Maintain your silhouette, eliminate a few extra pounds and feel more agile and strong … You can achieve this with a balanced diet and practicing some physical activity that starts your whole body. Besides swimming, running or cycling, do you know the new sports to be in shape?
There are no excuses not to encourage you to burn calories in the most fun way. In recent years, along with traditional activities, other disciplines have emerged that surprise with innovative exercises that combine, for example, yoga with daring acrobatics or dance with fitness. These are original sports that help you lose weight by fleeing from routine.
With them you will achieve an excellent physical condition, eliminating fat quickly and improving your cardiovascular health. They are perfect both for getting started in sports practice and for doing them on “active rest” days. If you are one of those who thinks that getting moving always supposes energy and well-being , dare with some of the sports activities that will be imposed when you least expect it.
They have in common that they work the whole body and that they involve a significant caloric expenditure. In addition, they are activities that surprise, amuse and involve a significant physical effort even if it does not seem like it. Leaving aside the strangest sports that are known, among the new sports to take care of yourself by eliminating fat and gaining firmness, the following stand out:
1. Sh’bam
It is the ultimate in combining dance and fitness into a moderate intensity aerobic activity ideal for almost everyone. Agility, flexibility, coordination of movements… All this in a forty-minute Sh’bam session in which you can lose about 500 calories. It is similar to Sh’bam, but not exactly the same. Here, electronic music, jazz or Latin rhythms are mixed in different choreographies with simple steps but really effective if the objective is to shape the figure.
2. Elipdoor
Toning your legs, thighs and buttocks while also shedding excess pounds is possible with this innovative sport to keep you in top shape. It is similar to spinning, but it is practiced on the elliptical, changing rhythms, intensities and type of stride, all, of course, to the rhythm of the music.
3. Aero yoga
If you do not know it, this mixture of postures and movements of yoga, Pilates and circus arts will surprise you. The aero yoga practiced using a wide ribbon, a kind of hammock that is attached to the ceiling. Challenging gravity itself, different exercises are performed, of greater or lesser intensity, always combining relaxation with hard work. This discipline is not only a novel sport to lose weight but an extraordinary way to combine two sports, gain flexibility and tone muscles harmoniously.
4. TRX
Continuing with the sports of “height” you can also try to do a TRX training that consists of performing both aerobic and strength exercises with your feet suspended in the air with the help of a device (the TRX) that is generally fixed to the ceiling to achieve this end. It is a demanding routine ideal for losing weight and toning, for which you have to be prepared, but the results, when it comes to losing fat and strengthening the muscles, are magnificent.
5. Afroaerobic
It has more and more followers and it is that afroaerobics is an original exercise to keep you in shape. Imagine an aerobic session incorporating the rhythms and movements of African dances. If you do not know which group class to choose in the gym, with the afroaerobics each and every one of the large muscle groups is worked in the most enjoyable way to be in shape and burning calories with each new choreography?
6. LISS
More than a new sport, it is a way of training that consists of performing one or more aerobic exercises at low intensity but keeping the level of effort constant. The Low Intensity Steady State (LISS) requires a routine of at least 60 minutes, in which you can cycle, swim, walk lightly, and work on the elliptical, practice rowing … always aerobic activities, for a long period of time and at low pace or moderate. The result? Less fat and more resistance.
