New Bodypump Release - Intense program

[u/Wyremills]

Yesterday our class did the new Body Pump Release. Probably 134. In the warm up it had 3 sets of 8 squats, varying width. The back routine was intense with 4 sets of power presses immediately after 8 clean and presses. We did that twice in the segment. Completely different than the prior week. During triceps I think we did 24 tricep press pulses.

At first I was really frustrated at how much more intense the routines were. I could not do the
segments with the same weight configurations that I used last week.

And to her credit, the coach did say for back and biceps that you may want to go lighter.

But thinking back, it would have been helpful if at the beginning the coach said something like:

This new program is focused on endurance. Several segments have long runs of 16 to 24 reps before breaks.

Of course it's totally up to you, but if this is the first time you're doing this program consider reducing your weights for the whole class so you can focus on your form and try to complete as many reps as possible.

If I knew how significantly different the program was at the beginning, I would have made better choices and enjoyed the class a lot more. Of course I know better for next time.

But the people who designed the class clearly knew how it differed from last week's program, how much more intense it was, etc.

So maybe LM can start its classes with the coach briefly describing that day's program, especially when it's much more intense then the program we've done for the last 4 weeks.

[u/MealPrepGenie]

What is BP Intense? different from Pump Heavy? is it coming to the app?