People who want to stay fit are always looking for something new to try. This is especially true when regular exercises are becoming less interesting and slow.
"If you don't change what you do, your body doesn't have to adapt and you don't get better," says Neal Pire, a personal trainer in Allendale, N.J., and a spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine, in an article "Why Isn't my Workout Working" Health and Fitness, MSNBC.com, May 4, 2006. New exercises mixed with workout routine can give best possible results.
What are the latest, hottest workout trends for those who want to try something new to stay fit?
Easy Back to Basics Fitness
Hula Hoop Fit
Hula hooping can trim off unsightly bulges around the waist and hips with its back and forth, side to side rocking movements.
“Hooping works on core muscles,” said Pete McCall, an exercise physiologist with the American Council on Exercise. Hula hooping also enhances dexterity, and improves flexibility and coordination. 30 to 60 minutes of hip-swiveling session builds strength in the abdomen, buttocks, and legs.
Hoopilates
Hoopilates is a Pilates-based hoop exercise program created by Jen Bleier, a certified Pilates instructor based in New York, according to the article "Hoopilates" published in the New York Daily News last August 11.
Hoopilates is a workout that combines traditional Pilates with the cardio elements of hula hooping. Hoopilates works the whole body . . . strengthens the weak muscles, stretches the strong muscles, and works on hip, external oblique in the lower back, and around the waist and stomach.
Affordable Personal Fitness
P90X
Fitness trends are getting personal . . . personalized workout and guidance can add value to workout programs. A competent, and highly skilled fitness trainer can educate, motivate, and inspire people to reach their fitness goal.
P90X Extreme Home Fitness system brings with it a personal trainer to work out through routines with every user. Tony Horton takes users all the way through the 90 days program with good positive attitude, humor, and humility.
The system starts with easier workouts, constantly changing pace and phase to keep the body from reaching its plateau level, and ends with the boot camp by the 90th day. P90X Extreme Home Fitness gives users 12 sweat-inducing workouts, designed to transform the body from regular to remarkable physique.
Wii Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010
Celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels is back with a new and improved fast-paced, high-intensity workout in Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2010. The workout setting is a Pacific jungle island where players will have weight loss, strength, intervals, and hill climb trainings.
The Fitness Ultimatum 2010 begins with the setting of the user’s fitness goal. Then Jillian will lead players with all the motivation of a powerful trainer to activities like swing kicks, oblique, jumping jacks, hip twists, water pump, running, and bicycle. Fitness workout also includes strength exercises like crunches, pelvic thrust, side planks, side lunges, sledge swing, back kick w/ shoulder press, boat pose, and lunge kick.
All activities have accurate motion tracking to make sure movements are precise. One interesting feature of this Wii game is a customizable training calendar that allows users to plan their cardio and strength training for up to six months.
Fun and Friendly Fitness
Zumba Latin Dance
Zumba means fun with fast, sensual, and bold movements. Zumba, created by Miami-based dance choreographer Beto Perez, is a Latin inspired dance exercise that dances to the rhythms of cumbia, cha-cha, meringue, reggae, and salsa to tone the tummy, thighs, and buttocks.
The workout routine is a blend of fast and slow moves starting with the hips shaking gaily then swivels, and pivots to the beat of salsa, meringue, or flamenco.
Published in Webmd.com on August 22, exercise physiologist Nicole Gunning said, "The benefits of dancing Zumba are increased aerobic threshold and stamina, improved bone density and balance, lesser body fats, and lower blood pressure."
The Latin beat make participants shake from the shoulders down and across the floor, keeping the heart rate elevated, and the body burning 700 calories in one session. So, ditch the workout and join the party, Zumba to a new body!
Pole Dance to Fitness
Pole dancing fitness is different from the exotic pole dancing meant for gentlemen club environment.
Pole Dance as an exercise is a new way to body and mind fitness. The pole dancer hangs on to a pole using inner thigh muscles and upper arms then spins around it. In a dance routine around a pole, the user combines stationary poses, spins, and climbs. These moves help tone the abs, arms, biceps, upper back, and core.
Pole dancing moves are similar to techniques found in gymnastics, ballet, jazz, and modern dance. Pole Dancing is a wonderful workout as it uses almost all the body muscles while lifting the body up on the pole.
The fitness industry of today offers people varied option . . . to do fitness exercises at home, around the block, in the gym, with men or women, and young or old.
The new trend of fitness exercises has taken workouts to a new level. Fitness programs are promoting the use of nature as workout settings while some have mind exercises tuck into the routines to make workouts more holistic. Other fitness workouts are more fun and exciting, made to enhance the capacities of the body and mind.
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