Well, first I'll state the obvious that I have not posted on here for nearly 5 months! :( I have had great intentions to start this back up again a few months ago...and i have no excuses to tell, except plan laziness on my end.
I will say, God still has been showing me numerous things in my life. This past weekend I had they great privilege of spending time with my parents and some family friends of ours back in Wisc. Rapids. I was so encouraged talking with these family friends of my parents that it really got me motivated to keep this up and going again!
So, with that...here I go again! :)
Last night I had my 6th boot camp sessions. I suppose I should probably give you that history first as to where that came from. I signed up for a boot camp (workout) class with Anytime Fitness (where I workout at). Get this...I begged my husband to let me do this class! Who does that, first of all?! I jumped at this hard, intense opportunity and started this about 3 weeks ago now. I have boot camp class 2 nights a week for an hour long each. It's brutally intense. It's like a love/hate type of relationship. I hate the pain, but I love the feeling afterwards and how hard I've worked to accomplish the stuff the trainer is making me do. I never thought I'd ever be able to do those type of workouts, and I am. Anyways...
So last night I had my 6th session (o, by the way, there at 16 total sessions, for 8 weeks long). Long story short...each sessions is always different, you never know what you are going to do or how hard the trainer is going to work you. So with that...by now I'm close to half way with this boot camp stuff and I'm hardly sore anymore after a sessions, I'm not as exhausted as I was. Good thing? Yeah, probably! :)
Well last night the trainer had me doing some sprints. I did this probably my first boot camp day, but not has long of a sprint or as hard. Why was it harder, well because he had me going up a hill!! Yeah, go figure, right?!
Well, the point of my story and what God revealed to me this morning is this:
These sprints were horrible. I am not FAST, I'm a distance runner, not a sprinter. I'd like to think I could be a sprinter, someday, but after this, I'm not sure I'm cut out for it, but maybe my trainer would tell me differently too...who knows. So he had me doing 15 of these sprints...15!!!! Some might thinks, that's nothing. But alright, let me give you some details on these sprints. He has me start at a starting point with a cone, and then I have to run about 50-60 YARDS, with one mini hill and then a HUGE hill...while still sprinting. Tough! The first 3 I did in about 21 seconds. He has them written down in the exact times, but I know they were like 21-22. So then after I have done about 6, my body is feeling sick. I just was burnt out. My legs were fine, but my stomach and this strange feeling I had just were icky. I felt like rolling down the hill. hahah. I told my trainer, dude, not feeling great. I took a mini (15 sec break) and headed back down the hill, in a jog by the way, o yes, i still had to run back to the starting point. I run another two of these, just not feeling great at all. My times were now turning to 25-26 seconds. He kept telling me, your goal is to NOT get a 28 sec on any of these. If you get 28 seconds you'll have to do lung walks after this. I'm thinking, o mercy...where am I going to find this energy and this feeling of icky to go away!? I jog back down the hill to the starting cone and I'm just praying for God to help me FINISH this entire workout, at this point. I get to the starting point and all of a sudden I'm feeling this icky feeling....being relieved. I run my sprint (which was I think #11/15). I get to the end and he tells me I ran it in 24 seconds (which remember I was doing them in 25-26 just before this). I was like, huh? That is getting better. I jog back down and think to myself...I'm feeling good, this is strange. Now something about me you might want to know, I'm a goal setter! I live my check lists and goals! So of course, naturally, as I'm jogging back down I tell my self, get this next one in 23 seconds. I go off and I get it in 22.9. I'm like, nice! and I"m feeling better than I did at #2!!! (still not as fast, but feeling great!). My trainer was impressed and he's like, where is this coming from? and I just told him I was feeling much better and all that. He explained some stuff to me as to how my body was feeling icky before because of ??? (something) and now it's doing this because of ?? (something). hahaha, I don't honestly remember what he told me because i was so focused on getting back down the start so I could keep doing this. I was excited to get back down there and keep at these sprints!! I wanted to beat my last time every time.
So I finished my 14th sprint in 22.9 and my trainer was like, this is your last one, your goal is to get this one in 22 seconds. You can do that! I'm think...MY goal is 21! hahaha...
I get down to the start and he tells me 'GO' and I just bolt out of the start like a mad woman...I felt fast and I pushed it! I get to the top of the hill at the finish and I'm just like..."ahhhhhh". I was like "what was it! what was it!!". He said get back over here and I'll tell you (because of course i ran back down the other side of the hill because i was going to fast). He says...your best time of all the sprints! and I have this confused look on my face like...huh? my fastest was 21 or 20.9. He said 20 flat! I about rolled down the hill!! I couldn't believe I was able to push that fast and that hard...i expected 22 or 21...but 20!!! wow!!
This morning I kept thinking about that exercise he had me do and how I couldn't stop thinking about how in the world I possible over came that icky feeling. I know my trainer gave me that nice explanation as to this and that with the body doing this and that. I just couldn't help but relate this back to my, our our, Christian walk. When we first become Christians we start out running great and well, maybe not our BEST, but very well!! Somewhere down the road in the middle of our journey, things happen and we turn icky and we feel frustrated, weary, burdened, pain, sorrow, grief, questions and questions as to what God is doing with our life and our Faith. Then God gives us this unbelievable amount of straight, wisdom, courage, Faith and Grace that we are able to endure through the worst of storms in this Christian walk of ours. We are then able to finish in our BEST!
The best is always yet to come...but we have to realize the road isn't always going to be and easy climb...we'll have icky parts we have to endure through, but once we get through them, it's the best part at the end!
Thank you Lord Jesus for this unbelievable experience I am having with boot camp and things you are showing me in my physical part of life as well as the mental. I appreciate so much all that you continue to show me in the oddest things I do! :) I love that the most, because it makes me remember that you are in EVERYTHING we do, even boot camp! :)
Thank you Lord Jesus for what you are showing me and teaching me. May I be able to share my experiences with others and may others be able to relate to this someday, sometime.
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