What is 9round?
9round is a cardio and kickboxing HIIT gym. The workout is divided into 9 rounds of 3 minutes each with 30 seconds of rest in between each round. The entire workout takes roughly 30 minutes, but you can choose to continue longer if you’d like. Throughout the 9 rounds, you are accompanied by a trainer who will push you and help you with exercise technique. Each round is a different workout, and that workout changes every day.
Who is 9round good for?
If your goal is to lose weight/get fit and you’re not a fan of traditional gyms, then 9round is the place for you. We provide you the structure and push that you need to have an efficient workout that training on your own may not yield. But if you’re looking to become a UFC fighter, it’s not ideal. The focus of the gym is HIIT cardio and not so much fighting. Although we still teach boxing/kickboxing techniques and most trainers are boxing/kickboxing certified (here in Australia at least) you’d still be better off learning to fight at a proper fighting gym. But 9round could be a good secondary session if you are a pro fighter trying to develop some fitness.
Is 9round fit for beginners?
9round is perfect for beginners. Instructors structure each session in a way that it can be adapted to cater to all fitness levels and needs. From someone who has never set foot in a gym, to someone who competes in a high level of sport, all will find a cardiovascular challenge at 9round.
Can you do 9round everyday?
Sure you can. Initially when you begin you might find yourself too sore the next day to go again. But as you become more experienced and your body adapts to the session a bit more you may find yourself going most days of the week. Most of our clientele do 9round three/four times a week (which is what we recommend to most), but our real die-hards love to come in five/six.
Other 9round FAQs
What are 9round pulse points?
Down here in Australia we use ‘Myzone Heartrate Monitors’ and ‘Myzone Effort Points’ which we call MEPs. When you sign up to 9round here, you will be given a Myzone heartrate monitor which will automatically connect via bluetooth to the gym’s TV. You will then see a colored tile on the screen where the color of the tile corresponds to how hard you’re working:
- In simple if the tile is gray, it means you’re working below 50% of your maximum heartrate.
- Blue means 60-69%
- Green means 70-79%
- Yellow means 80-89%
- Finally red means you’re working at 90-100% of your maximum heartrate.
As a trainer, my goal is to try and keep you in the yellow or red zone in order to promote fat burning and grow your fitness stamina. As you’re working out in these zones you’re also earning MEPs (which people in the US might know as pulse points). The harder you work, the more MEP points you will earn: you earn more MEPs per minute in the yellow and red zones than you do in the blue and green zones. For us trainers being able to see how hard you’re working on the screen helps us get a gauge on what pushes a client and what doesn’t. We can see if someone is being lazy and if someone is genuinely pushing their max effort. Seeing everybody’s heartrate on the TV helps us trainers deliver the best workout we possibly can to everyone who walks through our doors. I personally love thrashing people and pushing them to the red zone. I love it when my clients have to crawl out the door because they’re so ruined from the session!
What to bring to your 9round workout.
All you need to bring to your 9round session is a towel and a water bottle. The gym will provide you with wraps/inners and boxing gloves for your trial. If you then chose to sign up, you’d be given your own hand wraps, boxing gloves, and heart rate monitor. We recommend that people coming in for a trial don’t bring their own gloves as the gloves have to be a certain size in our gym for certain legal reasons.
Is there anything else you want someone considering 9round to know?
I believe what differentiates 9round from the rest is its unique style of workout that optimally burns calories in a shorter time frame than most other exercise classes.
