Fitness crazes that start off in America always, sooner or later, make it across the pond.
Most of them the Americans are welcome to keep. For example, spinning. I can understand the appeal of such a high energy workout but spending 45 minutes on a bike going nowhere while being shouted at to “find more fuel in the body tank” by a sergeant major instructor just doesn’t do it for me.
What I do love is yoga. Which is why I can’t wait for anti-gravity yoga to makes its way over to the UK .
As unlikely as it sounds, converts of anti-gravity say the technique enables them to reach positions other exercises can’t reach, leading to a better all-round work-out.
Participants use a hammock suspended from the ceiling to carry out yoga, pilates and dance moves while defying gravity.
I’ve no doubt that were I to try it I’d look less like a high-flying circus act and more like I’d got into a fight with my bed sheet but I’d be willing to give it a go.
It’s being pioneered in the States by the US gym chain Crunch and even then it’s only available in Miami , Los Angeles and New York .
I’m certainly hoping it’ll take off (excuse the pun) in the UK soon.
Here’s a little peek…
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