Celebrating May Fitness Inspired Boot Campers!

This month was packed with wins, insights, and powerful moments of awareness. We trained our bodies, but we also trained our minds—choosing what we “meditate on” throughout the day, strengthening our balance, building stability and mobility, and noticing more joy!

 MAY GRATITUDES

• Gratitude for routines that support us—once we start (the hardest part!), momentum builds.
• Gratitude for a group culture where people inspire one another to elevate, stretch, and try one more rep or a supported little more stretch of capacity
• Gratitude for the simplicity and effectiveness of the 3M’s structure
• Gratitude for the team energy during double-homework weekends that made it not only doable but fun.
• And gratitude for the awareness that…
  We always have a choice about where we place our attention.
  And that choice matters.

SOME OF THE WINS WE ARE CELEBRATING

• Building the awareness that we all meditate all day long on something—so why not choose, at least part of the time, something that helps us? And many times that led to meditating beyond the 3-minute goal.
• Huge gains in balance and flexibility thanks to the homework exercise sequence this month. 
• Integrating more movement and more types of movement above your usual baseline. That’s a massive longevity win.
• Crushing 11 military push-ups on toes (!!) and earning straight A’s in post-testing for stability, strength, and mobility.
• Training paid off across the board: dozens of A’s in mobility, core stability, and strength during post-testing.
• Finding time to walk almost every single day--even with all the wild, rainy weather.
• Game-changer this month: “being mindful—I just wasn’t clocking it.”
• Many discovered that spontaneous stretch breaks and “micro meditations” popped up naturally throughout the day.

 INSIGHTS + NOTICES

• What you look for, you will find.
  Boot campers saw unexpected joys in small moments—proof that mindfulness sharpens awareness of good things already happening.
• Writing down joy moments created more joy moments. The mining-for-joy challenge worked!
• Mobility work made bodies feel warm, open, and ready—especially the hip openers.
• Becoming aware of when we’re “meditating” on thoughts that aren’t true, kind, or helpful—and upgrading them—felt empowering and doable.
• For many, the hardest days to show up were the days they needed our boot camp class the most.
• One boot camper noticed that mindfulness, meditation, and mobility tools flowed easier than expected when done consistently.

 SOME OF OUR SHOUT-OUTS WE ARE GIVING TO EACH OTHER!

• Shout out to the whole team who inspire and lift each other up.
• Shout out to Jim for naming our summer Surprise & Delight game of kindness tag: Star It Forward!
• Shout out to Jamie for encouraging and challenging the entire group to double HW on the holiday weekend (and in general too).
• Shout out to Cindy who found joy in documenting joy—and then finding more!
• Shout out to the boot camper who added spontaneous stretch and meditation breaks throughout the day.
• Shout out to Iris for 11 military push-ups on toes and across-the-board A’s in post testing!
• Shout out to the boot camper who realized mindfulness was happening all along—just unmeasured.
• Shout out to the boot camper who felt the mobility warm-ups and plans to keep hip openers top of mind.
• Shout out to Jim for getting back to running.
• Shout out to Terri for inspiring and hitting multiple double-homework weekend challenges.
• Shout out to the team who crushed double homework over a holiday weekend—proof of commitment + community magic.
• Shout out to the boot camper dreaming up a Family Mine for Joy pantry-door list for summer.
• Shout out to Tanya for inspiring us with action while honoring her body beautifully this month.
• Shout out to the boot campers who showed up even on the hardest days—and to the ones who chose “something over nothing,”
• Shout out to the boot campers who missed workout(s) and then chose to show up the next time and clocked it knowing they were better for it!