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THE TRIP® is a fully immersive workout experience that combines a 40-minute multi-peak cycling workout with a journey through digitally-created worlds. With its cinema-scale screen and sound system, this IMMERSIVE FITNESS® workout takes motivation and energy output to the next level, burning serious calories. If you want to get fitter faster, with less discomfort, new research from the Les Mills Lab shows that THE TRIP is the way to go.

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Where the mind goes, the body will follow. That’s the philosophy behind THE TRIP, a workout powered by Les Mills’ IMMERSIVE FITNESS innovation. Inspired by cinema, live concert experiences and interactive gaming, IMMERSIVE FITNESS combines purpose-built studios and live Instructors with immersive video. Much more than an exercise class, it’s an immersive sensory experience that pushes your fitness into a new dimension.

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Les Mills’ The Trip: Immersive Fitness is the Future

Immersive fitness can help you forget about the fitness plateau, focusing on the experience around you, in order to stimulate your senses and push you harder. Discipline is one of the hardest aspects of a workout, and the lifestyle that being fit entails. Immersive fitness could provide a unique and compelling experience that makes you want to return again and again.

That’s the philosophy behind The Trip, a new kind of fitness class from Le Mills. Dabbling in the virtual reality space, even if it’s just a dip of the toe, Le Mills has encapsulated the unique experience of uncovering new locations territory 30 minutes at a time.

Your First Trip

The Trip is a tour through virtual worlds that are currently confined to some of America’s largest cities (New York, Chicago, and Santa Monica, with plans to roll out elsewhere). It’s designed to bring the explorative feel of a long bike ride to a specially designed interior space of a gym. Those of us who live under snow or rainy winter conditions spend a lot of time there during the winter, and those who live in hot and dry conditions flock to gyms during the summer. For all the convenience of climate control, the modern spin class fails at truly capturing the essence of being outside. It sounds weird to say, but this is something we miss in between burning calories and admiring the results.

Gyms have tried getting creative with better soundtracks and lively trainers backed by intricate lighting. There are high tech bikes that output your RPMs in pretty LEDs, and wheels that spin and flash as you pedal. There is no shortage of creativity in this space, but we still feel stationary when we do these exercises.

The Trip flips the concept of a stationary cycle on its head by creating the illusion of movement.

Users mount the bike in the same kind of spin class setting most of us are used to, but rather than face a mirror you face a wall-sized screen with a slight curve. The room goes dark, and then the lights come up on one of several computer-generated locations.

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A ride is composed of several up and downhill sections that last a maximum of around 60 seconds, but the cycling is made more intense on your cue. You have full control over the tension of the ride with a lever by your finger and are encouraged by the instructor to push yourself as hard as you can go. Normal bikes utilize a dial, which can sometimes be tricky if you want to give yourself a variable experience. These low-tech bikes make it hard to keep the pace up in your workout if you have to stop and adjust tension every few minutes. The Trip’s lever feels much more intuitive, making the shift far easier and less thought intensive.

That thought intensive part is important because everything in The Trip is built around immersion and thinking too hard about the mechanics would break that sense. Every ride features a full soundtrack, with track lists available on The Trip’s  website. Because the track list isn’t random, the developers can play with effects timed to the beat of the music.

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While this isn’t 4k triple-A gaming-level visuals, the narrative makes the ride compelling.

In “The Rabbit Hole” users are whisked through a dream state version of San Francisco that morphs into a wonderland right out of Alice, with tall mushrooms and fantastic forests looming in the distance.

Would your workout feel more rewarding if you achieved a goal every time you ran? What if cycling helped you finish first in a race on a Tron-like walkway, or if your journey took you from the real world and forced you to find your way home? What motivates each of us is different, but immersive fitness can toy with our senses and present us with some goals and the thrilling sense of accomplishment that comes with them.

These juicy narrative questions are the concepts driving the future of fitness, and applications like The Trip.

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Final Thoughts

If you’re excited to try The Trip for yourself and don’t live in one of the major cities hosting it, you can talk to your local gym and get them to apply for a consultation. The Trip is currently looking for new places to deploy their setup, and the classes offer an intriguing take on fitness.

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The Future of Fitness is Here - Immerse Yourself. THE TRIP™ is a fully immersive workout experience that combines a 40-minute multi-peak cycling workout with a journey through digitally-created worlds. With its cinema-scale screen and sound system, THE TRIP takes motivation and energy output to the next level, burning serious calories. If you want to get fitter faster, with less discomfort, new research from the LES MILLS™ Lab shows that THE TRIP is the way to go.

Adrian Heffernan, LES MILLS Customer Experience Director, shares everything you need to know about THE TRIP.

We are one of only 24 locations in the US that offer this cutting-edge class. VillaSport Group Exercise Director Denise Tryner is one of six instructors teaching the class in Roseville. Her favorite parts of THE TRIP are the fully immersive experience, the scenery, and all the class has to offer.

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The Trip is a fully immersive workout experience that combines a 40-minute multi-peak cycling workout with a journey through digitally-created worlds. With its cinema-scale screen and sound system, this Immersive Fitness™ workout takes motivation and energy output to the next level, burning serious calories.

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Road Test: ‘The Trip’ Les Mills Immersive Fitness class

I love trying out new kinds of exercise and recently had the opportunity to road test The Trip; the hottest new Immersive Fitness class at Les Mills Newmarket, Auckland.

The name Les Mills is synonymous with group fitness, and now they’re taking their exercise classes into the future with their new ‘Immersive Fitness’ studios which merge a real fitness experience with Kiwi-developed digital technology.

Their first programme to undergo this virtual makeover is what most of us would already know as their RPM class (a.k.a. spin/cycling) which has been re-created as ‘The Trip’.

I road tested The Trip at the newest Les Mills gym in Newmarket, Auckland – the first gym in New Zealand to have an Immersive Fitness studio. These studios have already become available internationally and The Trip can currently be experienced in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Stockholm, so this Newmarket studio is kind of a big deal.

All the bikes – including the instructor’s – are set up facing towards a large cinema-quality screen at the front of the room. The lights in the studio are turned off and the cinematic experience begins. During the 45-minute class you follow the instructor’s cues as per a normal spin class, except these cues are matched to a virtual journey displayed on the screen in front of you along with pumping music to keep you motivated.

We started out with a low-intensity warmup, cycling through a virtual town and up into the green forested mountains. The virtual worlds then progressed to a trip through outer space – starry skies, then an alien city – above ground, below ground, and the jagged mountains of the alien world.

I go to RPM classes every week so I’m no newbie when it comes to spin sessions. I felt I got a lot more out of this class as you could see on the screen just how big that hill is supposed to be – which can either be a good thing as it gives you a heads up on what is coming, or a bad thing as you’ll know when a horrible near-vertical mountain climb is approaching.

Only thing you may need to watch out for is if you have issues with strobe effects or motion sickness (I felt a little ill afterwards for a short time – Motion Master-style rides always leave me feeling a little queasy!).

Just the same as with a ‘real’ bike, your bum can get pretty sore after spending time on these seats. You can either stick it out until your body gets used to it, or you can invest in padded bike shorts or a gel seat cover if one isn’t provided.

Best thing to do if you haven’t done a spin class before is turn up a bit early and ask the instructor to help you set up your bike as there are a few settings on your seat and handlebars that may need adjustments to suit your body and make the ride more comfortable.

What you’ll be working out

Your legs will take a hammering, the leaning and pushing your butt back in your seat will help improve your core strength, and you will get an incredible cardio workout from The Trip. The Les Mills website advises it burns up to a whopping 455 calories per class.

The class is a medium-high intensity, however you are in charge of your resistance dial – a turn to the left makes it easier and takes the load off, while a turn to the right makes the resistance in the pedals heavier. Because of this, it’s really up to you how hard you push yourself so anyone from beginners through to advanced exercisers can do it.

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To try out The Trip for yourself in New Zealand, you will need to go to the Les Mills gym in Newmarket. A small fee does apply, booking ahead through reception is essential and you must be on time to the class (if you’re late you won’t be allowed in!).

For more information on Les Mills, check out their website , Instagram @lesmillstribe or Facebook Les Mills – New Zealand .

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The Trip™ is a fully-immersive cycling class set in a digital world. Burn fat as you ascend a mountainous peak, or cycle through a space-age metropolis!

Experience a world of ice glaciers, jungles and underwater caverns with our exclusive group cycle class The Trip™ by Les Mills.

Available only in a handful of fitness clubs around the world, The Trip ™ is an innovative cycling fitness class, perfect for thrill-seekers, fun-lovers and anyone that loves a creative approach to exercise.

This 40-minute multi-peak cycling workout features a journey through digitally-created worlds, thanks to a cinema-scale screen and cutting-edge sound system.

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