Let's get physical redux

On Saturday, Courtney and I went to a boot camp class at the gym. Let me just set the record straight up front by saying that gym classes and I are not friends. All through middle school and high school, I would get physically ill during the period before gym. Sick to my stomach. Part of it had to do with the fact that I felt like I would have to spend another hour humiliating myself and the other part had to do with the fact that one time a guy in my gym class thought it would be funny to walk up behind me on the field and hold a three inch blade to my throat.

The happiest day of my middle school life was when I broke my arm and instead of making me play basketball (which was really me just trying as hard as I could to look like I knew what I was doing while at the same time staying as far away from the ball as possible) my gym teacher took pity on me and gave me a stopwatch and a whistle and told me to just sit on the bench and blow the whistle to rotate games while my arm healed. That was the best 6 weeks of gym I ever had.

Courtney and I usually go to a step class Saturday morning and right after step is boot camp. I've been thinking that I need to shake up my workouts a bit and so I suggested we try out boot camp. And we did. Saturday morning. Holy hell. There are some seriously crazy people in that class. That trainer guy had us do some insane duck walking crap down the full length of the basketball court and he worked our abs until I was either laughing hysterically or crying. I'm still not sure which. It also occurred to me that MNJ and MH probably do that crap in their sleep.

At one point, Courtney and I had the following conversation:

Courtney: Will you revive me if I pass out in a pool of my own sweat?

Me: And possibly urine?

Courtney: Yes, because I might have wet my pants too at this point. I'm not sure. I'm kind of having an out of body experience.

Me: 2-3 minutes of uncontrollable laughing/crying.

The trainer man gave us a high five after the class was over. Christina asked us if we were going back. We both said yes. Oh, so you liked it, Christina asked. Nope, we both said. We are determined though, to do the duck walk the full length of that damn basketball court.