Beauty
Best Exercise Class
Ari Nunez at Equinox
897 Broadway
212-780-9300
When it comes to exercise, interest tends to be exhausted long before
stamina. If you do the same routine repeatedly, your body learns how to
complete the exercises more efficiently, and results will be ever more
elusive. That's why it's best to keep finding new forms of exercise and
integrating them into your workout. Ari Nunez has evolved her Gotham Box at
Equinox into a less flailing, more controlled martial-arts-based class that
allows you to work through your muscles, which means a leaner look and
probably fewer injuries. Moves include kicks, punches, pliés, lunges, and
those froglike plyometric jumps that really elevate the heart rate. By the
end of the hour, there's not a dry T-shirt in the room.
Nancy Hirsch and Greg Cook at Crunch
1109 59th Street
212-758-3434
At Crunch, a class on mini-trampolines called Rebounding has really taken
off. Both Nancy Hirsch and Greg Cook incorporate exhilarating choreographed
moves and jumps on the trampoline with weight and floor work. The rebounder,
not your legs, absorbs the shock, and the vertical motion pumps lactic acid
out of your body, so there's less discomfort after a workout. The one
drawback: It's getting so popular you'd better get there early or you won't
get a trampoline.
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