It’s Fitness Tuesday everyone! Recently, one of the biggest workout kicks that everyone has been on since spinning, is kickboxing. We have all seen our favorites like Gigi Hadid and pretty much every Victoria Secret model swear by it, so I personally had to see what all the hype was about. I have now being going once a week to kickboxing classes and I am hooked! Every studio is different and I have tried a few different ones, but it all depends what type of workout you want. I went to one by my apartment where the class started with a warm up exercises of running around the room with different interval exercises such as burpees, squats, air squats, lunges and of course all the different ab workouts you can think of. By the end of the “warm up” at this kickboxing studio I was always drenched in sweat, but ready to hit the bags. Other studios you did a simple a warm up then you either are doing some sparring with a partner or against a bag. Still to this day my favorite was Prevail which is based out of LA and has been featured on some tv shows including Vanderpump Rules. The one thing I will say to everyone is make sure you protect your wrists. I wear a bracelet on my right wrist everyday and I have noticed it start to bother me during kickboxing. If you go enough to classes it is worth investing in some of your own wraps for your hands. I bought two different ones off Amazon and I wash them myself. This is something my brother does and he said it just makes you feel better knowing you cleaned them and they are yours. I have my own gloves that I got for signing up with one of the studios and they work great for me. Some people have said because their hands are small like mine they bought their own pair of gloves and that is totally up to you! Just make sure that you protect yourself, because it is very easy to hurt yourself in kickboxing. I have definitely seen a change in my arm definition since starting kickboxing and I hope that one day I will have arms like Gigi Hadid 🙂 . Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!
Link to some great wraps from amazon:
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