Three new training trends to get you in shape for the rest of the year

In these lines we delve into three of these new fitness trends to get you in shape this fall: Hyrox, crossboxing and running without breaking a sweat.

CrossFit has set the standard in the fitness universe over the last decade. Its competitions are followed by millions of people around the world and pits to practice this discipline have proliferated in all Spanish cities. Without going any further, here we recommend some of the best gyms in the Community of Madrid to practice CrossFit.

Well then, CrossFit has had competition. Is called Hyrox and it is a new fashionable sports discipline within fitness. Without a doubt, we are facing one of the trends to get in shape in autumn.

As we told you in an extensive report coinciding with the celebration of its world championship, the Hyrox combines resistance and strength exercisescombining details that resemble CrossFit but also with inspiration from traditional sports such as running.

“The Hyrox is a fitness race that combines 8 kilometers of running and 8 workouts interspersed,” Álvaro del Busto, marketing director of Hyrox Iberia, explained to us about this sport that can be practiced alone or with a partner.

The eight exercises that are interspersed with running within the Hyrox are the ski ergometer (Sky Erg), sled push (sled push), sled pull (sled pull), burpees with jumping, rowing ergometer (1,000 meters on the machine) , carry farmers (carrying weights in both hands and moving them), lunges (loaded strides) and wallballs. Each kilometer of the race one of the exercises is performed.

The objective, in competition, is Complete the route with your tests in the shortest time possiblebut in training the stopwatch is less important. As has happened with CrossFit, Hyrox boxes are beginning to appear in Spanish cities, and many CrossFit boxes are also beginning to incorporate Hyrox into their training offerings.

In the Hyrox, by the way, you will use training material such as the push sled, protagonist of the viral training of Ibai Llanos and El Xokas.

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Jeffing

Running is the sport of the 21st century. Popular races have experienced their golden era during this first quarter of a century and people have become put on the sneakers to get in shape by doing miles on the streets of your city. However, and despite the fact that Running will never cease to be an effective and popular method to get in shape.there is something in the environment that, if we talk about trends, tells us that the running curve has peaked.

Even the best personal trainers in the country write books for Lose weight without runningtitle of the book by Miguel Lordán, Iker Casillas’ personal trainer or Victoria Federica, among other well-known faces. It’s just an example, but it shows the kind of allergy that many people seem to have to running to get in shape.

If this is your case, but you know that you need to include cardiovascular work in your workouts and the pool or bike doesn’t suit you either, you can try the trend of ‘jeffing’, which is nothing other than running without getting tired or sweating.

In reality, you do sweat and you do get tired. It all depends on the level of demand and physique that you have and that you impose on yourself.but it is a way to differentiate this training method from traditional running.

Jeffing is a method developed by Jeff Galloway, Olympian at the 72nd Munich Games, which consists of combining running with fast walking. Specifically, it is about doing short and constant interval training from the first minute of training, not from when you are tired. The goal is to increase physical endurance and improve cardiovascular health.

Depending on your state of fitness, There are pre-established series to get you in shape with Jeffing.as we tell you in this piece where we delve into this fitness trend. They are the following:

– 4 and a half minutes per kilometer running: 5 minutes of running and 30 seconds of walking

– 5 minutes per kilometer running: 4 minutes of running and 30 seconds of walking

– 6 minutes per kilometer running: 90 seconds of running and 30 seconds of walking

– 7 minutes per kilometer running: 60 seconds of running and 30 seconds of walking

– 8 minutes per kilometer running: 30 seconds of each.

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Crossboxing

The third fitness trend to get in shape this fall that we wanted to talk to you about is the new training methodology developed from the HIIT concept (high intensity intervals) and boxing, another of the sports disciplines that has become fashionable in the fitness universe in recent years. It’s called Crossboxing and you can now practice it in gyms like Bâtard Crossboxing Studio, in Madrid.

From the aforementioned gym they explain that this innovative sports discipline combines boxing, crosstraining and strength exercises and patterns, all this in different classes. “This method is a great activator of our cardiovascular system, extremely entertaining because the exercises performed vary in each class,” they point out from Bâtard Crossboxing Studio.

With boxing you can improve your cardiovascular health, coordination and also endurance. All this while you get out all that stress accumulated in your daily life. And with strength work or crosstraining, you will increase muscle volumeyour power and your agility.

Roberto Hernández, the CEO of the Madrid sports studio, explains that the classes last between 45-50 minutes each and that the most convenient and advisable thing is to attend between 2-3 times a week. «The benefits of crossboxing are both mental and physicalwhich you can obtain in its fifty weekly classes in order to reach your goal,” he adds.