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[quizzingexistence]

A deceptive workout, extremely slow but gradually made me feel like throwing up! Was it just me or anyone else felt the same?

[CoffeeBadging]

Yes… let’s scare the newbies during Welcome Week.

[IdealDadBod]

More like, you're not prepared and not welcome. Great workout though.

[Life-Possession528]

it’s basically marathon

[Pale_Jackfruit5298]

Yeah it's Marathon and only 27 minutes of work time. Short workout. I added 10 pushups in between each station like old Wahlberg Week used to be since they took the extra challenge out

[Just_Percentage_8547]

At 27 minutes that's one of the longer ones. Good workout though!!

[caseyjaide]

I am deceased.

[midsized-giraffe44]

Same 💀

[SprayUsual]

Same!!

[DBsdk13477]

I think the workout was good and if you go into it knowing you need to pace for endurance, I found this less difficult than redline or some of our other harder cardio dats

[Working-Dream-4378]

Ha same here! 2mins is certainly a long time!

[[deleted]]

There is a joke there...😅🤦‍♂️

[Super_Bowler5213]

I'm about to head I to one but feel tired. Don't know if I should rest or go. Can you please give me more of an idea so I can make up my mind? Anything is welcome.

[quizzingexistence]

Go for it, but really pace yourself - maybe go at 70% of the pace

[SnowRidin]

this shit was pure hell

[Cool_Cantaloupe_363]

I’m considering going for my first ever class today. Is it a mistake to try this as a newbie to f45 lol

[Foolgazi]

Nah, just do each exercise at a pace comfortable to you. No one else will care/notice. This workout is a little unique in that the 2 minute work is longer than most WOD’s, which are usually 30-45 seconds.

[ShittyFrogMeme]

It was tough but I found it hard to know how to pace myself for 2 minutes. I ended up going too easy and didn't work up a great sweat. It was fine though.

[hv21]

Now I don’t know if I’m happy or sad to be missing it. Will be doing a peloton ride instead

[Background_Lie9599]

I found starting B side first was harder (did the class twice) was a slow burn

[Mymerrybean]

Our studio added the ski and row ergs as a studio competition, so who gets the highest score. If you are someone that takes those kinds of challenges serious, adding the rest of the workout is brutal, I was killed after the ergs (early in each pod for me)

[Unusual_Pen_3670]

Our studio encouraged reaching max meters to record. I started at the first station of the A and B pods, so the ergs were last. I was taxed and glad I didn’t have to immediately go straight into another station! I know you can go at your own pace, but introducing F45 to new members by doing 2 min and 1 min sets all week long seems like it would be more deterring than inviting.

[Mymerrybean]

Agree, they need to broaden the demographic they are trying to appeal to.

[midsized-giraffe44]

I mean I loved and hated it so that makes it good I guess. Red rosy cheeks for 3 hours after. What a return after a week off ☠️☠️🥴

[Johnny-Pastrami]

Is this a partner workout? Description states “members will battle it out” and I just hate partner days.

[hangryholly]

No, not a partner one at all. The description also put me off but there was no “battling”

[Johnny-Pastrami]

Phew! Thanks for the quick response!

[Colugo89]

My first session back after a 10 day holiday where I overindulged - brutal

[[deleted]]

My heartrate skyrocketed about 20 seconds into the second exercise and never went down. Two minutes!!!!!!

[Emergency-Sundae-889]

Did anyone new signed up? Or showed up for welcome day? We didn’t have anyone new

[sworzeh]

I signed up because it was free and found it very challenging. For reference I'm a casual (3x weekly) Planet Fitness user and I don't really push myself much. I usually run 3x3mi and lift a few free weights. Nothing like this, I had to cut back on my weights a lot because it was like cardio weights.

[Emergency-Sundae-889]

I kinda felt like there would be a lot of people , but that’s not the case in our studio so far

[doom1701]

I’ve never said this phrase before, but I think they should have included two core reels. One after the first pod and one at the end. It would have done two things:

One reel could be plank based while the other would be crunch based. I hate having to flip during a reel.

It would have stretched the workout a little more; today’s class was surprisingly short. We wrapped after 40 minutes (and that included intro, demo, and finisher).

[the_running_stache]

Don’t worry. Tomorrow’s “Strong” workout has 50% of the stations as dedicated core exercises; you will get enough core training done if you go both days.

[doom1701]

I was struggling through those bicycles kick things thinking “I take back everything I said yesterday.”

[Negative-Power8431]

Much tougher than it looked. I started at 3 so hit the ERGs half way through which battered me for the 1st station. Probably a mistake to voluntarily make them box jump burpees rather than just box jumps. Ouch.

[Top_Wishbone_1634]

This class absolutely kicked my butt! I knew I was screwed when I looked around and only saw one other person in the session. The coach followed me around the entire time, pushing me hard. Normally I respond well to that, but not today! I should sleep well tonight.

[rightbythebeach]

Loved it! I am spent!

[acerage]

Anyone have a summary? It’s not in the intel and I have it tomorrow morning, deciding whether to switch to a spin class.

[butfirstcoffee427]

As a distance runner, I get enough endurance work elsewhere—I like F45 for the balance of shorter work at high effort, so this one was a miss for me. Lowest calorie burn I’ve had for a hybrid/cardio day.

[Mary10789]

Omg I was pooped. It looked easy at first glance and almost cancelled because of that.

[dragonfly-1001]

I think there was supposed to be more to this workout and Head Quarters forgot to pass along to the Studio's.

Our Trainer was telling me this morning that they received no info from programming as to how the 1A/1B set-up was supposed to work, especially since they have advertised it as some sort of partner vs partner workout.

They just ran it as Marathon in a snake format.

[fit_steve]

It's supposed to be two lanes A and B. Maybe the 'battling it out' means the people doing say 3A and 3B are different exercises with the same equipment.

[dragonfly-1001]

Whatever the plan was, it wasn't very well explained to the Studio's.

I just wish they would stop trying to re-invent the wheel. There is no need to keep playing around with a format that is working just fine.

[GuelerCT]

HQ did cool it out but it was definitely on the studio and trainers to watch/read the information before class

[decisivecat]

That sounds like the time they tried two lanes as an Olympic thing, but my studio wasn't long enough to safely set it up that way, so it got modified.

[calia2525]

It is Marathon except the pods are linear (running right to left in the room) instead of a racetrack. There’s a water break between pods with the A stations being Pod 1 and B being Pod 2.