The most fun you'll have...while you get fit!!! :-)

At the invitation from a friend at head to 'Bounce Inc'; a trampoline 'funhouse', saw a group of 12 young adults head out for a n hour of fitness fun! After the first five minutes of bouncing around on trampolines, most of us were sweating, puffing and even started to get a burning feeling in our legs!!
What a fun way to get fit and some great toning in our legs! The centre offered varied distractions through playing team trampoline dodge ball, trampoline basketball, flips of trampoline walls, jumping into foam pits (the climb out for the foam was just as hard as the jumping!!) so by the time the hour came around, it felt like we had been there for twenty minutes of belly laughs!

So why does fitness have to be serious and competitive all the time? Why not mix up your week of gym with some group (or individual) outings to 'non-traditional' forms of activity?

Here are a few other 'fun' fitness activities around to get you started:
- SH'BAM (a new kind of Zumba!)  If you’re looking for an exercise that offers a great fat-burning workout alongside the simplest yet hottest dance moves around, shape up with SH’BAM. According to its creators, the average person burns around 2142 kilojoules while taking part in one SH’BAM class – sounds good to us! Each 45-minute class kicks off with a basic warm-up session that gets everything moving from your head to your toes. Once you’re all warmed up, your instructor moves on to the main part of the class which is where you really strut your stuff! Indeed, the main workout involves a simple yet sexy dance workout, underscored by twelve classic and current chart-topping hits.

- Founded by international fitness personality Peter Mauvi, Bokwa Fitness is a craze that has captured the attention of fitness fanatics everywhere. The reason? Bokwa Fitness allows participants to burn an estimated 5040 kilojoules per workout with its impressive-looking yet super simple dance routines.Indeed, if you watch a video of a Bokwa class taking place, the steps look complicated to say the least. Take a closer look though, and you will notice that participants are simply drawing letters and numbers with their feet while moving to the rhythm of the music. The fast-paced, energetic movements build strength and endurance while remaining a super easy class to take part in, making this the key to slimming success. The best bit? The fact that it involves no choreography so even those of us with two left feet can do it – amazing! For more information visit Bokwafitness.

 

- Variety is the spice of life, and what better way to add variety to your workout routine than to take part in a fusion class? If you’re familiar with two-in-one fitness trends such as Piloxing and Kayoga, you’re probably already aware of the fusion class craze. Fusion classes – as the name suggests – are two separate forms of fitness fused together, so Piloxing is basically the love child of Pilates and kickboxing, while Kayoga is a mixture of kayaking and yoga. Fusion classes are perfect for anyone who wants a super intense workout in the minimum amount of time. Game of Bockey (ballet and hockey) anyone? For more information visit Aminoz.

 

- Obstacle workouts are designed to be tough, muddy and anything but light-hearted. Alongside Spartan Race and Dirty Dash, Tough Mudder obstacle workouts are the perfect example. Designed by the British Special Forces, Tough Mudder events are hardcore, high-endurance obstacle courses that stretch around 16 to 19 kilometres. If you’re a lover of light-hearted dance workouts, steer well clear. If you’re an adrenaline junkie, you’re likely to find these events as fun as they are challenging. Picture yourself plunging into a muddy pool of icy water; swinging from monkey bars when you feel like your muscles can’t go on any longer and leap-frogging over five ft.-wide pits before being submerged in an icy mud bath if you miss a step. These hard-core events leave little time to get bored. Why put yourself through an event like this, you ask? Because you’re one Tough Mudder and oh boy, have you done a workout to be proud of! For more information visit http://toughmudder.com.au/|ToughMudder .

 

-If you’re looking for a fun form of fitness that challenges your body to an amazing cardiovascular workout, increases your lean muscle tissue and allows you to reach your maximum heart rate in minimum time, rope training may be for you. After the warm-up, a typical rope training session consists of an intensive, one minute movement in which you firmly grip a heavy rope at both ends and move it up a down in a wave-like motion. The challenge is – aside from keeping this movement going for a full minute – to keep the velocity and flow of the waves for the entire minute without flagging. It sounds pretty boring on paper but trust us, once you’ve started you can’t stop until you get it right. Once you’ve mastered the wave-like motion, you can move onto more challenging moves. A piece of rope hasn’t been this fun since we were little! For more information visit Fitness Fix.

 

http://bounceinc.com.au/ - Trampolining fun for groups, individuals, parties and even corporate events!

 

- A new wave of events are being held around the country for the recreational athlete such as 'The colour run', where participants run a 5km course throwing as much paint on each other as possible! 'The neon run' is a 5km fun run at night time where participants run through bright lights, listen to the hottest DJ's and finish with an awesome dance after party!

 

These are a few options out there slightly different to the usual monotonous forms of exercise, but so much fun that you don't even realise the awesome fitness benefits you are getting! bring your friends and you get a great 'social workout' as well! Win, win!

 

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