Mine was nice and mellow, save for a few ass-kicking sessions that I decided would be “fun” at the time! Exhibit A: Fitness on the Rocks!
This was the second year that this event has occurred at Red Rocks, and since I missed it last year, I decided it was a must-do this summer. The entire event, largely sponsored by Complete Nutrition, consisted of a morning full of different workouts at Red Rocks amphitheater. Participants were able to sign up for their preferred classes ahead of time, and some of them included Zumba, Yoga, Turbo Kickboxing, and two separate boot camps. Since I am trying to grow some muscles, Cindy and I decided that boot camp was the way to do it!
Even better? A bunch of other local bloggers decided the same and I finally got to put some faces to names!
(Not these girls though- I already knew them!)
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| Me, Lauren, Lynne, and Heidi |
(And yes, this is the same Heidi that braved La Plata peak with me on both our failed attempt and our successful summit. Apparently she is a glutton for punishment, no?!)
Anyway, Cindy and I had signed up for the 10am boot camp so we decided to get to Red Rocks at 9am to get our pre-registered wrist band and check things out. However, parking was a bit of a nightmare so that didn’t quite happen! We were routed to the furthest parking lot, and then continued to be treated like lemmings as officials guided us around the entire outside of the amphitheater to the single entrance that was furthest away from where they had made us park. Make sense? In short, they made us park as far south as possible and made us enter Red Rocks at the northern-most point. Normally, I’m all about a trek but we were running late and this little jaunt really threw us behind schedule!
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| Photo Cred to Lauren |
Yes, to hang out with this blogging group, you must dress like a Skittle. Sorry, those are the rules!
Because of this chaos (I imagine), the boot camp ended up not starting till 10:30-10:40ish. This was nice because it accommodated everyone that had parking issues, but it was not so great because of the sun. Temps were expected to hit 100 so at this point, we were sizzling like fried bacon on a skillet! Luckily, I had about a gallon of SPF on my body, so I didn’t get burned at all..but I sure felt the heat!
The boot camp itself was awesome. They had various trainers from different gyms around the Denver Metro area. Each trainer took a portion of the boot camp and led it in a manner that would be similar to his gym’s style. Some were better than others, but all seemed to agree on two fitness staples: squats and pushups! Good hell, I have never done so many of either in my life! It takes a lot for me to get sore muscles, especially in the legs, and my butt was definitely a bit painful yesterday!
My fave part, per usual, was the last 12 minutes when Joe Hendricks took his turn. If you have read my blog for a long time, you may remember Joe from It Burns Joe Fitness. Joe puts on free Red Rocks workouts every Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday night for anyone that wants to show up. They are each 3 hours and literally, you will never work so hard as you do with Joe! I spent a summer going to these workouts, and it was the first time in my life that I had muscles! (I even ended up in one of his promo YouTube videos that is circling the web somewhere!) The only tricky part this past weekend was that Joe was last, like I mentioned, and his workouts are ALWAYS the hardest of any group. One armed spider pushups after 75 minutes of squats and incline pushups?! I don’t think so, Joe!
After we finished, Cindy and I bolted out of the amphitheater to hunt down the dozens of food trucks that the website had previously advertised. I was starving! Sadly, some misinformation had been thrown out because there was not a single food truck in sight! If it wasn’t for the sample of Sabra hummus and bag of chips that I received from a vendor, I may have curled up and died from hunger right then and there! 🙂
In short, Fitness on the Rocks was a pretty sweet event and I enjoyed checking it out. After all, you can never go wrong with Red Rocks, right? I think if they can organize the parking situation, find me some food, and maybe move it to the fall when we have some cooler temps, I would give it 5 million thumbs up!
PS I have some super exciting news coming up tomorrow– stay tuned!