her. She said to me if you have to turn up half-trained and swim it in your aldi wetsuit then that's what you bloody do. She had such a great can-do attitude - it really resonated.
I realised I binned off a swim I could have done, just because the conditions weren't great. I could still have pulled on my scruffy old aldi wetsuit and done it breast stroke, but it was an ego thing. I wanted my go-faster fancy wetsuit and I wanted front crawl and I wanted 'quite fast'. Well those weren't available so I quit!
Yes I had exactly let 'perfect' become the enemy of 'good', which is something I would always say "don't do that!"
So I don't have time to go to the gym every day (boo hoo), I can't justify going to crossfit multiple times a week. But yanno what, I'm going to keep on with my nutrition, I've got BodyCombat and I'm going to get some swimming done, because I am bloody turning up and I am bloody swimming on 1st August no matter what shape I'm in or what wetsuit I can fit in!