Jump Rope Trainwreck

Last nite was my first nite back at Bootcamp in over a week.  I was fine.  Well, except for the jump rope warm-up exercises.  I CANNOT jump rope....anymore.  I honestly cannot think of the last time I jumped rope but I assure you in was in pre-pubescent times B.C. 

Newton's Law of Physics applies to this trainwreck more than the law of "it's like riding a bike".  I assure you that once my body was in motion it stayed in motion but not exactly the direction or flow I wanted.  I could not get the rope to go under my feet at the same time the feet were in the air.  Then I would have to hop twice before the rope made it back over and under the feet again.  I am really not sure how that worked but it did.  Even though I said "worked" I don't mean that in a successful way.  I just mean I was able to get the trainwreck to stay on the tracks without major injury.  I honestly think I looked like a baby horse trying to stand for the first time but with a jump rope swinging haphazardly around my head. 

I could not stop laughing.  Marco (one of my trainers) has got to think I am crazy.  I love him now though.  He is the one who tried to kill me the first time I ever went to Bootcamp.  Marco is a boxing instructor so while I was still trying to figure out how to perfectly align my feet with the movement of the rope, he had moved on to having the class do things like Rocky does with the jumprope.  We had to jump forward across the room, backward back across the room, and the sideways. Ummmm...negative. 

I just asked Santa for a jump rope for Christmas.  For one, I am EXTREMELY determined and I do not like not being good at something so I want to master the jump rope.  Second, the jump rope is actually an excellent workout.  I also asked Santa for boxing training gloves so I can start going to the Boxing classes at the gym.  Other chicas in my Bootcamp class said the Boxing classes are an awesome workout.  That will give me more options too!