Innovative Indoor Workouts You Should Try This Fall

Fall – the time to get indoors and out of your normal gym grind. Are you ready to discover some insane, innovative new ways to get your heart rate up while indoors? You won’t have any difficulty breaking a sweat inside while it’s snowing outside. Not only is it smart to deter from your regular routine, you never know, it could be an all out blast to go to the gym.

Check to see if these gyms and studios have landed in your town or if you can stream new workouts into your home gym!

Dance and Choreographed Style Workouts

DAYBREAKER

Where the motto is “wellness, community, music, mischief”

Daybreaker can be summarized as a trip to the nightclub before work without the alcohol, but with all the fun, dancing, sweating, and calorie torching. That’s how you will start your day…dancing like a rock star. Dancing is only your main workout though because Daybreaker digs so much deeper. Here’s what your morning schedule looks like:

• Yoga – to stretch and get ready for the main event (aka - the dance party)
• Dance – you are club style dancing early in the morning before work #shakeyobootay
• Cool Down – an emerging artist from your area gives a motivating performance
• Goals – you set positive goals for your day before hitting the showers to head to work
• Added Bonus – the bar stocks free, healthy beverages

I don’t know about you, but there is no way I would be able to leave Daybreaker in a bad mood. What a way to start your day! To find out if there is a Daybreaker in your city, find the link to their website at the end of this article. 

BollyX

Get in touch with your strong cultural side.

If you like modern dance, you will love BollyX. It is a dance-fitness workout based on the hugely popular Bollywood style dancing. Sweat, dance, and improve your strength through a choreographed class that energizes you with the hottest music tracks.

Each class is 45-50 minutes of non-stop movement. You will rotate between high intensity to lower intensity which is great for melting away the pounds. Feeling and looking sexy have never been so fun.

AKT InMotion

The AKT philosophy is movement with a purpose.

Anna Kaiser masterfully created AKT InMotion. Her interval workouts combine movement, cardio, flexibility training and strength training that are energizing. If you can’t get to a studio to sweat with some classmates, you can subscribe to the best of AKT monthly or annually and have them on-demand.  A new workout is added each month.

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The workouts require no equipment, so you can do them from home, on travel, or during your lunch break.  There are so many different types of workouts to choose from:

• Cardio workouts
• 10-20 minute workouts
• 60 minute workouts
• 10 Day Challenges
• Upper body workouts
• Full-body workouts
• Core workouts
• And more…

This is the real dancing of the stars. Celebrities are hooked. Kelly Ripa does AKT four days per week according to People Magazine. Shakira and Sarah Jessica Parker have also been known to be AKT addicts according to Shape.

Non-Dance Style Workouts

PELETON

Cycle with the pack.

Why head to cycling class when you can train with the best cyclists and top coaches in the nation from your living room? Peleton delivers this one of a kind system right into your home. You purchase the system, a state of the art stationary bike equipped with a computer monitor. Once it’s set up, you simply log on and chose to do a live class or an on demand ride.

• On Demand – is a pre-programmed ride that you can do any time
• Live Classes – you will be coached by a live instructor from Peleton’s studio in New York

You can compete against your classmates in real time via a class leader board or turn it off just to enjoy the workout. You can take scenic rides through exotic locations through on demand rides. Choose your difficulty level, chose your instructor, all the choices for your ride are at your fingertips.

Orangetheory Fitness

Strap a heart rate monitor on and GO!

High intensity interval stations are what you sign up for. Heart rate monitors constantly hold you accountable for how hard you are working, and it is displayed for the whole class to see. You will quite literally work and sweat your ass off in circuit style training for 45-60 minutes or a tornado round; you choose.

The three stations consist of:

• Weights and equipment
• Treadmill
• Rowing

During class, your heart rate will be displayed in one of four heart rate zones designated by color: blue, green, orange, red. The goal is to work in the “orange zone” for up to 20 minutes per class or more. Each class you earn one point for every minute that you spend in orange. So, it’s a class challenge every time to see who earns the most points. Bring your competitive edge to class each day, and get ready to make sweat angels!

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PHA (Peripheral Heart Action) Training

See ya HIIT, PHA, the new bodybuilding circuit training, just moved back in.

Could PHA replace HIIT as the new way to make gains, lose fat, and get your cardio in at the same time??? Let’s start off by clearing the air. This is not new. Studies in the 1940s showed PHA to be a very effective style of exercising. It’s now on the comeback.

How does it work?

You drive your body through an intense, timed series of weight lifting circuits that are specifically ordered. The purpose is to keep your blood circulating throughout your body for the whole workout. You start by targeting smaller central muscles. Get them working hard, and then you follow up by working the larger muscle groups like arms, legs and abdominals.

Will your muscles grow? Just ask Bob Gajda, a former Mr. Universe and one of only three men to ever defeated Schwarzenegger on the stage. Gajda lived by PHA and was outspoken about its awesomeness in the 60s.

Ask any bodybuilder, you must work out for the gains! If you are ready to get ripped, start PHA. If it doesn’t kill you, it will make you stronger.

You don’t need to look for a PHA gym. Your local gym has everything you need to create these workouts!

Conclusion

Every year the weather gets cold, but your body can remain haute. Don’t be afraid to try new fitness routines. Step outside of your comfort zone. These indoor workouts are just a few innovative ideas in the fitness industry this year. Google new gyms and studios in your area and surrounding towns. You never know what you might discover.