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What I love about group fitness

2/27/2014

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Recently, I was teaching a Bodypump class, and as I scan the room, checking people's form, I realized that a few people were flat out just not doing the workout the rest of the class was doing.  Now sometimes in group fitness, a participant will come up to me in the beginning of class to let me know about an injury and ask for modifications, which I appreciate, but this wasn't the case in this particular class.  At the end of the day, it's the participants' workout, but first and foremost is our participants' safety while engaging in group exercise, so I can't help but take it personally when participants come to my class, stand up front even, and then do their own thing.  It makes me wonder why they are even coming to my class in the first place.  There is so much I love about group fitness that I wouldn't get out of the experience if I was just chugging along doing my own thing.  But everyone is different - and maybe you're taking a group fitness class for a completely different reason!
Which brings me to...
What I love about group fitness
What I love about group fitness

I feel like I'm a rockstar
Imagine you're running a race, and you all start and end at exactly the same time.  Your feet hit the ground together with every foot strike.  Pretty amazing, right?  That's what every group fitness class is like for me.  It's one thing to complete an awesome workout, but it's a completely different feeling when you're doing it with 30 other people.
What I love about group fitness

It holds me accountable
Group fitness classes are at a specific time each day.  Often times, you have your favorite classes and you create a schedule for yourself.  The class isn't going to wait for you to finish watching that episode of House Hunters - it's going to happen whether you're there or not, which believe it or not makes it more likely you'll go.  If you can do something at any hour of the day, you're more likely to procrastinate, but when you have one chance that day, you're going to be there!
What I love about group fitness

It keeps variety in my workout routine
If left to do my own thing at the gym, I'm probably going to stick to the treadmill and some dumbbells - my comfort zone. Group fitness classes add so much more variety to my workout routine.  I would never get on the stationary bike in the gym, but a spinning class? Absolutely!
What I love about group fitness

The people I meet
I've said it before and I'll say it again - the people you meet in the group fitness setting are second to none.  There is so much camaraderie and respect in one room, it's amazing the whole room doesn't explode.
What do you love (or not love) about group fitness?
3 Comments
Kristen link
2/27/2014 12:32:00 pm

Wow, I can't believe people are just doing their own thing in your classes! I think that's pretty rude! I love being told what to do in a workout class - it keeps me from giving up too soon and gets me to work way harder than I would on my own!

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Alysia @ Slim Sanity link
3/4/2014 06:50:25 am

I still have yet to take a group fitness class :) Well - I take that back, I did a hot yoga class once! I want to try bodypump some time

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FitYaf link
3/4/2014 09:11:55 pm

Alysia - what are you waiting for?! Wish you lived closer - you could come take my class!

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