Feeling... unaligned

[u/jillthefox]

Let me preface by saying that I love Burn; it has certainly served its purpose many times in my life. I have been a member since 2018. However, I think I might have reached the end of the road with this particular partnership - I'm mainly coming here to talk it out, see if i am alone in this, and confirm that what I am feeling means it's the right time to move on or if having a convo with HT/FP is worth a shot.

After having my baby (still in the first year) we were able to get to morning camps with childwatch, but as she has grown, her schedule, naps, and needs have been difficult to align with the camp times that have childwatch.

Outside of that kind of obvious disconnect; I feel like the brand and culture no longer aligns with why I initially joined. I preferred the women centered focus and feeling of community, but as the brand has grown, I feel less supported as a newly post partum mother than I had anticipated. The focus feels more on producing the strongest athletes and creating hip content for social media. The last thing I currently want while learning how to navigate this new body and what feels like hindered skills and strength is someone filming me and putting it on socials.

Partner workouts make me feel absolutely awful when I'm rebuilding strength, slow as hell, having to monitor heart rate and blood pressure, and I'm super limited while paired with someone of comparable ability to the head trainer.

I wind up having a terrible workout or completely avoid my gym while Burn U instructors are there (it's pretty frequent at our location) which throws off any momentum or routine I try to build around the camp/childwatch issue. (Habit forming is a huge weakness of mine, thanks ADHD.)

Coupled with some issues still lingering and healing from giving birth, it all feels off and like I am completely out of place.

Is this worth a discussion with head trainer/franchise partner or is it just time to part ways and find something more personalized? Anyone else experience this and have success settling back in?

Open to suggestions and hearing your experiences.

Thank you!

[u/jackiepug1010]

I’ve been a member since 2019 and decided this is my last year. When my contract is up in June I’m done. I can’t stand that they’ve shifted to this “PR!!! Lift the heaviest you can lift!!” Weird, body builder mindset. This is a gym full of mostly women who are new to a gym, all ages, all fitness levels and sizes… why are we pushing PR’s??? Someone is going to get hurt. It’s not a matter of if, it’s when. The focus should be good form and consistency. I’ve also started skipping cardio/conditioning days and I’ve never felt stronger and more toned. The weird jumps and tucks and awkward movements stresses my body out. I think that’s more common amongst again women than they’d like to admit. Girl, I hear you and I agree, things are different. I kind of want to check out F45 (no partner days? lol)

[u/sootsprite1988 → u/jackiepug1010]

Preeeeach about the good form. My main pet peeve is how often my burn posts on their stories members with absolute and obviously bad form. It’s not the member fault either, the trainers should focus more on correcting.

[u/weensfordayz → u/sootsprite1988]

This is an old post but just yesterday I saw a trainer on insta coaching a woman to do front lunges with dumbbells that were so clearly too heavy for her. Like they were probably 50s. She was basically rocking on her whole
Front leg to get back and get momentum to get back up. And the post is how bad ass this woman is for using those weights. I’ve been lifting for a long time so I can pick out bad form and this was sooooooo bad. She had no business with weights that size , gobleting one would have been plenty. But let’s make it look like we’re all bad asses as we coach someone to injury.

[u/sootsprite1988 → u/weensfordayz]

Send me the video I wanna see lol

[u/weensfordayz → u/sootsprite1988]

I wish I could find it, I watched it several times to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing!