Les Mills programs on Gyminee

I have been going to Les Mills Bodypump classes weekly for almost a year now. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Check lesmills dot com.

The music, the instructors, the social contacts and the progress… It’s all really motivating to keep going. To get better at Bodypump, I started exercising more regularly and structured at home too. I discovered Gyminee and I use it for this purpose.

I have been looking around, but I can’t find any info on Bodypump or Les Mills in general on Gyminee. It would be really nice if there would be Les Mills public progarams, so I can easily record my workouts at the gym. Right now I just don’t record my Bodypump sessions at all… which kind of bugs me.

So… for me, a joint effort to develop an easy way to record Les Mills programs on Gyminee would be absolutely terrific!

As long as most of the exercises in the programs are standard, it should be simple to create a program like this. Do you have custom workouts already created for tracking Les Mills classes?

Thanks for replying. Most exercises are standard. Like deadlifts, rows and curls. The bottleneck is in the sets annotation.

Musclegroups are trained for one track, that’s 3 to 5 minutes of combined exercises. Apart from sets, there’s variation in tempo and depth.

For example, biceps:
- 2 slow barbell curls (6 counts up, 6 down)
- 8 barbell curls (2 counts up, 2 down)
- 8 tempo barbell curls (1 count up, 1 down)
- 12 lower half barbell curls (1 count up, 1 down)
- 2 slow barbell curls (6 counts up, 6 down)
- 10 seconds of rest
...and 2 more rounds similar, bit not identical to the one above.

Problems with getting this into Gyminee:
- Some exercisises are not in here (like half curls)
- No field for pace.
- Putting together a whole BodyPump program takes alot of time better spend at the gym ;)
Every 2 months Les Mills comes out with a new program.

I think it would be way better to be able to join a BodyPump workout program and just fill in the weights. Let the software and database take care of the rest.

As Les Mills is a commercial group, I think they might be willing to co-operate with Gyminee. It’s win-win, as far as I see. They put together the sessions anyway, might as well put in a little more effort and make them compatible with and available within Gyminee. It’s free social networking promotion for them. And they don’t have to develop their own Gyminee like web2.0 techniques, which they simply have to think about some time in the future.

You can follow Les Mills programs all over the world, it’s like the MacDonald’s of fitness (except that I don’t go to McD’s LOL). It would at the same time be good for Gyminee if all these Les Mills enthusiasts start using this great website!

Why not contact Les Mills and see what they think.

hmmm I guess I am the only Les Mills follower here ;-)