Fitness raves: The main sports trend of summer
With all the appeal of a sporty lifestyle getting yourself to lead him is not as easy as we would like. The concept of a “beach body”, elevation to the standard of thinness and the habit of equating it with sexuality have become obsolete and no longer work - but, fortunately, they have been replaced by other, much more humane and rational ways of motivation. The organizers of sports sections and events understand that it is necessary to add "added value" to sports: classes become an important collective experience, and the idea of "sport for fun" is gaining momentum.
Runners go to marathon distances for charity or participate in colorful races, and the best leading sports YouTube channels demonstrate not only effective exercises, but also a sense of humor. Twelve and pole dance came to replace the lonely panting on a simulator in a fitness club - as ways to have a great time and tighten your whole body. It turned out that training can be a fun party and replace parties. We tell how mass female sport helps to take oneself with arms and legs.
The body hurts and moans, almost refusing to move. But no, you do not give up. You lie on the floor and hold your hands on the calf of a stranger to you. The face at the same time reddens from a rapid pulse and is covered with sweat You energetically swing your legs to the winding music. It could have been a night rave somewhere in the forest, but this is the ninth day of intense group training in Gorky Park. Swinging your legs, you shake your abs. Tomorrow you will even get up at six in the morning and run ten kilometers with three thousand of the same restless ones.
Making so many girls fanatically addicted to sports helped a new look at him. Nike combined workouts with a festival atmosphere - you can't call an event a fitness rave. Here you begin to associate sport with entertainment, rather than exhausting ordeal.
Admittedly, the first day (out of ten) of the sports marathon Nike Women Moscow was the most difficult. For five hours I had to go through five diversified non-stop workouts: high-intensity cardiovascular exercise, dancing, again intensive cardio, yoga, and the final stretch. The training took place on different stages, between which everyone moved with a backpack bag behind their backs and a bottle of water in their hands, exactly like at a music festival. The faster and tougher the music became, the more power was added - there was enough of them for attacks, trims, pushups, burpi and jumps, that is, for a constant load on several muscle groups at once.
"A year ago I first saw a video from Nike's fitness rave in New York and began to dream it. Burning fat, drinking protein shots, under powerful techno or the latest tracks of SBTRKT and Major Lazer - what could be better? Ideal for those likes to go to the lead at parties, but he decided to drastically change his lifestyle to a healthy one, "says the fashion director of the magazine Hello! Anastasia Korn. Her love of music festivals and raves found a new incarnation in the sport. Music, cohesion with thousands of like-minded people, continuous movement with health benefits.
Surprisingly, a large number of participants around gives confidence, and a sense of belonging to the community adds courage. Supporting friends helps you achieve great results and not give up when it becomes hard or lazy to attack. I must say that this is how the main problem is solved - how to make yourself start. This is the reason for the growing popularity of joint sports activities, for example, together with a running team, as part of a running club, with friends in the park. This is not only a cool and useful way to spend time, but also additional motivation for more frequent workouts.
"Mass sport instantly eliminates the complexes: it becomes immediately clear that you are far from being the most clumsy rohl in the world, and the emancipation goes off with a bang. After a fitness rave under the supervision of casual viewers, I don’t give a damn This is not so. It turns out that because of this, no one will poke a finger at me and laugh. It's great to go to fitness raves as a company, because it’s much easier to indulge yourself when no one sees, and in the team you’re charging a general spirit " - it is difficult to disagree with Nastya.
It should be noted that Moscow has recently become a convenient city for playing sports, for example, this year there are much more free trainings for everyone. The World Class network of fitness clubs conducts classes in Moscow parks, while adidas and the Swiss watch company TAG Heuer organize a colorful race. Puma unite with the community "Sports Section", where you can try different sports from fencing to kung fu. Nike offer free N + TC workouts around the city and coordinate several running clubs, and also organized this ten-day sports marathon in Gorky Park, in which about twenty-five thousand girls took part. Add here sports mobile apps and the same available run. Complaining that there is no money for a sports subscription is already indecent, as well as completely ignoring the sport - today’s classes speak not about involvement in an elite club or pursuit of beauty, but simply about a conscious attitude towards the body and health.
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After the first day of fitness rave is difficult to stop. Overcoming muscle pain, I go to train again - and it seems that all the other participants are experiencing the same thing. One of the invited trainers of the N + TC Tour, an American, Holly Reeling, repeats the well-known fact that a powerful endorphin ejection, which gives a feeling of joy, becomes the culprit, and sport becomes a drug. At the same time, she recalls that "it is important to listen to the body and choose the load that it can withstand. Rest is also training."
"If training does not bring any result or pleasure, if you have a permanent breakdown, your mood is gone and you want to sleep all the time, it means that you have overtrained. In such a situation it is better to rest a day or two, or even more. You can’t get results , if you do not give the body and muscles to recover, "- warns between classes Gordey Prostov, curator of the Moscow branch of the sports section #Sekta, built on the cult of mutual support and the universal desire for a common goal.
In addition to the formation and support of communities, entertainment and fun become the second important point of the new wave of sports movement. For example, the "Sports Section" has combined sport and art. Functional gymnastics, as if from canvases by Soviet artists of the 20th century, is now carried out in the courtyard of the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The pre-workout tour of the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery on the topic "Sport in Art". "In order to break the barrier between man and sport, you need to make sport closer to him. We show that sport is not something terrible and far away that you are not ready for. On the contrary, sport is part of life or can easily be become like other options for hanging out. Sport is entertainment too, ”Igor Saifulin, founder of the“ Sports Section ”, shares his thoughts.
Combining sport with a visit to the museum, the "Sports Section" allows you to take a fresh look at our historical sports memory. In the USSR, as in communist China, sport was ideologized, and citizens were obliged to be ready "for work and defense." "We need to prepare for war in peacetime" - under this slogan of Frunze, sounded in 1925, there lived several generations of physical instructors and their wards. TRP, sports propaganda, compulsory morning gymnastics on television and an indispensable entry in children's sports sections. Admittedly, the Soviet man was really sportier and firmer contemporaries. However, it seems that the reaction to the "obliging" was a persistent aversion to physical education among many Russians.
The western sports idea, on the contrary, was individualistic: to become more beautiful and sexier by the standards of stereotypes of time, which means (as it was considered) better and more successful. Plus, the sport has already been associated with the concept of exciting leisure and entertainment - just remember the boom in fitness and aerobics in the 80s. Video with group workouts was filmed as a vigorous video clip under the hits of the 80s with energetic and cheerful athletes in the lead roles, and even with real movie stars. Even now, decades later, any training session by Jane Fonda seduces you to dress up in lycra gloves, make a tail-palm tree, and begin to go out of time, but cheerfully jump around the living room.
Today, a new look at sports that develops body-positive ideas is important: yes, any body is beautiful, and playing sports is a way to explore its capabilities, and not a mandatory requirement to follow for some reason and someone’s established ideal of beauty. Consciousness is important in everything, and the decision to go to the gym or run is dictated only by you and only to yourself. A reasonable approach to training under the supervision of a specialist, rather than exhausting classes in combination with a rigid diet, self-respect, not social acceptance, energy and good health, and not the desire to look like the “beach queen” - the choice seems to be obvious.
"Such large-scale sporting events make it possible for women to feel stronger. My task is to inspire women around the world to be who they want to be, achieve their goals, be healthy, strong and competitive. This is not chasing the perfect figure from the picture," confirms Holly Reeling
"Sport gives me a feeling of life: when you feel your muscles, you are maximally collected. With this feeling it is easier to wake up every day, go and win. Sport is the answer to many questions. For me, this is my body and a mat, nothing is needed for it more, no additional conditions. I don’t have to pay money for it, don’t have to wait for a certain moment. It’s a source of strength that you can always turn to. Of course, all girls feel the desire to look like a perfect picture from a magazine. changing A dream about an ideal. Today, girls see, with any type of build you can be taut, and they begin to try on not their own kind, but their own beautiful body type, "says Olga Marquez, founder of #Sekta.
Modern sport really becomes a challenge to yourself, which gives more internal strength. Working with the body gives a feeling of not only muscular, but also mental concentration: to live and the truth is much simpler and more interesting with a higher level of endurance. It is necessary to achieve this in a complex way - with the help of a balanced diet, daily activity, positive thinking and a conscious way of life. And if it seems that there is no strength for sport, it is worth remembering the simple law of physics: in order to get energy, it must be given away.
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