Això et farà somriure i sentir-te tan bé, promet la fundadora de Jazzercise Judi Sheppard Missett en un vídeo retro que ha trobat el seu camí a YouTube. La idea que fer exercici hauria de ser divertit va ser fonamental Jazzercise , una marca que va revolucionar l'exercici de les dones als anys 70 i 80.
El vídeo està entranyablement obsolet quan es veu amb una lent de 2024, però Jazzercise encara està viu. De fet, a jutjar per la llista d'ubicacions de Jazzercise, és més popular del que podríeu pensar. Actualment, hi ha 444 estudis a 16 països i la marca té un component de streaming en línia. La filla de Missett, Shanna Missett Nelson, és ara CEO de l'empresa. Però Missett, Nelson i la néta de Missett, Skyla Nelson, donen classes.
To find out what Jazzercise looks like today, I took an evening class at the New York City studio. I'll always commit to the bit, so I showed up in hot-pink liquid leggings, a leotard, and legwarmers — a vestit d'entrenament retro , però funcional. La meva instructora, Kate Kreiss, una professora de tercer grau, la mare i l'àvia de la qual també es van convertir en instructores de Jazzercise, em va donar una càlida benvinguda.
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Com és Jazzercise el 2024?
My class was packed out with newcomers and regulars alike. Kreiss told me that the workouts attract people who were fans of Jazzercise from its early days, though my class appeared to be all children of the '90s and early '00s. Along with changes to the programming — most notably, the addition of strength training — Jazzercise has moved away from language that emphasizes fat burning and shrinking down through exercise, Kreiss informed me.
The class was split into cardio dance and full-body weighted portions, set to songs from popsters like Selena Gomez , Reneé Rapp i Pitbull. Deu vegades l'any, Jazzercise llança noves coreografies amb música nova als seus estudis. L'entrenament em va recordar a Zumba; els moviments de ball són prou bàsics i repetitius com per poder mantenir-se al dia sense tenir un fons de dansa.
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Jazzercise és un bon entrenament?
La sessió va durar una hora, i no era cap broma. Estava cansat quan vam anar a agafar peses per a la segona meitat, més perquè les cames estaven cansades de rebotar que no pas perquè em sentia embolicat. Per context, la meva rutina habitual d'entrenament és d'uns 50/50 d'aixecament de peses i la noia calenta camina , així que no diria que el meu cos estigui acostumat a ballar cardio.
After the class, I got to thinking about why dance cardio-heavy workouts are so polarizing, at least among my circle. While some people love them, others have told me that they get in their heads about how they look to other people.
Sembla que al llarg dels anys, Jazzercise ha intentat abordar aquesta vacil·lació al voltant de la dansa cardio. d'hora, Missett, segons informa had an 'aha' moment when she instructed her students to face away from the mirror during a class, a bid to minimize their self-consciousness and shift their attention to having fun. While there was a mirror in my studio, the instructor clearly wanted to keep us similarly out of our heads. During my class, Kreiss didn't call out any personalized instruction that could, theoretically, make a dance-cardio-averse person feel like they were being put on blast. Instead, she emphasized how much fun it was to be dancing together and said our dance moves didn't need to be perfect.
While Kreiss never said outright that her class would 'keep us smiling,' she might as well have. I saw some of my fellow class-goers crack smiles throughout, even though we were a) completing a grueling workout and b) in a city with a reputation for aloofness. Jazzercise looks a lot different now, but it's still focused around sparking joy.
Renee Cherry és una escriptora i editora especialitzada en bellesa i benestar. Els seus escrits han aparegut a 247CM, Women's Health, Glamour, mindbodygreen i Well Good, entre altres publicacions.
