Life happens over coffee

Starbucks has it right. Life really does happen over coffee, or at least it does for me.

Although Starbucks has good coffee, it is not actually the drink, but rather the company that makes the 15-45 post workout minutes some of the most enjoyable of the day. You see, boot camp instructors become boot camp instructors for only a few reasons. First , we love the way we feel after the workout and never want to lose that feeling. Second, we want to do boot camp forever, but can't afford to take on two jobs to pay for it. And there a few of us that really just enjoy the pain. But it is the company we keep at coffee that keeps us coming back day after day, month after month, year after year.

For the instructors at The American Boot Camp Company, Happy Hour begins at 6:50AM each day.

If I had my way about, everyone would live this way. Instead of heading to the bar after work, they would meet their friends before. Instead of heading to they gym after work, they would head to boot camp before. And then grab coffee. No hangovers, no feeling yucky in the morning, just a good cup of joe.

Now for many this seems like old person talk. "Let's sit around and drink coffee. BORING!" But they would be wrong. Most of us are so busy with life that we can't always get together outside of bootcamp so coffee is really our time to socialize. At coffee we laugh so hard we cry. We talk about everything from little hands to little people, from what happend last week at work to what happend during the workout. And it doens't end there. We celebrate babys and promotions and support each other when we experience loss. We have curb parkers and regular guys and hope that we will be meeting like this for the rest of our lives. Because ALIVE is just what we are. Being associated with each other through The American Boot Camp Company has allowed us to become a powerful network, a group of friends and even a family in fitness.

So "cheers" to all of the instructors involved today and for those to come. And if you are ever curious as to what a boot camp instructor is doing between 6:50AM and 7:30AM, just stop by your local coffee house and grab a skinny latte. You'll see that life happens over coffee.

Get livin'!