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With a cold 3.5 degrees at boot camp this morning, I always say that the hardest part of getting yourself to an exercise class is putting your feet on ground from your bed.

The distance may only be 3 to 4 feet however this can present many challenges at 5.30am in the morning when hitting that snooze button for an additional 10 minutes sleep is very hard to resist.

Yet once you are all the rest is easy as at some point need to venture out into the cooler weather to either go to work or to a gym, fitness studio or outdoors if you’re doing a boot camp. The funny thing is that once your warm find that very quickly you’ll be down to a T-shirt entering a smart and it’s when you’re grabbing a drink you will find steam rising from your body.

One thing that you’ll experience is absolutely amazing sunrises and iridescent blue skies following the previous clear nights skies and cool mornings. Whilst most people are snoozing and oblivious to the most absolutely magnificent sunrises.

We’re very fortunate in Australia went by our morning temperatures rarely get below 4° unlike other countries around the world. For instance in Scandinavia if you go training outdoors you need to keep moving as your perspiration quickly freezes if you stay stationary for any given time.

While there were predictions of above average rainfall for this winter, this has been revised to average rainfall. Luckily this week has been rain free for our boot camp training so we have enjoyed being outdoors.

Also remember to stay hydrated as you are still perspiring and will need to replenish the lost fluid.

A very funny fit the story about how a Fitmate placed the bottle of wine into the fridge before boot camp.

While this may appear to be hard-core, getting home after the boot camp session and having a couple glasses of wine, the weather was predicted at 32°, so she was looking forward to enjoying a nice glass of chilled white wine after work.

It’s great to indulge with the wine or beer however you just have to watch your level of consumption as nowadays a lot of people will have one to two glasses of alcohol, which can get a little bit worrying if you become dependent on this level of consumption on a daily basis.

The recommended drinking guidelines for what constitutes a standard drink is actually quite small relative to the glass size and the quantity being 100ml for a standard drink of wine based on an alcohol content of 13.5%.

Next time you’re looking at enjoying a lovely glass of red or white just remember to monitor your consumption, it’s great to enjoy a glass here and there but be careful it doesn’t turn into a situation of dependency.

With summer just around the corner, and Christmas parties only a few weeks away for some people it’s easy to get carried away and over indulge.

With our first true Autumn morning at boot camp, we had this incredible sunrise with the light filtering through the trees.

With Melbourne’s very wet & stormy Autumn, our water catchments will be enjoying the additional rain, although they are still low at just over 50%. Well it may be a while before we get another run of rain free sessions.

So if you live in them southern hemisphere then it’s a great time to get out and enjoy this magnificent weather, it’s just a start to come.

The awesome thing about a new season is the exciting range of new fruit and vegetables that are available fresh. So enjoy a great variety of fruit such as strawberries, raspberries, and stone fruit including peaches, plums and nectarines. The main thing to remember is try to eat a variety of fruit and vegetables of different colors as there generally different vitamins and minerals.

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:))

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:))