PUMP Training

Many of you know I have a slight addiction to the gym, specifically Les Mills programs. Anyway, I've been certified and teaching STEP for 1 year now and I absolutely love it. I found out about a month ago that they were going to be having a PUMP training come to Columbia (where I live) and I just couldn't resist getting trained and certified in that also. PUMP is weight/resistance training for every muscle in your body. If you've never PUMPed before, one thing is certain, you will be SOOOO sore the day after your first class, no doubt about it. Anyway, PUMP training was 9 hours a day for 3 days and it was intense and very physically exhausting.

Some highlights include:

• The PUMP challenge: which was essentially a fun 2 hour period where we had to lift 2-3 times what we would normally lift in a class. This was after we had already done about 4 hours of weight lifting. Anyway, the hardest was trying to over head press 90 pounds overhead for 5 minutes straight, I really thought I might die.
• Me realizing that while I really really like PUMP, I'm a STEP girl through and through.
• Our awesome national trainer Becky (in the white above) who came in to train our group.
• Me losing my voice and pretty much sounding like a frog for the whole last day and beyond.
• Me gaining 5 pounds over the course of the 3 days....umm, how is that possible!??!!

There's nothing that compares to an awesome Les Mills class. It gives me this natural high that is like nothing else, it's even better than diet Pepsi, and for me, that's sayin' something. I'm glad PUMP training is over, but I'm really glad I went and pushed myself and challenged myself to do something more and keep improving. Hopefully someday I'll be as awesome as these great instructors that I look up to!