Fitness In Vogue – Top Trends In Fitness
Once upon a time there was a belief that if your dog was too fat, it meant that you are not getting enough exercise. Gone are those days. Today walking your dog out is not the ‘in’ thing any more. Serious fitness has moved out of the ‘dog in the park’ domain and is an industry in itself. Like all things, change is the only constant here too and ‘exercising’ has undergone giant changes. Being fit is a style statement that will never go out of fashion. Though the way you keep yourself fit may change with the tide. Here is a look at some of the top fitness trends in recent times.
Dance fusion classes
Dancing is a form of expression. It involves the whole body as well as the mind. All dancers will tell you that dancing is a definite stress buster and the greatest relaxation technique. Dancing as a way to exercise, lose weight and stay fit is an option that has been explored since long. The high energy dance forms like Zumba were the leading ones ruling the roost. Today whole new subsets like the Doonya and GROOV3 have taken over. Doonya is an intense whole body workout that makes you feel like a Bollywood Star when you dance! If Bollywood is not your cup of tea, go for GROOV3. Developed by American choreographer Ben Allen, the GROOV3 includes an hour of cardio funk and is suitable for all age groups. So go on, dance your way to good health!
Fitness parties
Going to the bar for a couple of shots with friends after work? Having a stripper perform at your bachelorette party? All this is passé. It would be more in vogue to hit the gym with your friends. Fitness themed parties are the latest trend now. Celebrating by sweating it out with your friends; raise a toast to good health!
Tapping in on mother nature’s bounty
Working out in the gym in an isolated spot, focusing on a group of muscles at a time can be extremely boring. More and more people are looking for challenging workouts that focuses on their entire body and at the same time is mentally challenging and stimulating. Fitness trainers understand this need and are identifying exercises in terms of movement of the whole body as opposed to muscle training. So free running workouts that use the natural environment to inspire natural movements. So step off the treadmill and go out for crawling under obstacles, balancing on tightropes and climbing walls and jumping off them.
Personalized care
Gyms are places where you get lots of workout options from dumbbells and treadmills to kickboxing to yoga to tabata but now more and more people are looking out for the personalized service options. Welcome the new age Fitness Studios where you get an instructor all to yourself, someone who knows you by name and understands what form of exercising will suit you most.
All work and no workout make jack a dull employee
Sitting at long hours at your desk, hectic work schedule and demanding deadlines- All these leave you feeling drained and pose great health risks. Companies are waking up to the seriousness of this issue and many of them have converted their conference rooms into workout zones. Employees are asked to get a workout break as this has shown to improve productivity levels in the office and also boost the mood of the employee in general. In addition to that, with more fit employees, the companies are finding significant reduction in their health expenditures! So no more cribbing about not being able to make time for the gym due to your hectic office schedule!
The all in one solution
Losing weight and staying fit is about 30% exercising and 70% eating right. When a survey found that people could undergo rigorous workouts with no complaints while the ‘eating right’ part is what they find most hard, the fitness industry took note of this. The concept of a gym instructor who is also a dietician and a behavioural therapist evolved. So, now you have your gym trainer who teaches you the right exercises, tells you what to eat and what not to eat and keeps motivating you to reach your goal by understanding your personality better.
Net savvy
The internet is responsible for radically changing the way we lead our lives. It has crept into the way we keep ourselves healthy too. So, now you do not actually need to go to the gym to work out, you have apps on your mobile phones that guide you in detail, there are online fitness programs with live streaming, hundreds of YouTube videos. Take your pick!
Back to basics
There was a time when ‘exercising’ meant going to the gym and running the treadmill and lifting weights and dumbbells. Times changed and newer exciting ways of exercising came up. Times have changed yet again. With ‘Retro’ being in vogue, the good old gym is back in fashion. So go on, get on the treadmill, lift some weights and do some jumping jacks and one-arm push-ups!
Celebrating by sweating it out with your friends; raise a toast to good health!
Employees are asked to get a workout break as this has shown to improve productivity levels in the office and also boost the mood of the employee in general. Losing weight and staying fit is about 30% exercising and 70% eating right. Fitness trends keep changing with the times. It is more important to adopt some method that suits you and continue to stay fit, no matter what the current trend is!
