Les Mills Body Pump

My older sister joined the gym before me about 4 years ago now, she took me to my first ever pump class and introduced me to the world of the weights, thank you!! I started on light weights for my first day, but let me assure you that is still enough to make your weight deprived body work!! Lets just say i even had difficulty squatting to sit on the toilet the next day...

Since that day i have become addicted to Body Pump classes. Not only have they been a wonderful introduction into the world of weights but they have shaped and toned my body, increased my strength and power and boosted my confidence and self esteem! Body Pump, you are my love :) The great thing is you can always set yourself new goals and the classes are filled with fun and exercise inspired everyday people of all ages! The music tracks are fun, motivating and the instructors know how to ensure you have a good time as well as a good work out. How can it get any better than that!? It is wonderful to see in every class there are a range of people from all walks of fitness and all ages, it is female dominated but there are both males and females in and taking the classes. Let me tell you a little more about Les Mills Body pump (derived from the Les Mills exercises website) so you can start, return to or increase your classes today :)

BODYPUMP is the original LES MILLS barbell class which will sculpt, tone and strengthen your entire body, fast! It follows a resistance workout via THE REP EFFECT formula by focusing on low weight loads and high repetition movements to burn fat, gain strength and quickly produce lean body muscle conditioning. The classes are one of the fastest ways to get in shape as it challenges all of your major muscle groups while you squat, press, lift and curl.

THE REP EFFECT is a breakthrough in resistance workout training proven to deliver a total body transformation, fast. It throws traditional thinking about lifting heavy weights on its head. Instead exhaust your muscles with light to moderate weights and perform high repetitions in a single workout. It's that simple, and that's the beauty of THE REP EFFECT. In a typical BODYPUMP class, you'll perform 800 repetitions in 55 minutes! Think you can manage that on your own? Compared to a standard gym workout, it's more than four times the reps during a weight training workout an average person can achieve alone!

There are 10 tracks in the typical order of:

• Warm-up of all major muscle groups
• Squats
• Chest press
• Back and Hamstrings
• Triceps
• Biceps
• Lunges
• Shoulders
• Abdominal/core
• Cool-down 

And each track changes around every 3 months to keep challenging your body in different ways, but some instructors 'mix' in old tracks with the new after around 6-8 weeks. The classes are used by millions of people around the world... because they work!

A TYPICAL CLASS in Summary will help you:

Improve your strength
Perform 70-100 repetitions per body part totaling up to 800 repetitions in a single workout
Improve your general fitness
Shape and tone your muscles
Protect your bones and joints from injury
Get into shape fast
Feel confident

It has been exciting to see my body tone up over the past few years with body pump. It is best to do the classes 2-3 times a weeks to really see the benefits but i do recommend once you start to do a class AT LEAST once a week or else you wont get over that feeling that you can't sit on the toilet the next day ;) give your body a chance to transform and it will! :)

Remember - Great bodies aren't born, they are transformed!

Mum and I after a Body Pump and CXWORX class :)