I signed up to bootcamp long before I actually joined. I had very low confidence and even lower self-esteem that I really wanted someone to start with me. However, everyone I asked thought I was crazy when I told them it was outside and so I forgot about it. Months went by and it kept popping up on my social media and so I got over myself, cancelled my 'pity party' and went along to my first session.
I started in November 2024 and I remember saying to Erin on a freezing Wednesday morning, while rainbowing a kettlebell from side to side - "has anyone ever got frostbite from this?". Everyone laughed and I'm pretty sure they all thought that they would never see me again.
Somehow, I kept turning up, showing up, and now 2 years down the line, I would say that bootcamp is now a massive part of my life. It's a bit of an addiction. I work, I'm a foster carer, I own a terrible terrier, I have 2 kids of my own with a never-ending social life so things do get pretty chaotic! But by some way, I still turn up for bootcamp.
I have met some amazing people and the community really is something special. I love how every session is different - both Erin's and Rees' sessions are unique, but also just as sickening!! In the good, fitness PT way. And Jen is there keeping everything and everyone in order.
This year I really wanted to get properly fit. So, come January, I really tried with my diet and exercise. I upped my sessions, ate more protein and tried to cut out... actually more like down... on the snacking and it worked. I lost weight and I am defiantly seeing some muscle coming out the woodwork.
I have now reached my 100th session since January and I hope to continue working hard, supporting everyone, making more friends and just loving life at Bootcamp. I can't imagine Bootcamp without the people, so here's to turning up with our zimmers, sharing glasses and loosing our dentures on the astro.
