City Fit Girl

Today, 24th  September 2018 I tried out my first Gymbox   class. The gym just opened at Cannon Street and I was lucky enough to have a taster of the facilities. See below what I got up to, what I thought of the class and if I would recommend it as a top workout spot in London. What class did I do? I did the BadAss class Who was the instructor? Phoebe What was the class like? Described on their website as 'the next level workout for your derriere', I can confirm that this class certainly does make your booty burn! The class was 30-minutes and consisted of a dynamic, cardio warm-up and then 2 sections of weight-based workout. Squats, lunges, pulses were, as expected, all included in the workout. The 2 sections of workout were made up of 3/4 exercises which you did for 1 minute each before switching, complete all the exercises and then have 30 seconds rest. You then repeated that section through again before moving on to the 2nd section. I definitely struggled...

Circuits. A word that can fill you with dread as you think of running round the gym floor to different stations with someone shouting 'go' and 'faster' for what seems to be an unbearable amount of time. Circuits in classes always seem to be made up of your least favourite exercises. And you have to do loads  of them. I used to hate circuits until I started making my own. The beauty of circuits is you can do them with as much or as little equipment as you like. I think there are 4 types of exercises that are essential in creating a quick and effective circuit: Plyometric exercise also known as jump training are exercises in which muscles exert maximum amount of force in short intervals of time Cardio exercise is any exercise that gets your heart rate raised Resistance is an exercise that adds resistance, usually in the form of a weight to help strengthen the muscles  Core. Pretty self-explanatory, exercises that work your core/abs  I like to include a ...

I hate cardio. Okay, let me rephrase. I hate the traditional   forms of cardio. Running, swimming, sitting on a bike for hours at a time. I have been weight training for a year and a half now and whilst I have seen improvements in my strength and my physicality has changed, I wasn't as lean as I thought I could be. So, I decided to an experiment with myself. I dropped the weights sessions and instead I decided to do 5 days of cardio-based training for 5 weeks. I made a sheet so I could tick off my workouts and keep myself accountable. I also measured my body fat using calipers. This is what my training schedule looked like in those 5 weeks: Monday - home circuit Tuesday - zumba Wednesday - treadmill circuit and abs Thursday - legs, bums and tums Friday - rest Saturday - full body circuit and abs Sunday - rest Zumba and Legs, Bums and Tums are easy way for me to get cardio in, class-based workouts work really well for me as I don't need to come up with my own ...