Tag: workouts
Leaps and bounds: Atlanta Parkour
Leaping, climbing, bounding, bouncing, flipping—you can do all of that in a parkour class.
Boxing for beginners: Vesta Movement
You can’t help but feel tough when your hands are wrapped and slipped into boxing gloves.
Dance fitness: Vixen Workout at Atlanta Dance & Music Academy
Part of a nationwide hip-hop cardio program inspired by music video choreography, these classes are accessible for even the clumsiest among us.
Toughest new workout: Solidcore
This athletic, full-body workout—which takes place primarily on a souped-up resistance-based machine and taps into slow-twitch muscle fibers—is always challenging, never boring, and wholly unrelenting.
Upper-body workout: Pole La Teaz
To give you a sense of just how challenging pole dancing is, consider this: One of the instructors at the Brookhaven location of this two-studio chain quit CrossFit in favor of the workouts here.
Outdoor boot camp: Boot Camp at Piedmont Park
It may have a militaristic name, but there are no obnoxious drill sergeants barking orders during this early-morning, one-hour class with friendly (but insistent) coaches who take you through planks, burpees, and clever team competitions.
Bikram: Be Hot Yoga Atlanta
Launched inside Urban Body Studios, this simple yet serious yoga studio focuses primarily on the ultra-hot variation known as Bikram and its consistent series of poses.
At Atlanta’s Bad Axe Throwing, you can work your muscles while hurling hatchets at a wall
Throwing deadly objects while wearing jeans and drinking beer—yeah, that doesn’t sound like a good idea, much less a good workout. But it turns out that hurling hatchets at a wood wall for a few hours on a Friday night can burn some calories while engaging your chest muscles, triceps, elbow flexors, and maybe even your abdominals.
3 Atlanta workouts that (literally) pack a punch
Want a workout that literally packs a punch? Channel your frustration from that long commute, annoying coworker, or impossible workload into these high-intensity boxing and kickboxing workouts.
Jump Around: Torch calories with these Atlanta trampoline workouts
Think trampolines are for kids? These three studios have turned your favorite childhood activity into a calorie-torching cardio workout.