Unprepared, unknown to me was the workout by PushMore for new comers/those who decided to go for a free trial. I saw their WOD on their blog for the day, it seems alright to me: Kettlebells and walking lunges. Though, I was surprised by their newbie's WOD... and the unexpected has landed right on me when I was there.
Similar to circuit training but I feel it was more taxing lol. Oh yes I'm obviously lack of endurance. I admit it. Heck I only do stepping machine for cardio for at most 30 minutes. I know I can't expect much when it comes to workout that test my endurance.
Their warmup is rather simple but intensive. Why? Take a look:
5 minutes rope skipping (just once)
The 10's:
10 body squats
10 sit ups
10 figure eights
10 push ups
10 jumping pullups
That was just 1 round for the 10's. Did 3 rounds of 10's in total...*Pant like nuts*
I'd say all the panting was contributed by the first 5 minutes of rope skipping. I've never done rope skipping for years... so 5 minutes of continuous skipping was really crazy... I keep breaking in between. I swear my lungs were coming out after that.
The 10's were ok, figure eights was relatively new to me, so I had trouble doing that too :x
Now.. comes the real workout. The workouts were easy in general, but its timed. In 10 minutes, I'm suppose to do as many rounds as the following:
5 inverted row using rings
10 push ups
15 body squats
Was able to do 6 rounds of that including the extra of 5 inverted row rings and 4 pushups. Initially she asked if I could do pullups. Then it hit my mind, I better not say yes since only recently I'm able to do them ROFL, hence the modification to inverted row rings.
How did I feel? SO FREAKING TIRED. Was sweating like a pig.
When the workout ended, I just sat there for 10-15 minutes drinking water, 2 bottles of water to be precise. Heck if Pey (the friendly PushMore staff who trained me for the day) didn't advice me to drink less water, I'd easily take 4 bottles in total lol. Yesh I'm a shui tong.
I have to say the way they train is totally different from what you see in commercial gyms. Commercial gyms are relatively low intensity as people just do their machines/dumbbells/barbells with their own pace. I'm referring to those without any personal trainers. You will then see obsessed gym goers working out the same bicep curl and triceps for bigger arms and keep staring at the mirror wondering did their biceps grow an inch =__=""
I guess I've finally found the kind of fitness center I've been looking for. Crossfit it is! I like the rush of blood to my brain while intensely going through the workout.
Theres just one problem, my gym membership is still on for about another year. My hands are really itchy to visit PushMore again. In fact, I'm looking forward to attend their foundation classes as I would be exposed to the correct lifting techniques. Perhaps after attending I could practice them well in my current gym for the meantime until I join PushMore for good.
Now I need to pin out which month I can fully commit to their starter package. Perhaps mid february, after CNY.
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