New trends in Sport

It is considered the best sport discipline to control movement, breathing and have a notion of our body that connects us with it. A sport through which we improve physical and mental condition, tone and define and feel at peace with ourselves. 

Although CrossFit has been around for a while now and you probably have several acquaintances who practice it, given its success and the number of people who are joining this sporting discipline, we cannot help but include it in this list of Trending Sports.

CrossFit is perfect for all those people who want to escape from boring traditional gym sessions. CrossFit helps the person who practices it get in shape almost in record time thanks to the practice of functional training exercises.

Typically, a session lasts 60 minutes and is usually structured with 10-20 minutes of warm-up, technique and strength, followed by 15-30 minutes of “Workout of the day” where the whole body is exercised, ending with 10-15 minutes of sit-ups and stretching.

Among the new artistic disciplines that fuse two or more sports, Crosscycle is going to be one of the most practiced. This activity combines the cardiovascular training of indoor cycling with functional strength work. To do this, intervals of bike training are alternated with intervals of functional strength training, all to the rhythm of the most motivating music.

After the pandemic, many disciplines, such as Yoga, began to experience a highly relevant boom as many people realized the importance of taking care of not only our body, but also our mind and our emotions.

It is therefore not surprising that the KAP (Kundalini Activation Process) is becoming one of the most popular activities in recent months.

KAP is the vital energy that all people are born with and that, over the years, becomes dormant as the messages and lifestyle of modern society take over us. This energy, therefore, deteriorates and remains blocked in the lower part of the spine, or in other words, the first of the chakras. Through guided relaxation in which the teachers who teach it touch certain points, a readjustment of the mind and nervous system occurs.

Although this technique is not valid for the most agnostic, those who have tried it say that KAP is perfect for eliminating stress, releasing energy and that at the end of each session you feel relaxed and calm.

A fusion of pilates, fitness and ballet, perfect for all those people who want to play sports and stay fit but without doing high-intensity exercises.

Barre is generally done in group classes and is characterized by using the ballet bar, combining classical dance movements with yoga and pilates positions and a large amount of isometric work.

Although Hyrox is not a sport per se but rather a competition, it is becoming an essential event for all those who like sporting events in which they can compete against other participants and make their own mark.

Hyrox combines 8 km of running and 8 types of workouts in an alternating manner. Events are organized throughout the season in which anyone can compete without prior qualification and in which all participants must complete the same route receiving their personal time in order to see their world ranking.

This high-intensity workout combines strength with cardiovascular exercise and is becoming one of the trendiest workouts.

The session is usually divided into three blocks: the strength part, which is done through suspension exercises, the cardiovascular part with a stationary bicycle alternating intensities, and finally, a boxing workout.

In a society that moves so fast, more and more people are suffering from anxiety, stress or insomnia and have seen the need to control their emotions and give their mind a break as a very powerful tool for their physical and, above all, mental health. Hence the success of practices such as yoga and meditation, highly recommended by psychologists, doctors and specialists.

An ancient discipline that has millions of followers around the world and that is getting even the most reluctant people to understand the relationship between body and mind to practice this sport daily, both in specialized centers and at home, taking it as a moment of rest and connection with oneself rather than as an obligatory exercise routine.

Training, also in suspension, which consists of anchoring the feet to a strap, hanging it from the ceiling or another elevated structure and leaving them suspended in the air, while the rest of the body is in contact with the ground.

This activity allows you to focus the weight and load of the exercise on the desired area of ​​the body. It helps improve balance, flexibility, endurance and coordination. A curious fact about its origin: it was born in the United States Army, but it is adapted for anyone and is increasingly practiced by more professional athletes.

If you are bored of Zumba, the new challenge is Bokwa Fitness, a combination of African dance and gym exercises with a different musical style, rhythms, steps and movements.

It is an evolution of body combat, also practiced in water to increase resistance.

If walking rather than running is more your thing, you can walk at a fast pace, with your abdomen engaged, arms moving and the toes slightly raised. This is called 'power walking', designed especially for older people and as a warm-up for another exercise.