So today after yet another Bootcamp workout that has left my muscles quivering, I have to share my story. I’m driving along with my 10 yr old, rubbing my shoulder and muttering “wow, I’m sore already?!”… he asks why? Need I even reply… I glanced over and one word… ‘Bootcamp’.
He asks me what I did. I love that he takes an interest. So I tell him we were doing vertical pushups and he asked if they were like pushups standing up. I explained how we line up at the wall, lean over and do pushups working up to being able to do a handstand and then proceed to do a pushup.
His eyes got big and he says ‘that’d be cool’… oh boy, I just got the ‘cool factor’. I do not get ‘that’d be cool’, that’s reserved for the husband who doesn’t do pushups on a regular basis can drop down and do clap pushups (showoff!).
Guess what is going to be attempted in the Wolfe household tomorrow?! That is of course, if I can raise my arms… and then if I can raise my arms, I’ve got to be able to do a handstand (that might take a little work) – two legs, two boys, they can each hold one up. Lets just hope that I don’t fall on my noggin – that might just ruin my ‘cool factor’. I think maybe I should try it when noone is looking first 
I want to mention the ‘pushup rule’ in our house. If a cuss word is uttered, disrespect, bad behavior, any infarction, it’s 3 pushups. No one is exempt, so by now you know, I’ve done a fair share of pushups in the house, in a parking lot, in front of friends, doesn’t matter where… Consequences to our actions. Its a matter of awareness, punishment with a twist. Its a little bit of exercise and its an attitude adjustment. However you want to look at it, it seems to work. I know, I think twice about ‘shooting off at the mouth’. We are expanding energy constructively instead of in anger. I do them, my boys do them, even a few of their friends have shared in a pushup or 3, ‘if you’re in my house, you get treated like you are mine’…Saint Michael(the husband) just watches- geez,what is up with that?! We are all laughing by the end of them, no resentments, no screaming and yelling… just awareness that what was done was not ok, and we move on. Maybe, now we’ll have to incorporate vertical pushups as the alternative to just the regular pushup. Want to take bets that by the end of the summer I will have mastered the handstand pushup?!
Blog you later!
gretchen
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