Comments on Cranky Fitness: Crabby Goes to Boot Camp?

Oooh, Sgt McSlacker, that does have a nice ring to...

2009-07-07T07:05:37.740-04:00

Oooh, Sgt McSlacker, that does have a nice ring to it!!!

And the roaming bands of nuns and Whobody becoming an exercise thug and the 50 year "laziness" phase... you guys are totally cracking me up!

Let's see how the Crab fares in Class number two, coming up tomorrow... is this just a flirtation or will it be true love?

You can't fool me. My son does military boot camp ...

2009-07-07T06:32:57.834-04:00

You can't fool me. My son does military boot camp and training every summer and I know ALL about what they do. Hell no, we won't go!

1. thx Terri for reminding me that I am a long tim...

2009-07-07T00:49:48.799-04:00

1. thx Terri for reminding me that I am a long time follower. (although currently I am kind of a slacker on the blogosphere) I remember when we used to have all day discussions in the comments section.

2. I had a great comment brewing about my friend who’s sister went into a coma for a month after a failed weight loss surgery that is now attending a boot camp and loving it. Then I got to Kathy's comment about now addressing you as Sgt. McSlacker, and I lost my composure altogether!

I guess I've always imagined having to wear unattr...

2009-07-06T22:16:55.125-04:00

I guess I've always imagined having to wear unattractive boots. Add that to being yelled at early in the morning when I'm not even verbal yet & unable to yell back is just unacceptable to me.

I've always wanted to try a boot camp, but I can't...

2009-07-06T20:48:11.775-04:00

I've always wanted to try a boot camp, but I can't actually spend the money to have a stranger yell at me. But I can't yell at myself, so there's the rub.

I've actually been wanting to join an exercise cla...

2009-07-06T18:32:36.017-04:00

I've actually been wanting to join an exercise class (although boot camp...not so much) but have been a great big chicken about it. I have this fear of being completely uncoordinated, ungainly, weak and pathetic and having people point and laugh at me (which is all true and has all happened - except the last bit, of course). Your experience is motivating and I'm REALLY upset that I can't join a class right now cuz I'm out of town...really, really upset.

Cool! SO GLAD you had a good experience! Can I ad...

2009-07-06T17:13:14.868-04:00

Cool! SO GLAD you had a good experience!
Can I add a bit of random silliness? A couple of years ago I overheard, on someone else's car radio, a discussion about getting guns off the streets of San Francisco. Only I mis-heard, and thought they'd said "nuns." And I thought that was kinda mean, not letting nuns walk the streets. But then I pictured a roaming pack of rogue nuns, in full habit, wandering around in packs and hitting random people on the knuckles with rulers.
Because that's how my brain rolls.

Alas!!! I have found my new calling in life!! If...

2009-07-06T15:48:08.250-04:00

Alas!!! I have found my new calling in life!! If this whole "cop" thing doesnt work out for me I am totally going to be the gun toting exercise thug... that sounds awesome.

I must say I'm with Leah on being in the Lazy Phas...

2009-07-06T15:20:58.154-04:00

I must say I'm with Leah on being in the Lazy Phase of life. I feel good just taking my 1.5 km walk daily. Someday, I will get back to other things.

That's definitely on my to-do list! When I'm fitt...

2009-07-06T14:39:35.684-04:00

That's definitely on my to-do list! When I'm fitter and have the money. There's one very close to my house...

Glad you enjoyed it. We have to challenge ourselves!

wow! I'm glad you enjoyed it! It sounds like you h...

2009-07-06T14:11:23.807-04:00

wow! I'm glad you enjoyed it! It sounds like you had an amazing instructor. I'm thinking I may try one of those classes eventually...although every time I look in on that class I loose my nerve as I watch everyone looking like they're about to die.

Until put on the no-impact diet, I was doing boot ...

2009-07-06T13:28:57.005-04:00

Until put on the no-impact diet, I was doing boot camp. Loving it. Fortunately for me, I have the option of biking for the half-hour of cardio/lower half and then joining the class for the abs/back/arms/pushups from hell half hour.

Our instructor is fast-paced but not mean. She encourages us to build up to being able to do it all. And she works out with the Steelers. Gotta love a woman who's tough enough to do that but still let you join class halfway through.

I adore boot camp! It's wonderful! Glad you had f...

2009-07-06T12:56:32.807-04:00

I adore boot camp! It's wonderful!

Glad you had fun with it :) I'm sad because there's not enough people applying for the boot camp I used to attend to still go on. I miss it.

Cats sleeping with dogs, up is down, night is day ...

2009-07-06T12:41:17.708-04:00

Cats sleeping with dogs, up is down, night is day and crabby at boot camp?! I would love doing something like this as long as fitness nazis were not part of the mix (instuctor or fellow campers). And I think you're onto something with the whole "live person" thing - eye contact is totally motivating. So glad you liked it. There is truly hope for the rest of us.

Yay for Crabby! But I am still more comfortable w...

2009-07-06T12:06:14.350-04:00

Yay for Crabby!

But I am still more comfortable with the idea of roaming gangs of gun toting thugs than with going to a live and in person boot camp styled anything.

I'm a bootcamp instructor myself and most of my cl...

2009-07-06T12:03:41.827-04:00

I'm a bootcamp instructor myself and most of my clients have shown up to their first class feeling the same way you did, but they always come back for more. It's such a great workout! :)

Cool...they've started up a boot camp here. I've b...

2009-07-06T11:31:31.036-04:00

Cool...they've started up a boot camp here. I've been curious, but didn't want to be the least in shape in it. I bet it would be a lot of fun.
I'm one of those wierd push myself people and I think boot camp would give me the excuse to go all out and have fun. Regualr aerobics can be jsut a bit too perky for me.

If I can just ge tmy knee to cooperate, perhaps I'll stop wimping out and join.

I'm always hesitant to work with a trainer who wea...

2009-07-06T11:01:12.298-04:00

I'm always hesitant to work with a trainer who wears dog tags and camouflage but has never actually spent time in the armed forces. There's a strange psychological component there that makes my teeth rattle.

Hi Crabby, As a Long-time Cranky Fitness reader, ...

2009-07-06T10:58:46.765-04:00

Hi Crabby,

As a Long-time Cranky Fitness reader, I say two things.

1. Thanks for the shout out.

2. Maybe good for you but definitely not for me.

Terrie

yay!! I'm so glad you loved it! And I LOVED GI J...

2009-07-06T10:35:27.793-04:00

yay!! I'm so glad you loved it! And I LOVED GI Jane, back in the day:)

I didn't want to go to camp, as a kid, but "they" ...

2009-07-06T10:29:09.336-04:00

I didn't want to go to camp, as a kid, but "they" made me. I was glad I went :-)

I'd love to try one if I could find a boot camp th...

2009-07-06T10:12:58.235-04:00

I'd love to try one if I could find a boot camp that fit my schedule. I hear you on getting bored with the gym. It's important to mix things up now and then.

I've been interested in boot camp before, but my c...

2009-07-06T09:28:55.915-04:00

I've been interested in boot camp before, but my concern was always that once it's over, then what? I expect that the second I didn't have the motivational instructor I'd go back to my slacker ways. Overall, that's a fairly lame excuse to not do it, but there it is. :-)

Good for you Cranky! You're broadening your cranky...

2009-07-06T08:59:29.304-04:00

Good for you Cranky! You're broadening your cranky horizons! What a dear diary moment! ;) Next up, hot yoga? c'mon, do it!

I did a boot camp program three months in a row because i loved it so much! it was insanely hard to get up at 4:30 in the morning to make the class, but it was so worth it every morning. There is something about the camaraderie between the other early morning risers and working your asses off together that makes it just swell. My instructors weren't drill sergeants either -- just highly motivating in a non-corny way and we did have music and it was GOOD MUSIC. I loved the variety of music and the feeling of pushing myself every morning. I felt so accomplished by 6 in the morning and that alone made it worth it! if I had the money (boot camp is PRICEY!), i would still be doing it!

It sounds like a good place, Crabby. That is, for ...

2009-07-06T08:57:32.787-04:00

It sounds like a good place, Crabby. That is, for everyone else, not for me. It sounds like too much work and I'm going through my lazy phase. I've been in it for 50 years now, so I'm sure it will end at any time and then I can get on to stuff like boot camp.