I did it!!!

I usually brag about my kids on this blog but not today, today Im taking the spotlight. Ive been taking a bootcamp class for women at my local gym and the instructor is ex military who combines his style with PX90 and Insanity to basically kick our butts. I can tell a huge difference in my body since these classes but what I was able to do a move yesterday that blew my mind. Our instructor is all about strengthening our core so he always makes us do planks, which is balancing yourself on your toes and forearms only with nothing else touching the floor so you basically use your own strength to keep yourself up off the floors. He makes us do this for 2 minutes which doesnt seem like a long time but it feels like a lifetime. Everynow and then he challenges us and see's and if we can do the plank with weights vertical so each hand is holding onto the end of the weight and the other end of the weight is on the ground. You then lower yourself into a half pushup position so that your elbows are straight with your shoulders. I have never been able to do this more than about 45 seconds because my body would shake and give out. Yesterday however something came over me and I did it for 2 minutes. My instructor told me that I am the first girl in 4 years to be able to do this. I know it might not be exciting to most people, but to me its huge. Ive been struggling to do that move for 6 months. I love challenging my body to see what it can do and to be able to do this just challenges me more. Whats next? Huh maybe body building.. NAH just kidding!!!