Whew! What a weekend! Four days at the IDEA World Fitness Convention! I had such a great time, learned so much, made so many new friends, that I hardly know where to start writing about it all! As you know, I am an IDEA Inspired Advisor so I had full pass to the whole conference, an opportunity to meet a lot of great fitness pros, speakers, other bloggers, and get in on the ground floor of some new and exciting plans (which I will tell you all about when I can).
As you can tell, I am still excited about my whole experience, so for now, I just want to post some photos of some of the people that I got to meet. Over the next week I will bring you up to date on the sessions, the expo, more on the people, the workouts, and of course, the vegan eats.
Here is 88 year old Elaine LaLanne, widow of Jack, doing pushups on the stage after giving the Jack LaLanne award to Beto Perez, founder of Zumba (sorry about the bad picture).
Bo Eason, was, in my opinion, the best presenter of the weekend. He was also the Keynote speaker (and as a former SF 49er, he wins in Alan’s book too!). I will write more about his session in a coming post.
Here’s my girl Tiffany, also known as Running Hutch. She has so much energy and enthusiasm it is contagious!
Tiffany and I are here with Kelli, who does the social media for IDEA. She is in charge of us Inspired Advisors! We are all wearing red because that is the theme of the opening night InspiRED party at IDEA World.
I met a few people while walking through the Expo. This is Kathie Davis, the co- founder of IDEA. I was thrilled to meet her!
I was so excited to finally meet Kimberly and Alexandra of Fun and Fit! As fellow boomer/bloggers we have a lot in common!
This is Jamie and
Alyse of Sweat Pink, Fit Approach, and Sweat Guru (yes, they are busy women!) showing off their balance skillz.
Here is Kasey (Powercakes) and Cassey (Blogilates). Cassey had a booth at the expo and also led a session on Social Media.
Cassey after her session.
I also had a chance to meet Nicki, a fellow Swirlgear Ambassador. We didn’t realize until we talked at the expo, but we’d both been running in our Swirlgear that morning. Unfortunately not together.
Posing with Kymberly, Kelli, Alexandra, and Alyse.
Alyse and I at the Define Bottle booth, with Carter, the 15 year old founder. He created an eco-friendly bottle that allows you to take fruit-infused water wherever you go.
Several of the Inspired Advisors: Me, Alyse, Tiffany, Kasey, and Gina (Fitnessista).
I’ll have lot more coming over the week! Check back for recaps of the sessions (in addition to Bo, I had sessions on making group training profitable, the ultimate anti-aging workout, post-rehab training, and much, much more), the workouts I attended (and did on my own), and my vegan food (although I felt like I was surviving on almonds and snacks from the Daiya booth, I did manage a couple of real meals).
How was your weekend? Did you do anything special, race, compete, or just relax? Do tell!
I am glad you had such a good weekend! I’m a little jealous you got to meet a bunch of my favorite bloggers.
Can’t wait to read about your vegan food adventures. 😉
Vegan stuff coming soon, but read about Bo..he was so amazing!
jealous of all the amazing people you got to meet! so fun!
It was great to meet so many great bloggers and fitness pros! I had an amazing time!
Looks like a great time! I am still on the injured list and so took a good walk while my daughter rode her bike and got some laps in at the pool…looking forward hopefully a good week of physical therapy!
Hope your PT goes well and you’re back in action soon!
What an awesome time – bloggers & fitness = fun to me! Jealous!
I know! I’m usually the one reading and jealous, so I’m happy I finally got to go, meet so many awesome women, and learn so much!!
That sounds like a great time! Interested to hear about the session from Bo, and of course, the anti-aging workout! ; )
That looks like such an awesome event! Can’t wait to hear more.
So jealous of your good time! Maybe I will join you next year.
Anaheim 2014!!! Hope you’ll be there 🙂
Looks like an inspiring weekend! I’m so happy you had a blast! 🙂
Can’t wait to hear more! Looks like you had a fabulous time!!!
I did! So much fun to learn so much and to meet so many great people!
FUN FUN FUN I can’t wait to read more about it!
It was soooo fun! Next recap post is up now!
Such a great show EXCEPT that I did not get to meet you!!! 🙁
I know! That was the one thing that I was disappointed about! I just missed you too. Oh well, someday soon in the OC 🙂
What a great opportunity! That conference is on my list to make it to some day. Glad you had such a good time!
It was very exciting to meet my favorite bloggers and fitness pros! Aim for Anaheim 2014!!!
Thanks so much for sharing Debbie! I was sad not to be able to attend, but family holidays had to happen last week!
Looking forward to the rest of your recap!
I wish you could have been there Tamara! Part 2 is posted now!
I’ve literally been drooling over the IdeaWorld blog posts during last week! It looks fabulous, and I hope to able to attend some day!
Anaheim 2014!!! My next recap post is up..the best speaker EVER!
I can’t wait to read more about your weekend!!! So cool that you got to meet so many of the founders and also fellow bloggers!!!
That was one of the best parts, meeting fellow bloggers and Kathie Davis :-). The next part is posted!
WHERE IS MY PICTURE WITH YOU – We need to photoshop something! LOL!!!!!
Yes, WHERE WERE YOU???? I was waiting!
So fun! I need to get to some conferences this year. There seem to be so many good ones!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Anaheim 2014!
Such a great recap! I also had the best time. Great pics and you obviously had a blast.
I will look for you on the next one. Here is my recap if you want to check it you!!: http://monicanelsonfitness.com/blog/fitness/idea-2013-world-fitness-convention/
Moni – Fit Fluential too! x
I’m sorry we didn’t meet! So many people were there that I didn’t know about until afterward! Anaheim-2014!
Ive love love love loved reading all your status updates and posts.
I was sad I couldnt go—yet kinda feel as though I were there.
I’m sorry you couldn’t make it. Someday Carla, we shall meet 🙂
look at you like a celebrity getting your photo at the step and repeat! (i learned that term from the real housewives of every city)
Can’t wait to read more about the thing you learned! What an amazing opportunity!
I don’t watch housewives and I have no idea what you’re talking about :-). You can read the next segment, though..check the link below.
Sistuuuh! Finally got to meet you in person. One day you will see Alexandra without surgery black eyes. Thank you for coming by the Attune booth to find us, for including us in your post, and for being boomer-bo-dacious. Hug hug
You know, it’s funny. When I look at the pictures, and think back on meeting you two, I feel like we already knew each other.