Orwell Conditioning ‘OC’

Orwell conditioning classes aim to ensure you can work out better for longer using a long endurance workout using light to moderate loads. Composed of an innovative, exciting, and high-energy combination of bodyweight movements, box jumps, and wall balls, alongside kettlebell, dumbbell, skipping exercises, this popular option is guaranteed to make you sweat. 

Orwell Conditioning blends the best of CrossFit and Cardio into one ‘lite’ experience, swapping heavy barbells and complex gymnastics for rowing, running, assault biking, bodyweight movements, and light loaded movements to deliver a challenging, long-lasting workout targeting both the cardiovascular system and all major muscle groups. After attending conditioning regularly, you should discover that it’s easier to push through a high-intensity workout, your cardiovascular system is more efficient, ad that your VO2 has increased – meaning you’ll spend less time coughing and spluttering, and more time at the comfortable peak of exercising abilities.

Body conditioning primarily aims to boost your abilities and stamina, allowing you to perform better for longer. The benefits, however, don’t end there:

Boost Endurance

Conditioning helps athletes of all abilities push harder for longer. Its intense mix of sustained cardio bursts and CrossFit style training is proven to dramatically boost cardiovascular and physical fitness. 

Improve Strength

By pushing yourself in conditioning, you’ll truly challenge your abilities in areas key to success in both cardio and strength-based activities. 

Prevent Injury

Conditioning’s rigorous and extended training sustainably and safely targets flexibility, range of motion, and form – helping improve technique, and minimising the chance of significant trauma or setbacks.

Build Confidence

Conditioning provides a progressive program designed to build strength, endurance, and confidence, balancing both the physical and mental elements of peak fitness.

Body conditioning exercises aim to target the entire body, simultaneously targeting a range of muscle groups in order to strengthen, stretch, and tone the body. When performed regularly, effectively, and safely, its wide variety of ‘moves’ allow participants of any ability or age to noticeably improve their overall health and fitness, whilst building improved levels of strength, flexibility, endurance, coordination, power, and speed. 

CrossFit conditioning in particular places a high level of importance upon ‘building a bigger, better engine’, or ensuring your aerobic and anaerobic bases are strong enough to make it through high-intensity workouts. After consistently completing effective conditioning exercises, you’ll soon discover the benefits of a more efficient cardiovascular system and increased VO2 max.

Body conditioning is an excellent option for those looking to lose weight. Whilst a good conditioning class in itself can both burn up to 500 calories, and increase the metabolic rate by between ‘10 and 25 for up to 48 hours post-workout’, the benefits of body conditioning are also transferable to any other exercise efforts, working to ensure you’re more efficient and effective in any class or workout you take part in.

If you’d like to take part in a body conditioning class at Orwell Fitness, but haven’t tried it before, we strongly encourage you to redeem a free trial class, during which our expert coaches will work to get to know you and your goals, whilst you get to grips with body conditioning first hand. 

Conditioning works to train the body to be able to push harder for longer – particularly during high-intensity classes. By regularly completing conditioning exercises in an effective manner, you’ll truly challenge your abilities in areas key to success in both cardio and strength-based activities, helping develop and grow many groups of muscles simultaneously. 

If you’d like to take part in a body conditioning class at Orwell Fitness, but haven’t tried it before, we strongly encourage you to redeem a free trial class, during which our expert coaches will work to get to know you and your goals, whilst you get to grips with body conditioning first hand.

Conditioning is one of the best ways to strengthen both your muscles and your cardiovascular system. Its targeted combination of bodyweight and light loaded movements are proven to deliver a challenging, long-lasting workout targeting both the cardiovascular system and all major muscle groups, truly challenging areas key to success in both cardio and strength-based activities. Consistent attendance of conditioning classes, or including a solid conditioning regime in your independent workout routine should endure you have all the strength you need to work at your highest level, and push through for just a little bit longer during even the most intense workouts. 

If you’d like to take part in a body conditioning class at Orwell Fitness, but haven’t tried it before, we strongly encourage you to redeem a free trial class, during which our expert coaches will work to get to know you and your goals, whilst you get to grips with body conditioning first hand.

Body conditioning classes, if led by an experienced professional, should be open to all ages and ability levels. This is very much the case at Orwell Fitness. 

Our body conditioning classes, known by our members as ‘Orwell Conditioning’ are open to all, whether you’re a competitive athlete, a CrossFit regular, or have never been to a gym before. Throughout our free trials and regular classes, our accredited coaches will work to ensure you become familiar with their exercises, techniques, facilities, classes, and community in no time – expertly scaling class content and individual exercises to meet the unique needs of each participant. 

If you’re unsure as to whether body conditioning is right for you, we highly recommend that you complete a no-obligation free trial, during which we’ll work with you to gauge your fitness levels and goals before making accordant training suggestions.

Fitness is typically defined as a ‘measure of physical qualities that create the potential for performance’; some of which include joint mobility, range of motion, extended range of motion, resting heart rate, aerobic capacity, whilst conditioning is described as the physical and mental capacity and ability to use the aforementioned qualities. 

Whilst many gymgoers, athletes and hobbyists may have a high level of fitness, it is entirely possible for them to also have a poor level of conditioning – impeding heavily on their potential to perform.

Conditioning is hugely important to the successful competition of any physical activity – helping athletes push through the toughest of high-intensity workouts, and assisting gymgoers in their everyday lives and tasks; significantly decreasing the risk of chronic health issues or injury.

Conditioning classes are typically a unique blend of strength and cardio training, designed to boost endurance through a series of high-intensity bodyweight and light external load exercises. 

Orwell Conditioning combines the best of CrossFit and Cardio into one ‘lite’ experience, swapping heavy barbells and complex gymnastics for rowing, running, assault biking, bodyweight movements, and light loaded movements to deliver a challenging, long-lasting workout targeting both the cardiovascular system, and all major muscle groups. After attending conditioning regularly, you should discover that it’s easier to push through a high-intensity workout, your cardiovascular system is more efficient, ad that your VO2 has increased – meaning you’ll spend less time coughing and spluttering, and more time at the comfortable peak of exercising abilities.

Whether or not body conditioning works for you depends on your consistency, effort, form, and, of course, what you’re looking to achieve. If you complete conditioning exercises correctly and regularly and offer your body sufficient rest between sessions, you’ll be able to achieve improved levels of cardiovascular and physical endurance, strength, flexibility, and general skill.  

Conditioning is hugely important to the successful completion of any physical activity – helping athletes push through the toughest of high-intensity workouts, and assisting gymgoers in their everyday lives and tasks; significantly decreasing the risk of chronic health issues or injury. 

If you’d like to take part in a body conditioning class at Orwell Fitness, but haven’t tried it before, we strongly encourage you to redeem a free trial class, during which our expert coaches will work to get to know you and your goals, whilst you get to grips with body conditioning first hand.