OK, enough messing around. I started the website, Little Black Dress Fitness Tips, and this companion blog. But I was spending SOOOOO much time working on the website that my fitness – not to mention this blog! – was suffering big time. What’s a girl to do?

I decided it was time to have someone else hold me accountable for my fitness goals, as it was becoming blatantly apparent that I SUCK at holding myself accountable. And I thought a personal trainer just might be the way to go.

The gods at Google were apparently listening, as they directed me straight away to The Body Project. The Body Project is a personal training studio about 15 minutes from my house. They offer personal training, but what really caught my eye was the Group Session, which is essentially a high interval bootcamp class.

Picture this: about 12 men and women who want to get fit, and about 12 workout stations. The workout stations include kettlebell swings, rows with a twist using exercise bands, the “surfer,” and many more.

My personal favorite is squatting on a balance board while waving body blades. Don’t know what body blades are? Neither did I. Let’s just say I looked like some Aztec warrior shaking my spears and thrusting them over my head – not a good look, especially after the age of forty.

Everybody picks a station and performs the given exercise for thirty seconds. Except these particular exercises are not your typical exercises, and you do them with a HIGH level of intensity, and they somehow seem to feel as if you will NEVER EVER EVER reach the thirty second mark.

But of course you do. At which point you get to rest for 10 SECONDS, and THEN YOU DO IT AGAIN! For ANOTHER thirty seconds! Then, just when you are sure you’re going to die, it’s time to take a break and move on to another workout station that is somehow even more difficult than the previous one.

After about five minutes of this, everyone takes a quick break. Then it’s right back at it for another set of workout stations, then another water break. And then it’s all Hey, Let’s Go Outside and Do Lunges! Okey dokey!

Needless to say, this is one of the hardest workouts I’ve ever done. Or should I say, done half of. See, I only did one thirty second set, because it was my first day and I don’t think the owners like cleaning up puke.

Have you ever seen the Biggest Loser where they work out so hard they puke? I always thought that was just so PHONEY! I mean, I have NEVER worked out until I puked! Isn’t that just kinda stupid? But I’ve recently discovered that if you work out hard enough, the thought of puking does tend to cross your mind now and then.

An hour after I escaped got home, I could already feel muscles that had been on vacation form my body for years. They were all like, “Hi, we’re back! Did you miss us? No? How about now? Now? NOW?” Yeah, I missed you! UNCLE!

Enough for now. I’ll be going Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the next month and a half, at least. Any prayers or positive thoughts or energy you wanna throw my way are appreciated.

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