Group fitness.
If you read that word and envisioned Jane Fonda in a leotard and body suit counting down in an aerobics video, then this here, it's for you.
I'm going to change your idea of group fitness.
And, I hope, maybe encourage you to check it out.
I have belonged to two families of group fitness that have, without exaggeration, changed my life.
I started out at BMS Bootcamps out of Leduc.
If you're brand new and nervous about walking into a group of people you don't know?
This place is for you. Take a friend, even!
If you'd like to learn how to properly do exercises so you don't get injured?
If you want to be held accountable, and be able to just, simply show up, but still get a serious arse-kickin' workout?
Then head over to BMS Bootcamps. You can try it for a whole week for free!
http://www.bmsbootcamps.com
Group fitness is for everyone.
I am an introvert.
I don't typically like people, in general.
I don't like to have plans, or to commit to anything, really.
I should be the type of person that likes to just get my gym membership and go do my own thing, alone, at the gym.
But being an introvert does not in any way, make me a self motivator.
I know myself well enough to know that investing in gym equipment for our house would be the same as taking fistfuls of my cash and burning it.
I won't use it.
I need to have someone pushing me to challenge myself.
Even more than that? I need to have an extremely hard working group of people motivating me to grab the heavier weights, or pick up the damn pace!
(Still struggle with this, even with the coaching!)
Group fitness is for everyone.
If you're scared of being judged, then lemme tell ya', going to the gym is not where you want to be.
I've never felt so much staring and eye-judging as when I've gone to the gym.
Am I doing this move right?
Does it look like I have any clue whatsoever what I'm doing?
Do I even belong here?
Ugh. I am not good at going to the gym. The conventional gym.
My current home is Spark gym.
That's where my heart belongs.
http://www.sparkgym.com
Spark Sport Conditioning.
Sounds pretty badass, dontcha think?
Me too.
I really love this place.
I'm not even sure I could put into words how much I love this place. F'reals. It gets me all verklempt because of the difference in my life this place has made.
With both groups I've belonged to, anytime there has ever been a newbie show up, they have been welcomed with immediate openness and encouragement.
We don't leave anyone behind.
Everyone is new at one point, and if you just keep coming, and grindin' it out, you will gain two things:
1)Hella' muscle
2)Friendship
And when I say friendship, I actually mean your fitness family.
These people will give you the extra pep when you're dragging butt. They will push you beyond any comfortable place you've ever known. They will make sure that you know that THEY know you haven't been showing up.
They will notice and congratulate you on the changes that will happen to your body.
They will notice and congratulate you on the incredible improvements you've made in your strength/power/speed/agility...
Group fitness is not about showing up and having an instructor "teach" you a fitness lesson.
It can be, because the truth is, it's whatever you need it to be.
It is a coach guiding you through a very difficult workout.
I often tell people that both gyms I've belonged to were like having a personal trainer at a deep, deep discount.
If you want to really challenge yourself, the coaches at both BMS and Spark will have you working way outside your comfort zone, which, really, is where the beautiful changes happen.
I've included links to both of my fave group fitness organizations, but you don't really need to click on the links.
You just need to go.
And if you're nervous, message me and I'll go with you!
Let's go get schweaty together!
