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 Lifted by the music | Type: Internet Article |
| | Lifted by the music | Jun 18, 2004 | by Amy Bertrand
Summary:
The music is one of the best things about the class, Meyer-Stahl says. Body Pump uses popular tunes, such as Eminem's "Lose Yourself," Christina Aguilera's "Stronger" and Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life," and cranks them up to energize the class.
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A couple of years ago, Tami Meyer-Stahl of St. Charles, Ill., dreaded lifting weights.
"I would do a little bit because I knew I needed to, but I always found it so boring," she says. "I was just going through the motions."
Today, she's a toned, muscle-defined, weightlifting queen.
What prompted the change? A group exercise class called Body Pump, which is choreographed resistance training in a group setting.
In early 2002, Meyer-Stahl had just started getting into teaching a few aerobics classes at Club Fitness when she had the opportunity to learn how to teach Body Pump.
"None of us knew a whole lot about it," she says, "so we went through this training. At first I thought I'd never get it -- it's just so different; now I think it's just an awesome class."
She teaches one class a week at Club Fitness in Creve Coeur, Ill., and one a week at Club Fitness in St. Peters, Mo. Before her schedule got too hectic, she took extra classes each week because she liked it so much.
"I cannot help but get jazzed up in the class," she says. "It can be challenging, but it's so much fun.
Meyer-Stahl, 40, says she's noticed a big change in her body since she started. "Almost right away I could see a definition in my abs and arms. Now I'm really seeing it in my shoulders and triceps and even my leg muscles. I've gotten very toned."
The class uses barbells with added weights of 1, 2.5 and 5 kilograms (roughly 2.2, 5.5 and 11 pounds). Participants may have to change the weights between songs, because some parts of their bodies are stronger than others.
"That's the great thing about Body Pump," says Denise Braun, the aerobics director at LivRite Fitness Centre in Belleville, Ill. "Everybody can do it, from the new person using small weights to the guy loading up his barbell."
The music is one of the best things about the class, Meyer-Stahl says. Body Pump uses popular tunes, such as Eminem's "Lose Yourself," Christina Aguilera's "Stronger" and Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life," and cranks them up to energize the class.
The moves, which are choreographed by Body Pump developers, go with the music.
Pauses in the music are in sync with pauses in the weightlifting. Long, drawn-out notes translate to slow, steady moves in weightlifting.
The hour-long class begins with a warm-up track, moves on to a song in which participants do a series of squats.
Then they work the chest, back, triceps, biceps, lunges, shoulders, abs and do a cool-down -- always in the same order, with each segment done to a different song. The segments last from 4 1/2 to 6 minutes.
Though primarily a resistance training class, Body Pump is also somewhat cardio-based, says Diane Rabe, group exercise director for Club Fitness.
She estimates that for a 150-pound person, Body Pump can burn about 350 calories an hour, and "some tracks can certainly get your heart rate up, especially the ones that work big muscle groups, like squats and the back."
Those moves also help increase your metabolism, Rabe says.
Body Pump works all the muscles of your body, something you may not do on your own, says Rabe.
"For instance, people skip lunges or shoulders because they don't like to do them," says Rabe. "But in the class you really can't skip anything, because you have the motivation of the people around you." |
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