My dog woke me up this morning at 6:15 a.m. this morning. I always want to sleep a little later on Saturday mornings, but I stayed up. I wokeup my daughter at 8:00 a.m. and headed down to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the famous statue of Rocky Balboa stands. We were invited to a boot camp of a workout called Body Rock.
The fitness trainers were not kidding. We ran up and down all the steps of the art museum about 20 times, not to mention crab crawling, bear crawling, crunches, lunges, military push ups, Indian runs and more. I thought I was fit, but I felt like I was going to die. It was a 2.5 hour workout with no breaks, and my legs and arms were sore as soon as I got back to my car.
To make matters worse, when I got home I had to mow my lawn and trim several bushes. I drank tons of water along with three, 8-oz. glasses of a mixture of cucumber, lemon, asparagus and jalapeno pepper juice (that I concocted in my Jack LaLane juicer). At 8 p.m. I took a bath in peppermint-oil bath water and then I rubbed peppermint oil all over my aching muscles. I could feel the peppermint
oil permeating through the pores of my skin.
The peppermint oil immediately made the soreness ease up and I felt more mentally alert and physically renewed. Then I had my friend massage my aching muscles with the luscious peppermint body oil and it felt like I was in seventh heaven. It was so soothing. I think I will be up to the challenge of another brutal Body Rock boot camp next time it comes around. I know the peppermint will not let me down.