Boxing

• This fitness trend involves a growing popularity of boutique boxing studios. Boutique style boxing studios have reinvented themselves and they are no longer predominantly male gyms.
• Boutique boxing studios have been instrumental in shifting the perception that boxing is a male-centered sport, into being regarded as a more inclusive wellness regime, similar to yoga or the martial arts.
•  Kobox has made the high-end boutique boxing lifestyle accessible to a wider audience who want an affordable luxury experience.
•  Everybody Fights is widely regarded as a cool boxing gym that has a wide variety of exercises each designed to provide elements of boxer training in addition to boxing.
•  TwelveThree has introduced punch trackers into their boxing classes that track the velocity and intensity of punches.

Hybrid HIIT Programs

• This fitness trend involves the fusion of other workout programs with HIIT to form HIIT hybrids. One of the most popular fusions is the pairing of HIIT with yoga.
• Core Power Yoga is a popular example, which “roots an intense physical workout in the mindfulness of Yoga”.
• HIIT hybrids have become very popular in the boutique fitness industry despite warning from some professionals about the increased risk of injury.
•  Speir Pilates has created hybrid classes (Reformer exercises fused with barre/HIIT/cardio elements) that provide good full-body workouts.
•  Rumble has a boxing-inspired group fitness class that has elements of HIIT, strength training, metabolic conditioning, and cardio.