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Workout Cocktail Anyone?

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Exercises fall into three categories—aerobic, strength conditioning, and flexibility. Ideally, you should include all three types of exercise to achieve a complete fitness program. A workout cocktail of two totally different workouts will not only give you more benefits than a class that offer one type of training it can also save you time.

Check out your local fitness classes or DVD’s to find some of the newest trends in workout combining. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Piloxing- is a sleek, sexy and powerful workout! It might be the latest Hollywood Celebrity fitness craze. PILOXING creatively mixes Pilates and boxing into a fat blasting and muscle sculpting workout.

Cy–Yo – brings the mind, body, and spirit together in a fitness workout. A Cy-Yo class begins with yoga flow that focuses on energizing the muscles, lubricating and warming the joint structures, and bringing awareness to the mind/body energy centers. Following is an indoor cycling class. During the cycling class, focus is on energy centers, visualization techniques, and breathing patterns. A yoga flow is done following the cycling class to refocus minds, calm bodies, and create a positive energy flow.

Yogalates – Yoga focuses on flexibility, then strength. Pilates focuses on stability, then strength and flexibility. Pilates helps develop a stable core. Combining the two disciplines of “yoga” and “pilates” into “Yogalates” is perfect blend.

Circuit Training – includes both your cardiovascular and weight training components of fitness. Circuit training is short bursts of resistance exercise using moderate weights and frequent repetitions, followed quickly by another burst of exercise targeting a different muscle group or cardiovascular activities to encourage weight loss and calorie burning.
Try out Fit Behaviors 30FIT(CURCUIT TRAINING) includes unlimited workouts every week for the same price as a one hour personal training workout! There are only one to six people in a workout session. The intensity levels are high to challenge you, yet can be modified by the personal trainer to accommodate your personal level of fitness and work around previous injuries.
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Every day is a different work out so you will never get bored! Workouts consist of boot camp, functional training, plyo metrics, cardio kick, compound training a variety of workouts to inspire and keep you focused. Group training includes kettle bells, ropes, weights, steps, heavy balls, TRX, and all the latest and up to date equipment to get you fit!
You can book 30FIT workouts Monday through Friday 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM at your convenience! Times on Saturday are available as well.

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What is 30FIT Group Personal Training?

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

30 Fit Programs:
Looking for a time efficient and cost effective program to get results? Consider our 30FIT Group personal training program. 30FIT is an intense and affective 30 minute workout that includes both your cardiovascular and weight training components of fitness. The intensity levels are high to challenge you, yet can be modified by the personal trainer to accommodate your personal level of fitness and work around previous injuries.

30FIT includes four workouts a week for the same price as a one hour personal training workout! There are only one to five people in a workout session. You can book 30Fit workouts Monday through Friday 7:30 AM to 8:00PM at your convince! Times on Saturday are available as well.

Every day is a different work out so you will never get bored! Workouts consist of boot camp, functional training, plyo metrics, cardio kick, compound training a variety of workouts to inspire and keep you focused. Group training includes kettle bells, ropes, weights, steps, heavy balls, TRX, and all the latest and up to date equipment to get you fit!

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Fall 2010- what’s hot in fitness?

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Summer is over and it’s back to the gym. What can you expect and what is the right workout for you? Here are my top six picks for what’s new, what’s still in and what might work for you.
1. Budget-Friendly Workouts: One way to get a safe and inspiring workout that gets you results is group personal training. Fit Behavior offers our 30FIT group personal training. Routines are only 30 minutes in and out the door and the costs are greatly reduced. You can participate in classes Monday through Friday 6AM through 8PM and limited hours on Saturday.
2. Boot Camp-Style Workouts: Boot camp workouts are popular as they provide a total-body workout that’s varied, fun and challenging and usually easy to follow. Up to 600 calories can be burned during a boot camp session – according to ACE(American Council on Exercise). Fit Behavior offers Boot camp classes every Tuesday and Saturday morning at 6AM.
3. Specialty Classes: Dance-based classes all the rage this year. Zumba, a fitness program inspired by Latin dance, combines South American rhythms with cardiovascular exercise. Shows such as Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance encourage dance style fitness classes that have grow in popularity such as ballroom, belly dance, Afro-Cuban and other exotic dance styles. Check out the class schedule at Fitbehavior.com.
4. Functional Training: The days of sitting on a machine and body building workouts are out. New more challenging and creative functional workouts challenge all the muscles, balance, core and cardiovascular at the same time. Personal training can help to ensure a safe workout and new innovating movements to get fit.
5. Circuit Training: Studies have shown that interval training combining strength training and cardiovascular activity at different intensities provides a more time-efficient workout than participating in traditional aerobic and weight training sessions. Time is the gym is greatly reduced by combining a weight training and cardiovascular routine.
6. New Equipment Kettle bell training, ropes, TRX, gravity training, free motion equipment, and heavy balls gets back to basic training that requires functional, whole body fitness.

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What’s new in group fitness?

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Hot and Spicy Group Fitness Classes

If you haven’t been to a group fitness class in a while, you may be surprised to find the fun factor is now part of the fitness experience.   The fitness industry seems to be integrating all types of dance, sports, and health concepts to blend together an experience that will not only offer a great workout but also bring in the fun factor to exercise.

 

Whatever you are looking to accomplish you can find classes that will help you meet your goals.  Whether you’re looking to get stretched and become more flexible, tone your body, challenge your mind, strengthen your heart or build your bone density, the new generation of group fitness classes will pleasantly surprise you in the creative approaches these classes are offering up.  

 

Top eight fun and fabulous classes happening at Fit Behavior and around the world:

  1. Zumba- Is a fusion of Latin and International music that creates a dynamic, exciting, and effective work out.  Easy to follow and fun to do! http://www.wfsb.com/video/19251513/index.html
  2. Belly Dance Fusion- The focus of this class is to improve abdominal and core muscles as well as work up a sweat to burn calories. Belly dancing has been around for centuries and now is being offered in the fitness world as a fun alternative.  http://www.wfsb.com/video/19065706/index.html
  3. Chair-licious- Ladies get ready to start the hottest workout! Tone your body, increase your self-confidence, lose weight, improve your relationship, self expression, and overall empowerment.   You don’t need dance experience! http://www.wfsb.com/video/19515728/index.html
  4. Boot Camp Kick Classes- Utilizing kicks and punches to tone and condition your muscles and punch your stress away.
  5. Yoga Flow Fitness- Creative eclectic blends of many yogic traditions and styles. In this class, you will strengthen core muscles, improve flexibility, ease lower back pain and improve breathing capacity and stamina.
  6. Hot Iron-A time saving group weight training class in a half hour. Great full body work-out! High reps will ultra tone your body.
  7. African Dance Drumming-highly energetic and playful African Dance moves to keep you in shape and fit.
  8. Total Body Toning Pilates-Cross-training techniques using resistance bands, weights, and Pilates moves to improve muscular strength and body toning.

 

Come to Fit Behavior in Avon or Rocky Hill to try a class for free (new clients only).  Our class schedule can be viewed at http://www.fitbehavior.com/classes-rocky-hill.php. Another cool benefit of Fit Behavior’s classes is that there are no monthly or membership fees.  You can sign up for one class a week or six classes a week. Pay only for what you choose to participate in. 

 

What ever class you choose to have fun with, the focus on weight loss is foremost in many people’s minds.  Join me next week when I discuss factors that will help improve your chances at losing weight and getting in shape.

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