GRITPlyo

So, I tried GRIT Plyo once again today and I found it... exhausting. In a good way. I had totally forgotten how it felt to really go until you can't go any further, huffing and puffing making it through an exercise. And the feeling afterwards.
So, GRIT Plyo is basically a HIIT (high intensity interval training), you boost your heart rate and then let your cardiovascular system recover for a moment just to get your heart pumping again. And as the name says, it includes plyometrics, meaning fast production of energy (e.g. jumping). I actually intended to do a Body Combat class afterwards, but there just wasn't any power left in me. The high intensity part means going to your physical boundaries and beyond and a relatively small group means extra attention from the instructor, who not only corrects your posture/pose (in my case he advised me to drop my hip a little so I had to engage my core a little more), but also encourages you to go harder and spurs you on, and not only a little; the instructor today motivated me by almost "carrying" me through one especially challenging workout. He stood in front of me and did the last few reps with me and just kept on talking to me, telling me how many reps, how well I was actually doing and so on.
I still have to try GRIT Strength and GRIT Cardio (but GRIT Cardio isn't yet available at our gym), but I did enjoy Plyo. Well, there's enjoy and then there's enjoy, I enjoyed it someone loving to test out boundaries loves the feeling of having to throw up any minute (because of exhaustion) and pushing through it. Just when you think, "whoa, I'm real fit these days!", you got to try something new. It might be that it changes your perspective because I realised that my body is fit and adapted to the disciplines you're doing. My body can do hours of Body Combat and Body Pump, it doesn't mind 1-2 hrs running, it loves poledancing and thaiboxing... but HIIT is a whole new world for it. Oh, and I'm so going to conquer this, too! Harhar :D

P.S.: should you want to try out GRIT Plyo, I'd really advise you to use shoes that absorb shock better than my new shoes (my Asics have absolutely no damping). I suppose running shoes would be best since they are designed to act as damper. Otherwise you'll feel a lot of the jumping in your joints and lower back, at least that's what I realised.