Friday, March 23, 2012

Ditch the Gym and Hit the Barre

If you ever get tired of using the machines in the gym over and over again, there are great workout alternatives to get a good cardio session in for the day. The Rec Center might not offer all of these classes but you can always do them at home!

Booty Burning Ballet

A new workout that's trending in the gym classes is booty burning ballet classes. You don't have to be a prima ballerina to take the class. Ballet is a great way to trim, tone and sculpt the small muscles in your legs that you never use. Ballet is a great way to stay lean and healthy.

Zumba

The Rec Center now offers four Zumba classes! Zumba is so much fun, it doesn't even feel like a workout. But have you ever wondered how many calories you burn in a one hour Zumba session? If you go to any online weight calculator, it can estimate how many calories you have burned. So for a person who weighed 150 pounds and the workout was an hour long, you'd be burning around 430 calories.

Kickboxing

Kickboxing is a great form of cardio. It gets your blood pumping and makes you work up a sweat. So with a one hour kickboxing session and a patron weighing 150 pounds, that would be around 740 calories burned.

Pilates

Sculpt your legs, arms, core and increase your flexibility with Pilates. It's a great way to release stress too! A one hour session burns around 200-400 calories based on the intensity of the class.


Campus Rec, your ticket to a Summer ready body.:)

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