Stotfold Circuit Training
St. Mary's Church Hall, Church Road,
Stotfold
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WHAT IS CIRCUIT TRAINING?
Circuit training is a combination of high-intensity aerobics and resistance training designed to be easy to follow and target fat loss, muscle building and heart-lung fitness. Classes are a lively, fast-paced and fun and work out every part of the body as well as giving you a tough cardio workout.
“I would most definitely recommend this class. It is fun, challenging, and rewarding, and feels more like a personal training session, different every week.”
A typical class involves 6-10 workout “stations”, with each station having a different exercise to be completed for a set number of repetitions or amount of time. An exercise “circuit” is one completion of all prescribed exercises in the program. When one circuit is complete, one begins the first exercise again for another circuit. Usually, the time between exercises in circuit training is short, often with rapid movement to the next exercise.
“…we change station every minute, so if I am struggling on one area I know that I can move on in a minute; it makes the pain more bearable! The exercise is also not as constant as with an aerobics class, so if stamina is a problem, you will get a short break every so often.”
Each of the stations you work at will have a high and a low energy alternative, for examples for press-ups, it could be full, three-quarter or half press-ups.
Pete moves around giving individual advice on technique when needed and compliments when not! He will also indicate when you are ready to move up a level, and guide you through any changes this entails
One of the benefits to the newcomer to circuits is that you can go at your own pace, you do as many reps of an exercise in the time allocated as you can, or want to. Obviously you only get out what you put in, but unlike Aerobics you do not require a high degree of co-ordination or rhythm just to participate in the class.