The new Equinox-exclusive class uses functional movements to enhance strength, power, and resiliency.
To move well outside of the Club, you need to fortify your muscles and joints within its walls. The new 360 Strength, an Equinox-exclusive class, makes it easy to do just that.
The latest group fitness offering is carefully designed to build strength in all three dimensions — an element you might be overlooking in your solo training. Many workouts prioritize exercises that occur in the sagittal plane, like squats, bench presses, forward lunges, and deadlifts. Though these one-dimensional movements are undoubtedly beneficial, your routine in the Club should reflect all the ways your body functions in the real world.
In your everyday life, you rotate. You move sideways. In your recreational pickleball or softball league, you quickly change directions. You leap to the side. “If you're not training the capacity of your joints and [muscles] with these lateral movements, then you're leaving potential risk on the table when you're in a sport,” Dennis Torres, a COACH+ at Equinox Van Mission, previously told EQX+. In other words: Practice these movement patterns with a challenging load in the studio, and you’ll move more efficiently, effectively, and safely when you perform them on the field, street, or sidewalk.
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To help you train in all three planes of motion, 360 Strength utilizes three key pieces of equipment: the landmine, the ViPR PRO, and heavy dumbbells.
New to the group fitness studio, the landmine is an attachment that holds one end of a barbell on the floor, so you can pivot the bar in any direction. Unlike a barbell on its own, the landmine attachment allows you to train in the transverse plane of motion, helping to build strength and power during rotational movements, Chris McGill, a COACH+ at Equinox Encino, previously said. “We have a lot of tennis, golf, pickleball, and even racquetball [players], and those are all sports that involve some level of rotation or multi-directional motion,” he explained. Train with the landmine in a 360 Strength class, and you’ll be on your way toward peak performance in your sport.
The ViPR PRO has similar functional use cases. You can load the log-shaped free weight on your body (think: back squats), lift it (think: bent-over rows), and shift it through the field of gravity (think: woodchops), ViPR’s co-creator Michol Dalcourt previously told EQX+. Since it’s made from durable rubber, you’re able to flip it, drag it, and throw it — real-world movement patterns — without causing damage.
In each 50-minute 360 Strength class, expect to use these innovative tools, as well as no-frills dumbbells, as you push through dynamic, full-body exercises. Over time, your body will feel more powerful, adaptable, and ready for real-life tasks.
Sign up for your first 360 Strength class, now available at select Clubs, today.