Fitness blog: Entry 13 Fighting fit

Well, Fighting fit at Highgrove was very similar to Boxercise at Queensmead - except for the fact that it was in a studio and not a school sports hall and there were a lot less people in the class.

I did notice though, that both the classes are about working different muscle groups and there's not much room to concentrate on technique.

Like Boxercise, the class involved a circuit. I was quite happy to see punch bags and boxing gloves when I walked in.

After a very long warm up of running around the small room and doing a lot of stretches, we had to find a partner and pick a station.

Forty-five seconds on each station was definitely manageable. However, I found that when it came to the stations where you had to put boxing gloves on, the 45 seconds were almost over by the time I got started, which was a little disappointing.

After completing the nine stations I started to feel quite warn out, but to no surprise, we had to go round again doing different exercises like star jumps and shadow boxing.

It was then back to the station we started on and time for another round.

I was very sweaty by the end, so it was a little bit disgusting when we had to hold hands with other partner to do more exercises involving kicking our legs out to the side. All good fun though.

After a quick cool down it was over. The class was pretty straight forward and quite enjoyable, but still not enough punching and kicking for my liking.

Me next challenge is 20-20-20 at Queensmead.