CARE OF YOUR BABY THIS WINTER

Yoshita Rao

With every new year, come January 1st and most of us fall prey to the alluring gym membership offers in our vicinity. Resolutions to get fit may well be a clichéd form of starting the next year but it is one that we are all familiar with. While traditional tedious forms of strength training may not be everyone’s cup of (herbal) tea, there are other forms that have been highly praised for their methods and gains, such as pole dancing as a form of workout. This past decade saw a plethora of variations that bastardised traditional yoga forms with cat yoga, beer yoga and even anti-gravity yoga. Nonetheless, the amount of ways to get fit haven’t ceased to amuse Indians, who enjoy these unconventional ways of getting in shape. Here are a few popular trends that have caught on and are popular with fellow fitness enthusiasts.

BALLE BALLE TO BODY-BUILDING

Tricha Kumar has been dancing and mastering Bhangra since 2012. However, she took to teaching Bhangra as a fitness routine only last year on popular demand from Mumbaikars. “People were actively looking for fun ways to workout as opposed to just going to the gym and lifting weights,” she says, adding, “A lot of people, who resorted to dance fitness were looking for something that made them tired and something that made them sweat. Bhangr does that whether you are following it as a fitness rou or not.”

So what is Bhangra fitne Tricha explains, “When you say Bhangra, people always assume it’s some type of ‘bal balle’ or jumping around, wh they don’t realise is that it requires professional trainin similar to ballet. In order to master authentic Bhangra, there are specific muscles tha need to be targetted and focused on.”

She goes on to share that unlike other workouts, she doesn’t do this to burn calories but to target various muscle groups. “We use our traps (trapezius) and delts (deltoids) for shoulder movements. To get the bounce movements right, we also use our knees, calves, pelvic muscles and our hips. There is also core engagement to keep balance,” says the 27-year-old.

LET’S BOUNCE

Bouncing on a trampoline may have hardly seemed like a fitness regime when you were young and yet, this was one of the trends that cropped up i the past decade.

A recent inauguration o park with over 130 trampolines in Malad, encouraged hefty hamstri and quadriceps workouts while having fun and bouncing around. Their reasoning behind introducing a trampolin park, called Bounce, to suburban Mumbai, is an alleged NASA backed statement — “10 minutes bouncing on a trampoline is better cardio than 30 minutes of running”.

Founded by director, Antony Morell, this fitness regime engages various kinds of muscle groups and the body’s ability to “burn calories more efficiently”.

Anand Barot, CEO and director of the park says, “We have 60 hosts at our Mumbai venue who have the skill set to teach our customers various tricks like backflips and front flips. Moreover, trampolining stimulates the blood flow in a way that helps rid the body of toxins and waste. Trampolining is not all about burning calories but also health benefits of rebound exercise such as cardiovascular fitness, coordination and agility, muscle toning and stress relief.”

UP IN THE AIR

Twirling up in the air on nothing but a fine rope or silk ribbon and occasionally viewing the world upside down — this graceful dance form of fitness is called aerial art. It is also defined as a form of gymnastics performed on different apparatuses such as hoops, trapezes, or cubes. Dare compare this workout regime to antigravity yoga and instructor, Shruti Jasani of The Wooden Stage Studio in Vile Parle, will prove you wrong. Her argument — “There is nothing like antigravity yoga. Yoga cannot be practised without earth.”

So, how is aerial art a workout you ask? It engages every muscle group, “including fingertips and toes, which is almost hardly ever used in any other form of dance or workout,” Shruti ays.

While listing out the estrictions on people who on’t do well with this form of orkout, Shruti rules out errible listeners” as those ho shouldn’t engage in her ass. Having done this for 11 ars now, Shruti says ginners should start with mple floor exercises. “We art off with building rength and flexibility rough floor exercises. ere are loads of beginner rial conditioning ercises that get you into e groove of hanging and oking at the world upside at an advanced level,” says the 34-year-old.

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Tricha Kumar teaches at a Bhangra fitness class