Body Combat 75

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BODYCOMBATis a high-energy martial arts-inspired workout that is totally non-contact. Punch and kick your way to fitness and burn up to 570 calories** in a class. No experience needed. Learn moves from Karate, Taekwondo, Boxing, Muay Thai, Capoeira and Kung Fu. Release stress, have a blast and feel like a champ. Bring your best fighter attitude and leave inhibitions at the door.

BODYCOMBAT is our ultimate warrior workout to develop co-ordination and release stress. Destroy calories as you punch, kick, block and strike. Get a whole body workout that targets every muscle group.

Absolutely none! BODYCOMBAT caters for all ages and abilities. Our instructors show simpler and lower impact options for every move so you can progress at your own pace and get an awesome workout at the same time.

Some people like to keep their step counts specifically on what Fitbit is trying to do - keep your daily non-exercise activity up. That way they can tell if they are slowing down outside of exercise, or seasonal, ect. Studies have shown undereating, the body slows that type of activity down.

Others want steps from anything they can fanangle it from, even swimming (yep, that was a topic), and could care less if the calorie count is any resemblance to a good estimate - I'd saying missing the forest for the trees - since weight loss is eating less than you burn, not the number of steps you take.

So you can leave it on and get extra steps - but indeed manually log an activity and use your best estimate of the workout because walking steps calorie burn isn't going to be equal to whatever you are actually doing that is not really steps.

Ditto on what @Heybales stated in his post. If you do wear your One tracker during a non-step based workout, any steps recorded by your one will be part of your steps stats, together with the related calories burnt. When you log the activity per se, the credit that you would normally get from that work out will not be the full credit per se but only the difference between what was already allocated to you from steps and the value the full value of the workout. That's how I understand it any way. Is this how you see it too @Heybales ?

It totally replaced the 955 for that span of time with my 1976, and they were all VAM minutes, though they were anyway. (interesting there, if it had counted eat actual pedal foot down like a step and doubled it, would calorie count have been doubled too? Meaning 1910 calories? Mightly close in that case)

And I don't care about inclusion of exercise in the step count, because I don't even care about step goals and such. Come winter I may look at some non-exercise days and compare steps and daily burn between summer and winter, but it's no goal anyway.

My name is Jen Nestor, and I am a 42-year-old mother of three. For most of my life, I was a yo-yo dieter, and fitness was something about which I was very inconsistent. I would do well for a while and then just stop exercising, eat unhealthy things and see the weight creep back up on me slowly.

A few things happened in the past couple of years that served as catalysts for me to make some major changes regarding my health. First, I watched several members of my family get diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This type of diabetes has a very strong genetic link, but is also strongly linked to excess body fat. Second, I watched my mother battle, and win, against lung cancer. And third, I just started feeling bad about myself in a very global way. It all served as a wake up call to me.

My solution was to start back at the gym, try to eat healthier, and just try to be a happier, more active person. In March of 2011, my gym started a program called Body Combat, a Les Mills program that has been compared to kickboxing. I decided to give it a try.

A few months passed, my passion for Body Combat continued, and I seriously started to consider becoming an instructor. I felt a strong desire to share my passion and positive outcomes with other people. The combat instructors at my gym were incredibly supportive of me joining their team. Other members also started encouraging me, explaining that they would often follow me in class.

We tell beginners to go at their own pace and we show modifications for the most complex moves, but this class is for all fitness levels. It improves balance, coordination, core strength, endurance, and can help make major changes to your body. I have lost 40 pounds from mainly doing Body Combat and making moderate dietary changes.

For Pump, Combat, CX and Sh'Bam, I use the 'Cardio' workout, and then later rename it to the relevant Les Mills workout. This works for me, as it gives me all the useful metrics including HR, calories and time. It also gives some useless metrics such as elevation (but I choose to ignore this, it doesn't bother me to have this information in there).

I think the question is how do you measure the essence of a body pump session? As a "cardio activity", it's an hour in HRZ 1/2/3, mildly aerobic and zero anaerobic, yet my limbs are dropping off with lactic burn!!! I don't think there is a good activity measure for this. The answers here let us record the activity like a diary event, but they don't help us measure the true activity.

You're so right! I'm new to Garmin and enjoying it but so disappointed about this. I do loads of Les mills and CrossFit-type classes and Garmin just can't handle them at all..! Really disappointing. I should have done better research, I thought they were better at this stuff but this is basic..

I teach the classes and get a little annoyed I can't track them properly. HR doesn't really help. In the case of pump, it's lifting to a big degree, but extremely different than a normal lifting session and should be accounted for properly within Connect so the overall training metrics would be more correct. Especially when being combined with the typical running, biking and swimming. I'm sure the body battery, training effect and so on isn't correct after recording the class as cardio.

I'll also hold small pump weights or use my own weighted gloves during combat (don't knock it till you try it) for a little endurance in the back and shoulders. And I'm pretty sure that doesn't get accounted for properly under cardio.

I like everything else about my Fenix, well mostly, but still wonder about trying a watch that incorporates LM into their activities. Honestly, it wouldn't be hard for them to add in the activities. Having gone to LM Live the other week, 7hrs of classes really didn't have the effect in Connect it should if it could have been recorded properly. And thus it drags down your overall metrics because it doesn't show the work you put in.

On the Saturday night we had a fancy-dress party with games organised by the entertainment team, the two Emmas, Shaun and Chris. We turned up in the most incredible outfits, from a shark outfit to pirate outfits, Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma and Louise, Cruella de Vil, Superwoman and a Roman empress; Shena came as the Devil wears Prada with a fancy pink metre-tall wig. I introduced and ended each yoga session with a poem I had chosen from the latest issues of online magazines such as The High Window, London Grip and The Temz Review, and some poems by some of my favourite authors such as WH Auden, Margaret Atwood and Fiona Benson. I also read the emotional acrostic poem Simon Armitage wrote on the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Most of the poems were by lesser known poets that I just like. I also collected these poems in a booklet that I printed for the occasion. Shena interspersed the yoga sessions with her memorable witty comments and great jokes, which eased the effort needed to hold the challenging yoga postures.

Visiting places such as Newport, Yarmouth castle, the Needles Old Battery and New Battery and Osborne House was revealing; we did not expect so much history and art in such a small place. And it was fun shopping in local vintage shops full of second-hand and original items that you cannot find anywhere else and that were reasonably priced too.

On one occasion in the garden of the YHA during our trip, Colette gave an enchanting demonstration to the track by Queen called Who Wants to Live Forever, using an aerial yoga frame, which is a giant hoop hanging from a metallic frame. She interweaved her slim, long body around the hoop in elegant poses, like a dancer. It was so graceful, almost moving.

Friendships flourished during walks, evening chats and relaxed breakfast. We shared our stories, joys and concerns, and hopes and longings. We felt validated by the fact that others in the group listened to us, laughed at our jokes and were moved by our difficulties. Some of us also take part in charity walks, fundraising runs and even climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. We are amazing! We hope to repeat the yoga retreat again, year after year, and hope that it is as enjoyable as this one was and always includes indulging in good food, having lovely encounters and doing energising exercise. It was a wonderful trip that celebrated togetherness, friendship and community values.

Combat is fun but it will hurt your knee as lots of springing about. However, you can take all 3 at your own pace.

Personally I love Pump, been doing it just over a year and absolutely love the class. The music is far better than the high speed crapola from combat. You can decide how much weight to add on your bar, how much effort you feel like. Just remember that the level of reps is HIGH, much higher than you would do on your owm in the gym, so start light

studio cycling will depend on your instructor, we had an ace one and I loved it. When she left the guy that took over made it really boring and the class really dragged so I jacked it in. Would be ok for your knees though as far as I'm aware.

I am a 50 year old with a dodgy knee and have been doing body pump for a couple of years. I really enjoy it and have developed a bit of muscle tone.

As Pat says, you can use lighter weights until you feel more confident.

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