Choosing Your First Class at FBM
Choosing Classes At FBM: Which One Is Best for You?
Signing up for classes at the gym is a fun and exciting endeavor. It’s an opportunity to tailor fitness to your needs based on what you enjoy and what goals you’re trying to achieve.
So how do you choose which one is the best fit for you?
If you’re new to the gym especially, it can be difficult to decide. Here at Fitness By Maryam, we have a
wide range of classes available for you and your friends to join. We want to guide you through the process of choosing the best classes for you so you feel confident in your decision and are ready to begin.
Let’s go through the different class types we offer to women of all ages in the area!
Class Types at Fitness By Maryam
Here at FBM, we offer many types of training to cater to your needs. Let’s go through them so you have a better understanding of what to look for when you sign up for your next class.
1. Strength Training
Strength training, also known as resistance training, uses muscle contractions against resistance to improve endurance and strength. You might use resistance bands, weights, or your own body weight to create the force you need to build your strength.
This type of training builds muscle mass and improves muscle function, which is great for reducing the risk of injuries and improving bone density.
Our Just Peachy, Push It, and Legs Legs Legs classes all use strength training to build your muscle mass in specific areas:
- Just Peachy focuses on growing and lifting your glutes while enhancing your overall lower-body movement through compound lifts and targeted resistance workouts.
- Push It focuses on building your arms, shoulders, and upper body using a mix of resistance bands, dumbbells, and bodyweight exercises.
- Legs Legs Legs focuses on—well—legs! It combines compound lifts, explosive movements, and functional training to sculpt your quads, hamstrings, glutes, and calves.
2. Cardio
We also offer a plethora of cardio options for classes, including Fight Fusion, Total Body Cardio, and Full Body Circuit.
Cardio, or cardiovascular exercise, increases the heart and breathing rate to improve your heart and lung health. Besides increasing blood flow, cardio also strengthens heart muscle, boosts endurance, burns tons of calories, and much more. It can also reduce stress and balance your mood, which is why they tell you to exercise if you’re feeling down.
Our cardio training classes include:
- Total Body Cardio: This class combines shadow kickboxing, HIIT, cardio, and sometimes weight training to target every body part and isolate muscles properly.
- Fight Fusion: This striking class blends kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Taekwondo techniques with high-intensity movements. Use punches and kicks to perform dynamic combinations that will boost strength, enhance agility, and burn calories.
- Game On: This high-intensity circuit class combines plyometrics, functional movements, and heavy lifting to increase speed, power, strength, and endurance.
- Full Body Circuit: This high-energy exercise hits every major muscle group that will leave you feeling sore in the best way. It combines strength, cardio, and functional movements in a stationary format so you can tone, sculpt, and improve endurance.
- Kick Fit: This class focuses on all things kicking! You’ll learn 1-2 new kicks every week and then put them into practice in a spicy circuit.
3. Boxing & Kickboxing
Boxing and kickboxing are great ways to blow off steam, build muscle, and master martial arts techniques.
We offer a couple differing boxing/martial arts options at FBM:
- Fight Fusion: Also above in the Cardio section, Fight Fusion uses a blend of techniques from Taekwondo, Muay Thai, and kickboxing to improve strength and build muscle. It’s perfect for both beginners and experts in martial arts.
- Kick Fit: In Kick Fit, you’ll focus on mastering kicks mixed with a rejuvenating full-body workout. Improve coordination, sharpen your footwork, and learn proper technique through dynamic drills and challenges. This class combines martial arts with everyday fitness to enhance your strength and agility.
4. Yoga/Pilates
For centuries, people have used meditation to improve their balance, increase range of motion, correct posture, boost their mood, and so much more. There are many benefits to practicing meditation in any form, and perhaps one of the most popular is yoga.
At FBM, we offer our
Core & Restore class as a way to combine the benefits of both yoga and pilates, to help you decompress and practice meditation. From yoga you’ll learn different poses, breathing techniques, improve your flexibility, and regulate your nervous system, among other things. From the Pilates side you’ll strengthen muscles and enhance your balance.
5. Taekwondo
There are endless reasons why martial arts classes are so beneficial to the community. For one, they teach you self-defense skills you can use in real-life situations. Martial arts also improves fitness, reduces stress, and enhances coordination and agility over time.
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art that emphasizes fast, high, and dynamic kicking techniques. This also includes practicing proper form and sparring, where partners simulate a fight to improve their skills.
We offer Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
Taekwondo classes so that no matter what level you’re at, you too can join in on the fun. Anyone can participate and it’s never too late to learn something new!
What Goals Do You Want to Achieve?
Everyone’s going to have a different fitness plan that requires different types of exercises and equipment at different intervals. That’s why it’s essential to figure out what you want to achieve so you can see results faster and reap the fruits of your labor.
Here’s a look at what might work best for you based on your goals.
If your goal is to:
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Lose weight: A variety of each class per week is a great way to build balance in your routine.
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Build muscle mass: Any kind of strength training class is recommended.
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Build cardiovascular endurance: We recommend Total Body Cardio, Game On, and Full Body Circuit.
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Relieve stress: Fight Fusion and Kick Fit classes are our top recommendations but, really, any class would be great for this.
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Build overall endurance, both muscular and cardiovascular: Game On is a fantastic class for this.
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Get better at sports/train like an athlete: Game On is also highly recommended here too.
7. Relax and recenter the body and mind: Core & Restore is fabulous as it puts you through a short and sweet workout, followed by a meditation and relaxation portion afterwards.
Wrapping Up
As you can see, we cater to all needs here at FBM. It’s important to us to cater to the community as a whole to ensure everyone gets the training, care, and attention they need.
Interested in trying a couple classes to see which one is your cup of tea? Try us out on
Black Friday in November! We will be offering back to back classes so you can experience the best in fitness.
Join Us at Fitness By Maryam!
Any questions? Feel free to
reach out to us via email, phone call, or stop by the gym for a tour! We offer both in-person and online Zoom classes so you can enjoy working out from anywhere you choose!
You can also check out our upcoming events for this month on Instagram at
@FitnessByMaryam.
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