Fast paced, action-packed high-energy class that combines the intensity and quick movements of kickboxing with strength exercises, circuit training, and endurance drills to improve your agility, cardiovascular fitness and give you an intense total body workout. Classes are 60 minutes featuring a variety of punch combinations, kicks, knee strikes and other self-defense combatives done to high energy music on free-standing heavy bags. Classes also incorporate many traditional exercises, such as jumping jacks, abdominal crunches, leg lifts and pushups to create a total body workout.
Advantages: According to the American Council on Exercise (ACE), in addition to improving and maintaining cardiovascular fitness, cardio-kickboxing increases strength and flexibility, improves coordination and balance and sharpens reflexes. Many of our members have said that it also helps relieve stress, and is lots of fun.
Our Cardio Kickboxing class accommodates various skill levels. Beginners are shown how to properly execute basic strikes and do basic strength building exercises while advanced students are given more complex striking combinations and modifications to keep strength building exercises challenging. Although this is a group class, we do focus on safety and work with the individual to develop proper techniques.
Kickboxing Gear: Wear comfortable clothing. You want to dress in clothes that let you move your arms and legs easily. We recommend comfortable exercise pants and a non-restricting shirt or tank top. For shoes, lightweight cross-trainers are best. To help protect our floor mats we require that your shoes have non-marking soles. Boxing gloves are required so bring your gear. If you don’t have your own gloves, you still have no excuse for trying our class. We just happen to have a few pair of gloves that we loan out to anyone trying their first Cardio Kickboxing class. If you need to purchase gloves, visit our pro shop. Our knowledgeable staff can show you exactly what to look for and can help you pick out the right weight and color.