Body=worked

Last night I took advantage of LA Fitness's unlimited guest policy (through May 15, hurry if you know someone who goes to LA!) and headed to the Uptown club to attend BodyWorks with Nikki. I was excited to give it a try, but a bit nervous since my workouts have been pretty much running only the past few weeks.

As we were headed to the club, Nikki was telling me how great Mary, our instructor was. When we go to the club, I spotted Fit this, Girl! talking to someone and said to Nikki, "Huh, I know here from the blogging world. Small world!" Of course Nikki responds, "That's our instructor!"

So I got a workout class from Mary, Fit this, Girl!

And it was a great one. The class focused on strength training, but I was panting quite a bit. We did lots of squats, lunges, and shoulder raises. And I'm feeling them today! Especially when I try to sit down. A great thing with the squats and lunges was that Mary slowed them down and had us count while coming down and going up. I think having that slow, controlled movement really changed the squat or lunge for me. Normally I go pretty quick.

Plus I was able to do all of the arm moves with 5-lb weights, even though I had 2.5-lb ones on hand just in case. I really wanted to challenge myself and I did it!

We ended the class with some ab work, which was great. I'm definitely going to steal two moves that Mary did and incorporate them into my workout.

But I absolutely loved going to a class and having someone to lead my workout. I wish LA had a club downtown. I want to join sooo bad! But as I was telling Nikki, if I limited myself to a club that only allowed me to workout before or after work, I'm afraid I'd fail since that didn't workout for me before and going over lunch DOES work for me. So until then, I'll stick with Snap.

But it's always nice to get a change of pace! And Mary did a great job.