Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

Body Pump is a resistance workout that uses barbells with very light weights and very high reps.

They claim their workout is scientifically proven, so let's see what the science says.

After doing some undercover investigation into the Orange Theory fitness gym chain, I received

a flurry of email requests from listeners asking me to look into other new gym fads,

like Pure Bar or Soul Cycle or Body Pump. So today, thanks to listeners Susan and

Alyssa, I once again don my fake nose and mustache to get to the bottom of Body Pump. The owner and

creator of Body Pump, and yes, that is written in all caps, is a guy named Les Mills, who provides group fitness

and team training programs for gyms all over the world. Les Mills offers strength,

plio, cardio, weights, martial arts, indoor cycling, and a 30-minute high-intensity

interval training, all set to a custom playlist of music.

They also sell clothing and workout equipment, music, and snacks.

The company was founded in 1968 and is based in one of my favorite places in the world,

Auckland, New Zealand.

In a nutshell, body pump is a 30, 45-minute resistance workout that uses a barbell with

very light weights and very high reps.

Their theory behind this combo of lightweight and high reps is to, quote, exhaust your muscles

so you don't get bulky, you just get strength and tone, which really makes

very little sense if you break it down. I mean, bodybuilders exhaust their muscles and so do

marathon runners and, well, you couldn't find two more diverse body types if you tried, but I'm getting

ahead of myself. I'll get to that later. During the workout, you go through five or six

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