Appetizer
Take MORE classes. Participating in group exercise classes at the gym or your local Y can not only help motivate you during tough workouts, it can make burning calories a lot more fun.
Always mix up your workouts with a variety of classes to make sure that you’re working the entire body and to help prevent getting burned out on any one activity.
Main Course
Gone are the days of Richard Simmons’ Sweatin’ to the Oldies and Jane Fonda’s leotard-clad videotapes. Today’s fitness and recreational facilities are setting a new standard with updates to our favorite Classics as well as shocking our systems with creative, and sometimes even racy, Newbies.
The Classics
CARDIO KICKBOXING: This high intensity, empowering fitness kickboxing workout will focus on punches, kicks, and boxing maneuvers designed to increase aerobic and anaerobic fitness. A great cardio, core, and overall body work out
CYCLE: Take bike-riding to a new level! Now you can have the same fun of riding a bike you had as a kid with the health and fitness benefits you need as an adult. All levels are welcome as you ride up hills, sprint, and just cruise all without the gym. Set to motivating music with guidance from the instructor, this class will keep you coming back again and again!
HATHA YOGA: A yoga practice popular in the West that combines difficult postures, which force the mind to withdraw from the outside world using controlled breathing.
STEP: A high intensity step class utilizing the latest step choreography and turbo charged combinations for the ultimate step aerobics workout.
The Newbies
JOURNEYS: (Crunch)
If you can’t go on vacation, take a journey. This intense ride class transports you to another land with studio lights, authentic local music and dress. Each week, the class will spin to a new location like the Sahara, New Delhi, or Cabo San Lucas. Journey to Mardi Gras in Rio De Jeaneiro for an hour and feel your mind escape as your muscles get the trip and workout of a lifetime.
Kwando®: (Bally Total Fitness)
Incorporates techniques from kickboxing, tae kwon do and karate.
Cardio Striptease: (Crunch)
Take it off…the weight that is. This class takes some of the basic moves of the strip tease and combines them with aerobic and sculpting elements to create a fun, energizing and sexy workout. Careful, it may also improve your private life!
Cardio Hoops: (Bally Total Fitness)
Low impact aerobics class that utilizes a weighted hula-hoop to promote muscular endurance, balance, and flexibility
Dessert
When I was in high school, I started doing step aerobics, and I lost my mind. It was new and fun; I loved the feeling of accomplishment after conquering a tricky routine. My intentions were admirable, but I did step aerobics so much that I literally burned out on it. For those who don’t know me…Once I burn out on something, I don’t want to do it, taste it, go to it, look at it, etc. again for a VERY long time. It took me 9 years, but I’ve recently added a little (key word = little) bit of step back into my cardio routine.
I say all of this to say that while it’s important to find a class that you like, it’s even more important to take several different classes. Take it from me – you don’t ever want the mere mention of your favorite class to cause you to shudder just because you refused to shake things up a little bit.
About Cafe Physique:
The mission of Café Physique is to help clients reach and exceed their personal fitness and nutrition goals. If you’re in need of an a nutritionist in Atlanta or an Atlanta personal trainer – Café Physique is the perfect solution. We offer Atlanta yoga instruction, Atlanta prenatal workouts, and Atlanta personal training. We also have private sessions of pilates that Atlanta residents are raving about. We invite you to let a member of our Atlanta registered dietitian staff or personal training team develop and implement a realistic and healthy lifestyle plan to meet your personal goals.Labels: Aerobics classes, Atlanta personal training, Atlanta prenatal workouts, Atlanta yoga, burn calories, burn the fat, cardio, exercise, fitness
Jump Rope - This grade school recess favorite can be surprisingly effective at shedding calories. After you’ve mastered the basic “single hop” (where the rope goes under your feet once per rotation) try the more challenging “double rotation,” where the rope has to fly underneath you twice before you touch the ground.
