Review: TUT

Our last fitness adventure was SUP and now we are trying another acronym TUT, getting into the lingo and all that 💁.  So we found out that TUT stands for Time Under Tension and to me this sounded hard, which might be while we chose it, after the relative jolly that SUP (& Prosecco 🥂) was. The concept revolves around how long the muscle is under strain during a set focusing on improving strength.  The class promised minimal cardio and a smart mix of moves alternating between upper and lower body, all designed to give you a strong lean physique. Sounds great right?!  Read on to find out how we coped…

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Review: SUP

When I broke my toe it was quite a panic not being able to run, but it also put the majority of the fitness adventures off the table.  Kick boxing, for example, just wasn’t going to work. But then I came across the idea of Stand Up Paddle boarding, SUP to those in the know.  I figured I might be able to manage that, and the class I found included prosecco, which if anything would numb the pain.  Did we fall in Regent’s canal?  What are the heath benefits?  How was the prosecco?  All these important questions answered and more.

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Review: Barre

With our intro offer at Psycle, we had a few more classes to use up after our awesome experience at Ride 45 (which you can read about here).  I’ve always wanted to try Barre, and I was super excited that they had it at Psycle, so we had to do it.  I was afraid it was going to fail, as I thought it was for uber flexible ballet types, and that is 100% not me.  How wrong was I. Continue reading “Review: Barre”

Review: Swimsanity

And next on the fitness adventures, we tried SwimSanity – it’s a High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workout, in the water.  And in the water, it’s will be easy on our joints.  They say Aqua classes hare the most joint friendly exercise there is, due to the weightlessness in the water.  But this is more than an aqua class, in fact the SwimSanity website warns … Continue reading Review: Swimsanity