Your usual fitness routine can get a little, well, routine. Fortunately a new slew of game-changing gyms, studios, and antigravity yoga japan experiences are cropping up across the country.
The only naturally occurring amphitheater in the world, Red Rocks offers a summer fitness series that allows exercisers to admire the breathtaking surroundings while doing workouts that will take their breath away. Sign up for the Red Rocks Fitness Challenge, a 12-week program that offers five workouts a week from April to July, plus meal plans and personal coaching from nutrition and fitness professionals. Remember that feeling of complete and utter joy when the recess bell rang in grade school? Sure, dance cardio classes sound like fun, but memorizing chunks of choreography can be intimidating. And if you didn’t have a past life as a Rockette, you might find yourself doing a grapevine to the left while everyone is high-stepping to the right in a terrifying game of Jazzercise chicken.
If you’ve ever tried a Pilates reformer, you know all about the intense, core-focused burn that the machine’s moving platform provides. Well, one New York City studio just stepped it up notch with a brand-new combination machine called the FLEXformer. The brainchild of three former college athletes who missed the camaraderie of being part of a team, SWERVE Fitness brought the first team-inspired indoor cycling workout to New Yorkers in 2013. Forget yoga on the beach—the newest place to hold tree pose is, well, in the woods. One part Wild, one part Eat, Pray, Love, Hiking Yoga originated in San Francisco in 2009 when founder Eric Kipp melded his passion for exploring new places with his love of yoga.