Cardio Barre Quarry Bend

I stole this photo from Instagram:

… because we went to Cardio Barre Quarry Bend in Sandy for a Bloggers’ Night where we worked our little buns off with a cardio barre workout.

I had never been to any sort of barre workout but as my blogging friend had, and is a dancer, well, she rocked it. I, on the other hand, spent 25% of the time staring at the instructors thinking, “Wait, what are they doing and how are they doing that?”

And this is one of the few reasons why I was anxious before arriving and felt like I was going to throw up the ice cream I had just eaten … or maybe I felt sick because I ate ice cream right before exercising … it’s a tough call.

However, our cute instructor was energetic, helpful (helped correct us when we weren’t quite doing it right or helped to stretch us out just a little bit further), and made us feel excited about our cardio barre workout we were doing.

The workout was just as I had expected it to be. Hard. We used many ballet techniques and incorporated them into a workout to help strengthen and lengthen our muscles. There were squats, lifts, and lots of times when our arms and/or legs were up in the air, however, it was so fun and so much more interesting because of the ballet spin it has to it. I would definitely recommend it to anyone, no matter what age, size, gender, and intensity workout level they are currently enjoying. It’s unique, it’s fun, and it works out the body well!

My favorite part was the beginning when I looked around the room and all of us looked like ballet dancers with our arms up over our heads, our legs out, and everyone was still smiling. The toughest part for me was all of the leg workouts because of my bad hips (wow, I sound old). In fact, I’m pretty sure that we exercised muscles in my thighs that never get worked out. So the leg workouts were tough but we did a lot with weights while working our arms and those two seemed to be the times when we were all really feeling the burn. I chose the three-pound weights because I figured I work out with 10 pound weights at home, so three shouldn’t be too bad, but trust me, by the end, it was bad. At the end of the workout, I still was having a hard time holding my phone.

Both my friend and I commented on how much we loved the actual building. It looks so chic and I was impressed with how clean it was inside. The location is great, too. It’s in Quarry Bend in Sandy, 9125 S. Village Shop Drive in the shopping area with all of the other restaurants and businesses. (Fun fact, I lived just minutes away from that area for 18 years of my life while growing up and it used to be called the Gravel Pit because the place was completely empty of everything except gravel, weeds, and the occasional tractor or whatever was “working” in the pit. And now look at this place! It’s booming!)

And as a mom, my absolute favorite part of the whole studio is their kids’ room because they offer childcare while you exercise! I feel like one of the main reasons I can’t attend classes like these is because I have children and especially now that school is in session, who will watch my kids? But at Cardio Barre Quarry Bend, you can just take your kids with you to the classes, exercise, and have the comfort in knowing that your children are in the room next door being entertained.

Because this was a blogger event, there was a lot of Instagramming going on, so here are a few from our session (I stole them once again from Instagram, but really I just made it easier for you to follow these great local bloggers):

Here’s a look at their current schedule that I pulled off of their website (however, check back because they change it according to what is going on that week):

Prices:

Single Class $16.00 1 Month Unlimited $129.00
10 Class Series $150.00
20 Class Series $280.00
30 Class Series $390.00
40 Class Series $480.00
50 Class Series $550.00

Classes are one hour
Minimum Age: 14
No entry 15 min. after start of class

Cardio Barre Quarry Bend
9125 S. Village Shop Drive, Sandy
[email protected]
801-495-5942
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