All-American Training; Push Through The Training Pain
I've been trying this new workout class at my gym for the past few days. I go to the gym, Genesis Health Clubs, and have been pretty scared to try anything other than the machines by myself. Well, as I said in my post the other day, I'm a bride-to-be and want to look awesome on my wedding day. Like, no doubt in my mind about how good I feel in my wedding dress. So I decided to kick it up a notch and try to go to some group classes a few days a week.
On Saturday, I went in to Genesis with the thought of going to Group Groove, a cardio dance class. While I was waiting outside the room, a trainer came up to me and asked if I would like to take the All-American class. I had heard about it, seen the advertisements and it freaked me out because it looked like it is just running, rowing and jumping squats. To be fair, that is what a lot of it is.
However, when the trainer came up to me and asked if I wanted to join his class, I said okay but I haven't taken it before so I probably won't do well. What he said next was really encouraging, "Just do the best that you can and try to push yourself."
The basic set up of an All-American class is 3 rounds of 15 minute HIIT training. There is 5 minutes at each station during the round. One station is the treadmill, one is the row machine and one is floor, doing body weight exercises. During the class, I felt like I was going to get sick-but I kept going. Afterwards, I felt so proud of myself for pushing through.
The class itself is so great. Since it is short rounds, I can really push myself knowing that it is only 5 minutes. They put on really loud, fast music that you can keep time with and shout out how much time you have left every halfway, and 10 second mark along with encouragement. At the end of every round, you have a couple minutes of break.
The first time I tried it, I burned right around 600 calories in 45 minutes, today I burned 460 calories in the same amount of time.
If you have a Genesis around you, I would try the class out.
On Saturday, I went in to Genesis with the thought of going to Group Groove, a cardio dance class. While I was waiting outside the room, a trainer came up to me and asked if I would like to take the All-American class. I had heard about it, seen the advertisements and it freaked me out because it looked like it is just running, rowing and jumping squats. To be fair, that is what a lot of it is.
However, when the trainer came up to me and asked if I wanted to join his class, I said okay but I haven't taken it before so I probably won't do well. What he said next was really encouraging, "Just do the best that you can and try to push yourself."
The basic set up of an All-American class is 3 rounds of 15 minute HIIT training. There is 5 minutes at each station during the round. One station is the treadmill, one is the row machine and one is floor, doing body weight exercises. During the class, I felt like I was going to get sick-but I kept going. Afterwards, I felt so proud of myself for pushing through.
The first time I tried it, I burned right around 600 calories in 45 minutes, today I burned 460 calories in the same amount of time.
If you have a Genesis around you, I would try the class out.
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