Is there any doubt that kickboxing gives one of the best workouts?
Kickboxing in Midtown Atlanta offers a blend of cardio and strength training that goes by in the blink of an eye. This intense, but genuinely fun workout targets muscles throughout your entire body, offering an overall tone and a great way to increase strength and burn calories.
Yet kickboxing provides more than building muscle and making calories cry. This popular and impactful exercise routine has shown to improve coordination, relieve stress and improve your cardiovascular health.
The 6 Benefits of Kickboxing: Taking Your Workout to the Next Level
New to kickboxing? You’re in for a treat! Here are six benefits of adding kickboxing classes to your workout routine.
1. Improved Power, Fitness, and Agility.
It’s no secret kickboxing offers an intense workout that improves your overall fitness, power, and agility.
A recent study on kickboxing was done using healthy men in their twenties who engaged in kickboxing three days each week over the course of just five weeks. These men showed significant improvement in their lower and upper body strength by 7 percent. Not only that, but they shaved off more than a second on their previous times for a 50-meter dash.
2. Tone and Strengthen Your Entire Body
Strength training offers significant health benefits. What better way to engage in strength training and reap those benefits than with a workout which strengthens your entire body?
Kickboxing strengthens and tones your legs, arms, glutes, back, and core all at once. You’re moving through the entire workout, causing you to burn more calories while strengthening your muscles. This equates to fat loss, not muscle loss!
3. BURN Calories Like Never Before
Kickboxing is a high-intensity workout. You can burn between 350 and 450 calories per hour while improving on your overall power, flexibility, agility, and health. If your heart rate doesn’t stay high throughout the entire class — you’re not doing it right!
Kickboxing is one of the best cardio workouts you can give to your body. Its high intensity from start to finish and will leave you burning calories for hours.
4. Relieve Stress and Get Some Zen
Kickboxing is a workout for your body and mind. It’s a great stress reliever, serves to boost your confidence, and requires you to maintain your focus.
Have you ever felt so stressed or overwhelmed that you’re looking for a release? Kickboxing is great for that. As a high-intensity workout, your mind will also be releasing endorphins that aid in stress relief and combat depression.
5. Improved Coordination and Balance
Hand-eye coordination is a critical part of kickboxing. You will always be moving, performing an intricate dance while punching and kicking your way to a whole new you. While this may seem intimidating at first, you can quickly learn the ropes and improve your overall balance and coordination skills.
6. Improved Cardiovascular Health
Regular, high-intensity exercise is one of the best things you can do for your heart. Not only is kickboxing a high-intensity workout, but it is an effective way to reduce belly fat. Belly fat has been correlated with heart disease, diabetes, and other severe health conditions.
Discover a New You at BURN Studios
The team at BURN Studios have designed their workouts to be as impactful and as high energy as possible. Kickboxing classes run about 45 minutes — the perfect amount of time for this intense, full-body workout.
In addition to kickboxing, Crossburn is a unique class designed by BURN putting a new spin on kickboxing. Crossburn combines the benefits of kickboxing with weights with boot camp attributes to offer a full-body workout burning calories for hours after the class has ended.