Is it worth it?
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Focusing on the part of the exercise you normally ignore will take time, but it’s pleasingly intense when you get it right
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This class was easily the most fun I’ve had in months
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It’s easy to kid yourself that your body is a machine and that your arms are hydraulic pistons that can cope with anything
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Trainers love a lunge. Every trainer in the world will get you doing lunges at one point or other
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It wears you out, it hurts your arms and it looks like the stupidest thing ever invented
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They’re so bouncy and huge that, when you sit on one, your core works overtime just to keep you upright
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They hurt your legs. They burn your lungs. They make you feel as if you’ve never exercised before…
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The slam, where you hurl the ball to the ground as hard as you can over and over again, is possibly my favourite exercise of all time
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A burpee is free. The only price is the one you pay psychologically
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By the time you’ve done about 20, you’ll hate kettlebells, Turkey and the entire concept of exercise
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A very demanding DVD workout you can perform in your living room – with an ethos that prizes effort over technique
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Imagine doing the Macarena, really fast, over and over without really knowing what the Macarena is. That’s Zumba
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Whenever I’ve thrown up in a gym, it’s always been thanks to squats
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Free and definitely beneficial after exercise, it’s all too easy to skip this perfect way to improve flexibility and posture
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There’s something so pleasantly basic about it. It’s just you and a bar, with nowhere to hide
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If you only drink this coffee in the morning and only eat between 2pm and 8pm, you’ll apparently lose a pound a day
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Improve core strength, posture, upper-body strength, flexibility, balance and coordination… for free
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Imagine rubbing globs of minty coffee directly on to your teeth. Isn’t that the dream?
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Online yoga: on the plus side, it saves you from having to schlep out to a class; on the minus side, it’s even easier than the real thing to skip altogether
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You can work your core as much as you like, but you won’t get a six-pack until you stop eating so much cake
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I’d seen the film and assumed it was just a larky way to spend a couple of hours with mates. It’s anything but
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It’s a clever riff on interval training – instead of speeding up and slowing down, you just make yourself heavier and lighter
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‘It’s a level of service you just don’t get from plodding on a treadmill once a week’
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‘With heart-rate sensors and giant screens to show off your sweaty effort, this regime can burn close to 1,000 calories a session’
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‘I’ve said it before: I’m terrible at yoga. I hide at the back of the classes, intimidated by everyone else. Going one-on-one meant I had nowhere to hide’
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‘It’s weird and gruelling but my body feels lighter and looser, and my range of movement has improved’
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‘It turns out that getting 2,000 calories of heathy homemade food inside me every day is a full-time job’
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‘Going to a new gym for the first time is the scariest thing in the world. Join Class Pass and you get to experience that a few times a week’
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‘A GPS sports watch, like the ones your actual runner friends own, but made by that printer company’
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