Fitness and Sport activities
Cardio
There are lots of good reasons to practice cardio! Cardio is good for your health, especially for the heart but also for the morale. It can also increase endurance and improve sports performance. Cardio classes help to gain muscle, reduce fat, lose weight and to stay fit.
Strength & Conditioning
Strength and conditioning is a great way to transform your body and get huge results, whether you’re an athlete or amateur, expert, or just starting out. It encompasses so much more than just lifting weights and focuses on a variety of tools to improve movement, health, and physical performance.
Yoga
Yoga cultivates health and wellbeing (physical, emotional, mental and social) through the regular practice of a range of many different techniques, including postures and movement, breath awareness and breathing exercises, relaxation and concentration, self-inquiry and meditation.
Martial arts
Martial arts refer to any type of combat technique, often stressing hand and foot combat. In many cases, the term is used to refer to self-defense techniques born in Asian countries, although practices from all over the world can be counted in the definition.
Aqua fitness
Aqua fitness classes are some of our most popular group fitness classes. Although the exercise may look gentle, aqua classes are actually among the most effective for burning calories and fat. Not only will it help you burn off extra calories, but it does it in a way that’s gentle on your joints.
Dance
Dance classes are usually for groups of children, teens, or adults at different levels of dance skill, including dance fundamentals classes for pre-beginners
Sport
Many gyms provides different sport facilities to their members. This gives you the advantage of being able to vary the pleasures when you are at the gym. In addition, many clubs provide their sports equipment and facilities for outsiders (non-members)
Activities by goal
If your main goal is to lose weigt or lose fat, there is one word to remember : Cardio Training.
You have to practice cardio exercices accompanied by a health nutrition.
There is plenty of activities and sports for cardio benefits : Zumba, Les Mills classes (group or video), Tabata or CrossFit (to avoid for beginners)… You can also choose cardio sports like Soccer 5vs5 or BasketBall.
Precious advice for beginners, choose group activities, especially with coaches. No “all by myself” feeling, this is primordial to keep motivation !
More and more people are looking a sport activity to relax themselves. Stress is the 21th century sickness, people start to understand it.
Therefor we see many yoga and pilates studio appears all around the world, in particular in UAE.
Almost all gyms and fitness club accommodate yoga and/or yoga classes. A lot of personal trainers are available all around emirates.
For a good mix between sport and relax, aquatic activities seem to tie in, water aerobics is a perfect example.
There is a choice between indoor or outdoor session, in UAE, we make our own choice : Sea, Sun and Yoga !
Obviously, to muscle up, the best activity is the bodybuilding. It is necessary to find a workout club or gym with suitable amenities and equipment. Moment of stagnation can be the start of a new program. So there is two options, experience a gym with coaches or hire a personal trainer.
Some classes are good for muscle up like Body Pump from Les Mills classes.
Secondly, muscles does not concern only bodybuilders. Some people want to muscle up their deep muscles. For that, Pilate and TRX are really effective.
Hard week ? Need to Let off stram ? There is sport activities for that ! Let off steam is the original goal of sports.
Many activities exists to stop thinking and start screaming. Les Mills classes like HIIT training or Body Pump are adapted.
To suit this goal, there is new activities which have became really famous like Zumba and RPM.
If you can’t find your happiness with that, just go out running and screaming, that also works.
That part is not for beginners. For people who want to test their limits and go further in exercices, new activities arrive every day.
The best known in recent years is the CrossFit. This activity make people push their limits and fight against theirselves.
Versatility and selflessness are CrossFit keywords. Hardest are the WOD and more your team mate will cheer you. Pain is shared with the CrossFit team, teamwork always first.
A newcomer makes some noises since 2016. This is the Tabata training.
It is part of HIIT Training (High Interval Training), exercices focused on cardio.