Charlotte sent over an intersting blog about finding balance within the dedication to your workouts, your nutrition, and your life. Check it out.

Lisa, Maria, Gerri and Vanessa are just 4 of the women in boot camp who are dedicated to their workouts, their nutrition and finding the balance of these in their lives now that the nutriotn challenge has ended.

Congratulations to Amy Bray and Charlotte Bassin who tied for 1st place and Lisa Folks and Vanessa Gonzalez who tied for 2nd place in the Body Transformation Nutrition Challenge!!!!! There were 32 women who started the Challenge and 27 who finished. Each finisher lost significant weight, bodyfat and inches while shaving up to a minute or more off their mile run/row times. In 27 days. I am in awe of your dedication to your self, your health and your fitness. And for your dedication to boot camp:) Remember, points were awarded as a PERCENTAGE of loss, not the acutal numbers. The actual numbers are expressed below:

Amy lost 14.4#, 8% bodyfat and 10".
Charlotte lost 16.4#, 6% bodyfat and 8.8".
Lisa lost 9.8#, 5% bodyfat, 6.75"
Vanessa lost 14.8#, 7% bodyfat, 9.25"

Here are the results of the rest of the finishers in alphabetical order:
Anna: 2% bodyfat, 2.5"
Cindy: 7.4#, 5% bodyfat, 4.75"
Heidi: 4.6#, 3% bodyfat, 3.75"
Gerri: 1.6#, 3% bodyat, 4.5"
Janet: 1.4#, 1% bodyfat, 2"
Jenelle: 12.4#, 1% bodyfat, 4.5"
Jeribeth: 6#, 4% bodyfat, 5"
Julie S.: 4% bodyfat, 4.5"
Julie W.: 3% bodyfat, 4"
Karen : 9.6#, 3% bodyfat, 4.5"
Kristina: 6.4#, 2% bodyfat, 3.75"
Lauren: 2% bodyfat, 3.75"
Leah: 2.6#, 3% bodyfat, 2"
Maria: 10.8#, 6% bodyfat, 7.25"
Meera: 3#, 4% bodyfat, 4"
Nicole: 5.4#, 3% bodyfat, 3.25"
Pamela: 6.2#, 3% bodyfat, 3.5"
Paula: 8.6#, 3% bodyfat, 3.5#
Tamara: 1.6#, 4% bodyfat, 4.5"
Trina: 3.6#, 3% bodyfat, 2.25"

Amy and Charlotte will split the first place cash and receive 50% off next month's boot camp investment. Lisa and Vanessa will split the second place cash and receive 20% off next month's boot camp investment. Everyone received a leaner, healthier and stronger body. And a new way of eating.

OMG. We are creating an elite group of female athletes at Front Range Boot Camp. Kudos to the women who shaved up to a minute off their hill mile time this am! Charlotte Bassin, Christie Myers, Lisa Folks, Tamara Merkert, Gabrielle Draper, Vanessa Folks Gonzalez, Janet Smith Wood, Jessica Hansen, Pamela Mackey, Nicole Piaski, Cindy Lacy, Jennifer Forker, Liz Mosser, Maurine Theme, Amy Youngman Bray, Katie Osse, Michelle Coffey, Meera Rosser, Gerri Jackson, Anne Robinson, Trina Fyffe, Paula Langhorst, Jeribeth Stevens, JJ Moss, Jeanne Dietz, Cara Burrola, Amy Hedgewood, Lindsey Drahota.

 5:20 am boot camp women

 6:30 am boot camp women

8:00 am boot camp women. Rock Stars - all of them

Shout-Outs: To those athletes who beat their previous "hill mile" time Monday as well as their "frontage road" mile time Wednesday by up to ONE MINUTE. Lisa Folks, Charlotte, Christie, Karen D., Tamara, Kelley, Maurine, Amy B., JJ, Jeanne, Katie O., Shayne, Cindy L., Janet, Deborah, Vanessa, Pamela, Lynne..... Geez. Crazy!

JJ Chin-ups

Heather Ring Pushups

Liz in the lead - running jump rope

And then there's Gerri ....

We are in week 2 of the Body Transformation Challenge and already I am witnessing bodies changing. You look lean and strong. Your performance in your workouts is increasing. Your eyes are bright and most of you are sleeping better. Wow. Who knew that changes could be felt in all areas of your life so rapidly? You are healing your body at the same time you are losing weight, inches and bodyfat. You don't need to be in the Challenge to clean up your diet. What are you waiting for?

 Katie and Karen - barbell push press and cleans. Stay tuned for another barbell workshop coming soon!

Shout-Outs: Lindsey: first double-under! Katie: first kipping pullup! Vanessa: decreased mile time by 2 minutes - and that is the hill mile! (Other mile time shout outs to come). Jenny: eliminated sugary drinks from her diet 3 mos. ago and has lost 12 lbs.!

Welcome Lluvia, Katie, Shayne, Michelle, Leah, Maurine, Heidi, Ladean, Julie, Charlette, Maria and Kristina to boot camp!

Thoughts on "Being" vs "Doing"

I have forgotten how to just "BE".  I have turned into a "DOING" machine and am tired. No, I am exhausted. To the bone. Exhausted. Four weeks ago I had my appendix out. In the meantime, my family has purged the contents of, and moved out of, the large house we had lived in for 20 years. We moved into a small townhouse and had a garage sale. Stayed up late and got up early, ate like crap. Slept like crap. Didn't rest. At all. (Shocker, I know).  I started doing workouts again this week (Thanks Amy and Lindsey!). This morning I headed out to conquer a nearby mountain trail and it conquered me. I was forcing myself to run even though I hurt. Everywhere. Even my mind hurt. So I walked. With my head down and my monkey mind blithering on about how many things I had to do to "catch up" with the life I left unfinished "before move". I stopped and realized  was not present AT ALL to the beauty I had put myself in. A breeze was blowing, the flowers were swaying, the birds were singing, the sky had not a cloud in it and I was busy ripping myself a new one because I was out here walking rather than at home getting my to-do list done.

At my new house I think I remember seeing a giant bathtub in the even more giant master bath, and a cushy lounge chair on the deck outside my bedroom. If I got all my work done, maybe I could try them out some day. Like Saturday maybe. Then I realized, you need to try them out TODAY. The most important thing I needed to do was to rest. So I did. I walked the rest of the way back to my car, came home, took a 2 hour nap, soaked in my new tub, wrote this blog.. Tonight maybe I will go out on my new deck and sit in that cushy chair. AND I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER having spent this afternoon practicing "being" rather than "doing". And the world did not end because of it.