A - Z Guide

What is Body Attack?

Body Attack  is the sports-inspired cardio workout for building strength and stamina. This high-energy interval training class combines athletic aerobic movements with strength and stabilisation exercises. Dynamic instructors and powerful music motivate everyone towards their fitness goals - from the weekend athlete to the hard-core competitor. 
 
Every three months, Les Mills releases a new Body Attack class with fresh choreography and music.

What can be expected from a Body Attack class?

Body Attack is a simple, high-intensity group exercise-to-music class that’s fully optioned to cater for all fitness levels. You’ll experience high-energy sports training moves for cardiovascular fitness, along with upper and lower body conditioning exercises for building strength.

Body Attack is designed around a 55-minute two-peak format with 11 music tracks. Each track has a different exercise focus to challenge your cardio fitness and stamina. 

 1. Warmup
The focus in the opening track is on big, simple aerobic moves to get the body warm.

2. Mixed impact
This track will take you through an increasing range of moves and footstrikes, preparing the body for the aerobic action ahead.

3. Aerobic
Step up the intensity and range of movement and get into your personal training ‘zone’ ahead of the peak track to follow.

4. Plyometric
This is where the class hits its first intensity peak, putting the body under load through quick-fi re plyometric exercises often used in sports training.

5. Upper body conditioning
Time to bring the heart rate down and recover, as well as building strength. The focus here is on shoulders, chest, triceps and core conditioning work for toning and shaping the upper body.

6. Running
Loosen up again with some free and patterned running and get the legs fighting fit.

7. Agility
It’s now time to test your speed and agility with a big mix of moves and have fun with some class interaction.

8. Interval
Challenge your cardio systems with a series of work-recovery blocks.

9. Power
The final peak where you dig deep and push through powerful moves for maximum effort. Enjoy the group dynamic at the heart of Body Attack.

10. Lower body conditioning
Time to recover the heart rate while conditioning the lower body for great shape, condition and tone.

11. Cooldown
Congratulations you made it. Time to recover and stretch.

Source: Les Mills website (www.lesmills.com)

You may also want to see Aerobics, Boxing Training, Body Step, Body Jam, Kick Boxing or Kung Fu.