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| Dance session at TFS Gym | ALTERNATIVE WORKOUT
If you thought working out only means lifting weights and slugging it out on a treadmill, here's a reality check. WHAT'S ON dropped in at 3 gyms, that encourage you to belly dance and kick box
Exercise routines in many gyms in the city have been modified to include activities that help enhance your body, while ensuring you have a good time as well. Here are a few:
WORLD GYM
Commenting on the popularity of alternative workout sessions, Umesh Mohite, Facility Head at World Gym, Wanowrie, says, "People wish to have a toned and healthy physique rather than an overtly muscular one. That's why people prefer such routines over lifting weights."
Trimline
The World Gym has introduced an internationally recognised exercise routine called Trimline. It is a combination of weight training, spinning and cardio, and helps improve muscle mass, correct posture, increase agility, reduce hypertension and depression and improve bone density.
Dance exercises
They also offer activities such as spinning, cardio kickboxing, Latin dancing, salsa, belly dancing and aerobics to stay fit.
Priced at Rs 3,500 (quarterly) for each routine, the gym is bustling with activity as health freaks line up to get
fit the fun way.
At: Ganga Satellite, Wanowrie. Call: 26803550. Time: 6 am to 11pm. On Sundays: From 8 am to 12 pm
SOLARIS
The new branch of Solaris at Wanowrie offers dance aerobics, yoga, circuit training, core training and Abs
Burner. "Core training is a routine that concentrates on six stomach muscles and helps develop them, whereas circuit training is a strenuous regime, aimed at developing stamina," explains Mrunal Pawar, Manager of Solaris.
Packages
Group batches are conducted daily in the mornings and evenings and cost Rs 4,950 quarterly. Pawar adds.
"There is a need to ensure that our members enjoy burning calories."
At: Sacred World Mall, Wanowrie. Call: 26856071/2. Time: 6 am to 11pm. Closed on Sundays.
TUSHAR'S FITNESS STUDIO (TFS)
Another gym that stresses on alternate exercise techniques is Tushar's Fitness Studio (TFS). Rashmi Uttam, Director, TFS, says, "Weight training and cardio may get monotonous after a while, thus the need for alternate routines to look forward to."
TFS offers a Wellness Package, which includes a de-stress programme, meditation, yoga, Latin dancing and
Bollywood dancing. The gym also indulges its members in outdoor activities though their football and cricket teams and organises regular treks.
The packages are priced at Rs 2,200, per month per routine.
Unique package for kids
While the parents sweat it out at the gym, the children enjoy Bollywood dancing, which keeps them engaged and helps them learn a new skill as well. Apart from this, TFS also organises children's camps.
At: Bizz Bay, NIBM-Undri Road. Call: 20266161, 9373210025, 9373220025. Time: 6 am to 10 pm. Closed on Sundays. | 
