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Hello,

Would like some opinions/advice on a quandary.

As a participant, how do you possibly give it your all in an Attack class when you are in a small group fitness room that is overcrowded with too many participants?

What if you have irrepressible, high reserves of energy that you need to expend and are fired up with the adrenalin generated from Attack fervour and you find some of the people around you are working out as if they were in a Body Balance or Vibe class?

How does one properly execute supermans if you are long limbed and seem to be the only one who wants to travel far sideways when you see an avenue of space,  whilst some people surrounding you don't put as much pep into it, or, due to space constraints, cannot deviate far from their spot?

In summary, what I am asking is how can you give high energy Attack classes, the high intensity performance they demand from you if not many people around you have the same drive and/or energy levels to want to bound around, or, alternatively cannot move due to space restrictions?

Don't have these issues in Combat or Step as there is not much travelling involved away from ones spot.

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thankyou. 

 

Customer feedback to your gym seems like a reasonable way forward. They should have a safe max capacity for each activity in the studio. It sounds like they have overestimated this for your Attack class.

As an aside, with supermans, the execution foucuses on up and down, not accross, so try to curb the lateral movement.

 

turnitup59:

 

As an aside, with supermans, the execution foucuses on up and down, not accross, so try to curb the lateral movement.

 

  Thanks. I wasn't aware of that.

first of all - superman is my favorite movement!!

as for your questions

an over crowded studio can spoil all the fun as you really want to travel far with your movement but you find yourself restricted. in these cases i try to find spots where people usually don't stand so i can get a realatively large space to execute the excersize. during class i always try to manouver as best as i can between the others and i usually succeed.

as for the other question i give my best no matter what the others do even though it does affect my mood. the only real problem is that you might bump into one of the others if he/she doesn't move as far as you do...

when we do superman jumps i stand between two rows of people so i have room to jump from one side of the studio to the other (i'm the only one that does it in Israel lol). i really love to travel far : )

btw whatever you do - make sure your gallop doesn't end with you stepping on a loose BP weight  : S

 

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I understand your frustration, but you don't have to travel far to exert a lot of energy.  Try lifting your knees more, jumping higher,kicking higher, making your arm movements more strong and precise and engaging your core to use up some of that excess energy.

I understand perfectly and I also like to have as much room to "travel" as possible. Well, here at my Gym it's a lot like in School. People tend to stay in the middle or towards the back of the room. So I stay as close up front as possible and here I have much more free space.

Looks like I'm a Nerd but since we're not in School anymore that's okay... 

Daniel1975:

I understand perfectly and I also like to have as much room to "travel" as possible. Well, here at my Gym it's a lot like in School. People tend to stay in the middle or towards the back of the room. So I stay as close up front as possible and here I have much more free space.

 

Me too, but even the front rows are densely packed.

I'm actually faced with a similar predicament myself; we're about to launch Attack at my gym and I'm worried about the running and agility tracks. I'm also a combat instructor and I actually avoid split room tracks due to the size of the room - and they are WAY less dynamic than the split room tracks in attack.

Guess I'll just have to make the best of the situation but the room "technically" holds 30, though I believe in attack I may have to limit class sizes to 20 which would suck but whaddya do... 

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I know the feeling...

when the LM city club moved to temporary (smaller) premises for 18 months we had a pokey studio, and they actually had to alter the timetable to include 2 attack classes back to back on Monday & Thursday, but there was never enough room.

all the popular evening classes were always packed......

but thankfully we have a new gym that has a huuuuge studio 1 - there was actually 192 doing Body Attack about 3 weeks ago!

Getting back to you problem though - I think you need to tell management that it is unsafe to have that many people in the room and maybe they need to add more classes to the timetable?

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tatan48:

first of all - superman is my favorite movement!!

as for your questions

an over crowded studio can spoil all the fun as you really want to travel far with your movement but you find yourself restricted. in these cases i try to find spots where people usually don't stand so i can get a realatively large space to execute the excersize. during class i always try to manouver as best as i can between the others and i usually succeed.

as for the other question i give my best no matter what the others do even though it does affect my mood. the only real problem is that you might bump into one of the others if he/she doesn't move as far as you do...

 

 

Yes, that's what I meant. What is of concern, is that it is a no win situation for new starters trying to learn the moves or hard core regulars wanting to go full throttle. The difference in the dynamics of these two groups becomes ever apparent in a tight room, with regulars feeling they have to restrict/contain their movements and with newbies feeling their personal space encroached upon if a regular gets swept away with enthusiasm. It is all well and good for the instructor to warn the class to be mindful of the people working out around you, however,  they shouldn't have to be saying that at all if there was a cap on class numbers to keep it safe (as recommended in the responses to this post).

Well with the running track do it all on the spot, high knee runs and heels to the backside instead of travelling around the room.  They actually address this on the latest release for small studios.  Most tracks don't really need a lot of movement to them anyway.  Reach higher with the arms, reach further with the arms.  Drive your knees higher in high knee runs bring your heels right up to your backside when you are running forward and back etc etc.  I teach on a relatively small stage at one gym and have no issues with getting my heart rate up and working hard.

 

Just be aware though that there's a difference between a room feeling crowded and a room being too full.  Unfortunately busy classes can get crowded and whilst it is perfectly safe you do have to be mindful of other people. 

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