Boot Camp

So, even if all is to go well with raising the money, then that’s only half of the challenge completed. We’ll still both be climbing the 5,895m to the top! We’ll be spending the majority of the days walking. Not to mention all our heavy gear we’ll be bringing with us. It’ll be back-breaking, sweaty, treacherous, never-ending work.

Now, for someone who avoids running as much as possible and never has the will-power to stick with any fitness regiment at all, it’s going to be quite a shock to the system. I’ve climbed the odd mountain… The first that springs to mind is mount Snowdon, which has a height of 1,085 metres. That’s only a difference of 4810 metres… D: But at least I’ve walked further than up the road to the bus stop!

So, coming to the point of all this rambling about fitness… I’ve joined a boot camp class. Forty minutes of non-stop sweating, strenuous muscle work-outs and staggering around with a luminous red face should get me able to conquer Kilimanjaro in time!

I’ve joined this class which has a session once a week with my best friend, the lovely Miss M! After a brief difficulty actually finding the room which the boot camp session was meant to take place in, we were welcomed by our muscle-bound instructor. As friendly as she was, it was obvious what we’d let ourselves in for then.

Despite the number of twenty-something well-built footballers roaming about outside, we were the youngest there. We knew we had to keep up and for some reason prove ourselves to the granddads who passed us on the warm-up run. So fuelling us for the next forty minutes was nothing but determination, our energy had already gone in pretty much the first fifteen minutes.

However, it all must have worked because the next day I could barely move! My arms would not lift above my head. We’d done the gruelling press-ups and bend-so-you-look-like-you’re-sitting-in-a-chair-that-isn’t-really-there-not-matter-how-much-you’d-like-it-to-be exercises, plus the obstacle course which was the majority of the session. There was a punch bag (great fun), huge yoga-like balls, stepping-stools, small weights and various other things. In between the courses we’d be stopped to randomly do some exercises (press-ups, body crunches, etc).

Hopefully this should help improve our fitness! If not, then I have no idea what will!

Emma

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