Designed for both men and women, Kardio Kickboxing offers a fun, total-body workout that improves cardiovascular fitness, strengthens and tones, reduces body fat, and reduces stress levels. First made popular by Billy Blanks’ Tae-Bo video workout and infomercials, Kardio Kickboxing is a high-intensity, calorie-burning workout that is great for all levels of fitness. Our approach blends elements of boxing, martial arts, and traditional aerobics into a 60-minute exercise routine.

The Classes
Our one-hour-long classes generally feature a variety of punches, kicks, knee strikes, and other self-defense moves interspersed with a bouncing “base” move to high-energy music. The classes also incorporate traditional exercises, such as jumping jacks, abdominal crunches, leg lifts, and push-ups to create a total body workout. In addition, participants will spend at least part of the time kicking and punching weighted or padded targets.

The Gear
Wear comfortable exercise shorts or sweat pants and a non-restricting t-shirt or tank top. Women should wear a sports bra. No shoes are allowed on the floor, so you will exercise in bare feet. Bring a towel to class. Feel free to bring your own water bottle or sports drink, but there is a water cooler in the school.

As you’ll be hitting a bag or target, you’ll also need hand wraps and/or gloves to protect your hands and wrists. You may buy these from our school, but you can also buy them at most sporting good stores. The wraps are long strips of absorbent cloth that are wrapped around your hands and wrists and secured with Velcro. Boxing/bag gloves come in a variety of sizes and degrees of thickness. If you will not have the gloves/wraps, then we will ask you to “air punch” the target to avoid possible injury.