Squish!

I love the smell of new fitness gear in the morning.

Last week I started a new early boot camp--7:30 a.m. on Sunday--and found out that apparently that's the very hour that the stealers are lurking around, snatching exercise equipment. Because when we came down the stairs after our last round of Mt. Tabor, the little five pound dumbbells that I'd stashed at the foot of the stairs were gone. But since I had actually gotten them for free, it was not an epic tragedy.

Instead it was an opportunity to invest in a piece of equipment I had wanted for a long time--a medicine ball.

The one I chose was a petite 8-pounder, filled with sand and covered with rubber. It irresistible--heavy for it's size and squishy. Unlike a firm medicine ball, running with it is not pure torture.

Which is a good thing, since I ended up running with it quite a bit this past Sunday when it got its try out during two back-to-back boot camps.
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We used it for medicine ball chops, tricep extensions. squat-to-toss, and just plain games of catch. And when we did our loops (up the 200+ stairs of Tabor, jog around the top, and back down the path on the backside), either me or some participant was carrying it since I wasn't going to take a chance someone would steal it.