Les Mills - How to best track courses like CXWorx, Body Attack, Body Combat, Sh'Bam, BodyBalance, BodyPump...

Interested in this as well. Could someone answer what would be the best way to track these classes? I'm looking to track steps and calories burned.

I have a Vivoactive 3... I do Body Pump, Body Combat, CX Worx and Body Balance regularly (2x each per week) and sometimes Sh'Bam.

For Pump, Combat, CX and Sh'Bam, I use the 'Cardio' workout, and then later rename it to the relevant Les Mills workout. This works for me, as it gives me all the useful metrics including HR, calories and time. It also gives some useless metrics such as elevation (but I choose to ignore this, it doesn't bother me to have this information in there).

For Balance, I use the 'Yoga' workout, and then later rename it to Body Balance.

It is easy... after your workout, open up the Garmin Connect app and sync your watch... once the sync is complete, the workout appears in the app on the “My Day” tab (this is the default tab when you launch the Connect app).

Tap on the workout (it will just be named “cardio” or “yoga” based on what activity you started on your watch)... tap on the 3 little dots on the top right corner and select “Edit Activity”... tap on the the very first box, which is “Name” and here you can backspace the default name and type Body Combat or whatever workout you just did. This is also where you can edit other metrics, time, etc.

Note that I have an iPhone and the above is accurate for iOS. I have never tried this on android.

Cheers,

Raz

For Body Pump maybe will be better to use "strength" activity?

I wish you could just select "Gym Workout" without having to get more specific

You can select Cardio. That is pretty much the same thing.

I think the question is how do you measure the essence of a body pump session? As a "cardio activity", it's an hour in HRZ 1/2/3, mildly aerobic and zero anaerobic, yet my limbs are dropping off with lactic burn!!! I don't think there is a good activity measure for this. The answers here let us record the activity like a diary event, but they don't help us measure the true activity.

You're so right! I'm new to Garmin and enjoying it but so disappointed about this. I do loads of Les mills and CrossFit-type classes and Garmin just can't handle them at all..! Really disappointing. I should have done better research, I thought they were better at this stuff but this is basic..

I teach the classes and get a little annoyed I can't track them properly. HR doesn't really help. In the case of pump,  it's lifting to a big degree, but extremely different than a normal lifting session and should be accounted for properly within Connect so the overall training metrics would be more correct. Especially when being combined with the typical running, biking and swimming. I'm sure the body battery, training effect and so on isn't correct after recording the class as cardio.

I'll also hold small pump weights or use my own weighted gloves during combat (don't knock it till you try it) for a little endurance in the back and shoulders. And I'm pretty sure that doesn't get accounted for properly under cardio.

I like everything else about my Fenix, well mostly, but still wonder about trying a watch that incorporates LM into their activities. Honestly,  it wouldn't be hard for them to add in the activities. Having gone to LM Live the other week, 7hrs of classes really didn't have the effect in Connect it should if it could have been recorded properly. And thus it drags down your overall metrics because it doesn't show the work you put in.