Basic Training is Back

So my club has taken the advice of their members (go figure) and put one of my favorite classes back in its regular timeslot. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they would take a popular class that is was always full and change the format. They changed it to CRT, which stands for Cardio Resistance Training. Mid Life and I have had a short discussion on the topic and my take was that if I wanted to do Cardio I would jump in a spin class, swim, or run. Besides the theory of killing two birds with one stone comes to play here, if I do this it also helps out in my sport. Also, if I wanted to do weights, I would go into the gym and pump iron, which I don't like to do.

So, that is why I like basic training. It is still in a group environment, the weights that are used are low weights with a lot of reps, and there is very little grunting from the steroid boys as they don't take the class because it is "basic"... lol.

Another reason I like the class is that it hits every part of the body, which the CRT class did not. (Time limitations) When I was done with the CRT classes, I didn't feel that I got a good enough weight training session in and would routinely need to do some more in the gym. After taking the Basic Training class again, my body is sore... the kind of sore from working out.

One last thing about this is that it has solidified a day of training for me. On Thursday I will either do a brick (bike ride followed by a run outdoors), or if it rains it is to the gym for the basic training class followed by a fitness yoga class. Fitness yoga is a slightly more advanced class that incorporates more strength posses and the yoga part that I need to improve… flexibility.