Cathe Road Trip RoundUp

The July Cathe Road Trip went down this weekend and I had an awesome time! All of my “nervousing” was for naught (as a whole lot of worrying tends to be). I made it through 5 classes with Cathe in three days and lived to tell the tale (even though my legs were soooo sore yesterday!). I met a group of really cool chicks on the trip and got to meet and greet some of my fitness sheros in person.

I was so embarrassed to pose with her for a picture but everyone was doing it!

Cathe is just as fit and energetic as she seems in the video. She is in awesome shape and has great legs (no homo LOL). She happily posed for picture after picture and was so fun and interactive with all of us Road Trippers during the classes. The energy in the room during step and kickboxing classes was amazing. Since there were almost 105 of us in every class (except for one) none of the routines were too difficult so I definitely worried about that for nothing. Brenda, Cedie and Jai joined in for kickboxing class and took their spots up front with Cathe. It almost felt like I was in one of the videos that I do so often (and I screwed up in all the same spots…I really don’t like kickboxing grrr!).

I *had* to get a picture with Lorraine!

Cathe's Crew

This trip did manage to shatter my pipe dreams of ever appearing in a workout video though – unless I lost about 35 pounds! As fit as all of the ladies appear in video they are very, very small in person. All of them were just as muscular as they look on TV but proved that the old camera adding 10 pounds thing (to people who aren’t at all fat!) is so true. Cathe looks like a 90 pound ball of muscle in real life! Ja.ri Lov.e must look like death warmed over in real life because she was scary thin in the one Rip.ped video that I managed to get through. I’d hate to see what some of those skinny starlets look like in real life too because they don’t even have a healthy dose of muscle – just skin and bones – yikes!

With Tracey Staehle

Tracey Staehle (who totally made my day by complimenting my arms!) was on the trip as well. She was adorably fun and lively in person and clearly just as thrilled to meet Cathe as the rest of us. Like the Cathe crew, she was mini-sized in real life as well. She has hardly any hips to shake as she is so fond of saying in her videos LOL.

I managed my way through the social scene just fine thanks to Diane, Lisa G and Lisa R. A good many of the women on the trip were present last year or participated so heavily in the Cathe forums that they were like old friends. I’m just an occasional forum lurker so I felt a little left out at first. Once I found my own little clique of other similarly “left out” people I happily became a part of the problem instead of the solution LOL . Don’t get me wrong – people were nice and all but it was a little like trying to find a table on the first day of lunch at high school. Since I am not really extra outgoing this took some getting over.

I was surprised by the average age of the group which I would estimate at 35. Almost everyone was quite fit and muscular totally proving the benefits of weight training. Seeing tons of 40+ mothers with bodies much tighter than mine made me realize that this stuff does work and that I need to stay on this path for the rest of my life. Aging and motherhood do not present an excuse for letting yourself go to pot. It doesn’t have to be that way – I’ve seen it!

Would I go next year? Probably not. I had a great time but it is sort of been there, done that. My fan girl curiosity has been satisfied. I’ll be content to sweat with Cathe from the comfort (!) of my living room from now on.