Hey Y’all,

How are you doing?  Have you had a great week?  Man on man, we’ve been hitting our evening camp in this heat and it’s been surprising to all of us how it has gone.

Have you been hiding from it?  Overwhelmed by it?  Fanning yourself in true southern belle Scarlett O’Hara style?  “Oh my heavens, I just feel so faint!” with the back of your hand to your forehead?

We have not been wilting.  We have not shied away.

While y’all maybe have been “glowing” and laying low indoors, our fearless little band of campers have been hitting it hard at our evening camp.  We bring lots of cold water and G2 – and we do take a little drink break about 30 minutes in, but we’re getting it done.  These folks have said “Today is The Day” and we’re going for it.

After working out in morning camp, and then some days having energy left to hit a triathlon workout for me – and marathon workout for some of my instructor team, we’re tired when we think about going to the evening camp.  It’s hot, and we don’t want to go – or maybe are just a bit reticent.

But we get there and we get moving and encourage each other, and we work hard out there.  We all move the ball forward in our fitness quest.  We are getting it done while most folks are joining their voices with the other wimps out there and crying yourselves to the couch.

You know what has been surprising?  One of my instructors husband is in camp and she said when he comes home, he sure is chatty and animated!  Another instructor – both of them in the couple instruct for camp – she said that when he gets home, he’s been cleaning house and doing other crazy things, like projects around the house!

Surprising isn’t it?  We’re getting pumped up and energized.

Didn’t you imagine we would just be falling out and dying to get home to become one with the floor?  Who knew we would wind up catching our second wind by running and working our bodies in this 100 plus heat index?

Does it strike you that many times the thing that is the last on your mind to do, is actually the first thing you should be doing?

This is one of those times.  The last thing you should be doing, is going home and sitting down.  The thing that would serve you best in your game plan to live a fit and healthy life, is to get up and move!  To embrace the heat, drink lots of fluids of course, but get out in it and get your sweat on!

You will feel fantastic when you’re done.  You’ll catch your second wind for the day, you’ll be living in a body in motion, and you will sleep like a million bucks!!

Come on gang!  Open up your thinking.  Be bold.  Be adventurous.  What if I’m right and it’s really fantastic?

If I’m wrong, you can always go right back to that couch and put off reaching your goals til it cools down.  Oh, but then, I’m sure you’ll say it’s just tooo cold to be outside.

Today is the day for our fearless campers.  They have said “bring it on” to the heat!  And I’m betting they’ll say bring it on to the cold too.  They live in the middle of the truth that life lived in a fit, healthy, active body is so much more than living in the middle of excuses.

Get up and go for it!!

What have you got to lose?

Melly