Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 22:39     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Loved
Les mills kickboxing (like dance for uncoordinated people like me lol)
Yoga
Running

Disliked
Barre and Pilates (boring and didn’t work for me)
Stadiums (when I was in high school)
Lunges
Personal training (too stressful)
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 21:20     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Anonymous wrote:How the Biggest Boutique Fitness Company Turned Suburban Moms Into Bankrupt Franchisees: Xponential’s brands—Pure Barre, CycleBar, Club Pilates, Row House, Rumble Boxing—all have fanatical followings. And some very alarmed business partners.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-07/club-pilates-pure-barre-owners-say-xponential-left-them-bankrupt

It is behind a paywall, but you can get the drift or google around.


I cant access this article but CLub Pilates in NOVA is packed--I have to believe the owners are making bank...
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 20:31     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
How the Biggest Boutique Fitness Company Turned Suburban Moms Into Bankrupt Franchisees: Xponential’s brands—Pure Barre, CycleBar, Club Pilates, Row House, Rumble Boxing—all have fanatical followings. And some very alarmed business partners.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-07/club-pilates-pure-barre-owners-say-xponential-left-them-bankrupt

It is behind a paywall, but you can get the drift or google around.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 20:27     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Love: Solidcore, jump rope, OTF

Like: rowing, Jacob’s ladder or cardio machines

Hate: yoga or dance, barre, stretching
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 16:36     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Hated Krav Maga. Hated. Love pretty much everything else.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 16:34     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Love
F45- group format but trainers walk around and help correct your form and encourage you
Tennis- doubles and singles
Zumba
Step aerobics
The Firm workouts from the 80s/90s

Hate
Running
Yoga
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 16:22     Subject: Re:What workouts have you loved and hated?
Anonymous wrote:What is F45 exactly? Went to the website but couldn’t get a clear picture of it.


It’s a circuit/station class based gym. They have a ton of different workouts and each one is different. MWF is more cardio based, TTH is strength and hybrid on the weekends. Rotate through stations of different workouts and they are shown on screens that you follow. Coaches demonstrate at the beginning and help throughout. It’s about 45 minutes but that does include demo time which stinks.

It’s pricey like orangetheory and all the rest. No contract. Month to month. Check out instagram to get better idea of it.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 14:01     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Love the peleton bike!!

Hate running.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 08:08     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Anonymous wrote:I am intrigued about why Pure Barre is so divisive.
I like it because it’s dynamic enough for my mind not to drift away, and it’s different every time. I like the convenience of booking a class pretty much whenever and not to schedule my life around the workout. I like that it’s primarily females - they smell less than men.


I find pure barre so so boring. Just doing little movements over and over until it aches. Holding my arm straight out also eventually gets hard and aches but that doesn’t mean it’s a good workout. I’d rather just do 10 pushups and 10 weighted squats and get actual strength and move on with my day

(I’m not saying it’s not a good work, this is just my thought process during it)
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 07:36     Subject: Re:What workouts have you loved and hated?
What is F45 exactly? Went to the website but couldn’t get a clear picture of it.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2024 03:13     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Anonymous wrote:I am intrigued about why Pure Barre is so divisive.
I like it because it’s dynamic enough for my mind not to drift away, and it’s different every time. I like the convenience of booking a class pretty much whenever and not to schedule my life around the workout. I like that it’s primarily females - they smell less than men.


It can be slow and hard but I like that I can’t focus on anything else but my form because it’s that hard to maintain perfect form in that routine and I like that there’s almost never men. I don’t sweat during PB either.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 20:20     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
I like swimming, walking and reformer pilates. Sadly that is way too expensive and I had to give it up. I hate skiing, any contact sport, anything intense.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 19:55     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
Love swimming, weight lifting, skiing, kickboxing, yoga, F45.

Orange theory bored me. Hate running. Like walking, cycling/ spin, barre and Pilates in limited doses.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 19:54     Subject: What workouts have you loved and hated?
I am intrigued about why Pure Barre is so divisive.
I like it because it’s dynamic enough for my mind not to drift away, and it’s different every time. I like the convenience of booking a class pretty much whenever and not to schedule my life around the workout. I like that it’s primarily females - they smell less than men.
Anonymous
Post 02/09/2024 19:47     Subject: Re:What workouts have you loved and hated?
Love most things.
Hate - Pure Barre.