Increase Your Upper Body Strength & Your Confidence At Aradia Fitness In Oakville

The 2014 momstown Oakville Fit Mama Challenge is now in its third week and going strong.  We ended our second week with a pole dancing, floor and chair cabaret workout session with Aradia Fitness in Oakville. Out of most mom's comfort zone?  Maybe, but we had a terrific response to this workout and were so happy that so many of our challenge participants wanted to give this fantastic workout a try.  Aradia Fitness was so welcoming to your group, even having some snacks and drinks out for us to enjoy!

Right off the bat I can tell you that there are many things you don't know about pole dancing fitness.  It's not easy, that's for sure.  It's also not sleazy or shady, awkward or embarrassing.  And let's be honest, once you become a mom, the part of you that may once have been a silver pleather pant wearing lady (yup, those would be my pants I am talking about!) gets pushed to the back and doesn't often come out.  But why not? 

I can tell you that ALL the moms who did our Aradia class loved feeling like a woman that night and shedding the mom identity for some time focused on themselves.  Aradia Fitness Oakville owner Jane has a fantastic story to tell about just this type of thing - read her story here.  

So what did we do for our workout?  We all got a chance to try a beginner pole dancing class as well as a rock bottom class (targets butt, abs & legs!) and some chair cabaret.  The studio offers registered classes but also has drop in classes as well, you can view all the class descriptions here.  Classes at Aradia Fitness in Oakville are a fantastic way to build upper body strength, tone and tighten and boost your confidence in yourself.  If one of your New Year's resolution was to try something new this year, I can tell you that this is it! Every woman should try a class at least once.

Read what some of our mamas has to say about their Aradia Fitness experience:

"Really found it fun....surprised myself :) Would go again!"

"LOVED IT!"

"I loved it too. The chair dancing was my fave. Such a great space and I love that you can just do drop in classes with no pre registration!"

Make sure to visit Aradia Fitness Oakville's website and Facebook Page to find out more about their classes and workshops offered.

momstown Oakville moms have fun and get fit with Fitdolls

My legs are sore this morning!  Last night momstown Oakville moms tackled our third workout for the momstown fitness challenge.  Fitdolls promised us a fun and challenging workout and they certainly delivered on that promise!  Fitdolls programming is exclusively for women designed by women. Their workouts are designed to give you a beautiful feminine toned body. Fitdolls goal is to help you look and feel your best and their programs involve:

-high intensity fat burning workouts
-fun stations that combine cardio and strength training
-flexibility component

We started our workout with a quick warm up and then moved right into some challenging but fun activities. When is the last time you skipped in a big skipping rope?  Taking us back to our school yard days, we had a blast taking turns turning the rope and jumping in and out of the rope.  We even had three mamas in their jumping all at once!

Another fun activity involved running around and flipping paper plates over.  We were divided into two teams and one team needed to have as many plates facing up as possible and the other team needed to have the plates facing down.  This activity was really great cardio as we raced around competing against each other but after bending down many, many times you could really start to feel the burn!  Add in some good old fashioned suicide runs, lunges and walking planks back and forth across the room, and some relay races and the hour passed really quickly.

Lunges, walking plank, skipping rope and flipping plates with Fitdolls!

Here is what some of our members had to say about the workout:

"Yes, good workout. My thighs are sore from all the lunges. The workout had a grade school vibe to it that was refreshing. All those jumping jacks, skipping, and suicides... all we needed was a game of dodge ball to round out the night!" - Amy

"It was a great workout! I'm glad I pushed myself as it was outside of my comfort zone. I've never done a class like that before." - Sarah

Fitdolls offers boot camp classes as well as personal training sessions either in studio or in your home. Check out their website for some great winter promo prices!  Their workouts are hard but they've done a really great job at making them fun and unique.