Time to show some les mills Grit!

We couldn’t have a Les Mills themed issue without some form of Les Mills workout, right? Here’s a taster of the Grit Strength workouts

LES MILLS GRIT STRENGTH is a 30-minute high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout, designed to improve strength and build lean muscle. This workout uses barbell, weight plate and body weight exercises to blast all major muscle groups. Designed to take cutting edge HIIT and combine it with powerful music and inspirational coaches to help you go harder to get fit, fast, we’ve taken the Tabata sequence, one of six parts of the workout, to show you what’s involved. Be prepared to sweat!

THE SCIENCE

HIIT training involves 30-second intervals followed by a recovery, which enables you to max out in each block. This will unlock extreme fat burning potential.

SET 1

PLATE SNATCH, JUMPING LUNGE WITH PLATE AT COLLARBONES

– Both feet jump forward and land in
wide squat as plate is snatched up
– Soft landing
– Chest up – abs braced
– Arms straight – elbows forward
– Front thigh parallel to floor
front knee slightly out in lunge

OPTION:

SQUAT WITH PLATE RAISE/BACKWARD-STEPPING LUNGE

– Cut through the air with the plate to drive intensity

SET 2

BURPEE PUSHUP WITH 90° SNOWBOARDER

– Squat, jump feet back to plank position,
pushup, jump wide to squat and finish with a
90-degree Snowboarder (alternating L+R)
– Chest up in squat
– Abs braced to jump back
– Chest to elbow-height in pushup
– Feet wide
– Abs braced with arms high in Snowboarder
– Bend knees to absorb landing

OPTION:

STEP BACK TO BURPEE/PUSHUP ON KNEES/NO SNOWBOARDER

– Use the abs

THE WORKOUT

30 seconds SET 1
Plate snatch (x1)
Jumping lunge with plate at collarbones (x2)

30 seconds SET 1
Plate snatch (x1)
Jumping lunge with plate at collarbones (x2)

15 seconds – recovery

30 seconds SET 2
Burpee pushup with 90° Snowboarder (L+R)

15 seconds – recovery

30 seconds SET 1
Plate snatch (x1),
Jumping lunge with plate at collarbones (x2)

15 seconds – recovery

30 seconds SET 2
Burpee pushup with 90° Snowboarder (L+R)

15 seconds – recovery

30 seconds SET 1
Plate snatch (x1),
Jumping lunge with plate at collarbones (x2)

15 seconds – recovery

30 seconds SET 2
Burpee pushup with 90° Snowboarder (L+R)

15 seconds – recovery

PUSH YOURSELF

Your goal is to push yourself to your personal physical limit. If you can’t do another rep and you need to stop and recover, you’ll know you’re genuinely pushing your limit.