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Fitness classes with a twist
If keeping fit feels like a chore, you’re unlikely to stick with it. But if you find an activity that you love, that you look forward to doing, and that you can progress and improve at, the chances are you’ll have no problem making time to fit it into your life. By Natasha Were There are endless ways to get fit and stay fit in the Cayman Islands, and it doesn’t need to involve pumping iron or pounding the pavement. What if getting fit were first and foremost fun? If it could involve spinning around poles, performing acrobaticlike moves, and hanging upside down from silks? What if getting stronger, fitter, and more flexible – and making new friends - were simply a by-product of doing something you love?
Fun ways to build strength and increase flexibility Quinntessential Movement is a unique studio in Galleria Plaza, Seven Mile Beach, that offers a range of unusual classes focused around pole dance fitness and aerial arts: the former uses the same poles that were once associated with strip club performers, the latter involves long silks and aerial hoops suspended from the ceiling. Quinn also offers aerial fitness classes for kids, private lessons, coaching for wedding dances, as well as fun-filled bachelorette and birthday parties. Although classes follow a standard format, in terms of a warm-up, followed by strength and conditioning, and then stretches to cool down, in these classes you are climbing and spinning around poles, or twisting yourself up in silks, hanging upside down and performing acrobatic moves. 36
