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Well after the massive hail storm last night in Melbourne who would have believed we would have this amazing morning at Boot camp.

Melbourne is definitely living up to it’s reputation of four seasons in one day or rather four extreme seasons in one day.

While there was patchy showers across Victoria, a massive hail storm moved across over Melbourne last night. There was no mention of hail storms on the weather forecasts as this storm seemed to originate from nowhere.
While I always joke about it never rains at Boot camp, I think breaking the record with hail is going a little too far:))

The temperature dropped and while I was waiting at the Rotunda with a new Fitmate, the winds increased from 15-20knots to 35-40 knots with pea sized hail voraciously dawning upon us. Well boot camp was now officially over as we ran back to our cars.

Within minutes the ground was covered in a layer of sleet and the fallen hail collecting on the windscreens like we were up at the snow. Once the epicentre of the storm based, the skies cleared and the rain subsided.

With the cool 7º temperature, the hail was in no hurry to melt with piles of hail still visible after 20 minutes.

Well done to the 8 Fitmates who braved the rainy weather to venture out. While we do have sheltered areas at our parks, it’s game over when either it hails or there is a warning for one of these extremely nasty storms.

We had a similar storm in April this year with loads of lightening and thunder, once again we canceled the session as lightening and Fitmates don’t mix.

During the stretching component of our boot camp last night a few Fitmates were commenting on how much better they feel after a bit of exercise following a hard day at the office.

These days unfortunately the stresses of work are compounded by additional financial pressures with meeting mortgages and the costs of living in our modern society. Quite often we are time poor and we have limited opportunities for physical exertion with longer working days and balancing the home/family life. Australia actually is in the top 10 for the highest average hours worked per week.

The great thing that our Fitmates noted was while they were exercising they forgot about work and could begin to unwind from the days work activities. Even one Fitmate in particular had an amazing amount of energy that was redirecting captured energy from a heavy day at the office. Even the other Fitmate’s were suitably impressed by her awesome energy at knocking out punch after punch.

Unfortunately there is a rising number of people consuming an excessive amount of alcohol in many instances as way to “unwind” from the days work activities.

This increased alcohol consumption has attracted the attention of the government to introduce educational programs recommending that people have 2 alcohol free days per week. This is really saying that there is a proportion of the population that is drinking above the recommended daily intake of 2 standard drinks on a daily basis. What may surprise people that that big goblet of a wine glass may be well over a standard drink which is 100ml for red wine.

Another by product is insomnia for some people who cannot “switch off” and keep churning through the days activities and stresses.

So maybe try fitting in some exercise after work, even if it means going for a walk around the block or parking the car a little further from the railway station or office car park. You may be surprised how much better you feel:))

Funny Fitness Quote from our Melbourne CBD Fitmate after the session, when I commented that he did well for getting through the session after a big weekend, he replied that just getting to boot camp was a big enough achievement.

There must have been a lot going on in Melbourne on the weekend as our morning classes also experienced smaller attendances. I’m not sure if the looming big, nasty blob of unappealing weather had anything to do with it though.

For a lot of people the weekends are a chance to unwind, relax and chill out but there is the risk of too much of a good thing.

I know it’s boring stuff that people really don’t won’t to know about but we really have to try to stick to the safe drinking guidelines.
Think about your body like when you first purchase a brand spanking new car with 0kms on the speedometer. You can neglect your car by speeding away in the morning while the engine hasn’t warmed up, neglecting to change all the fluids regularly, ie oil, filters, water, brake fluid, transmission fluids etc. For the first 10,000, 20,000kms everything is ok but when you start to get to 50,000-70,000kms things start to deteriorate, it’s harder to start, maybe a little bit of smoke from the exhaust.

Well the same thing happens to your body, after years and years of neglect your body to will start to deteriorate.

Check out the amazing rainbow and colourful skies we had this morning at boot camp. It was an incredible 12.5º at 6.00am with balmy weather conditions and 78% humidity.

While most people were snoozing, our Fitmates were working hard with our interval based training.

Many people laugh at claim that we have rain free boot camps in the Melbourne CBD and North Fitzroy,but once again we’ve done it! So, yes I can say it again, it never rains at boot camp, at least not in Nth Fitzroy:))

Last night it started raining at 7.32pm, just after we finished boot camp and again this morning, but as you can see by the dark, nasty radar image we escaped the downfalls again.

Melbourne Boot camp radar image 6am

Storm misses Melbourne boot camp 7am radar image

So there you have it, some awesome views from our morning boot camp and some evidence proving it never rains:))