Hello Campers!!!!

Your Workout of the Week:

Complete either 1 mile - OR - a 1/2 mile.

Willow Glen: Use the track

Campbell: Use the track

Vasona:

• Use the 1/2 mile markers.
  
• Start over the bridge, next to the bathrooms. You’ll see the 3.5 mile marker on the ground next to the trail.
  
• For one mile, run to the next 1/2 mile marker (Keep going past the railroad tracks, and you’ll see the next 1/2 mile marker (on the ground to the left) before the trail goes under the bridge (Roberts road).
  
• For 1/2 mile, start at the same place, and turn around at the rail road crossing. (This distance is a little over a 1/2 mile, but it’s the measurement that matters here.)

Downtown Los Gatos: Sean is getting the details over to me today.

• For one mile:
• For 1/2 mile:
  

Okay…so maybe this particular WOW brings back not-so-great memories of Junior High.

If that is the case, I want you to wrap your mind around a different way of thinking. Cardio is an important aspect of health, and this will be a great way to measure it.

Quick story.

I think most of you know that my mom is in her mid-50′s and she started doing bootcamp about 2 years ago. You can see my mom working out at the 5:30am hour every single Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Now some of you might be thinking, “of course…like mother like daughter”.

Hardly!

My mom was always slender and never really worked out a day in her life. But as soon as she entered her 50′s, she also entered the early onset of osteopenia, which freaked her out enough to do something about it.

Do you know one of THE BEST ways to increase your bone density? (if you say dairy…I might have to reach through the computer screen and smack you…)

EXERCISE!

And that’s exactly what she did. My non-athletic (frail compared to me), mom was finally exercising the best way possible. Not by joining a gym (which she still has a membership that she NEVER USES). But instead by going to highly qualified trainers who train her using the same program techniques they would use on their personal training clients. But the great part about bootcamp is that it’s a tenth of the cost of personal training.

To say the least, I am so proud of my mom. She has stuck with her bootcamp for over 2 years now, is completely off of the osteopenic spectrum (aka: she’s got some gooooood strong bones!) and I just found out this weekend that she actually ran an entire mile not only without stopping, but in only 10 minutes!

Her amazing bootcamp coaches ALSO implement Workout of the Weeks, and she was able to compare her last mile run (she walked almost the whole thing) to what she was able to accomplish last week, which was RUN the whole thing.

You don’t have to be an athlete to be a part of our program, but whether you like it or not, you will become one! Just like my mom!

How did you do? Record your location, time, and make sure to note if you did the 1/2 mile or full mile!