Do you participate in group classes at your gym?

[VampireChick]

I'd be keen on our pump classes if they weren't so lame (Exodus)! No atmosphere at all - hands down Les Mills have the best classes in the country.

[Chillicat]

I'd be keen on our pump classes if they weren't so lame (Exodus)! No atmosphere at all - hands down Les Mills have the best classes in the country.

I'm actually not so keen on the Les Mills pump classes. I've tried them out 3 different times - one free month trial at Taranaki St about 6 years ago, another free week or two trial at LM the Terrace about 3 years ago, then in the UK at a gym where they had the LM classes. Every time I've done those classes I just find them so incredibly repetitive that I am bored by the second or third class. It seems that even if you have a different instructor, you're doing the exact same class (same music, exact same routines) and I don't like that. If I have a different instructor, I expect a different routine. Though I have to say I'm a big fan of Alistair Alcock at LM - he's a fun instructor.

That's actually the reason why I chose Bodyworks as my gym when I left uni and was looking for a gym in town near work - because they didn't use the LM system. At uni the instructors made up their own routines, and so you could go 3 times a week and go to 3 very different classes, and the same is true of Bodyworks. Though they do have 2 different pumps - 'pump' and the more recently introduced 'pump works' - which is basically a pre-choreographed one that all the instructors who can't be arsed making up their own routines use (they even have 'releases' like they do at LM). I have tried both, and don't enjoy the pre-choreographed classes, and much prefer the ones where the instructors choose their own music and mix it up more.

The class I'm planning on going to today is great, the instructor is awesome and I love her music! And when she sees people she recognises, she checks if people were at another of her classes during the week, and if so she'll change the music and routines so you're not bored.

[teamfatboy]

I'd be keen on our pump classes if they weren't so lame (Exodus)! No atmosphere at all - hands down Les Mills have the best classes in the country.

Are you talking about Power? Wait 'til Power Cardio comes along, that'll work you over!