Workouts have shifted quite a bit over the years as we’ve learned more about health, fitness, and fun. Our society has become quite creative with its efforts to improve health and the human form. Many of our new workouts don’t require any equipment beyond your body, and as such they are transplantable to any venue. We’ll look at some innovative and popular new workouts and see the ways a pair of bone conduction headphones can really help you kick your workout into overdrive when you can’t make a class.
1) Piloxing
It’s a tasteful marriage of boxing and Pilates. Pilates has been around since the early 20th century, and it’s an excellent core workout. There are two types of fitness, cosmetic and true, and with true fitness your strength begins in the core and therefore has a balance and longevity that will keep you going much longer than bulging biceps. Piloxing, which incorporates jabs and uppercuts and the like into a Pilates routine, strengthens all your muscles. It begins with core tension and adds to it with athletic, cardiovascular activity. Classes can be pricy, and you may not always have time, so slip into your AfterShokz workout headphones and find a Zen spot in nature to punch your worries away. Find a Piloxing instructor near you today, and get started!
2) TRX
TRX inverts traditional weight lifting by making your body function as the weights, and by confusing your muscles. By manipulating hanging bands in a number of elaborate ways, you lift your body and also stabilize it to prevent it from swinging freely. This requires intense core strength, rhythm, and focus. These exercises rely on a good rhythm, and therefore rely on good music, so when you set up your TRX bands for home or elsewhere, be sure you have good tunes and sweat-proof headphones. It’s easier to show than explain. Check it out:
TRX has become wildly successful in urban areas, and you can participate in it easily. You may want to invest in some bands of your own, which you can suspend anywhere to bust out a quick and more simplified version of TRX with your workout headphones keeping time. Find your nearest TRX facility, and try it out today.
3) Spin Classes
Cycling is nothing new, but futuristic spin dojos, like Soul Cycle, have dramatically improved the atmosphere. Some contemporary spin classes are candlelit; others have LED lights that spell words across the walls. The concept is that the venue will affect the quality of your workout. If it doesn’t look like a place you’d workout, then perhaps it won’t feel so much like a workout. While there are certainly playlists playing their own music in spin classes, you can apply the workout to the outside world and take long bike rides through the city, the woods, or wherever. AfterShokz are the spin workout headphones because they permit you to hear your surroundings when you take the show on the road for cycling races.
4) CrossFit
CrossFit is arguably the fastest-growing workout trend in America, if not in the world. These workouts are all over the place in format, which is precisely the point. When you go from rope climbing to swinging a sledgehammer into a giant truck tire, for instance, your muscles are confused and tired, which is ideal for growth and endurance. Find your nearest CrossFit gym, and get started! Best of all, there are many CrossFit workouts involving body weight alone, which you can easily do anywhere with a good pair of workout headphones.
These four are perhaps the hottest workout trends on the circuit today. All four teach you a valuable fitness technique that you can easily recreate on your own time with our sports headphones. In each case, music is extremely important to finding your rhythm, and in cardiovascular activity, rhythm is everything. You can lose yourself in the beat and even forget that you’re exercising. Think of your workout in terms of songs, not minutes, and you’ll be through it before you know it. Best of all, if you and a buddy are working out together, with our open-ear headphones you can talk and listen to tunes, coordinate your workouts and lose yourselves in the beat.
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