Baggy T's
Low-impact exercises can improve your health and fitness without harming weight-bearing joints.
The Baggy T’s classes are fun and energizing with just the right amount of cardio and toning to help burn off unwanted calories and aid in weight reduction.
“The idea is that it’s less likely to cause an impact type injury such as an ankle sprain or cartilage tear.”
Low impact exercise is often used in conjunction with the words gentle, easy or light and is often recommended for people who don’t want a high intensity workout. But what if you want to work hard and don’t want all that jumping around? Can low impact exercise help you burn calories and lose weight as well as high impact moves?Absolutely!!!
You also probably know that it’s easier to get your heart rate up when you’re jumping around. But for some people, high impact exercise just isn’t an option. Some reasons you may have to avoid high impact could be:
- Injuries in the joints, bones or connective tissue
- Chronic problems like arthritis, osteoporosis or stress fractures
- Beginning exercising
- Being overweight
- An aversion to high impact exercise
While it’s important to have some type of impact in your workouts for healthy bones, you don’t necessarily have to jump around to get an intense workout. Many low impact exercises (one foot always in contact with the ground) can get your heart rate into the target heart rate zone…the catch is, you may have to work a little harder.
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