11 unusual exercises you may not have tried
in the past, if you want to lose weight and keep fit, you have only a few choices: fasten your running shoes, go swimming, ride a bike or go to the gym. But now, there are almost endless choices in fitness, from doing yoga with your dog to performing your inner rock star in an aerobics class. So if you're not interested in the way you exercise, look at these options and go out and try!
Credit: wavebreakmedia Limited / Wavebreak media / Getty Images correlation: how to do kapoera kick related: learn more about acroyaga. Credit: Christopher patelberg / iStock / Getty Images you love your dog and you love yoga, so why not do yoga with your dog? That's why actor and yoga coach Susie Titman wrote "toga" in 2002. By posing with your dog, tatman claims, you can deepen your bond with the dog. Exercises include massaging, posing and deep breathing. Postures include sitting meditation, hands on the pet, focusing on breathing for a few minutes, to more challenging postures such as Warrior III or plank with the dog on its back. You can find doga courses in many cities, but you can also buy teitelman's DVDs or watch her videos online. related: learn more about doga. Credit: furmann A / iStock / Getty Images the common love for fitness and music inspired Kirsten Potenza and Cristina Peerenboom to create pound, which is a full-time "aerobic jam course", which combines drum music with fitness technology of Pilates and aerobic exercise and other disciplines, burns calories, enhances strength and endurance. The participants held a lightweight sports drumstick called ripstix, which beat out the rhythm from rock to dance step in an intermittent order, so as to improve and then reduce the heart rate and complete the final fat burning training. " "Our course is not only a real physical experience, but also a real musical experience," Peerenboom said. Obviously, it's a very unique experience, which makes you sweat, but also allows you to enter a completely different field of rock and roll. " related: read the livestrong.com blog post of pound founder. Credit: mark Saxophone Pilates and yoga are combined to have smooth and continuous exercise. Piyo promises to shape your muscles in every class, increase your flexibility and burn fat. Piyo only uses your body weight resistance, no jumping or other high impact sports, so it's a good choice for those who are injured. Piyo is a family fitness program jointly developed by fitness expert and best-selling author chalene Johnson and beachbody, a fitness, diet and supplement company. It consists of eight routine actions on three DVDs. If you like or need to exercise at home, it's a convenient choice. However, if you like the social aspects of a course, you can also find a Pew course taught by a qualified coach in many local fitness studios. related: learn more about pew. Credit: tahi Delek / iStock / Getty Images related: learn more about Donia. Credit: wavebreakmedia Ltd / Wavebreak media / Getty Images you know that when fitness mania becomes part of fusion training, it has lasting power. In this case, the combination of pole dance and yoga gives it a new attraction. According to the American pole dance website, Polga is a kind of whole body exercise to exercise strength and flexibility, improve the range of exercise, and enhance the ability of balance and coordination. The course is one hour long, suitable for beginners to advanced exercisers. Bolga class is similar to strength yoga class, but it uses a pole to help stretch, strengthen and adjust. Polga's curriculum is not yet universal, but the founder of Polga, Carla Mok, has offered the Polga certification program, which is expected to increase the availability of coaches and venues. correlation: Pole Dance: a new method of fitness in the air silk course that known fitness enthusiasts flock to, inspired by the scene of Cirque du Soleil performance, the routine routine of skilled Air Dancers climbing, rotating, descending and twisting their fabric pieces above the ground needs many years of practice and improvement. Although rookies will not run to join the circus in a short period of time, the air silk course can help anyone build a solid foundation for fitness. " "It's really a total incredible exercise - and it's fun," said Pamela invin, coach and founder of the gig port Yoga fusion in gig port, Washington. Participants can expect to gain core and upper body strength and improve their cardiovascular health, according to English. Novices don't have to worry - the air silk course is progressive. Inveen said beginners will learn basic climbing techniques and develop the necessary strength before mastering more challenging techniques. Related: acrobatics practice. If playing air guitar in front of the mirror in the living room is the only way to guide your inner rock star, then things will change. The punk rock aerobics course is called "the feeling of exercise created for the out of group", which provides a stage for you to perform your rock star fantasies together with other like-minded people while keeping fit. The punk rock aerobics course, developed by Boston graphic artist Maura Jasper and Boston women's rock co-founder hilkin Mancini, uses cinder blocks as weights and is usually held at nightclubs during off hours. The course includes two 20 minute dance moves and freestyle moves, followed by 20 minute strength training - all in a punk rock band favorite setting. related: learn more about punk rock aerobics. Credit: if the four walls of the gym are too narrow for you, take mob training to the streets - parks and playgrounds. Don't expect a breakthrough fitness concept here: the mob fitness program uses basic weight training, such as push ups, pull ups and squats, but you'll learn how to use a variety of natural and man-made objects found in urban environments, such as picnic tables and telephone poles, wherever you go. You'll also get some, well, color reviews developed by hip-hop collective Ralph Ryder, a program and DVD. Remember, Ralph Ryder is not a certified fitness coach and has no technical guidance. Mob training is a good choice for those who have a solid foundation of fitness and want to provide new ideas for the next training in "hood". related: you can do weight cross exercise anywhere correlation: 10 exercise shortcuts to exercise muscles and burn more calories 1. Kapoera is an art form in Brazil, which combines combat action, dance action and special rhythm music in the form of games. At present, it is not clear the origin and location of kaboera, but there is a theory that kaboera was developed by African slaves in colonial Brazil. Its practice involves acrobatics, agility, flexibility, speed and strength. Depending on the course, students can also learn the history and philosophy behind kapoera and be introduced - and in some cases even played - to create professional instruments that practice rhythmic backgrounds, such as single string berimba. Beginners are welcome in the classroom, but they should expect a challenging exercise. Over time, it will establish a solid physical quality and coordination.
2. Yoga combines yoga and partner acrobatic exercises to help you connect with others, build trust, strength and flexibility in an unusual and challenging exercise. The AcroYoga course, which was co founded by Jenny sol Klein and Jason Nemo in 2003, has three main elements: Acrobatic practice, rehabilitation art practice and yoga practice. In your partner's work, you will be divided into three or more groups, a base, a flyer and an observer. When you are in the air in an upward bow position, balancing your belly with your partner's feet, you will really feel you are flying. Courses include partner massage, such as Thai massage and therapeutic flight. In the latter, also known as reverse air massage, the pilot remains passive, while the base uses gravity, stretch and touch to open various areas of the pilot's body.
4. Pound
5. Piyo
6. Krav Maga, developed in Israel in the 1940s, is the official hand to hand combat system of the Israeli army. This martial arts method emphasizes the use of the body's instinctive response to resist attack. Now, there are movie studios all over the United States, and even ordinary Joe (or Jane) can learn to protect himself like an Israeli soldier and keep healthy in the process. " Some of us don't necessarily come for self-defense; they come for the training we do, "said Matt Kennicott, coach of Santa Fe based krafmaga. In a typical one hour class, we are looking forward to warm-up and stretching, then kick technical guidance and a lot of training, including "fatigue training", just to make you exhausted. "You're going to make the class sweat and burn out and feel like you've made a lot of progress," Kennicott said. Doonya is touted as "your joyful exercise". Doonya is a new exercise method, which uses bollywood dance movements to improve heart rate and burn fat, while putting a bright smile on the face. Think of the last scene of the Slumdog Millionaire in a sportswear. In a video explaining the exercise, co-founder Priya Pandya describes Dounia as "an uninterrupted, highEnergy, aerobic and strength training programs ". It is easy to learn, suitable for beginners and more advanced exercisers. If you're in the New York area, you can take classes in Dunia's only independent studio. Otherwise, you can open a DVD in your comfort zone at home or get free short-term workouts online.
8. Polga
No.9. Air silk
No.11. Mob training
What do you think? Have you ever tried these unusual exercises? Which one? What unusual exercises are you going to try after reading? Do you know what other unusual training we missed? Share your thoughts in the comments section below, or describe any atypical training you may have participated in, so that others have the opportunity to try new training.
