Wowza!

I wanted to honor the title of my blog today. Today is a new day! This week started off great after a long and emotional weekend. In lieu of said weekend, my room mate and I made a pact to take our fitness to the next level. We want endorphins and lots of them. Not to mention rockin bodies! We're doing this Olympic style. Thanks to the motivation and drive that we are surrounded by each and everyday (and the calorie counts that are listed above every food in the dining hall) we started our "I want to...PUMP...you up" challenge. It began with a 6am weigh in, followed by the first of our tri-weekly, morning workouts. These will supplement our post-workday endeavors with the rest of the intern crowd. We are focusing on these three elements: 1)Abs (steel baby, steel), 2)posture (No hunchback old lady for me) 3) "Chicking" Chris Lyden in the Anna/Chris, pre-mission contract, triathlon race (a must-see event that, if you miss the live version, will be documented and presented on this blog, and may even be crowned as my YouTube debut...yeah, you heard me...YouTube!)

I would like to enlighten you with a new exercise technique that you too can torture yourself with. Combine this (very technically illustrated below), with a length of forward crab walk, backward crab walk, forward bear crawl (butt low), and backward bear crawl, and you have yourself soreness x 100. In the bear crawl I imagine myself as a tiger stalking my prey, ready to pounce at any moment. Then I realize that I'm exhausted, sweating all over the floor, and all the figure skaters are staring at me. "Hey I'm bigger then you, and can beat you up!," except I'm pretty sure they could toe pick me to death and have medals to prove it...Well, without further ado, the drawing (p.s. the blue stuff on the head is the sweat that you will most definitely have).