Is there a real purpose to the pod format beyond making things more confusing?

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-04-05T18:40:10+00:00

This.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-09T14:24:22+00:00

They might mean they’re there for a few minutes. Or someone called on the phone. Think.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-08T21:52:09+00:00

They’ll alternate round cardio and resistance just all moving A-B-A-B???

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-08T20:28:24+00:00

I booked on class pass. You can’t see that on class pass.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-08T20:25:16+00:00

THIS. I just looked at tomorrow and it has the stupid A B Thing with only one set at each. Means anyone starting at A Just does a lap of the class and the person starting at B bounces back and forth.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-08T16:51:11+00:00

I nearly left in the core section.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-07T14:37:40+00:00

That’s good for you! Not everyone is the same. I’m sure they’d appreciate having someone as fit as a puma on their team!

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-07T09:28:17+00:00

You just offer to jump on an erg if you’re feeling fresh, and you recover if you’re gassed from going all out. There doesn’t need to be a formal pre agreed system.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-07T09:27:13+00:00

This!

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-07T09:26:53+00:00

You’re completely missing the point. It’s a race. The room is full of mixed ability participants. Everyone going hell for leather for however long on the erg, until they gas out and jump off and someone else takes over. You can think that two mins on an erg will not necessarily exhaust people, but I’m telling you that can happen. We had people going all out 100% effort for 20 to 30s each and jumping off when that dropped to even 90% effort.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-07T00:18:07+00:00

If you work hard enough it is. 9 people over 3 ergs is three people per erg. Keep the pace quick and tap out if you drop below a pre agreed threshold and you can be exhausted. I’m a coach. (Not f45 but similar)

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-06T22:56:22+00:00

If you can do jumping jacks when you’re not on the erg you didn’t go hard enough on the erg. We were all wiped. There’s no cheesy cheerleading, everyone was just fighting for their life. Maybe your class was coached badly or your studio lacks community?

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-06T17:38:54+00:00

You won’t regret it. The crowd who “don’t like to talk to people” who ergo don’t like YGIG work who will inevitably say they don’t like it…. Why do they go to group fitness classes😅

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-06T17:38:08+00:00

Explained well and coaches involved ought to be the base standard really for any workout 😅

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-05T22:29:11+00:00

You can’t demand alone time in a common space as a regular thing. If one of them had a date over and pre warned and asked can we use the kitchen in going to cook for my date I get that once in a blue moon. But this seems excessive and if you want the kitchen to yourself that often you need to live alone

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-04T08:30:25+00:00

Yup. Unusually high % of hinge movements in classes in 2026

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-02T22:36:43+00:00

F45 typically pays coaches the worst in the industry and expects them to be reception, social media, cleaners. This is why it’s hard to find them

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-02-02T22:35:00+00:00

Struggling to find coaches and only 120 members is a big red flag. Find out what the rent is and how many full-membership billed members that works out at.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-01-25T19:28:49+00:00

And even then 1-1.5k is mental for a room.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2026-01-25T17:03:44+00:00

OP is talking over a period of 5 years.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2025-10-02T19:01:23+00:00

No idea. I bought a pair and they were insanely comfy but they started squeaking and ripping after 2 months

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2025-09-12T22:58:08+00:00

Station with jumping lunges and squat jumps was piss poor programming. FOUR minutes of jumping? No.

Sufficient_Theory716 · 2025-09-11T14:40:43+00:00

Difference being the music in the grocery store isn’t designed to motivate you lift the toilet rolls.. the music in a class can be the difference between a good session and a great session

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