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Like their leader, many haven’t stopped fitness smiling and laughing since the class began. For a dance/aerobics class, the group’s stretching choreography looks amazing. Still, the instructor isn’t satisfied. “Y’all didn’t get that easy step?” she laughs, presumably referring to the aforementioned “grapevine.” “We’ll do it one more time.” If hip-hop and funk aren’t your thing, don’t worry: Aerobics enthusiasts today have more choices than a couch potato with a satellite dish. You can still sign up for a traditional step, low-impact or high-impact/low-impact class, but if you want to learn some self-defense fitness while you sweat, you can check out a cardio kickboxing class.

Use stretching very light fitness weight and high stretching reps for the first set of each bodypart worked. (Begin with 25% of one-rep max and use strict form.) Slowly increase the fitness and stretching weight used over the course of your workout, pyramiding up to the heaviest amount. For a cardio workout, your warm-up should: increase your heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen consumption, dilation of blood vessels, joint lubrication and muscle and tendon elasticity. It should also include: Low-level aerobic fitness activity that uses the same muscle groups and similar movement patterns that will be used during the main workout. Static stretches stretching for all major muscles groups, especially the lower body.

To build some muscle while doing your cardio, fitness try circuit-training and body-sculpting classes that roll resistance and aerobic training into one continuous routine. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. None of these types of classes is inherently better or worse than others; stretching it depends on where you’ve been and where you want to go. “If you used to run fitness track or play stretching basketball, you should probably try something like a high-low class, which entails a lot of running and jumping,” she explains. “On fitness the other hand, if you aren’t a dancer or a ‘movement’ person, I wouldn’t recommend a funk or a hip-hop class, at least not stretching initially. It’d be confusing and you probably wouldn’t get a good workout.”