Let your hair down and break a sweat in rhythmic fashion with the latest dance-inspired fitness trends heating up studios across Singapore.
Let your hair down and break a sweat in rhythmic fashion with the latest dance-inspired fitness trends heating up studios across Singapore.
PILOXING
The name says it all—Piloxing is a high-octane fitness programme with borrowed elements from core-crunching Pilates, agility-enhancing boxing, and heart-pumping cardio.
Along with the promise of a trimmer, more sculpted physique, it is also proven to boost confidence—just the way celebrity trainer and founder, Viveca Jansen, had planned; having founded Piloxing in the hopes of empowering women by challenging their mental and physical threshold through energising moves.
Offered at Bolly Dancing Studio, each exhilarating 60-minute session can burn between 400 and 900 calories while dramatically improving your speed, flexibility, reflexes and vitality. www.bollydancing.com.sg
POUND
Ever reach that point where you just need to hit something (or maybe even, someone)? Well, get pounding. As much a high-octane workout as it is the ultimate stress relieving activity,
Pound is a full body cardio and conditioning workout with the help of Ripstix— lightly weighted drumsticks engineered specifically for exercising that you use to play an intense air-drum while busting out dance, yoga and Pilates-inspired movements.
Singapore’s only certified pound instructor, Grace Sagaya, encapsulates all this in her class, Pound Town, where the technique of coordinated drumming builds brain focus, rhythm, agility and coordination for an ingeniously fun workout that sculpts and burns up to 900 calories in 45 minutes. www.gracesagaya.com
POLE DANCING
One of the first pole gyms in Singapore fully dedicated to attaining fitness, the Pole Lab boasts jaw-dropping choreography and strength training through a combination of gymnastic and acrobatic moves, all while working the body gracefully around a vertical metal pole—a fun and sexy way to strengthen your core, as well as boost your stamina, strength and flexibility.
If achieving a sizzling hot body is as stimulating as this, it’s no wonder pole dancing is fast grabbing attention among the adventurous. www.polelab.com.sg
KPOPXk
K-pop stars keep their figures svelte through hours spent practising vigorous, elaborate dance moves for their music videos and concert tours.
Hone your very own super cute dance style with KpopX Fitness, a dance-fitness programme that will have you sweating it out to 14 energising tracks in 60 minutes.
You can easily burn 400 calories with the fusion of dance and body toning movements, simplified with a combination of aerobic exercises, so that even those without any dance background can shimmy up a storm. www.kpopxfitness.com
BODYJAM
No stranger to dance fitness enthusiasts in Singapore, Les Mills’ BODYJAM has managed to keep the fitness party pumping by constantly updating its playlist of chart-topping hits and an arsenal of latest dance styles.
A hit at Pure Fitness Asia Square, this pulsating class fuses aerobic movements with a mixture of upbeat dances like crumping and jazzy hip-hop.
It provides a killer cardio workout by keeping heart rates between 130-150bpm over 60 minutes, which fly by because it is that much fun.
Plus, it is great for improving coordination and finding your own groove, so you’ll be prepared to rule the dance floor in the club too. www.purefitness.com/en/singapore
XTEND BARRE
If a svelte ballerinalike physique is what you are going for, Xtend Barre at Upside Motion is the vigorous, body-sculpting option for you. Hollywood’s hottest weight loss secret combines the principles of traditional ballet and exercises at the barre with Pilates.
The fast-paced cardio activity targets small muscle groups with high repetitions of bicep curls, leg lifts, arabesques and glute-strengthening exercises on the mat, all of which are supplemented by props like weights, straps, balls and resistance bands.
In just 60 minutes, Xtend Barre will help tone and build muscle endurance, improve your balance, burn major calories and strengthen your core so well, you’ll look just as good as Natalie Portman in a skintight ballet leotard in no time. www.upsidemotion.com
REGGAE
If you’re looking to amp up your cardio routine, winding up (or down) to reggae rhythms is a surefire way to get your heart racing. O School’s ReggaeDancehall class involves lots of body isolations, percussive hip movements, and rigorous choreography that enhance everything from flexibility and groove to stamina.
Even if you miss a step, just let your inner reggae spirit flow to the high-energy Jamaican beats. They will set the right tone for your hips and feet to swivel and stomp towards a fitter you. www.oschool.com.sg
PULSE
Torn between heading out on the town and hitting the gym? Make your workout a night out at Virgin Active with Pulse Powered by Clubbercise, the fastest growing dance fitness brand in the UK and Ireland.
Set in a dark studio, Pulse involves dancercises that mimic the highly energetic moves you see in the hottest music videos— complete with hip thrusts, fist pumps and hair flips that may be simple but are surprisingly effective in burning calories, building stamina and toning muscles if done repeatedly at high impact.
Think of it as a choreographed rave, with a playlist that ranges from Old School ’90s tracks to current club anthems, and glow sticks that are incorporated into the routines to help tone up your arms and light up the scene.
Depending on how hard you hit that beat, you can expect to burn at least 500 calories per class—so get dressed in your neon best, let your hair down, and just dance. www.virginactive.com.sg
