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Find Your Fave (New!) Workout
Bored with Yogilates? All jumped out from trampoline aerobics?
Meet the new fitness classes, rich in calorie-blasting promise.
How to choose? Just follow our flowchart.
Start here!
You work out to
Burn serious
Build muscle
calories
De-stress
Who would you
rather be?
Do you find it relaxing
to punch things?
What would you
rather have?
Kate Bosworth Hilary Swank
Jessica Jennifer An all-over
in Blue Crush in Million
Yes No Biel’s butt Garner’s long, lean bod
Dollar Baby
arms à la Gwyneth
BILL DAVILA/ STARTRAKSPHOTO.COM (GARNER). ALBERT FERREIRA/ STARTRAKSPHOTO.COM (PALTROW). ACACIACATALOG.COM (MASALA BHANGRA).
Do you have
rhythm?
Are you
Yes No
afraid of heights?
Yes No
INDO BOARDING BOXING MASALA BHANGRA POWERNAP+ AERIAL DANCE
Sculpt killer thighs, Throwing the one-two Masala is a spice This Equinox Fitness Classes in which you
burn calories, and work punch isn’t new, but it mix that gives Indian class revs your improve your strength
your core “surfing” on is growing in popularity. food a kick. Bhangra heart rate with a few and flexibility by
a board that rolls atop a At gyms like LA Boxing, is a type of northern fast yoga vinyasas, twirling up and down
cylinder or balances on you can burn over 500 Indian dance. Put then slows it down fabric strips hanging
a cushion. First used as calories an hour with them together to get with stretches. A from the ceiling are
a cross-training tool by interval training (you do traditional moves set 15-minute meditation soaring in popularity—
surfers, the Indo Board rounds on the punching to techno and hip-hop lulls you to sleep, so there’s even a YMCA
is now the star of a bag with active breaks beats that tone arms you leave refreshed that offers aerial
Crunch class (crunch in between). Visit your and thighs. Find a class ( equinoxfitness.com). dance. Find a class
.com). Or buy one for local gym for beginner at mysportsclubs.com, Not near an Equinox? in your area by
home; it comes with classes, or check out or get the Bollywood Slow down with hatha checking with local
an introductory DVD laboxing.com for more Booty DVD ($14.99, or restorative yoga at circus schools or
($100, indoboard.com). than 120 locations. acaciacatalog.com). your local gym. dance centers. —R.S.
UNIVERSAL/ THE KOBAL COLLEC TION (BOSWORTH). WARNER BROTHERS/PHOTOFEST (SWANK). RAY WILLIAMS/CELEBRIT YPHOTO.COM (BIEL).
