Fartilek's 50 and Other Tortures

Turns out that because I joined during the holiday bootcamp the camp was filled with vets. Since we were all old dawgs that meant new tricks. Week 3 is usually the hardest week of workouts. Well this time around, every week was week 3.

The first week I remember thinking, "Thank God I survived! What the heck is next week gonna be like?" By the middle of the second week I was back in the swing of things though. I have to say the cold weather was actually pretty nice to work out in, it did cause a wee bit of confusion though. When your legs feel tingly is that because they're numb from the cold or numb from the pain? Still haven't figured that little mystery out.

So everyone always asks what we actually do at bootcamp. I'll give you an example of a typical workout called Fartilek's 50. For those who don't know a Fartilek is a short sprint. In this work out we do our normal warm up and then we sprint to a new location in the park. When we get to that location we do 50 repetitions of pushups, dips, squats, situps or whatever else the instructors feel will work similar muscle groups. Then another sprint to the next location for the next round. You do this all through the park for 45 minutes. Finally you do a cool down stretch and jog back to your car. That's pretty typical.

By week 3 and 4 I was feeling pretty good. Work was kicking my butt, so I couldn't go as often as I wanted to, but it was awesome!