Group Classes

What a group fitness class actually mean ?

Group fitness classes nowadays are becoming more popular than individual training or one on one training with a trainer. Group exercises used to mean step classes or aerobics, but today it includes maritime fitness, yoga, boot camps, zumba and many more. Exercise classes provide a sense of companionship and support, something athletes are acclimatized to and depend on. There are many more important benefits of belonging to a fitness class such as accountability and cost effectiveness. A little competitive environment will make you work a little harder. Group classes are often divided into beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.

Group fitness Classes includes various types of exercises like :-

YOGA

Yoga fitness is a type of group fitness class which is a combination of physical, psychological, and spiritual practices or topics that are born in ancient India.

The benefits of yoga provide both instant satisfaction and long lasting transformation: in the fitness world, both are extremely important. Too much time with very less results can be very much discouraging, and monotonous routines can lead to sluggishness. Yoga can change your physical and intellectual amplitude quickly and  prepare the mind and body to remain healthy for a longer period of time.

Yoga is not just about exercising , it’s about a healthy way of living your life. The practice of yoga helps students to find calmness in a world consumed with utter confusion. Peace and tranquility achieved through focused training addresses everyone.

Yoga’s deep breathing and meditation practices help encourages our  inner shift from the struggles which face in our day to day lives.  Yoga helps relieve stress and relaxes the mind, body and soul helping you to become more focused in life.

AEROBICS

Aerobics fitness is a group fitness class which is a combination of the thermic exercise and strength training exercise  with the aim of achieving the goals of improvising all the elements of fitness such as flexibility, muscle power, and cardio-vascular fitness. It is usually done for music and it can be practiced in group settings under the guidance of the trainer (fitness professional), although it can be done without singular and musical accompaniment.

With the aim of achieving the goals  of preventing diseases and encouraging physical fitness ,  people perform various exercise routines comprising of a number of various different dance-like exercises. Formal aerobics classes are divided into different levels of magnitude and complication. A well-balanced aerobics class is divided into five different parts : a warm-up session of (5–10 minutes), cardio vascular conditioning session of (25–30 minutes), muscular strength and conditioning session of (10–15 minutes), relaxing session of  (5–8 minutes) and stretching & flexibility session of (5–8 minutes). Aerobics classes may allow participants to select their level of participation according to their stamina.  It'll help you keep the weight off too. Aerobic exercise helps reduce your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes, and high cholesterol and it also strengthens  your heart muscle.

 ZUMBA

During 1990s a colombian dancer and choreographer “Alberto Beto Perez”  has created Zumba as a fitness curriculum. Zumba is a brand name owned by Zumba Fitness, LLC. Zumba is performed to energetic and enthusiastic music which involves various dance and aerobic movements.

Zumba incorporates various dance forms such as  hip-hop, soca, samba, salsa,  merengue and mambo. It also includes squats and lunges. Approximately 15 million people take weekly Zumba classes in over 200,000 locations around the world.

Benefits of zumba includes:-

Ø  Improved coordination which is extremely important as you grow older.

Ø  Zumba is fun way of excersing as it includes dancing and exercising both and it provides workout for the whole body.