Hot Fitness Trends Hit Intown Atlanta and Grant Park
Let me guess...your New Year's resolutions include "get in shape?" Welcome to the club. Now that it's 2011, thousands of Americans are steeling their resolve to eat more broccoli and get their thirty minutes in on the treadmill. Many of the apartment options within intown Atlanta offer an on-site gym for the use of their residents; the Pencil Factory's gym, for example, contains a variety of cardio exercise machines as well as some basic strength training options. The convenience makes these gyms extremely popular with the people living in these complexes. But just in case intowners are looking for something a little different from the gym downstairs, whether it's just to shake up your workout schedule or to chisel out a new body in the new year, three of the hottest fitness trends of the past few years are now just a short distance from the heart of intown.
Boot Camp
Sounds scary, doesn't it? But fitness boot camps have been one of the most popular ways to get fit for over a year now. They are group exercise classes mixing traditional bodyweight exercises with interval training and strength training, designed to resemble a military boot camp, where you can push yourself to your limits. Last Call Boot Camp, a new program that meets Monday-Saturday in the morning, afternoon, and evening at Body Blueprints Personal Training Studio or at parks in the area, offers workouts that cover every important component of fitness and that change frequently so that you are challenging your body to new heights. Last Call caters to everyone but tries to keep hours that work for servers and others who work non-9-to-5 hours, who are often left out of traditional fitness classes.
Kettlebell Workouts
Kettlebells are traditional Russian cast iron weights that look like cannonballs with handles, used by elite Russian Special Forces personnel to build strength and endurance simultaneously. They have become extremely popular in the U.S. in recent years, leading to the development of kettlebell-centered gyms, like Condition Kettlebell Gym on Auburn Street in the Old Fourth Ward. Condition offers group classes as well as one-on-one personal training that promises to give you real results. Classes suit almost anyone's schedule, with morning and evening options to achieve the all-around fitness we all desire.
CrossFit
Known to many as the "300 workout" (as in the movie), CrossFit is a strength and conditioning system combining weightlifting, sprinting, and gymnastics for a dynamic and famously challenging workout. CrossFit is an intense, constantly changing program that pushes its fans to the limit...no wonder it's been called a "next level boot camp." Atlanta has many CrossFit gyms, but one of the newest is CrossFit on the Move, located in Grant Park just a short walk from Pencil Factory Flats & Shops. If you want to have your tail whipped in the new year with no remorse, consider checking out CrossFit!
