Looking for a real workout? Drop the pansy hand-weights and go to EF3 Kickboxing Bootcamp Personal Training in Phoenix
The summer swimsuit season is here, and the standard diet and exercise programs are boring and probably not working. Even if the diets or latest fitness craze does, it's only for a short period of time. So, like a hamster in a wheel, you labor away on the treadmill until your eyes glaze over in boredom. But that’s no longer necessary when you head to EF3 Kickboxing Bootcamp and Personal Training. This function fighting finess facility is where both the monotony and the jello-like wobbly parts end. Plus, they shuck all the negative stereotypes of your local gym—no sparkly pink legwarmers, no aerobics step classes and absolutely no ego wanna-be tough frauds.
Instead, ef3 specializes in functional fitness, martial arts and peak performance to deliver functional and impressive results. Classes range from Speed, Strength and Agility to Muay Thai Kickboxing, MMA (Kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, Taekwondo Martial Arts) and even boxing. You don’t want to mess with the guys who run this place—the trainers are advanced Black Belts, mixed martial artists and bodybuilders.
When you enter you'll notice that it is a professional martial arts school, not your typical aerobics teachers macarading as kickboxing coaches or MMA fighters recently back from the UFC. It is full of men and women kicking and punching bags (not each other). But the kickboxing class, which is offered with free gloves if you register online at iLoveKickboxingPhoenix.com, is surprisingly diverse in its participants. The classes are designed for the novice and can accommodate even the most advanced kickboxer. But once you get there, meet the others like yourself and try it, you'll feel much less intimidated.
The instructor led the class in a cardio warm-up, and then it was down to business. Jabs, crosses, hooks, roundhouse kicks—within ten minutes you'll be torching fat like an incinerator. But getting into the rhythm of beating a 150 lb punching bag to death was surprisingly easy, especially when you have a group of really great instructors motivating you. One hour and hundreds of kicks, ab blasting and punches later, we finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel—a ten-minute “cool-down” with refreshing, flexibility building yoga. At the end you feel a unique bond with the other Kickboxers that only comes from feeling like you tackled something together.
According to research, the average kickboxer burns approximately 800-1,000 calories in one i love kickboxing session. It would take hours of boredom on the treadmill to reach those results. ef3 is a place that can really deliver results, faster than any cardio class at your local gym could possibly do. It’s fun, and it works—plus, there’s nothing like punching inanimate objects to relieve that midterm-related stress. But be prepared: you'll need to have a great attitude in order to train here. (Seriously the kick you out if you have a bad attitude or irritate their members.) Then again, that's probably why so many nice, hard-working people like it.
