Tag: workouts

You can’t help but feel tough when your hands are wrapped and slipped into boxing gloves.

Part of a nationwide hip-hop cardio program inspired by music video choreography, these classes are accessible for even the clumsiest among us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Think trampolines are for kids? These three studios have turned your favorite childhood activity into a calorie-torching cardio workout.

The free King of Pops yoga class held weekly at Historic Fourth Ward Skate Park (7 p.m., Tuesdays) draws hundreds, but you can try plenty of other outdoor classes that won’t cost you anything but sweat.