In addition to doing my journalist thing while visiting Gamberi I worked out with the Army captain who came with our group. She is a powerhouse of energy and motivation. She is a personal trainer who plans to open a cross-fit gym when she gets back home from this deployment. Now when I heard the words cross-fit I had to ask what it was and it sounded tough and interesting so I tried it with her. Just doing the legs exercises alone was enough to make me want to crawl home to momma. She had a list of 20 exercises with pull ups between every single one of them. I couldn't do a pull up to save my life but I did the best I could. By the end I was crawling around in the sand afraid to stand up for fear my legs would burst into flames.
Believe it or not I joined her the next day for another session and almost killed myself with a stack of water bottles. She had me trying to do an exercise where I had to balance the water bottles in one hand and lay down and get up while keeping them balanced and my arm straight in the air. I had to give up on that crazy exercise after almost eviscerating myself with the 25lb pack of water bottles. Instead I used them as added weight while I did sit ups. We ran between those exercises with a 40lb sandbag and I was supposed to do handstand pushups too but when I almost suffered a concussion I gave up on that too and just did regular pushups. Still after all that I challenged her to a race with the sandbags and I lost but it was fun. I hope we get to work out together more. She'll have me ready for the beach this summer for sure.
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