FitFact: Top 3 fitness exercises named after animals

Late summer shows its best side ☀ but even this is fleeting. Soon your training will shift back indoors – away from cycling and hiking and towards spinning classes and Stairmaster 🚵‍♀️ 🚴‍♂️. But even if we shift our workout into the dry, we don’t have to leave nature out 😉. In fact, the fitness world loves to be inspired by nature, such as with the following fitness exercises inspired by and named after animals. So we welcome you to the fitness jungle 🌺🍃.

1) Yoga Jungle

The range of different yoga styles is wide. It embraces energetic power yoga forms and vinyasa yoga styles at once. However, one element connects all yoga styles with each other: animals! Whether it’s downward-facing dog, cobra, cat-cow or the inchworm, these exercises, paired with body-conscious breathing, strengthen your core and stretch your muscles.

2) Functional Zo(o)ne

Also mentioned is the Functional area a found food for animal workouts, because there is crawling on the floor and jumping around 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♂️! So we crawl like crabs, jump like frogs or waddle like ducks and use muscle groups that otherwise rarely work together.

3) Kraftbereich für fleissige Bienchen

Between leg press, squat rack and the weight bench hide all kinds of crawling animals, figuratively speaking of course 😉. One of these crawlers is a popular machine for the pumping muscles, namely the Butterfly. Don’t set the weight too light, though, or you’ll really fly away from us like a butterfly 🦋 Speaking of which, do you still remember our FitFact on the strongest animals in the world? Even the smallest ones are at the forefront.

You’re shearing – already antsy to try out all these exercises yourself in the studio 🤸‍♂️! But to make sure our studios don’t become a zoo, we’re proud to present the fitness etiquette guide in the next FitFact.