Race Weekend

Saturday - Atlanta Womens 5K around Chastain Park - 8am
Sunday - Morningside Mile Virginia Highlands - Noon

This weekend is going to be beautiful for racing or watching!

Beautiful Outdoor Exercise

All these girls took home an award last year. Awards are not why these girls work out. They like to feel good, look good and enjoy each others company. They also enjoy the Boot Camp style fitness program that runs outside, through the neighborhoods and around town. They all like the running!

While they could care less about the awards, they are disciplined in their fitness program. The awards are the product of discipline in a program they enjoy.

Now that spring has sprung, other people may want to join us. Please send an email, text, phone call or have a conversation with someone who would like our workout.

How to Feel Better and Avoid Injury

 Roll Out

Drink Water

Sleep Like a Baby

Warm up before the workout

Stretch

Eat with-in a half hour of the workout

10 Days

Stages of exercise program:

1) Excited! "OMG, lets do it! It will be awesome!"
2) Fear "will I make it?!"
3) Jumping off point ... alarm goes off "Buffy better be there"
4) Awkward "Hi"
5) more fear "are these people going to run the whole time?"
6) Wonder "They all seem so nice, it cant be that bad"
7) Remorse...Alarm goes off the third day "Why did I join this?"
8) Dread... Alarm goes off the 4th day "WTF, I feel like I've been in a car wreck"
9) Relief... 8th day "I am not going to die, I can make it"
10) Amazement... 11th day "I got this"

It takes 10 workouts to establish yourself into a fitness program. You can either do the 10 workouts over two weeks or stretch it out. Folks that are serious about getting in great shape make 25-30 workouts over a 6 week period. I dont care who you are, the first 10 days suck.

Program

Every time we have gotten deep into a training program, its gotten boring, repetitive, monotonous & stale. Elite level training gets that way.

We try to keep it fun. Our folks are the nicest people in the world. Just the pleasant company alone is enough to keep most folks coming back. Also, being outside, we get to experience weather first hand which changes every minute. Plus, being on Peachtree Road, we get to experience the news as is happens. Over 9 years, we have a few stories.

We change the exercise and the routine every day in order to keep the program interesting and to keep progressing in our fitness. Some days we head North and do core exercise. Another day we head South and work legs. We may go North, then East for upper body work.

Here are the current & a few former routes:

Beltline
Reverse Beltline
Chase Truck - Weights
Garden Hills to Mike Ryders House
Garden Hills Loop
Shopping - Streets of Buckhead
North Bound Out & Back
High Museum
History Center
Lenox
Church Run
Duck Pond Loops from Cathedral
Muscogee Miles
Peachtree Battle to Memorial Park
Rivers to Cherokee
Village (PBC) - W/ stop at Fire Station
Chastain (PBC Field trip & Saturdays)
Sunny Brooke Trail Loops(PBC)
Frankie Allen (PBC)
1,000 inside (PBC)
Underneath (555 rain)
Underneath with Ramps (555 light rain)
Crazy 8s (temporarily suspended)
Rage Workout (permanently suspended)
Dellwood Hills (Mutiny suspended)

Running Boom

The running boom is alive and well in 2015. More people are running and road racing than in any time ever. This boom continues to capture the imagination of diverse groups of people. 

McFarland USA is among the top current popular films. Elementary school, Middle School and High School running programs, Cross Country and Track are thriving. Participation is high and its feeding a resurgence of American dominance in road racing and Track.

Running is our chosen form of cardio in Boot Camp. Basic training exercise keeps our heart rate up while we are not running. The combination, allows us to keep an elevated heart rate for 60 minutes while we strengthen muscle groups that support fast running and many other activities. This combination works best for 5K training. 

We encourage everyone to participate in local road races. Atlanta is one of the best known cities in the world for its running. Y'all get out and enjoy it!

Race Calender:

March 7th @ 10am - Be Healthy Georgia Festival - FREE 1 mile Fun run for the kids at the State Capitol. Irene and Lt Gov Casey Cagle are hosting! 

March 28th @ 8am - Atlanta Womens 5K We go every year. The girls have fun if its not raining.

March 29th @ Noon - Morningside Mile! - this one mile race is one of our favorites.