Les Mills appreciation thread

[Debbi8489]

I bought a polar HRM.

On average I tend to burn:

Pump- 400

Combat- 500-620 depending on instructor and extra tracks!!

Attack 600-620

Zumba 500 with my bestie instructor and 350 with others

Spin 350-400 for 45 mins

Gina- I'm amazed at the cals you burn!!!

I've got a polar too, although mine doesnt work anymore My averages are:

Combat 500
Zumba 500
Attack 500
Pump 380

Really miss checking my HRM. Very disappointing that I only got about a year out of it.

I seem to burn alot fast.... Could be something to do with my body fat. Last I checked it was 13.6%

Apparently more muscle is a bigger calorie burn?

Wow! Thats v impressive Gina.

 

[Baileygirl]

I seem to burn alot fast.... Could be something to do with my body fat. Last I checked it was 13.6%

Apparently more muscle is a bigger calorie burn?

Wowzer!!!! I would love my body fat to start with a 2 let alone a 1!!!!! You are right though, high muscle mass burns more calories.

I've been at this for 3 months, working out 4-6 x per week doing 1-3 classes a time) and only lost 0.9% body fat and gained 0.6% muscle and lost 2lbs in total!!! Very fed up!

I'll look into the polar watch girls, thanks

 

[LainaG]

I'd love one of those polar jobies too. I was pricing them on Amazon & they start at around £60. I'd love to get an accurate burn reading rather than guessing it all the time. Maybe I should put it on my Christmas wish list...... Mmmmm tempting.

Wow Gina b your body fat percentage is very impressive. That's similar to an athlete's percentage isn't it?

I'm considering starting a 30 day P90x programme with the gym next month & they'll measure your body fat at the start & the end. I'll be curious to know what my results will be. One thing is for sure, it won't be as low as 13%

 

[Artemys]

sorry if this has been mentioned, but i checked the first few pages and the last few - not enough time in the day to read them all!

There is an at-home version of body pump - called les mills pump - bad news is it is only available in the US and canada (maybe Oz? not sure) there are about 5 or 6 dvd's in the set increasing in difficulty. but the one that pretty much matches classes is just the last one. think it all works out around $200, including barbells. its a lot of money when only the last dvd is what you really want - and you can get barbells out of argos for £30 lol. there is a killer abs dvd and a flow dvd as bonus too.

it is showing on the beachbody uk site as 'coming soon' i emailed to ask 'how soon' and the reply was 'no idea' :/

 

[gina_b]

its dropped a lot since January, since I started doing metafit

 

[Debbi8489]

What was your highest %age body fat Gina?

 

[gina_b]

22% is the highest its been as far as I know

 

[Debbi8489]

Wow! Impressive to start with. Wish I hadnt bothered working mine out lol.

Different Combat class tonight. Managed an earlier one. New instructor to me and I really enjoyed the class. Shoulders are starting to feel sore as I really went for it

 

[gina_b]

I have gained weight since, have to wear jeans two sizes bigger just to fit my calves atm

 

[Debbi8489]

Goodness how strange. I have huge calves so I empathise. And tiny ankles. What's that all about?? Grrr

 

[gina_b]

my ankles are really weak but not tiny. its all running that's made my legs huge though

 

[Debbi8489]

Combat has been cancelled for Saturday Might see if I can fit in a zumba class instead.

 

[Baileygirl]

Girls,How do we get a sticky/section for this thread? I think it would be fab to have our own little section!

 

[gina_b]

no idea how to get a sticky!

little bit of spinning and body pump tonight, did my half marathon this morning at training pace. very very chilled and quite slow but that was my intention

 

[Baileygirl]

Pump NSV: Super proud of myself, I finished the whole bicep track!!! It's my worst one! Now just to complete the 2nd round of tricep dips, I do all the overheads, but fall on the floor when I do the dips, lol!

 

[gina_b]

so its coming round to that time of year again that my local gym has their annual fitness event

picked body attack, body combat and a 5k run. its the launches of them too so pretty exiting!

 

[Baileygirl]

Sounds fun Gina!

 

[gina_b]

It is fun
Love it, just good it's not raining during the running!

 

[gina_b]

exiting news!

on the 25th of September if any combat nutters are up for it, Rachel Newsham is doing a class in Kirkham near preston, theres a combat and sh'bam class on. £10 to do it and all the money is going to charity.

gotta book on fast though. im booked on both

 

[Baileygirl]

Oooh, Preston is only 45 mins away! Will look at my work rota, when it's finally published!