Sunday: Best Body Bootcamp and Cardio (crazy legs)
Monday: Best Body Bootcamp and Cardio
Tuesday: Off
Wednesday: Best Body Bootcamp and Cardio
Thursday: Sculpt
Friday: Off
Saturday: I may try to hit up Anytime Fitness near my parents this weekend
I’ve got a few changes this week in my fitness life.
It’s back to bootcamp. I really do love Best Body Bootcamp! Variety of workouts and moves that seriously challenge me. Pendulum lunges is all I have to say. My legs felt like jello for at least 4 hours after my workout.
We added another gym. My gym back story, I was a member of Lifetime for almost 7 years. When we bought our house at the end of May we knew there wouldn’t be a Lifetime as close as we wanted. I was bummed about this! There is still one near work but I don’t want to have drive 15-20 minutes to go to the gym on the weekend. 10 minutes, I can get on board with that but 20 minutes seems pretty far. In addition to Lifetime I have a Corepower Yoga membership. I kept that because I LOVE yoga sculpt and can’t see myself not doing sculpt 2 times a week.
While fitness is extremely important to me, I realized I was spending way too much on the gym and yoga. While Lifetime is really nice I wasn’t using all of it’s amenities. I rarely did classes, utilized the locker room (this would have changed with the move), didn’t swim or use the sauna. So what was I paying for? Cardio and weights. And what I was paying for cardio and weights was way too much. So I sadly cancelled my membership and looked at the options through my health insurance and what else was near work and home.
I found a $25 a month fitness program that covered gyms like Anytime Fitness, Snap Fitness, Xperience Fitness and a few other smaller chains. I felt like this would meet my needs. I was mostly right. Anytime Fitness is less than 2 miles from our house, but… it’s really really small, there aren’t locker rooms so it’s not an option to go there before work, the weight area isn’t quite as stocked as I would like and I actually missed the option of classes. I started going to Xperience Fitness during the week (usually Monday or Friday and Wednesday) and while it was bigger, more options, better stocked weight room and it actually had classes (Les Mills classes including Bodypump and RPM) the locker room was nasty. Maybe I was being a bit of a snob about this but the showers were just not nice, pretty grungy and they don’t have any water softeners (I work in the industry and we live in a really hard water area and my hair can turn orange if I wash it in hard water).
It felt like I was back at the beginning, I still had my Corepower membership (and this is not cheap either, but I don’t drink coffee or eat out for lunch much so I feel like I can justify the expense) so we went searching for another options. I looked at a few smaller fitness studios but the lack of locker rooms just does not work for me! I need to be able to shower there. Last weekend Scott and I stopped in at LA Fitness. Bigger than Anytime or Xperience but not quite as nice as Lifetime. Locker rooms were great, there are 2 locations around 10 minutes from us, they have a wide variety of classes (but not Les Mills, boo!)
In the end I think I am going to keep my $25 a month option through my health insurance, utilize LA Fitness and Corepower. What I end up paying for the 2 gym memberships is still half of what I was paying for Lifetime. I get the combination I need: nice locker room, yoga sculpt, Les Mills classes that I could go to after work/weekends (or suck it up with the locker room) and a location really really close if the weather is bad or the nicer, bigger location about 10 minutes away.
While it ends up being a lot of memberships it gets me all the things I am looking for, at a price I am happy with and having locations with a locker room near work and home. A convoluted way to workout but it works for me. What did Scott end up with? Just LA Fitness. While he likes yoga it’s not his favorite thing, he didn’t want the health insurance option during the summer because he works outside for 10+ hours a day. He is excited about LA Fitness because they have racquetball, volleyball a few times a week and cycling classes. And now I can get him to go to the gym with me
