We keep having fun. Exercise continues to be enjoyable. We keep becoming more and more free to pursue fitness, to be kids, to let loose and do what comes most natural.

We talk often about being meant for movement. That exercise is natural…we have to learn how to stop moving…we slowly, as we get older, accept the idea that working out is a chore. But it wasn’t meant to be that way. We were meant to move and to have fun doing it.

In Spartan Training, people push themselves on sliders and chase other sliding Spartans, while the rest do planks and a core exercise known as The Dying Cockroach in an epic (and intense) game of Duck-Duck-Goose. This is hard work, but people are smiling. They are working out, but they are having fun. This is how it was meant to be.

In Group Step, the Prize Patrol helps team teach (see our Facebook pagefor the full video). Everyone in class smiles and steps right along. The move side to side. They step up and down and around their step. It is like they are dancing. But they are enjoying themselves. And they are having fun. This is how it was meant to be.

In Group Ride and Cardio30, people wear their headbands to support their Instructor. They ride hard. The enjoy the new tracks. They sweat and make the most of their time. They are getting results and enjoying the process, together. This is how it was meant to be.

Jen Roper (Asst. Manager at Battlecreek) put the experience of Launch Week this way. “Launch week is about reviving your workout. Reviving your fun muscles. It’s about shocking your body and realizing that you can push through limits you didn’t know were possible. You are shown the way while trying new things that you’d have never tried before; like push-ups on your bar in Group Power, or adding in a 10th track in Group Ride. We all try it, sweat through it, and finish together… and it’s fun because we’re all in this fitness journey…TOGETHER!”

We are in this fitness journey together. And that’s the way it was meant to be.