As Carrie Bradshaw once said, your 20s are for making mistakes, and your 30s are for learning lessons from them.
While you might have spent your 20s not caring about your health or fitness, you will realize that as you move to your 30s, your body starts reacting badly to the care-free lifestyle, and making a change in your lifestyle becomes inevitable.
But having a gym membership that you hardly use is not enough. Regular fitness classes are way better than gyms because you really don’t have to know what you’re doing. You don’t have to think about what machines to use, or how much time to spend on them. All you have to do is show up and follow the instructor.
Here are some of the best fitness classes for women in their 30s.
Barre
Combining the power of pilates, yoga, and ballet together, these classes use a ballet barre, and the exercises have been specifically designed to give you a lean and dancer-like body.
Barre classes look very much like ballet classes with open rooms, walls covered with mirrors and ballet bars across all the corners. Most classes are an hour long, and they have several upper body exercises. You can expect to torch about 500 calories every session.
SoulCycle
Don’t do SoulCycle because your favorite celebrity is doing it, do it because your body needs the exercise. SoulCycle is like taking a high-adrenaline spiritual journey on a stationary bike. Find a class with the right instructor and music, and you will feel the extra fat burning in your body. By the way, a 45-minute session on a cycle can burn up to 750 calories.
TRX
TRX uses two suspended straps for an hour long session. Before your mind wanders off to some other place, let me remind you, it’s still a fitness class.
You can take the workout level from easy to hard by changing the body angle on these adjustable TRX straps. If you’re looking for a head-to-toe workout, this is where you should be heading to. You can burn more than 500 calories every one-hour session, and by the way, Jennifer Lopez does this too.
Trampoline
Did you know that just standing on a trampoline burns calories? If you’re bored with your normal workouts, it’s time to add some fun to it with trampolines. You can expect loud music and fun exercises at trampoline parks while reminiscing your childhood.
Boot camp
If you’re looking for something more hardcore that can help build up your stamina, go to hour-long boot camps with light music and low light. Though instead of a yelling sergeant, you will have a professional trainer guiding and motivating the entire group.
Boot camps have different stations to incorporate varying fitness levels together so you can expect everything from boxing to dumbbells and bodyweight exercises. Every session at boot camp will burn 800-1000 calories.
Pound
This is a new form of workout that uses drumsticks for a full body workout. Yes, that’s right, you can drum to music and lose calories. This type of workout has easy-to-follow strength training moves. If pop music is your guilty pleasure, this is where you should be headed to.
Zumba
If you hate the normal workouts, but dance gets you going, head straight to Zumba. The reason why it’s so popular among women is because it has easy, booty-shaking choreography combined with high energy music which makes the whole workout electrifying. And with the incredible fun you have, expect to burn 500-800 calories.
Which fitness classes are you into right now?
