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":3,"featured_media":443842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[204423,204424,204421,1198,204429,204422,204426,210,204427,204428,204425,67,132,68,2237],"class_list":{"0":"post-443841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-angelicabutine","9":"tag-barre","10":"tag-denhamsprings","11":"tag-fitness","12":"tag-fitnesslevel","13":"tag-get2moving","14":"tag-groupclasses","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-high-intensityworkout","17":"tag-krystalalexander","18":"tag-spectrumfitnessandmedicalwellness","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-yoga"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115710583429667508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}