It's been an exciting and busy week. It was the last week of the current run of Fit Camp. The results have been coming in and they are tremendous. Harald has lost a stone a camp so far and is now 2 stone lighter than he was 9 weeks ago. Paul has lost 17lbs in 4 weeks...our best ever and inches have been melting off the girls too. More results as we get them. Even those campers who physical measurements have been small have made fantastic gains in their ability to complete sets of work with really good form, improved their stamina overall and proved to themselves that they can push themselves hard enough when they thought they'd need to give up.
On Thursday this week Phil Richards came to Wokingham/Bracknell to do 1-2-1 blood analysis consultations with some of our campers and also very kindly offered his services to present a health, well-being and nutritional seminar for us. It was extremely well attended with 60 people ready to hear how to improve their health. Some, I think, were probably a bit shocked by the information they heard that night, but he left the audience in no uncertain terms that there is another side to what we are led to believe is true with regards to vaccines, mercury fillings, skin care products, sun exposure, dairy consumption and cures for disease to name but a few.
He left Berkshire on Friday after doing more 1-2-1 bloods. The people who had the personal consultations all found it fascinating, enlightening and useful.
Sunday morning and it's time for Laura, Sophie and I to do the Race for Life in Reading. Laura has been signed off running by the osteopath so we were on the power walk option, but Sophie wanted to run all the way, and did! She completed the race in 34 minutes and was dead chuffed with her efforts. Laura crossed the line in 45 minutes which was cracking too. The atmosphere at these events is quite amazing. A sea of pink t-shirts, ra-ra skirts, grass skirts, cowboy hats all walking around the park. The messages written on their backs as to who they are walking for is very emotional and you could end up walking around crying your eyes out. On the back of one young teenager one simply read 'For Mummy - I miss you'.
Having been listening earlier in the week to Phil who was telling us about cancer and how to avoid and survive it, I found it doubly emotional because I wondered how many of these relatives could have been helped with some different information, some alternative nutritional views that may have prolonged their lives.
Later that afternoon Vida and I hosted our first campers BBQ. We had the most amazing afternoon in Swallowfield relaxing under the shade of the trees whilst campers ate, drank and chatted. There wasn't a burpee in sight or a press up to be executed. It was a really lovely afternoon.
I however, as though the Race for Life wasn't enough, came home and did the next stage of my 100 press up challenge. It's got scarily tough now...completing 105 press ups in 5 sets and my shoulders certainly felt it.
My business buddy goes on holiday now, so I'll be on Fit Camp week off on my own this week, but next week it all gets exciting again when we start our venture into FastTrack France...va va vrooom!
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