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| - The pros first: The deal for two weeks free is very good, and the facility is clean and the equipment is new. Equipment is organized and neat, and the person who greeted me was professional and friendly.
For me, the cons were this: The workout takes place in a sequence of 10 exercises, 45 seconds on / 15 seconds off, and repeat. Some people may love this; I hated the rapid switching back and forth. There's no time to adequately work the muscle groups before you're switching to something else entirely and no time to dig into the grit of what an ideal workout (to me) represents: a challenge where you have to break through past that point of fatigue or resistance. Instead, it was like, three pushups and then you're doing something else.
Doubtlessly in a corporate effort to make instructors absolutely irrelevant, they had example people on monitors demonstrating the exercises, so it really felt sterile and disconnected. I felt sorry for the instructor, because she basically had nothing to really *do* other than babysit the facility and make sure people didn't walk off with the kettlebells. Everyone was keeping track of their reps on little cards, so it was kind've like frantic accountants hastily scribbling as they moved from one exercise to another, their eyes on the screen. Think of a sweatier Stock Exchange with kettlebells, and you kind've have the picture.
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