I am putting early-high-school-me out there, much though it may pain me, to make a case for why YOU should sign up for the Inferno (event: Saturday September 12th; deadline 8/30 - register HERE.)
So the featured image is me around 1986, a decade or so before discovering hair product, rocking the brown plastic frame glasses that were the law for all girls of a certain age, and not suspecting at ALL that life would lead me toward fitness as a part-time vocation and full-time obsession. I avoided gym like Ebola and was fairly certain sweat wouldn’t kill me, but not enough to take the chance…
Then January 2011 boot camp changed my world, the tale of which which I will happily bore you with on request. Circa 2012(?) we had our first Inferno, then an individual competition. By then a coach and feeling obliged to represent, I donned war paint
and in my mind set out for battle, not with other clients, but against the knobby-kneed, clumsy, bespectacled me of 25 years prior, still taking up valuable real estate in my psyche. I wanted to throw up. What was I doing there?
And then when we started, it was absolutely NOTHING like what I (or anyone) expected. First, not having ever been a sports fan, it was difficult to understand getting excited about anything physical. But there we all were, getting hoarse cheering up someone grinding through the last of 75 push-ups. And kettlebell swings. And deadlifts when deadlifts were kind of a novelty around NGPT (who among us wouldn’t love for 50% of our body weight to be the DL benchmark now?) Also, I won the ladies “master’s division” (OLD?? Not this chick!) Nerds rejoice!
It has since evolved into an even more fun team event, and over time my nerves are less because I came to realize that, despite whatever teenaged trauma you’re carrying around, we’re Average Joes - the gym where everyone fits in and is supported. There is no Globo Gym, and they couldn’t hold a candle to NGPT if there was. We’re ALL on the same team.
Commit to signing up and trying YOUR best, or just come out and cheer, but know that sometimes the most valuable exercise is when you make your MIND do something it doesn’t want to do.
All the best,
Marcey
Coach Marcey Tidwell started as a client with NGPT in January 2011. Joining the team as an accountability coach, she wears many hats in assisting the Meltdown Nation! Nurse Marcey by day, she brings a wealth of knowledge the program! She believes 100% that we can change our bodies AND our minds and lives in the process.
