Trainings which increase balance, and develop postural alignment, include:Ballet Burn, BOSU Ball, Boxing, Massage, On the Ball, Pilates Reformer, Tango Workout, Trampolining, and Yoga.

Ballet Burn

Listen to the strains of Swan Lake and Nutcracker Suite, as we stretch and tone our total body with ballet moves.


BOSU Ball

The BOSU Ball (an acronym for “both sides utilized”) is essentially an exercise ball cut in half. Jogging on the “ball” side is low impact aerobics, and also challenging to the core muscles and balance. Push-ups done on the “flat” side (ball side down) include the challenge of stabilizing the ball, in addition to the strength of the push-up. The BOSU workout integrates balance, core stability, cardiovascular, and muscular endurance.

Boxing

Boxing training stimulates all muscle groups, and provides the perfect combination of aerobic (with oxygen) and anaerobic (short-burst, without oxygen) exercise. The boxing workout improves every type of physical capacity: strength, coordination, reflexes, aerobic fitness, anaerobic fitness, and endurance.


Massage

Rooted in Eastern healing traditions, Massage combines passive stretching, and gentle acupressure, to energetically balance the body. This interactive hands-on class teaches a natural, non-invasive approach to providing relief from injury, stress and pain. Increase self awareness as you give and receive this ancient healing, which promotes proper alignment, enhanced flexibility and greater physical and emotional well being.


On the Ball

Sixties music sets the pace, as we bounce up and down on the ball. This is a fun, fun way to get a cardio workout, all the while engaging the core and increasing balance. We add bands to work upper body muscles, making this an all over workout for aerobics and strength.


Pilates Reformer

Experience the ultimate Pilates workout by incorporating the use of the Reformer, an apparatus specially designed to help achieve maximum results in Pilates.

Training with the aid of the Pilates reformer equipment, helps you:
• Increase muscle tone
• Improve flexibility
• Strengthen your back and improve posture
• Decrease stress and improve energy level


Tango Workout

Be carried off by the mystery and romance of the tango, in this fitness workout for balance and postural alignment. Tango music; tango steps. Never has working out been so enchanting.


Trampoline

Trampolining is an exercise that reduces body fat; firms legs, thighs, abdomen, arms and hips; increases agility; improves balance and coordination; strengthens muscles overall; and provides an aerobic effect for the heart.

Trampolining utilizes 3 forces: gravity, acceleration, and deceleration.   If your body is exposed to 1 ½ times the usual force of gravity, your body will strengthen itself to cope with the stress.

A study by NASA found that Trampolining as an exercise is 68% more oxygen efficient than other forms of exercise.   What this means is that you can exercise quite vigorously on a trampoline, without feeling out of breath, but still gain the same benefits you would from jogging on pavement.   It avoids the shin splints and knee problems associated with exercise on hard surfaces.   It also has the beneficial effect of restoring bone mass and can actually stop osteoporosis from getting any worse.

Trampolining also strengthens the spine.   Trampolining maximizes spinal imbibition, creating a positive impact on spinal and intervertebral disc health.

Yoga

Yoga is a therapy which helps you to become more aware of your body’s posture, alignment, and patterns of movement.   It makes the body more flexible, and helps to relax, even in the midst of a stress-stricken environment.

Physiological Benefits of Yoga include:

• increasing flexibility, and relieving stiffness in the back and neck
• increasing lubrication of the joints, ligaments and tendons, helping to prevent injury
• muscle toning, increasing strength throughout the entire body, including the spine
• improving postural alignment and correcting round and sluggish shoulders
  

These enormous physical benefits are just a “side-effect” of this powerful practice.   Yoga harmonizes the mind with the body, relieving the detrimental effects of stress upon our physical, endocrinal and emotional systems.

Pre-Natal and Post-PartumYoga

Smart Workout offers yoga training specifically designated as “Pre-Natal” and “Post Partum.”

The Trainings with this designation are led by yoga teachers with advanced certifications for the specialties of pre-natal and post partum instruction.

And even the other yoga classes at Smart Workout (those not specifically designated “pre-natal” or “post partum”) are also taught with a sensitivity for the pre-natal or post partum condition. All the yoga teachers at Smart Workout are certified Yoga Teachers, with a minimum 200 hour certification (which includes pre-natal and post partum instruction), and in addition, are given extensive instruction on pre-natal and post partum care, as part of our in-house training program.