Can we make a Les Mills on demand thread?

I’ve just done the new Grit. At least it’s short!

The Les Mills resistance bands seem quite pricey, but they are flat and I wonder if they would be nicer to work with - I get really irritated when my band rolls its way out from under my foot during CX.

I've had two days of Combat 83 this week, might add a Pump in tomorrow or do a CX works after Combat. I might mix it up a bit and do an older release tomorrow (might... maybe... )

Has anyone got any resistance bands recommendations?

I need a new one and am wondering about a set like these www.amazon.co.uk/TOPELEK-Exercise-Resistance-Training-Fitness-dp-B07SPBW6NL/dp/B07SPBW6NL/ref=dp_ob_title_sports?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I want to use it/them for CoreCX but maybe other strength training too, especially come winter. Or I could get one of the Les Mills ones?

I've got something like this at the moment and need more resistance www.sportsdirect.com/everlast-resistance-trainer-761364#colcode=76136491

Thanks!

I've just found this thread.
I've been doing LM classes for years and converted to LMOD during lockdown. I started off only having 2.5kg hand weights but finally got a barbell set from Argos after lockdown eased. A step should be arriving from Amazon today.
I love BP and Yoga. Combat is good but I struggle with my knees so I modify it and keep things tame rather than jumping around. I've suspended my gym membership until Xmas, so hopefully I'll stay motivated.
It's nice to have recommendations for classes. Has anyone found something low impact but gets you breathless?

Has anyone done the 6 week challenges? I'm looking at doing the fast burner

I did two of the instructors’ limited-time releases this morning, the vinyasa flow and Erin’s cardio, though I didn’t finish the latter because my shoulders were a bit tired from the vinyasa and there are lots of fireflies, mountain climbers, planks etc. I might finish it late on when my shoulders have rested a bit.

No music but somehow that can help you concentrate on getting the moves right, especially in the vinyasa. Quite a good way to do do something different.

I’m interested to hear about the bike roo 😊 not that I have space for a bike but when we move I want to have space to have one set up.

I did Pump 111 this morning. I think it’s my favourite Pump release from the past while. I ended up doing combat 83 (again!) yesterday because DH’s day off was cancelled. Going to have tomorrow and Monday as rest days. My schedule is going to have to change after this week with my teacher training course starting so I’ll be interested to see how I can fit in my workouts, particularly around placements.

@WeKnowFrogsGoShaLaLaLaLa wow that's a good price. I had a look a bikes briefly in lockdown but was overwhelmed. May I ask where yours was from, what brand? I'd love to do it at home I'd definitely utilise LMOD to its max.

That is always hard when you start and annoying with the camera swoops but you won't even need to look soon enough takes me 2-3 times per release lol.

Ah sociallydistanced this makes more sense. I basically launched into one of the plans Optimal Mix Prime so I'm doing different sessions all the time so while there are obviously a few repeated moves between the sessions, it's all a surprise to me when they show up!

I've had a good week with it. DH is off tomorrow so I'll have a morning off the cardio but will still go for a walk, maybe do a bit of yoga. I've done Combat 83 every morning this week, and tacked the upper body 40 min Pump 110 (where they're outside) onto the end of Tuesday's. I'm finding Combat 83 is a very "every day is leg day" release, whereas 82 felt more of an all-rounder, so didn't want to do the squat and lunge tracks of pump. I might do 82 on Saturday to balance it out a bit.

@sociallydistained - I got a bike as part of my rehab post surgery last year and I love it. I started off being able to do about 2km a time, now I do minimum 33km a time and then when I got LMOD I was in my element! Totally worth it. It wasn't crazy expensive, about £200 I think.

@kittykarate That is always hard when you start and annoying with the camera swoops but you won't even need to look soon enough takes me 2-3 times per release lol.

Had a good week so far with LMOD. Monday I did Grit Cardio, Pump upper body and some of Erin's cardio workout (in the new trainer series). Tuesday was Attack #99 really like that one I don't think I'd done the full release before.
Today I did Pump 113 (this is my second time) and some more of Erin's workout for some cardio! - like others have mentioned I like the cardio burn so I always put Pump on the back burner but love how it makes me feel. Today I had a day off so did it as knew I could do some cardio elsewhere as have more time!

I wanted to do RPM at the gym again but couldn't manage to book on. I sometimes think about getting a bike for home as RPM and the Trip seem so appealing! I don't have the space and it's a lot of money but I am very tempted regardless!

I've just started LMOD, late to the party as I was doing zoom fitness classes with an ice-skating coach through most of lockdown. Now she's back on the ice, I was looking for something to go in the 'morning commute' slot.

I'm mostly liking it so far, but I do get bugged by the camera work, as they seem to always do the swoopy distant shots of the crowd just as the instructor is adding in new move.

I'm still loving LMOD. I do strength training in parks and an outdoors core class once a week, and run a bit. So I use LMOD to top up, on bad weather days, or to cheer me up.

There is so much variety, I can't see me going back to a gym to do classes any time soon.

I've done some of the hybrid ones now - really good - has anyone else been trying them?

I feel you on the cardio burn, I’m a total cardio junkie. I do pump and balance/yoga because I know they’re good for me and love the results but my heart belongs to cardio. I LOVE combat 83, it’s the best release for ages. Saying that I did 66 yesterday and I feel it across my back which is rare for me.

I think I’ll wait the gym out a bit. We’ve a couple of fab instructors too - in fact if you follow les Mills on insta, one of them was featured on there filming pump for Les Mills United next to the kelpies (huge horse head type metal structures) - but I want to see how it all plays out.

I’m going to visit family for a week from Thursday, I’ve chucked in a gym kit, my iPad, resistance bands and yoga mat. Hoping to persuade someone to join me 😆

My gym is only doing pump, balance, and cxworx. balance & pump are both shortened to 45 mins with reduced capacity.

No attack, combat or barre. They never did sh'bam as they do Zumba, but that's not on either, ditto grit as they do their own HIIT).

It's not instructor availability as the same lady used to do combat, pump and balance in a row Saturday mornings, mad but awesome woman! And she's still running her pump and balance classes.

Yeah I think I’m going to have to stick to the home classes for a while yet, although will hopefully be able to go to the actual gym to lift the heavy things in lieu of keeping pump in there as often at home.

I did combat 83 again today, I really like track 5 with the sprawls. It feels a bit like Attack. I really need to fit a pump in somewhere this week (but I love the cardio calorie burn too much 😬😳)

They gym has published a “temp” timetable for now and I’m not too impressed. Lots of their own circuit type classes, only one combat, one pump and one 50/50 (usually attack and combat) per week. And the class size cut in half from 50 to 25, so that’ll be a nightmare to get booked. Usually there are 3-4 Les Mills classes per day and they’re generally full. Also the Scottish government hasn’t actually published their guidelines yet, so we don’t know if 25 will be ok or whether masks will be required. Might be working and exercising from home for a while yet!

@scullie confidence is definitely key. And I sometimes think the 30-45min classes can be harder, definitely in the actual gym, as our instructors miss out the “recovery” style tracks and keep in all the intense ones. I remember being pleasantly surprised at the hour long attack with conditioning in the middle for a quick breather. Mind you, those cardio/ strength mixes you’re doing are good too. I’ve been doing the 15min deep stretch balance every night and the progress has been really good. I’m not quite at mermaid yet but far closer than I ever thought I’d be!

Today was combat 66, I REALLY love that one and I’m going out for dinner so it’ll be a shorter walk with dog later. He’s got a poorly paw anyway, so that suits us both. (He is playing on it too, for extra treats...!)

@gingerscot I'm going to work up to it! The high cardio of grit and and doing an hour of combat or attack scare me at the moment. I'm pretty strong but not that fit but hoping I'll get there. Loving a half hour intense cardio then a balance or Cx worx.
Maybe it's just the confidence to try I need

Ooh that’s lucky about your gym reopening on the 31st! I go to our local authority one and the trust that deals with the leisure centres is doing a gradual reopening from the 14th Sept, but we don’t know what the class timetable will look like yet because they’re having to reduce it to allow for cleaning up between classes. Our closest centre doesn’t do any of the classes I like, but I use the gym at that one and it’s not reopening until freaking October 😵

I did combat 83 today, but the 40 minute one because I was shorter on time. It’s amazing the difference that 10 minutes makes 😂

Congrats on finishing @Floofsquidge, must be a great feeling! You’ve achieved loads and your fitness will have improved even if your measurements don’t show it. Your heart will be thanking you - that’s my main goal, we have a horrible family history of heart and blood pressure issues so I decided in my early 20s (after ANOTHER family heart attack, my uncle, in his 50s) it wasn’t going to be me if I could help it.

Grit is hard, and it does shift the ponds but only if you can manage it properly at full pelt. I find it more functional exercise whereas combat and sh’bam are so much more fun and I really enjoy them. But to shift the pounds, you need your heart rate in the red zone really and Grit cardio does that. If the impact is too much and you can’t stay in the red zone I’d say you’re better sticking to the traditional hour long classes - step always has me sweating buckets too and is very underrated I think. Building muscle will also help, so pump all the way. For me, it’s 20% exercise and 80% diet though. I’ve had good results with the 2 days 500 calorie per week if I need a boost. I have to be careful not to binge on the other 5 days though! And I don’t keep it up too long.

@scullie if you’re mainly doing 60 mins classes anyway, why not switch to game changer?

@jerometheturnipking your post made me laugh, I get so annoyed if my boss ignores my diary and schedules something around 1pm - that’s my workout time! I mean I’m really flexible from a work point of view, I can change to an hour before or after, but that’s not the point. I have a routine!! 😆

@sociallydistained ah the saddle pain. Not looking forward to that when we get back to the gym. Although I haven’t decided whether to go back yet. Our gym has sent an email
today saying they open 31 Aug in line with Scottish gvt rules.

Today is combat and I did a the MMA 2mix. Wasn’t too impressed, will go back to 83 tomorrow morning before I go out for a lovely afternoon tea. Will be walking doggo later for a long one, he’s been snoozing it up all day so he needs to be moving!

I did 111 upper body today and it had two new sections that I hadn't done before, that I was pleasantly suprised to find I enjoyed. Even did the tricep track!

I went to my friends gym yesterday and did virtual RPM! I've always wanted to do it on demand but don't have a bike.

Wow am I in pain today! Arse pain!!

Completed game changer on Monday
Slightly disheartened that I don't see any inch difference from end of week 4 when I checked my waist measurement the day after completion, but I get bloated so easily. Did a short 30 min sh'bam yesterday evening and loved it.
Think I'm going to redo game changer but maybe swap in some newer releases, and some sh'bam. I'm also tempted to do less of the grit sessions as I find this too high impact even with adaptations and I'm probably not getting out of it what I should be for what's only a 30 min exercise and would rather do an hour long cardio instead. Interested in your thoughts, I still have a lot of baby weight to lose to be happy with my size.