Every bachelorette party is different, some is calm, some is wild, some involves naughty tasks and games, but some has full of surprises – like a boot camp in a middle of forest as part of a list of tasks and exercises to complete to become a proper wife. This is what exactly happened one of my best friends bachelorette party last week in Latvia, where each of girls had to be responsible for an activity or two and as I am the sporty one – I had to lead the wake up warm up as well as warm up before the boot camp/ survivor in a forest for a team building.
As we all know before every activity one should properly warm up, even before unknown ones – like a challenging team building/boot camp in a forest. As a professional – military guy was asked to organized the activity than even I had no clue about it, so did my best to prepare girls for every kind of challenge and avoid injuries.
Getting our new outfits ready for the forest challenge
It all started that we had to prepare ourselves to get dirty so we received a classic, black trash bags. (That we adjusted for our fashion taste and for a practical use).
getting to wear a trash bag IS funny
When we were all set up with our new, customized, fashion creations it was time to warm up.
Here is what we did:
BOOT CAMP WARM UP ROUTINE
- Neck circles
- Tricpes stretch
- Shoulder stretch
- Mid back turns with open arms
- Jumping Jacks
- Running on a spot (butt touching with feet)
- Ankle bounces (jumping with straight legs)
neck circles to avoid sprain
Mid back turns with arm extension
Jumping Jacks
Jumping jacks with a smile
running on the spot with legs touching butt
Jump- or ankle bounces with straight legs
Once the warm up is done it’s time for a pep talk before going into a forest to confront the unknown tasks..
No good team has survived a bootcamp without a good pep talk
…and off we go to the woods.
While in forests we were instructed to be a team, to think like a team and overcome obstacles like a team to move forward, just like they are doing in army and military camps. and to learn to think like a team we had to fond our way through obstacles by helping each other.
this is how our forest tasks looked like
We helped each other to get other side of the obstacles without touching them, even if you need to fly like a superman.
smile never disappeared from our faces
push or pull but we leave no (wo)men behind
When the main obstacles by jumping, sliding, pulling and pushing were over we came to the last task – united walk… in the water without letting go of each other.
United walk
the last task – walking in a cold spring-river as a team
I must say the water was not the warmest, but task is task and only united as a team we could finish it so no time to get cold feet and back out. Literally had to get our feet wet to complete the boot camp and get out of the forest. And we did it! Confronted as a team and overcame everything!
Happy smiles all the way and no sprains nor injuries and all thanks to a great warm up, team and people!
We are ready for the next adventures after surviving this boot camp
So remember, a good warm up is a key to successful performance to every training, sports or even for a non traditional bachelorette party “games”!
Bachelorette party in our proper outfits
P.S. Here is the whole team in our proper looks during the party -before and after the boot camp. More Latvia adventures to follow up soon.
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