Outside of art and photography my next love is health. Mind body and spirit, healthy food, working out, meditation and yoga etc. I’ve always believed in a combination.
I used to be an avid gym goer, at least 5 times a week often more. It would help me feel motivated and fresh and get my workout done early. Over the last two years I have been working out at home with a few bits of equipment upstairs. At the beginning I joined in a friends hiit classes and that was amazing, 20 minutes in the morning and I was in the best shape maybe ever, but then when classes started returning they stopped and I was back to self motivation. I definitely could do efficient workouts but I struggle a lot with personal motivation to push myself or get my workouts done at a good time of day. Sometimes I end up working out at 10 pm which, is just not good, for me at least as then I don’t feel tired to sleep till late and it just gets me sucked into a generally bad sleep pattern. Finally after two years or more of not setting foot in a gym or even a yoga studio I am back.
They only really had blaze on today so I gave it a go. I actually know one of the creators of blaze, it was his hiit classes I did over our never ending lockdown but I’ve never done the actual David Lloyd class before.
Blaze or at least the one I did was a virtual class. So you basically work out to a video but it is a LOT more motivating than doing the same at home. The problem with working out at home, at least I find is that you can procrastinate from starting in the first place or just pause midway through for a phone call etc lol. So at least this is live and you are pushed to be fully engaged in the class. I definitely feel I did a good workout, although I definitely would have pushed myself slightly harder with a real teacher. I’m old school I still love actual people to teach my class! But I will say that as a freelancer I often gym in the middle of the day and a lot of places have a real lack of classes on from 11-5 so it is a great filler class to fit in less busy times.
The class is split into three rounds of three rounds, so you are split into groups to do the circuits. Although I was the only one today so I was in my own group of one. I guess sometimes it must be busy lol
The first round is 3 minutes on an incline treadmill, then 3 minutes weights then 3 minutes combat. After 3 minutes you move from your station to the next. Then repeat 3 times.
Is blaze my favourite class? No I think I’ve worked out harder in other classes especially the spin and the weights classes with really good instructors. Would I do it again? Yes I would, I would say it’s better than a lot of classes and if you have really good personal motivation and don’t need someone to push you then it would probably be amazing. Also I think it would be better with more class mates. It definitely lacked a bit of communal spirit and energy just being me.
Over all I definitely feel a good workout, I did do a few bar weights upstairs first so that probably adds to it. Now off to the meditation class :)
