{"id":2309,"date":"2010-01-19T21:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:32:18","slug":"ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/ouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One word:\u00c2\u00a0 Sore!\u00c2\u00a0 Tonight was my second night of fitness boot camp. I got home, showered and chilled out to watch an hour of TV. When I decided to get up to get something to drink, I looked like a 90 year old women, hobbling down the steps. Haha! I kinda like it, it ensures me that I got a good workout! Meeting up with a group of people and having a personal trainer coach us has motivated me. I&#8217;m not sure about all of you, but I get pretty bored at the gym. Unless I have someone to go with, I&#8217;m usually looking at the clock the whole time. This in turn makes me not want to go! I needed a change.<\/p>\n<p>I heard about this boot camp that one of our family friends was putting on for locals in my neighborhood.\u00c2\u00a0 After reading a little bit about it, I figured I would give it a try. We haven&#8217;t done anything that I <em>couldn&#8217;t<\/em> do, it&#8217;s mainly just doing certain exercises that I would never think to do. (And trust me, if I attempted this at the gym &#8211; people would be wondering &#8216;<em>What the heck is that girl doing??<\/em>&#8216;)<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to another way that I can challenge myself, to push myself and lastly to give myself a little<em> ME<\/em> time! It&#8217;s good to take time for yourself, its puts the mind at ease. Sometimes its hard to find the<em> STOP <\/em>button because Jen Amato Photography doesn&#8217;t come with a time clock or a closed sign. There is always something I could be doing. I struggle with this, which is why I was up til 3am the other morning working on albums. I think I&#8217;ll get more out of boot camp than I realize. One of the main things I&#8217;ve learned from attending photography workshops is to remember to take time for yourself. It allows you to refresh which in turn keeps your mind rolling with new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>These are things that help me to slow down when I realize I need a break: turning my thoughts into actions, keeping a journal, praying, getting a pedicure, taking my dog for a walk, going on a bike ride, sending someone a card in the mail letting them know how much I care, buying flowers for myself, reading, making hot tea. Try one of these is your feeling stressed, they definitely will help to clear your head.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I will be posting a sneak peek from Monday&#8217;s session with Stella, she was a past client who I absolutely adore! Stelllllaa~!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One word:\u00c2\u00a0 Sore!\u00c2\u00a0 Tonight was my second night of fitness boot camp. I got home, showered and chilled out to watch an hour of TV. When I decided to get up to get something to drink, I looked like a 90 year old women, hobbling down the steps. Haha! I kinda like it, it ensures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23565,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/23565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}