New Les Mills thread.

Definitely gets easier and the intro videos will help! I did a bit of very basic level tae kwondo in school as self defence lessons and just knowing what a hook and a jab etc were was really useful.

Body Attack tends to have some more standard aerobic moves, or there's always Grit if you like HIIT... 😬😂

It does get easier! Sometimes I do alternatives to keep my HR up - I might just do jumping jacks or something instead of a complex combo at the end of a track. I think focussing on some (but not all) new moves each time helps - technique does improve but each workout is a good one too.

You will get better and it’ll get easier. Essentially it’s the same moves so if you stick to the one you’ve tried you will get used to that then you’ll find the other releases doable. Trust me I felt the same now I can do any combat move straight off, it does make you feel crap at the start but you’ll be impressed in a few sessions time!

@moiraswigs - it will get easier. Stick to doing the same one for 3 or 4 sessions. You'll start remembering the moves and the coordination will come. When I started combat I didn't feel like I got much of a workout - just as I started to get a move they were on to the next one! The beauty of doing it at home is that no-one can see you go wrong and you can pause/rewind the tracks as much as you need to.

Hello, can I join in? I've just joined Les Mills yesterday after doing Heather Robertson since June last year, but fancied a bit of variety. I thought I would start with a body combat this morning, but it was a disaster! I couldn't keep up at all. I felt like an uncoordinated lump. I ended up watching one of the intro videos to combat, and then because I didn't feel I'd had a workout, shamefacedly loaded up YouTube for Heather's latest HIIT video. Does it get easier?!

I have some serious DOMS going on after using the band in Pump yesterday 😂 Thursday 10am is workout time for me, so regardless I have to crack on through the pain lol. I think I’ll do attack today 😬

By the way, I’m just shy off losing a stone since January I have been calorie counting (but with all my exercise I have still eaten above 1500 most days!) but put it down to my consistency with Les Mills to be honest! I’ve definitely built muscle too which is why some weeks I stayed the same, but I am happy with the progress overall.

Press ups on the stairs is a brilliant idea! Thanks for that. Good point that knee push ups are an exercise in their own right. I also can't do tricep press ups or dips very well!

I've always been solely a pump girl but I'm branching out with the fastburner- I did combat today which I really enjoyed, then did the first beginners sh'bam to learn some of the moves as I am shit at dancing.

I am very impressed with the grit action! Haven't dared yet.

Grit Strength and Kylie Gates Trainer Series on the Stronger Challenge today. GS kicked my butt! Bloody hell 🥵

I make myself laugh by choosing a different politician to punch in Body Combat

I did Pump #96 with a resistance band on for squats and lunges. Ouch! Bizarrely though I am feeling it all in my upper body now an hour later and i didn’t increase anything for upper 🤷🏻‍♀️😂
Shoulders was so hard!

I haven’t done anything before 102 for a long long time. The warm up felt twice as hard as the recent ones 😂

I don't really 'get' capoeira as a fighting art. I mean, it's good looking, and the kicks are probably effective, but I wouldn't want to rely on any of the skills for self preservation. If I was going to learn a brazilian fighting style it would be Gracie Ju-jitsu, as that really does seem effective.

I did a Body Combat remix yesterday - Fight Club. It was really hard, or maybe it's because I've not been doing as much because I hurt my hip/back.

I make myself laugh imagining someone trying to mug me and me doing some capoeira around them! (It's been a long pandemic and I am easily amused!)

Another random bodybalance flexibility for me this morning, one with Diana and Jackie presenting by themselves. I love their interplay, you can almost feel at times they just want to bust out in giggles.

The other thing I found helpful (as well as the stair thing) is try harder variants quietly when fresh, focussing on form and breathing, outside the classes. In the classes, do whichever you can maintain good form for, for the required number of reps.

I can't really plank or do press ups on my toes so I just take the options and try the full ones when I can.

Thank you .

(I think press ups on knees are a good exercise in their own right and especially in classes where time is short and you need to bash the reps out.)

That's an awesome tip MsMartini

I found doing press ups on my stairs helped me get to my toes. Start with your hands on a step where you can do ten with good form, practise and move your hands down gradually as you get stronger. This really helped me, as it was too much of a jump from knees to toes otherwise. If you haven't got stairs, try a coffee table or sofa arm.

I am at a bit of an annoying in between stage where press ups on my knees are less difficult but more than one or two on my toes are way too difficult!

I could do the planks on my toes, but my press ups are very hit and miss can maybe do one set of the wide arm ones on my toes and then the rest on my knees, but not a chance with triceps ones.

Body Balance again this morning - had planned to do the same one as yesterday again, but accidentally ended up doing a different one that had more balance things in.

That sounds brutal!

Can you all plank for ages? I can only do 1 min max and not many of the variations.

I also can't do press ups on my toes...

There’s a 45 minute core? 😣