By Eloisa Lopez
Same old workout making you snooze?
Even though we all know we should make time to exercise regularly, we often find ourselves making excuses not to go to the gym. Often, we overstuff our schedules, but sometimes we skip gym because it bores us. Well, boredom with your exercise routine can be one of the biggest obstacles you have to overcome. When you’ve adopted a fit lifestyle, it helps to try something new every once in awhile to keep your workouts fresh and to keep challenging yourself. While many fitness fads come and go, there are a few fun workouts that will keep fitness-minded people engaged to the game. Instead of your usual cardio classes and treadmill routines, you may want to try these new fun workouts that will surely help keep your boredom at bay. These fun new workouts might as well help you prepare yourself for the coming yuletide season.
Same old workout making you snooze?
Even though we all know we should make time to exercise regularly, we often find ourselves making excuses not to go to the gym. Often, we overstuff our schedules, but sometimes we skip gym because it bores us. Well, boredom with your exercise routine can be one of the biggest obstacles you have to overcome. When you’ve adopted a fit lifestyle, it helps to try something new every once in awhile to keep your workouts fresh and to keep challenging yourself. While many fitness fads come and go, there are a few fun workouts that will keep fitness-minded people engaged to the game. Instead of your usual cardio classes and treadmill routines, you may want to try these new fun workouts that will surely help keep your boredom at bay. These fun new workouts might as well help you prepare yourself for the coming yuletide season.
Barre
Barre classes are dance inspired workouts that use the ballet barre to lengthen and strengthen your muscles. The aim of Barre is to build strength, improve alignment, posture and focus on little muscles instead of the big muscles when lifting weights. It involves the dancer's workout by combining the grace of the ballet barre with the wisdom of yoga and the strength of Pilates. The exercises help you find length in your abdominals and develop lean muscle mass. Barre classes are set to an upbeat soundtrack and follow a vigorous pace moving through a sequence of postures designed to shape and lift the entire body.
GET STARTED For more info, check out the nearest barre club near you. Visit www.barre3.com.ph
CrossFit / Boot Camp
These workouts feature high-intensity military-style training to increase cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength and endurance. Though there is some variance, a typical boot camp workout frequently includes interval training, sports drills, calisthenics, sprint/speed training, plyometric training and agility drills designed to push participants beyond their everyday workout routine. Boot camp–style programs can be done in an outdoor or indoor setting, or, thanks to the wonders of technology, even in the comfort of your own home. These type of workouts are constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement. Some of the exercises include 100 pull-ups, 100 push-ups, 100-sit ups, 100 body weight squats in one workout. Boot camps can torch about 600 calories an hour.
GET STARTED If you’re interested in trying out the craze, check out CrossFit Manila's website at www.cfmnl.com
Anti-gravity Yoga
As its name suggests, AntiGravity Yoga involves doing yoga while suspended on a silk hammock. It’s not more than a few inches off the ground, so you don’t have to worry too much if you have a fear of heights, and it may seem a bit complicated at first, some people actually find AntiGravity Yoga easier than regular yoga.
GET STARTED Try anti-gravity yoga at Beyond Yoga. Beyond Yoga can be found at the 3rd floor of Il Terrazzo, Tomas Morato corner Scout Madrinian St., Quezon City. Visit www.igobeyondyoga.com or call +63-917-5BEYOND (5239663) for more information.
Zumba and Other Dance Workouts
Dance workouts burn calories while honing your balance and agility. Plus, they allow you to tap into your creativity. Do not worry about your first steps. Dance workouts are all about getting moving, not mastering every step. If you're sweating by the end, then you got it right. An average Zumba “fitness party” burns more than 300 calories.
GET STARTED If you belong to a gym, ask to see what dance-inspired fitness classes they have. You can try Zumba dance classes in Fitness First health club and in many other fitness club around the Philippines.
Functional training workout
TRX is one of the most popular functional training tools endorsed by fitness experts and strength and conditioning coaches to improve one's performance and target other muscle groups using one's own body weight. You're in control of how much you want to challenge yourself on each exercise - because you can simply adjust your body position to add or decrease resistance.
GET STARTED Good news, major advantage of this tool is you can do it anywhere at home or during a vacation trip. No gym membership required! http://www.igobeyondyoga.com/
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Barre classes are dance inspired workouts that use the ballet barre to lengthen and strengthen your muscles. The aim of Barre is to build strength, improve alignment, posture and focus on little muscles instead of the big muscles when lifting weights. It involves the dancer's workout by combining the grace of the ballet barre with the wisdom of yoga and the strength of Pilates. The exercises help you find length in your abdominals and develop lean muscle mass. Barre classes are set to an upbeat soundtrack and follow a vigorous pace moving through a sequence of postures designed to shape and lift the entire body.
GET STARTED For more info, check out the nearest barre club near you. Visit www.barre3.com.ph
CrossFit / Boot Camp
These workouts feature high-intensity military-style training to increase cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength and endurance. Though there is some variance, a typical boot camp workout frequently includes interval training, sports drills, calisthenics, sprint/speed training, plyometric training and agility drills designed to push participants beyond their everyday workout routine. Boot camp–style programs can be done in an outdoor or indoor setting, or, thanks to the wonders of technology, even in the comfort of your own home. These type of workouts are constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement. Some of the exercises include 100 pull-ups, 100 push-ups, 100-sit ups, 100 body weight squats in one workout. Boot camps can torch about 600 calories an hour.
GET STARTED If you’re interested in trying out the craze, check out CrossFit Manila's website at www.cfmnl.com
Anti-gravity Yoga
As its name suggests, AntiGravity Yoga involves doing yoga while suspended on a silk hammock. It’s not more than a few inches off the ground, so you don’t have to worry too much if you have a fear of heights, and it may seem a bit complicated at first, some people actually find AntiGravity Yoga easier than regular yoga.
GET STARTED Try anti-gravity yoga at Beyond Yoga. Beyond Yoga can be found at the 3rd floor of Il Terrazzo, Tomas Morato corner Scout Madrinian St., Quezon City. Visit www.igobeyondyoga.com or call +63-917-5BEYOND (5239663) for more information.
Zumba and Other Dance Workouts
Dance workouts burn calories while honing your balance and agility. Plus, they allow you to tap into your creativity. Do not worry about your first steps. Dance workouts are all about getting moving, not mastering every step. If you're sweating by the end, then you got it right. An average Zumba “fitness party” burns more than 300 calories.
GET STARTED If you belong to a gym, ask to see what dance-inspired fitness classes they have. You can try Zumba dance classes in Fitness First health club and in many other fitness club around the Philippines.
Functional training workout
TRX is one of the most popular functional training tools endorsed by fitness experts and strength and conditioning coaches to improve one's performance and target other muscle groups using one's own body weight. You're in control of how much you want to challenge yourself on each exercise - because you can simply adjust your body position to add or decrease resistance.
GET STARTED Good news, major advantage of this tool is you can do it anywhere at home or during a vacation trip. No gym membership required! http://www.igobeyondyoga.com/
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