First 6AM Workout at De Anza Cove

At approximately 5:20 AM, I woke up to eat some breakfast and get ready for my first 6:00AM workout at De Anza Cove with Chris Keith. Despite it being REALLY early, I was pretty anxious to see what the workout would be like. I would take running outdoors over running on a treadmill any day, so I was pretty pumped that we were going to be doing boot camp outside this morning instead of indoors. Upon arriving to De Anza Cove, I was trying to mentally prepare myself for the workout because I usually have a hard time functioning at such early hours. I expected it to be freezing outside but to my surprise, the coldness was much more tolerable than expected—and we warmed right up with a nice jog to the Pier and back. After the run, Chris wasted no time with getting straight to business. We started off with some lunging and push-up intervals…which doesn’t sound too bad, but lunging while holding a 20 lb. ball above your head is HARD after the first couple of sets. A lot of the exercises we did  incorporated dynamic movements while holding that ball above our heads, and that was really hard for me, but I tried my best to keep up. Before I knew it, we were on our last set of exercises which was a series of plyometrics in and out of the ladders on the ground. My legs must have been tired at this point because there was a rule that if you messed up the ladders, you had to step out and do 20 push-ups—which I had to do three times! An hour seemed to go by really fast, and at the end of the work out I was worn out, but I felt really good about myself and was ready to start my day!