So now I am finally writing about something new...
...I recently found the strength to go to my gym (McFit Münster (Westf.)), when I found out:
They renovated it!
It looks so NICE in there now. Before it was not only a pretty cheap gym, it also looked like one!
Now we're talking about dark wooden floors (at least they look like they're made of wood), new lockers you can lock with your member card, new showers (although I prefer showering at home, for I only live max. 10 minutes away from my gym), new restrooms, new gym equipment... everything is NEW!
And there was something essentially new... the cybertraining rooms!
Cybertraining is a pretty innovative concept McFit introduces to it's gyms little by little, where the trainer of the course is only shown on a screen and you're basically watching a video on how to do the exercise and you are supposed to follow right away, like in a "real" course.
One of the rooms is for spinning and the other one is filled with 5 Power Plates.
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| picture taken from mcfit.de |
The first time I tried a course, I chose "Interval Spinning Basic".
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| this is what you are supposed to look like while in your spinning course... not me! picture taken from mcfit.de |
Usually a course takes about 30 minutes, so I thought that would give me a good impression of what is going on there...
...but I was mistaken. I chose the ONLY course which takes about 1h and after 15 minutes I was already like I want to fall off my bike and just lie on the floor and relax.
The intervall spinning is SO DEMANDING... too demanding if you are just coming back from a gym-draught if you ask me.
However, if you want to keep your metabolism on the go, then do that. You're going to sweat like you've never sweat before!
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| Power Plates! picture taken from mcfit.de |
Yesterday, I went to the gym once again (after I regained my strength I used up in the interval spinning course) and was 25 minutes on the stepper before I went to the room with the Power Plates.
A Power Plate is a fitness device, that basically vibrates in different amplitudes while you do your exercises on it.
There I did a "Abs, Legs and Buns - Basic" course, which was pretty easy!
That's why I spontaneously joined the "Sixpack - Basic" course right after the ALB, but the exercises were mostly similar to the ALB ones, but had a back massage at the end!
After that, I still didn't notice any sore body parts, but I was already 1 1/2 hours in the gym, so I decided to go home...
...this morning I noticed what's really going on!
My back is sore, the back of my thighs is sore, and the sides of my stomach ache, too!
So, I guess it really IS an effective workout!
A girl I got to know there told us (3 girls and I met while waiting for the course to start), that doing exercises on the Power Plate is 10x as effective than doing it regularly with the gym equipment.
I guess that's right, for every course takes only about 30 minutes (rather 20) and still: you notice that you've done something!
So I can highly recommend you to do Power Plate courses, they are fun, not time intensive, at the end of my courses we always had the chance to massage our legs and back with the Power Plate, and you have really done something for your body! :-)
Keep it tight! Hahaha
x J.
