Body Toning

Shape your own form

Cardio and strength work alternating, set to music, for sixty minutes. Body Toning is the classic group class: no complicated technique, no choreography to learn, and by the end your whole body has worked.

What kind of class is this?

The class runs in blocks. A dynamic section raises your heart rate, then comes a strength block, with dumbbells, resistance bands or body weight, and then it starts again. The last ten minutes are stretching.

The strength blocks take the core, legs, glutes and arms in turn, so one class covers the whole body.

How do I know if it suits me?

This is the class most people start with. There is no prerequisite, everyone works at their own pace, and every exercise has an easier version, if a set is too much, sit it out and rejoin at the next one.

One thing worth knowing: you cannot lose fat in one specific place. You can strengthen a muscle in a targeted way, but fat comes off the whole body, and mostly because of how much you move and what you eat. This class helps with that, but abdominal exercises alone will not flatten a stomach.

Why is it worth trying?

• Moves the whole body in a single hour
• Cardio and strength together, so you do not need two separate sessions
• No technical barrier: the first class already works
• Improves endurance and coordination
• Music and a group, doing the same thing alone is harder