Beautification Project Week Two

Jonny emailed Taryn and I the night before our second session telling us to be prepared for a hard workout.

We were going to try boxing, as he felt it was a great way for us to get strength training and release some tension (tense, moi?). Looks like Jonny really wants to test our fighting skills.

Bright and early 8am at the Urban Junkies offices, Jonny pulled a selection of equipment out of his holdall like a modern-day Mary Poppins and her carpet bag.

I wondered how we were actually going to get a good workout in half an hour. Two minutes later I was eating my words. Breathless, huffing and hot, all it took was a couple of floor exercises to make me wonder if I really, really wanted that hard body. I could be asleep now. Boys like a curvy girl, right?

The secret to the Lomax system seems to be in form. Throughout the intensive floor exercises, weight-lifting, and subsequent boxing session, Jonny watched us like a hawk to make sure we had the correct form - meaning that we really exhausted each and every muscle.

Pushing yourself to the edge physically really shows your true colours. Taryn, it seems, cheats - skipping numbers eight, nine and ten in our sets of 12 reps. I, on the other hand, go all girly - giggling and flicking my hair through the grunts. Until I caught my reflection in the mirror: blotchy, sweaty, unmade-up face, belly hanging out of my old PE T-shirt, my hair in an attractive fresh-from-bed birdnest. A modern day Medusa, basically. That put an end to that.