Road biking season is just beginning.
CycleBar’s offering off-season specials this spring to help keep Aspen fit.
Check O2 Aspen’s site for spring spa and yoga packages.
Runners in between seasons with budding trees and snowy trails.
Fields of daisies in May a few years ago.
For those of us in town for part or all of the off-season, it’s clearly a quieter time, thought there’s still plenty to do. The Aspen Chamber dubbed mid-May through mid-June “the secret season,” when spring bursts into summer and rates are dropped on many services. As an insider’s guide to the next few weeks, following are a few of my recommendations for dining, unwinding and exercising.
Don’t we all wish we were stronger, more toned, lean and fit? Belle Zhang, a Shanghai-based entrepreneur and certified Lagree instructor, has opened
The Megaformer Lab, the first Lagree Megaformer workout in the cosmopolitan city. If you’re not familiar with the Lagree Method, it’s a high-intensity, low-impact workout loved by Hollywood celebs and created by Sebastien Lagree in the early 2000s. Zhang tells us, “Once you try it you’ll be hooked; it’s different from anything else you’ve experienced.”
What is the concept behind The Megaformer Lab?
We’re Shanghai’s first and only Megaformer Lagree workout. The workout is a high-intensity, full-body endurance workout, working all major muscle groups in a 45-minute session. If you must compare the Megaformer to a Pilates Reformer, the Megaformer is like a Reformer on steroids, with the ability to combine cardio and endurance strength training elements. You’re in constant tension, working slow-twitch muscle fibe