Grand Park Boot Camp

Free, easy access via public transportation, right after work – such a great deal! Checked out the Grand Park Boot Camp yesterday and had a good experience. Yesterday was Tabata intervals where you do high intensity exercise for 20 reps, then rest 10 seconds, and on to the next exercise. It went by pretty quickly!
It was a large group, but there were about 5 instructors and they walked around checking form and how people were doing. The other participants were really friendly, everyone was asking each other if they had been before and encouraging each other.
I’ll definitely go again!

Grand Park is so awesome to offer these classes for free. I was upset that lunch time yoga was canceled for the summer, but finally boot camp opened began today. It’s every Tuesday at 5:30 all summer long (through September 11 to be exact). Today’s turn out was really large. We began with a pretty intense warm up (think p90x style, where when you finish, you are like «that was a warm up? what else is in store?!») The warm up was everyone together just above the big fountain. Then we were split into two groups and ran around the park doing intervals of strength training, abs, arms, and glutes with bursts of cardio throughout. We really used the whole upper part of the park. The hardest part, in my opinion, was when we had to do burpees at the bottom of the stairs, run up, do them at the top, run down, do them at the bottom, run back up, 2 more burpees, then run down and do one final one.
I work out a lot, and this was pretty intense for me, I didn’t have the energy to run the whole way home (a little under a mile to my apt)
They say each week will be a different workout, so I can’t wait for next week! Hope to see you there!