The temperature's falling, but workouts all over the country are heating up. Literally.
Move over, hot yoga.
There's plenty of other hot workouts in town these days. From Pilates
to ballet to spinning to boot camp, there's more ways than ever to work
up a real-deal sweat.
In Brookline, Massachusetts, Gina Fay, owner of Dance Fit Studio,
was offering her ballet-inspired barre class at the Church of Our
Savior, a space that has no air conditioning and was 90 degrees in the
summer months before class even started.
The heat wasn't a deterrent at all. "The women loved the extra flexibility and the detox of sweating," she said.
When it came time to expand, she opened a new studio in a former hot yoga studio.
"We start the room at 92 degrees," she said of her hot barre and hot
deep-stretch classes. "Our clients asked that every class we offer be a
hot one."
They mostly are, she said, though she thinks she'll keep Pilates at a
normal temperature.
Fay may want to rethink that: the demand for hot Pilates in Los Angeles
is so great, a studio dedicated to the practice will open later this in
West Hollywood. Hot Pilates
claims to be the first heated Pilates studio in Los Angeles. And in Las
Vegas, Inferno Hot Pilates combines Pilates principles with
high-intensity interval training and is performed in a room heated to 95
degrees with 40 percent humidity.
The trend extends beyond major metro areas. In Waunkee and Ankeny, Iowa, Kris Hot Yoga
studios offer hot barre, hot cardio barre, hot ballet barre, a
run-barre fusion class and a hot barre boot camp. All classes are in
rooms heated to as high as 95 degrees. The hot classes were so popular,
founder Morgan Phipps opened a second studio earlier this year.
"The hot classes are what make it different than just going to a gym and
working out,” Phipps said. “I think for most clients, the more you
sweat equal the harder the workout.”
In North Hollywood, The Sweat Shoppe
offers heated, indoor cycling classes, "inspired by heated yoga,"
according to its website. Rooms are heated from 80 to 83 degrees,
"creating an environment which efficiently warms the body and
intensifies an already challenging workout."
But is that true? It's hard to say. Experts generally agree that as long
as you stay hydrated and stop if you don't feel well, hot workouts are
similar to working out outside on a hot summer day.
Fay, the owner of Dance Fit Studio in Massachusetts, said she wore a
heart monitor during a "normal temperature class" and during a hot class
to see whether there was a difference: "I burned almost 200 extra
calories."
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