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I'm a fairly experienced body pumper and have been doing a couple of classes a week for the last 2 or 3 years.  Now the gym I go to have some great instructors and I love their classes. Recently I've been working away from home and I've being going to the gym (same franchise) near to where I work and the instructors there change the routines ...

Hello everyone, I'm pretty much an RPM addict and more recently fell for Body Pump as well. Les Mills classes got me back into shape and most of all I have more kick than ever! I went from 24% body fat to 19% and still working my way down. I usually do 5 RPM/week and 3 Body Pump/week. I would like to integrate a more traditional workout to ...

Hi everyone, For the past two months ive been attending Body Jam (Once per week), Body Pump (Twice per week) and Body Combat (Once per week) classes on a regular basis. I was thinking of attending more classes and was wondering which option (combination of classes) will help me lose more weight/trim more inches. Option A:Three Body Pump, One ...

I've become a really big fan of crossfit(www.crossfit.com).  Crossfit is where you do a lot of interval training in a short amount of time.  A sample crossfit workout might be to do following as many times possible for 20 minutes:  1/4 mile run,  10 pushups, 12 kettleball high pulls, and 15 reverse crunches.  I've ...

Hello to all of you in the Downtown Denver, CO area! Have you been looking for a Body Pump or Body Combat class to take that is NOT out in the Burbs??  Well, I am happy to announce a brand new fitness studio Balanced Life Systems on 30th St. in the downtown area will have just that!  Body Pump and Body Combat DROP IN CLASSES @ ...

Hey peeps, would like some advice please! Just wondering about this one.  I'm doing Body Pump 3x a week (M, W, F) with Body Combat the other days (I find the other classes boring to be honest). This has been going well, but I've hit a plateau. Problem is I find there is so much variance with the quality of Body Combat instructors here in ...

Hi Pipera, I dont realy understand with ''what program am I doing i.e periodisation/resistance'', but perhaps my explanation bellow can give you a view. I do my gym program started with warming up with small weights (high reps) until i get a bit warm, then continue with 4 core sets until I reached my max weights (finished with 4 reps only). ...

thanks for your reply.  I have seeing the Australian swim team physio...and he only wants me to do isometic work & rotor cuff exercises...no weights at all. Yes you are right about the resting but it doesn't help that I'm in week 3 (of 6 wks, hopefully) before I can come back to teach.  I have to say that I'm getting depressed not ...

I have severe calcification of the supraspinatus tendon in my shoulder & have to have 6-8 wks off classes to see if the calcium re-absorbs.  Has anyone else had this & if so, what exercises have you done so that you don't lose your strength?

Does any one know how to access the training resources as mentioned by Glen on the educational part for BP 68? I cannot see it on any links on this site - i used the search option & it did bring up training resources on the right hand side of the page - then when i click on it it tells me ' Sorry, you do not have access to view this page.' ...