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Spotlight on the Camper: Lynn Bollins

Lynn Bollins is a mover, shaker, winer and diner by day (and night) and she turns up the heat each morn­ing at BC4C.

Lynn was born and raised in Stow, OH. She moved to Atlanta one week after she grad­u­ated from col­lege for the fun of it and has been here ever since (going on nine years).

Lynn majored in Inte­rior Archi­tec­ture and started her career as a com­mer­cial inte­rior designer. She quickly real­ized that she couldn’t sit still long enough to get any­thing done and moved into sales. Now she sells com­mer­cial office fur­ni­ture to archi­tects and designers.

Lynn became involved in BC4C after a client suck­ered her into sign­ing up. The client only did it for one month with her and then never came back. That was 7 months ago and Lynn has become hooked on BC4C. How­ever, she still hasn’t got­ten any busi­ness from that client!

Lynn’s ini­tial goals for join­ing boot camp were to find bal­ance with her health and fit­ness. She was win­ing and din­ing a lot for her job and it was really tak­ing a toll on her body. It was really hard for her to exer­cise in the evenings because she always had events for work. BC4C has been a great way to be held account­able for get­ting up and get­ting it done.

Lynn’s biggest diet chal­lenge is find­ing healthy food choices at work events. Dur­ing these out­ings, her meals are a lot of times sub­sti­tuted with alco­hol and appe­tiz­ers. She also takes clients to din­ner a bunch. Lynn is still learn­ing how to make bet­ter choices when order­ing out at a restaurant.

Lynn’s biggest fit­ness accom­plish­ment is mak­ing it past day one of camp. She was really dis­cour­aged the first day that she couldn’t make it the full lap on the run. She has sure come a long was since then!

LYNN’S FUN FACTS

Favorite exer­cise:
 Sit-ups!

Favorite work­out:
 Kathleen’s yoga work­out. This is the only day that she can get out of bed know­ing that she is not going to be tortured!

Advice for new boot campers:
 Make it through two weeks and after that, believe it or not, it will become some­what fun!

The best thing a Trainer has done for Lynn: Lynn 
loves how all of the train­ers will see when she is strug­gling and they buddy up with her to push her and keep her moti­vated. That alone has got­ten her through sev­eral work­outs and runs!

Did you know? Lynn is daugh­ter of an ex-nun. Lynn also loves to go camp­ing! She doesn’t get to do it as often as she would like as appar­ently a lot of her friends pre­fer hotels over tents. She loves being out­doors in general.

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14 Responses to “Spotlight on the Camper: Lynn Bollins”

1. Lauren says:

   May 9, 2011 at 8:15 am

   Hey Lynn! Nice to see you on the blog… because we sure didn’t get to see you in the park this morn­ing!

   SHOUT-OUT to Cha-Cha for putting the death grip on that work­out. I had your back, but you didn’t need me… you han­dled that one just fine on your own. Way to push it all the way to the end, even past the final bell. That’s the way to get faster, faster!

   Remem­ber to stretch and drink your 64 oz of water today.

   ALSO: Bran­don, Mar­cia, I and a few oth­ers are plan­ning to jump out of a plane soon. If you would like to join us and like coupons, check out this deal:
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   (Lynn and Jorgie: Y’all are on board for the sky­dive, right? And, Christie, Mar­cia said you agreed to go too. So grab that coupon today!)
2. Jeff says:

   May 9, 2011 at 9:55 am

   Lynn is a super-fun, great per­son and work­out part­ner. She hung tough through the win­ter months, and I think she is a riot and half.

   Great work­out this morn­ing — I can’t believe how sweaty it is already! I may not sur­vive the sum­mer — I felt hor­ri­ble this morn­ing. I think I need to drink 128 oz. of water.

   I am IN for the sky­dive and just bought 2 vouch­ers. My wife is in too IF we can sched­ule the dive between May 29th and June 4th, maybe? Maybe Sun­day or Mon­day of Memo­r­ial Day week­end? Or, a day of hooky on Fri­day June 3rd? I’ll go when­ever if those don’t work.
3. Shazia says:

   May 9, 2011 at 10:49 am

   Attempted sui­cide is one of my favorite work­outs!! Thanks Susan. A shout out to Judy who drove from Jones­bro this morn­ing and did the work­out in her non– work­out shoes.
   That’s the BC4C spirit:)
4. terresa says:

   May 9, 2011 at 10:50 am

   missed you today, lynn! you are such a fun face to see in the mornings…and you always find a way to make me laugh!

   wow! wow! wow! what a sprint at the end, marcia!!!

   happy belated bday, rama!
5. Tracy says:

   May 9, 2011 at 10:52 am

   Yeah for Lynn! I love the fact that she actu­ally gave her cell phone num­ber to Andy so he will call her and tell her to wake up. I per­son­ally would never give my cell phone num­ber to Andy, but what­ever works for you…

   It was really fun work­ing out with Christie, Judy and Brid­get this morn­ing. All were push­ing them­selves to the limit! Brid­get tack­led those wall jumps with a lit­tle bit of trep­i­da­tion but didn’t fall on her face once (at least that I saw). Christie did all her push-ups on her toes, with full exten­sion (to the ground!) every time. So note to trainers…no more facil­i­tated push-ups for that girl. Plus, we want her to keep beat­ing her boyfriend in their com­pet­i­tive sprints to their car, so don’t go easy on her any­more. And Judy didn’t skimp at all on her step-ups, she fin­ished every sin­gle damn one of those with­out stop­ping. Way to go ladies!

   For all you over­achiev­ers out there, Leigh and I will be orga­niz­ing a group run this Sat­ur­day morn­ing at 7:30 at the same spot we meet for boot­camp. We will begin warm­ing up at 7:30 and start the run ~10 min­utes later. There will be two groups run­ning, a short(er) run group and a long(er) run group, but we won’t tell you the route or dis­tance till we get out there. This is a great way to get in an extra work­out on the week­end and work on your run­ning form. All abil­ity lev­els and friends are wel­come to come out and join in the fun.
6. Graham says:

   May 9, 2011 at 12:13 pm

   Lynn — you are a trooper! But I agree with Tracy; giv­ing Andy your cell phone num­ber may backfire!

   FYI — For all War­rior Dash­ers .… I was look­ing at some info. on the web­site, and there is a waiver/release form that you can print out and fill out in advance. They’ll be avail­able on race day, but they say this will def­i­nitely help speed up the reg­is­tra­tion process.

   Here’s the link: http://​war​rior​dash​.com/​d​o​d​.​php#
7. Andy says:

   May 9, 2011 at 12:37 pm

   Now. Now. Now. Just because I acci­den­tally dialed the wrong num­ber and woke some poor guy up at 5:15a doesn’t mean I can not be trusted. At first, I just assumed Lynn was hook­ing up and that we wouldn’t be see­ing her at boot camp that day.

   Much to Lynn’s dis­may she was at boot camp. And we should be very proud of her since she now makes it to boot camp all by her­self — well at least until she didn’t make it this morning.

   All kid­ding aside, Lynn has over­come her love/hate rela­tion­ship with boot camp and has really started to kick it into gear.

   Awe­some work­out this morn­ing. It was sweaty, but fun. Every­one really kicked a$$.

   Look­ing for more fun tomor­row. Also, look back here and on our FB page for a core work­out that you can do at home should you have to miss a day of boot camp.
8. Kathleen says:

   May 9, 2011 at 12:45 pm

   Lynn is one of my favorites. I agree with Andy that she has over­come her more neg­a­tive feel­ings towards boot camp (Stock­holm Syn­drome?). I am so glad that she is part of our BC4C family.

   Does any­one have direc­tions to the War­rior Dash? Mapquest was not coop­er­at­ing when I tried it.

   Great job today!
9. Susan says:

   May 9, 2011 at 1:15 pm

   Every­one kicked a$$ this morn­ing! Great job on a humid­ity filled Mon­day morn­ing with a work­out called “Sui­ci­dal Ten­den­cies”!!! Yikes!!

   Love the pro­file on Lynn! Where were you this morn­ing?? Lynn is always a blast, hard work­ing and fun! Like Kath­leen said, we are happy you are part of the BC4C family.

   Shazia — email me at susankelley2​7​@​comcast.​net, I have an answer to your question!

   See every­one in the am!
10. Kara says:

    May 9, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    Dang! Can we say SWEET SWEAT!! ?? That was the per­fect work­out after a girls week­end and Mother’s Day treats! Not sure which was harder … the work­out or the gen­eral harass­ment!? Kudo’s to Rick for really push­ing it hard Fri­day and today! He was kick­ing arse out there. So fun to be back at BC these past cou­ple months (despite the harass­ment )
11. Marcia says:

    May 9, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    Great pro­file on Lynn! She always seem so ener­getic each morning.

    Today’s work­out was tough but every­one seemed to be giv­ing it their all and encour­ag­ing each other.
12. Leann says:

    May 9, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    Yay Lynn! It’s been great run­ning and work­ing out with you lately, but if you keep going at your cur­rent pace, I’m not going to be able to catch up any longer. You missed a tough work­out today, for sure!
13. Robin says:

    May 10, 2011 at 7:44 am

    My run group route:

    2.72 miles with­out front to backs.
    Climb of 207 total feet

    Map:
    http://​www​.map​myrun​.com/​r​o​u​t​e​s​/​v​i​e​w​/​3​3​9​0​9​3​5​6​/​?​o​p​e​n​_​i​v​e​_​d​o​n​e=1

    Check out that ele­va­tion map!
    

    Nice job ATTACK­ing those hills. Next time you see one, you know you’ll own it.

    Way to stay relaxed, shoul­ders down, loose arms and quiet feet.

    And last but not least, keepin’ your heads up!
    Yay you and yay week 2!
14. dolores bollins says:

    May 18, 2011 at 7:07 am

    Of course Lynn is ded­i­cated, fun, and energetic.…she inher­ited it from her “ex nun” mom. Thanks, Andy, for tak­ing over my job of call­ing her every morn­ing to make sure she was up for boot camp!! Keep it going, Lynn! Love, MOM