Fitness blog: Entry 9 Circuit training

I haven't been to a fitness class now for two weeks, but I think I still managed to pick the hardest one out of the lot.

Circuit training at Queensmead was an absolute killer. The class was the busiest one I've seen yet and half the people there were men, and not just any old men, they were fit looking men. So, I just resigned myself to the fact it would be hard.

The instructor was also a man and when he jokingly said the class was easy I knew he really was joking.

After a short warm up, consisting of a few stretches and bit of running and jumping around, we got straight into it.

There were 10 stations to the circuit and four people to each station. I was the youngest person in my group, so it was shameful when I realised I wasn't as fit as the other three. Embarrassing! As the class progressed I started to look around at everyone else and it hit me that I was probably one of the most unfit people out of everyone there!

We did a minute on each station, working all the muscle groups, and on some of the stations I actually had to stop because I physically couldn't do any more reps. My shoulders were killing me by the end of the class.

After finishing the 10 stations we then had to go round again doing different exercises. I couldn't believe it and I'm surprised I managed to complete it - just!

At one point the instructor even came over to tell me I wasn't working hard enough. I don't think I could possibly have worked any harder.

By the end of the second round I was wondering if the hour long class was really an hour. If felt at least an hour and a half. Definitely the longest exercise hour of my life!

We then did a quick cool down and we were finished. At last.

It was a really challenging class, but I don't really find circuits that fun, especially if we were going to do the same thing every week, so I'm not sure if I would pick this class to go back to.

However, I would recommend it to anyone who has the will power not give up - no matter how tired you are.

My next challenge is Boxercise at Queensmead.