Push the Perimeter

Push your limits in this combination class that features superhuman strength sequences alternated with fast and furious drills that span the length of the room. This class moves in lines utilizing barbells, dumbbells, slam balls, and kettlebells. Finish all four lines and then take off to work speed, agility and quickness using the length of the room in four distinct lanes. Work through 4 AMRAP and Speed Sets in a thirty-minute workout that will challenge your strength and stamina. 

Why Try Push the Perimeter?  

Push your limits in Push the Perimeter. Maximize your time and results in a strength and cardio class with a perfect mix of training styles: AMRAP (As Many Reps As Possible) and HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). Speed, agility, strength, and stamina are your new BFFs in Push the Perimeter.  

What Is Push the Perimeter Like?  

Line up! Work through the line of Barbells, Slam Balls, Dumbbells and Kettlebells, then shake it up with cardio, speed, and agility drills to get your heart pumping. Count your reps in the AMRAP sets and feel the victory of crushing your limits. You’ll push your personal perimeters as you make more muscle with barbells, sandbells, dumbbells and kettlebells!  

Who Are Push the Perimeter Classes Best For? 

People of all fitness levels like to maximize their gym time. The blend of core, agility, strength, and cardio in Push the Perimeter creates phenomenal results for everybody. Custom options for exercises are always tailored for you by our exceptional instructors.  

Is Push the Perimeter a Good Workout? 

Push the Perimeter delivers strength-based fat-burning results in record time. What makes it manageable, exciting, and #FIERCELYFUN for participants is that each exercise is completely customizable. 

• Strength. Strength training builds bone density, improves body composition, trains posture, and builds power for daily living. Weight training boosts metabolism, burning fat even when training has ended. 

• Cardiovascular Endurance. The Push the Perimeter Speed Set raises the heart rate between rounds of exercises, building the muscles of the heart and challenging lung capacity. 

• AMRAP Training. This AMRAP strength format encourages participants to complete as many reps as possible WITH GOOD FORM. This raises the heart rate and promotes efficiency of movement 

• High-Intensity Interval Training. HIIT training has been shown to improve body composition, improve VO2 MAX, reduce heart rate and blood pressure, and even reduce blood sugar levels.  

How Difficult is Push the Perimeter? 

6/10 Yes, you will push your limits in Push the Perimeter, but since the exercises are simple and drill-based, you work at YOUR pace. Learn to use the badass strength equipment you see on the fitness floor in the safety of the group fitness studio! Everyone can have a blast pushing the perimeter! 

How Long Is Each Class? 

Push the Perimeter strengthens and energizes the whole body in just 30 minutes! Blast through the lines of equipment and dash through the lines of cardio. After 30 minutes of pushing your strength, core conditioning and high-energy cardio, you will finish feeling strong, exhilarated, and empowered. 

What Should I Wear? 

Come ready to play. Typically, people wear sweat-wicking clothing that will offer ample coverage and will stay put and allow you to move with ease throughout the range of motion of exercises.  

Cross Training Gym Shoes. Wear comfortable shoes that offer support and stability as you move and balance during class.  

What do I need to Bring? 

Hydrate, my friend! Make sure you have plenty of water with you. Bring a towel to catch your sweat as you will be dripping in finesse! Most importantly, bring a great attitude and smile to share. 

What Types of Strength Classes Are Available? 

Absolution. 

AB-solutely, this is the perfect core strengthening solution: concentrated ab-centric exercises paired with deep restorative stretching.   

BADASS BALLERINA. 

Grace, grit, determination, and dedication…become the featured ballet performer on the stage of life! Join the troupe and work through flowing dance sequences and extreme core work utilizing mini weighted medicine balls as resistance. Traditional ballet conditioning moves fused with Pilates and fitness exercise blend to develop the badass ballerina. Steal the lead in the show as you work through hardcore segments designed to bring out the inner dancer in everyone.  

Band Camp.

Get ready to hear the music of your legs, glutes, and core in Band Camp, where flat bands become the instruments to sculpt your lower body into one lean, muscular powerhouse. Learn the patterns in Band Camp Basics, then advance to the Band Camp Booster level to orchestrate your muscles into a fat-burning ensemble. 

Barbell Bound.

Bound for time? Bound for results? You’re bound to raise the bar in this singular workout that combines two types of strength training. Lift your way through barbell sets alternated with bound rounds and burnout sets utilizing heavy resistance bands to produce a grueling workout that will leave you unbelievably strong, focused and barbell bound 

BARRE ASSETS.

Drawing its inspiration from ballet, this class will help you to get a ballet-ready body. Employing exercises to shape and elongate all your major muscle groups, you’ll be tutu ready in no time. It may look like ballet training, but it is much more. Barre Assets is a uniquely challenging, non-impact fitness class that delivers major results to tone and shape the body. Barre Assets mixes elements of Pilates, dance, ballet, and functional training choreographed to music designed to motivate and inspire

Barre Bootcamp.

Become a lean, mean ballet dancer in this fusion class. Inspired by ballet and strength training, this high intensity barre class targets your arms, core, thighs, and booty to help you create a long, lean dancer’s body. Get ready to feel the barre burn.  

Belly, Butt & Thighs Bootcamp.

Focus on your lower half in this belly-busting, booty shaping, two-part intensive class that features a series of exercise combinations that target, you guessed it – your belly, butt, and thighs.  

Bodyweb with TRX.

Hang from the durable TRX® ropes to push, pull, lift, and lower your body through Spiderman moves for a total body suspension workout that also super-strengthens your core.  

Chisel.

This upper and lower body strength-based class utilizes heavier weights to provide a total body workout with balance, core and strength segment and chisel your muscles.  

Demolished.

Get ready to shake things up in this high energy, strength, and endurance workout as you shift in a circle from station to station using advanced strength equipment including Tomahawks, Sandbags and Barbells. Recover in the Epicenter with body weight exercises designed to cause tremors throughout your body. Come prepared to be moved! 

Ground Level.

Get GROUND LEVEL in this unique interval class that focuses on bodyweight strength and core training. Utilizing ground level drills and standing rest periods known as “LEVEL UP BREAKS,” this one-of-a-kind workout will leave you strong and steady. Mix strength drills inspired by animal movement patterns with crushing core exercises to define, shape and sculpt your body in only 30 minutes. This unique workout features rounds of work, each one with a different focus, designed to push your limits and challenge both your mind and body! 

Push the Perimeter.

Push your limits in this combination class that features superhuman strength sequences alternated with fast and furious drills that span the length of the room. This class moves in lines utilizing barbells, dumbbells, slam balls, and kettlebells. Finish all four lines and then take off to work speed, agility and quickness using the length of the room in four distinct lanes. Work through 4 AMRAP and Speed Sets in a thirty-minute workout that will challenge your strength and stamina.  

SLAMMED.

Focus on Strength, Length, Agility and Mobility and get SLAMMED in this hard-hitting high intensity class utilizing Hyperwear sand bells. You’ll slam, push, pull and drag your sand bell through a series of hardcore heavy hitting exercises designed to chisel your body and slam you into shape. 

Tough 20.

Tough 20 will chisel your core with just 20 moves. This total bodyweight core focused class will produce 6-pack-ready results in no time. Start at 20 and count your way down to a tight and toned mid-section. 

Find a Push the Perimeter Class at a Crunch Near You  

Can’t wait to take your everyday fitness routine to the next level? Push the Perimeter is the right class for you! Search here to find the class at a location near you!

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