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Boot camp to the rescue! Paper rep hopes to lose weight, save his own life
for The Brooklyn Paper
Adam El-Sheemy and his Boot Camp trainer, Tanya Nazarov.
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del.icio.usHi. My name is Shimmi, and I have a problem.
I’m 26-years-old, divorced, I smoke like a co-gen plant on the Jersey Turnpike, and I’m overweight.
How overweight? Just look at the picture. ’Nuff said.
Sure, I’ve put my health on the back-burner over the years, but I’m committed to change.
Over the next six weeks, starting on Monday, June 4, I’ll join a handful of other gone-to-seed, formerly healthy people and sweat my way through a program called “Boot Camp Challenge.”
Challenge 1: Getting up at 5 am to actually get to the challenge, which has sessions at either 6 am or 7 am in the park at the end of Washington Street in DUMBO.
Challenge 2: Actually living up to the first challenge.
Challenge 3: Giving up cigarettes.
Yes, I want to lose weight (doesn’t everyone?) and get off the cancer sticks, but the real goal here is to keep a promise I made to my family.
The other day, I found myself out of breath just chasing after my 5-year-old boy for five minutes in the park. I’m 26 years old, for crying out loud!
Of course, I only have myself to blame. I was once a football player at Brooklyn Technical HS. But since graduating in 1997, I’ve been to the gym all of three times (and my body shows it!).
At this rate, I won’t make it past 60.
So that’s why I’m in the “Boot Camp Challenge.” How will I do? Just keep watching the pages of The Brooklyn Paper for weekly updates — and root me on by writing Adam@BrooklynPaper.com.
And maybe next time you see me, you’ll see a lot less of me.
“Boot Camp Challenge” is a six-week course with three one-hour sessions per week at the park at the foot of Washington Street in DUMBO. The fee is $300. Call Tanya Nazarov at (917) 373-3721 or Ray Turull at (646) 467-1145 for information.
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