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Exercise your booty from Jell-O to J-Lo at Virgin Active! |
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Calling all couch potatoes! Has your sofa become the mainstay of your existence,
or just an all-too frequent stopgap for evening entertainment? Well, it’s time to
swap your sedentary lifestyle and telltale wobbly bits for some cheek-clenching,
gluteus-minimising workouts at Virgin Active!
Step One: Put down the remote
The hours that you spend languishing on your sofa each week are not only dulling
your senses and sapping your energy levels, but may actually be restricting blood
flow - turning your previously pert posterior into a saggy, shapeless shadow of
its former self!
Step Two: Get off your seat
Postural muscles are bound to droop when the only exercise you regularly engage
in is moving from the sofa to the fridge every evening. The effects of inactivity
aren’t just superficial either! It can lead to posture-related health and back problems,
not to mention severely diminished energy levels and self-esteem.
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Step Three: Get down to Virgin Active
By substituting just 10% of the time you normally spend cultivating a sofa bum each
week to being active, you can noticeably improve
muscle tone and fitness levels
- leaving you buzzing with renewed vitality! Here’s a
look at some exercises that
will put the beautilicious back into your booty in no time…
1. The Taut Fast Class Sofa Bum Workout
Target lumpy bums and loose thighs with this hard-hitting Fast Class! Designed
specifically to ease the self-confessed couch potato back into the world of exercise
and wellness, in this format you can expect to burn maximum calories, in minimum
time.
What’s involved?
Warm up with some jumps and crouches, then get stuck into some lunges, deadlifts,
and lying prone hip extensions. Cool down with the plank to engage your whole body, and then stretch out your hamstrings, quads, gluteus, calves, and lower back thoroughly
to finish.
2. Nautilus® TreadClimber®
It’s a stepper, a
treadmill, and a cross trainer all in one. And it burns calories
twice as fast as running. So, get ready to kiss your sofa bum goodbye with this
super-fast, super-intense new cardio workout!
What’s involved?
Walking. Thanks to TreadClimber’s unique ‘Dual-Treadles’ design, now you can work
more muscles simultaneously, but with minimum joint impact. So climb on, and expect
to increase cardio fitness levels, strengthen core muscles, improve posture, and
dramatically reshape your body!
3. Power Plate®
For even the most reluctant gym-goers, this latest innovation could be the exercise
you’ve been looking for! Power Plate uses Advanced Vibration Technology™ to deliver
all the benefits of a one-hour gym session, in just 15-minutes!
What’s involved?
Step up to the plate and hold a series of poses including; squats, lunges, push-ups,
abdominal crunches, tricep dips and bicep curls, each for a maximum of 60 seconds.
The Acceleration Training™ technology transfers vibrations to your muscles making
them contract and relax up to 50 times a second, so you can expect to improve tone,
flexibility, coordination, circulation, and posture, as you increase muscle, strength,
power, and endurance –
while even reducing the appearance of cellulite!
4. V-Cycle
One of the fastest ways to a svelte new figure and positive self-image
is on the back of our top-of-the-range indoor cycles! Coast, climb and conquer your
way to health and wellness with one of the best cardiovascular workouts known.
What’s involved?
Lots of pedalling! This high-energy class delivers all the benefits of cycling outdoors,
with all the comforts of indoors. Your bum, thighs and calves will feel the burn
in no time, but remember, you own the controls so pedal as hard as you can, and
ease off when you need to!
5. Gymstick Studio, Aqua & Nordic Walking
Hotly tipped to be the UK’s fastest growing exercise trend, at Virgin Active
you can enjoy Gymstick in the studio, pool, or even outside in the park. Each class
delivers a unique total body workout that’s fun, physically demanding, and totally
innovative.
What’s involved?
You’ll be doing a huge range of movements, where you can expect to improve muscular
endurance, core strength, cardiovascular fitness, balance, flexibility, and coordination.
For these, and many more sofa bum-busting exercises, check out your nearest Virgin
Active club today.
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