DENHAM SPRINGS – This week on Get 2 Moving, Angelica Butine tries her hand at barre, taking a class at Spectrum Fitness and Medical Wellness in Denham Springs.<\/p>\n
Starting workouts at the gym can be intimidating, but group classes can help alleviate some of the pressure. A variety of classes are offered each day, numerous times a week, whether it be something like yoga, barre, or a high-intensity workout.<\/p>\n
Professional instructors lead the class and make sure all participants are executing movements correctly and safely. Learning to move correctly may give more confidence in the open gym setting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Barre is a workout inspired by ballet, but you don\u2019t need dance experience to do it. The focus is on small, controlled movements, and they target muscles in a big way.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo barre is going to be dance moves, a lot of lower body work, light weight work, and lots of repetition,” personal trainer Krystal Alexander said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That repetition is what makes the workout effective. Each move is designed to strengthen the legs, core, and upper body without heavy equipment.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s going to be 30 to 45 minutes of exercises. For example, we would do one move for a minute, and then the timer would go off, and as soon as it goes off, we switch to doing something else,” Alexander said<\/p>\n
The pace stays steady, with quick transitions that keep you moving and keep the workout interesting.<\/p>\n
Instructors say these combinations help improve balance, flexibility, and overall strength, and most classes can be adjusted for any fitness level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENHAM SPRINGS – This week on Get 2 Moving, Angelica Butine tries her hand at barre, taking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[149628,34006,49,48,149626,407,149633,149627,149630,84,149631,149632,149629,410],"class_list":["post-342455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-angelicabutine","tag-barre","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denhamsprings","tag-fitness","tag-fitnesslevel","tag-get2moving","tag-groupclasses","tag-health","tag-high-intensityworkout","tag-krystalalexander","tag-spectrumfitnessandmedicalwellness","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}