Not that you’re one to obsess about bathing suit season, which is due to arrive in oh, about 6 weeks. And not that you’ve been slacking off a bit since spring break, keeping your inner Zen mama in check with fine wine and imported cheese. Ladies, now’s the time to kick that workout into high gear! Listen to the experts: if you’re looking to boost your metabolism, build muscle, and feel fabulous, the best way to get there is through a tough workout. Here’s how!
Elizabeth Boos TCX Class at Lifetime Fitness - Montvale
Elizabeth Boos, a.k.a “The Beast,” delivers a killer TCX class at Lifetime Montvale. Her version of “total conditioning extreme” (honed through her personal experience as a fitness model) uses weights, kettle bells, medicine balls, steps, and resistance bands to create full-body resistance training with continuous cardio. Elizabeth’s style is drill sergeant mixed with love – she is always quick to tell her followers how much they mean to her but doesn’t not stop pushing and motivating for the entire hour. Her hope is that people walk away from her class and feel like they gave it their all – and didn’t give up! Elizabeth lives by the motto “if it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” Lifetimefitness.com
Rise Fitness: Ho-Ho-Kus
Each class at Rise is challenging- and every class incorporates a variety of exercise options that keep you moving and your heart thumping the entire time. What sets Rise apart is the philosophy on not just focusing on strength but on enhancing stability, mobility and stamina. Their space is filled with a huge assortment of apparatus, including free weights, stability balls, ropes, and climbing walls, and Rise also has a running track within their space for optimizing cardio conditioning. Rob Jaroszuk’s cross training class is a must-try ultimate total body kick butt workout. www.risefit.com
Crossfit 201: Franklin Lakes
Since new owners Stacey and Michael Marino took over the box in January 2016, Crossfit 201 offers 8 – 10 classes per day of high intensity and challenging classes at all fitness levels. New members are introduced to the program at their exclusive “Elements” 3-class series, which gradually introduces all of the movements, training, intensity and philosophy of Crossfit 201. Perhaps one of their toughest classes is the CEC (core, endurance and conditioning), which is designed for maximum burn in the shortest amount of time. Think CrossFit without a barbell: high intensity calorie burn, mind/body challenge, and no room for inflated egos, fitness plateaus or bad attitudes. www.crossfit201.com
Stack Velocity Sports Performance - Mahwah
What sets Stack apart is that no two classes are alike. Their Adult Bootcamp classes are constantly changing, optimizing different strength, power and functional exercises in such a way to improve metabolism, body composition and exercise technique. There is also a strong anti-injury focus, which is particularly valuable for the adult exercise enthusiast who wants a killer workout but doesn’t want to be laid up in bed for the next two weeks! www.velocitysp.com/mahwah/adult_fitness
Venom Fitness – Wyckoff
Venom offers a huge variety of boot camp and callisthenic classes and even yoga, but their boxing/kickboxing class is their toughest and most intense workout- boasting an 800-1000 calorie burn while you stay moving and jabbing away for 60 minutes. Pow! Classes are taught by real boxers, not just aerobics instructors who know a few boxing moves. It’s an intense and incredibly challenging workout but great for beginners too. www.venomfitness-wyckoff.com
Lisa B's Total Body Blast at The Gym Montvale
Lisa B’s Total Body Blast delivers the toughest weekly workout at the Gym Montvale. It is a strength training class that uses weights and resistance with short bursts of super high intensity cardio infused throughout the class for maximum body and calorie burn. Lisa B’s energy and motivational style is infectious - she may be small in stature but her presence and spirit is anything but small. She makes each class fun and incredibly challenging. Lisa’s interjects funny anecdotes and stories throughout the 60 minutes so that before you even know it class is over and your body is fully cooked!!
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