We've had BodyPump, Boxercise, Reebox Step ...when it comes to good gym classes, concept fitness is big business. Yet the fact that these classes have dominated gym studio class schedules for most of the last decade shows just how hard it is to hit on a winning formula that will get people fit, keep them engaged and be fun. That's not to say people haven't stopped trying.
The latest fitness concept to hit gyms in the US, has been invented by the man who came up with Spinning - the classes where you sweat buckets as you peddle in time to the music as if you're racing the Tour de France. That was enough for us to forgive it's terrible name - Kranking.
Then we watched it on YouTube.
The exercise involves basically pedalling a wheel with your arms. Watching a group of women doing a class, you can't help shake the feeling that you're stepping back in time and seeing women at a knitting wheel. Aside from giving you shapely arms, this does nothing for your bottom half, or your core. Here's hoping Kranking doesn't make it over to these shores.
Have you recently come across a new fitness craze? Let us know what it is.
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