BAR HAVOC: BALLS, BONDAGE, AND BEERS

Photo (left) from thebostonegoist.com

I’ve always thought of myself as a pretty adventurous person. I figure life is filled with experiences and you’re not getting any younger, so when someone says, “Hey, throw on this harness, climb up this sheer rock face, then lower yourself backward off the cliff,”

I’m all, “Okay, I’ll do that, but don’t come near me once I’m on the ground because I peed in my pants a little the whole way down.”

Terrifying. But I did it.

Last night I played dodgeball for about two hours. I got smashed in the ass, the arm, the legs, didn’t get a single person out, and the whole thing was a middle school gym class horror flashback. But I did it.

I’ve recently joined BLOWW (Boston League of Women’s Wrestlers) and I couldn’t be happier with the new group of men and women I’ve met and been lucky enough to learn how to properly body slam.

We drink beer and learn how to fall so it looks like I’m kicking you in the crotch, but really I’m dazzling you with my flashy costume and taking the brunt of the fall on my side.

I find that the more interesting my workout is, the more I don’t mind that I am no longer eating cheeseburgers dipped in mayonnaise in bed (which happens more often than I care to admit). It’s that added sense of WOW! that gets me going during Spartan Races, Tough Mudders, November Project, and wrestling matches … when working out becomes fun, I’m in.

That’s why this past Thursday I was happy to get out of bed “early” (alarm set for 10:30 a.m., it was craaaaazy) to go meet “Master Trainer” Bron Volney at the Government Center Boston Sports Club. Every Thursday at 12:15 p.m. for the month of February, Bron is teaching “Tough Love,” a boot camp style training class that builds stamina and strengthens your muscles and core with high intensity interval training using partner involvement with bands and bondage. (Say that three times fast, yikes.)

My friend Ashley and I headed down on Valentine’s Day to check it out and we were not disappointed. We giggled and sweated our way through the hour-long workout, wondering how on earth activities from our childhood such as the wheelbarrow partner race was ever considered anything but total punishment.

By the time class was over I was sore and sweaty and ready for a beer and a nap.

The rest of my Thursday was going to have to wait because I was in a hurry to get home and get horizontal with my perfect Valentine’s Day date: elastic waistband pants.

Bron is getting his train on for one last class at the Government Center BSC on Feb. 28th at 12:15pm.

Also, if women tossing each other around is more your thing, come by Midway Cafe on March 23 and watch Lizzie “Slamazon” Havoc take on two girls at once in her first match with BLOWW!