Craig Guthrie - this one's for you!

It started out with what I thought was an innocent idea on behalf of moi that we get a team of 5 together for the Core Essentials Meltdown (Core Essentials is a great new training studio in D'mouth that offers PT, boot camps, etc. www.coreessentials.ca). The Meltdown consisted of 3- 15min circuits on water rowers, real ryder bikes and of course kettlebells. It was actually a lot of fun! There was a DJ, beer, wine (for after of course) and some munchies. We were also introduced to a few people to had lost a considerable amount of weight doing kettlebells on a weekly basis - it was incredible and very inspiring.

So inspiring that we (Catherine and I) decided to sign up for Kettlebell bootcamp - twice a week at Core Essentials with Mr. Craig Guthrie - Kettlebell Guru. I can count on one hand how many times I have been in the same room with this guy but I have figured out a few things about him that keeps me coming back for more.... He's so passionate about creating a relationship with his clients to make sure they succeed, he's frigging insane, he definitely knows what he's talking about and he's a pretty nice guy.

The first class was great - Craig wasn't there. Laurissa (owner of CE) had filled in for Craig. It was a good class where we learned the core essentials (pardon the pun) about KB.

The second class - Craig was there and both Catherine and I we're a bit anxious, we had heard a lot about the guru's style and we're a bit afraid of the unknown. But it was another great class full of stretching, working on form and a few intense tabatas - until the next evening when it was extremely difficult to sit down to pee! Yes, I said it...it hurt so bad to sit on the toilet! But the pain subsided and I again went back for more.

And I'll now jump ahead to Class #4 which was last night.

I had walked in those doors feeling confident from the previous class. We started out with some nice and easy stretching but there was a different vibe in the room last night. I could tell that Craig was itching to get moving and that this class was going to be a workout...to say the least. Then Craig affirmed my intuition by saying (or possibly yelling) yup, I believe it was yelling something like "Ladies...this is it! Now we're really starting to workout!" He was right and after our second 10min set - 50 burpies later - I barfed! But...I'll be going back for more on Thursday.

When you want to accomplish something like this...you can't be innocent - you've gotta take the bull by the f*^@ing horns!