Strength and Conditioning

Another Reason Why I Need a Reality Show

"Just do it." - Nike

There are many reasons as to why I need a reality television show. I'm a good person at least most of the time, I'm a whole load of fun to be with and I’m the life of the party. However, one part of my life that people would see on the show that not many people know about me is sporting. While some yes, I don’t play ice hockey, and yes I don’t aim to be the number one rower at CRI in Brighton, Massachusetts. However, this summer at camp during session three of my friends and I woke up every morning and at 9 AM we would go to the camp fitness center and do all sorts of crazy things. Considering the fact it was what felt like the crack of dawn in July, it turned out to be a lot more fun than I thought it would. We went on the longest runs to our rundown sister camp Festival. We learned how to box and we got fit. 

Walking into the gym under the 1990 florescent lighting that blinds your eyes every morning felt amazing. To get on the machines while techno music was bumping and people were yelling was the best. While that might sound hell to most people, it felt as if I was at a rave instead of the gym. One amazing experience that I got out of it was learning the basic skills of how to box from a professional. My whole life seeing clips of it in Nike ads or just listening to people talk about it, boxing sounded as challenging as the Jafa Cake challenge. However, once I actually learned all the different hits and I got to try them on the heavy bag, it felt as amazing as blocking the haters on Instagram.

While strength and conditioning were amazing, one thing that sucked was the runs we went on. One of our trainers Georgia is a professional marathon runner. Because of this, she would make us go on long runs after breakfast. This was one of the last things that I wanted to do in the morning as it was still early and we had just had food, having my friends there with me as we were yelling lyric to songs made it a whole lot better. We could have been Telemachus not giving up to find Odysseus as Georgia was not giving up on us running.

Overall, Strength and Conditioning was an amazing experience. My whole life going to a fitness center felt more as a chore instead of something fun and this summer going and exercising was the highlight to my days during session three at camp. This taught me many things including the fact that anything and everything can be turned into something more enjoyable.