Saturday morning (22nd) was my first ever Les Mills launch, I was totally psyched for the Sweatfest!

I strapped my calf, chugged a protein shake met Ana Maria at 8.20am at the Clay Road YMCA.  We signed in, got our goody bags (a little towel, water, a coupon for a healthy food restaurant) and we embarked on a crazy journey!

First up was Body Pump – it was my first attempt, one of the instructors remembered me, knew it was my first time, and helped us out a bit getting set up.

It was a 55 minute class, using weights and a bar, it was hard going, harder than I thought, but also more fun than I expected too.  I stuck with the lightest weights for the whole class (and probably will for a while now) but I loved it, and will definitely be back (in spite of the fact that at one point I thought my arms were on fire!)

I’m told Pump is a great accompaniment to Attack, so let’s see how that goes!

At the end of Pump, Ana Maria had to leave as she had a birthday party to go to.  In the spot prize, draw thing, I won a prize – I picked the RPM cycling shirt, they only had a Large and it’s too small at the moment (Les Mills Large is not a regular large!) and I’ve vowed to slim in to it, it’s my new challenge – I think Pump will help cause my upper arms are way flabby!

After Pump came CX30/Worx, I dunno why they changed the name, but I prefer CX30.  It wasn’t a bad half hour, but my core isn’t the strongest, so it was definitely challenging (as always).

Next up, was my personal favourite class, Body Attack! It was a 30 minute express class, but holy crap is the new release KILLER!!!

After a two hour work out (and 1100 calories burned), I felt perfectly ok about our dinner plans with the gang!