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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