“I was very grateful, because when I purchased this studio it was an aerial studio so it was rigged for aerial work,” she said. She has her workouts follow the flow of upbeat songs like “Sweet Dreams” by the Eurythmics, “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones and other songs that she plays during the class.Įver since Paige brought the workout to the United States, she has received non-stop calls from people trying to open bungee workout studios. “People want to do the moves, they want to fly, they want to jump from their hands to their feet so it literally pushes them harder than anything else because they want to do it,” Paige said. In order to be successful in pulling off the moves in the class, a 100 percent effort is required or the bungee will take control, Paige said. “To do that you have to use core, you have to use quads and hamstrings to keep it low and the lower you go, the higher you’re going to release up into the air.” “So it’s pulling you up so your job is to pull it down.” “You have to think about it this way: The bungee cord, its job is to pull you up to the ceiling,” Paige said. Paige also has them walk and lean forward in the harness to have them engage their core muscles.Īll of the little steps are meant to teach the students an important lesson when doing the bungee workout. Once the harnesses are on, the students do squats and pushups. ![]() “I always tell them, ‘You’re going to feel a little lift.’ So, I hook it onto their lower back and they go ‘ooooh,’ ” Paige said. Paige has her students do a 15-minute pre-workout stretch to make sure the body is loose before she has her students put on the harness. I said, ‘Hey, how do I get this out here?’ I flew to Thailand, I spent two weeks out there (and) became a master trainer,” Paige said. A sign in her gym says, “Master Training Center, 1st in the United States.” When Paige first saw the video of the bungee workout in Thailand, she fell in love with it. There’s a lot more core and…”“… You use different muscles,” her sister Allison, said. This is even harder than dancing, I think. “So we grew up dancing and this isn’t like any other workout we’ve ever done. “We were both studio trained, competitive dancing from the time we were four and two,” Gillian Grabowski said. The bungees, suspended from the ceiling, pull on students as as they perform exercises that resemble sequences from an action movie. The harness used in the workout look like one from a rock climbing gym. The workout combines aerial fitness, dancing, core workouts, aerobics and toning. The bungee workout is a new fitness routine that originated in Thailand about two years ago and is springing into gyms around the country. It is so much harder than you think it is and it’s even more fun than you think it is.” “First of all, you’ll see it and you think it’s going to be so much fun and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be that hard. ![]() “It’s crazy,” said Amanda Paige, owner and operator of the fitness gym. People who walk into Tough Lotus for the Bungee Workout class often have the same reaction.
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