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Kickstart the new year with these fun and alternative fitness classes, workouts and events happening around town.
HIIT express at Bootcamp Pilates Strand
Not enough time to exercise? You're in luck. Bootcamp Pilates is not only setting up a new studio on the Strand this month, but they're launching a quickie fitness class that short enough to let you knock out a workout in your lunch break.
Date: January 17 (launch)
Booking info: www.bootcamppilates.com
55 Strand, WC2N 5LR
Juju’s Presents Re:Solutions
If you haven’t already fallen off the resolution bandwagon by now, there’s still time to pick yourself back up again at this new health and wellness festival on Brick Lane. From now until the end of the month you can try out different flavours of yoga, sign up to a bootcamp, let loose at a capoeira class, join a 'Booty Burn' sesh, work out with hula hoops or take a break at a weekend retreat.
Date: January 2-31
Cost: From £6-10 a session
Booking info: www.resolutionsatjujus.com
15 Hanbury Street, E1 6QR
Total Boxer gym Hornsey
The super sociable Total Boxer gym has been helping slebs and normal folks throw punches in the name of getting fit since 2012. As the city's love for boxing shows no signs of slowing down, TB has now decided to open a second north London site. It’ll be the home of its signature classes, BoxingYoga and Get FIT Not HIT, which promises to get you ‘fighting fit in a seriously fun way, without getting hit in the face’. Phew...
Cost: £10 for the first class, £15 afterwards
Booking info: www.totalboxer.com
Unit 21, Cranford Way, Hornsey, N8 9DG
Heavy Fitness at Frame
It was only a matter of time before someone figured out that the London fitness scene could really do with a heavy metal-themed workout. Well, voila: the first Heavy Fitness class goes down on January 17 at Frame Shoreditch. Coming courtesy of the Massive Music agency, brace yourself for a tune-fuelled, body burning session that oughta give that post-Christmas flab a good thrashing. Goth gear optional.
Date: January 13, 6.30pm
Cost: £20 + £1.10 booking fee
Booking info: https://moveyourframe.com/class/heavy-fitness
Frame Shoreditch, 29 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EY
Yoga Hygge with Good Yoga Life
Did we leave hygge behind in 2016? Of course not – and in 2017 it’s now turned its cosiness to yoga for a one-off class in Hackney. Get your warm and fuzzy kicks with a 75-minute slow flow restorative yoga session, followed by a bit of meditation, a turmeric latte to recover and a lovely gift to take away.
Date: January 29, 6pm
Cost: £20 + £1.10 booking fee
Booking info: billetto.co.uk/events/yoga-hygge
Reva Studio, 2c Andrews Road, Broadway Market, E8 4QL