Flipping through Shape magazine (it's my wife's, honestly), I came across the page with the latest fitness fads which included some yoga hybrid workouts. I'm usually pretty leery of fads. By the time an idea is mainstream popular, they're usually more marketing than substance. The resurgence of yoga is a good example. Sure, yoga is great for you, but its sheer popularity means that a lot of people are trying to milk the popularity cow. You get a lot of unqualified people with serious misunderstandings teaching classes just to meet the demand. You also get crossover ideas which are questionable and quite possibly silly.
For example, the latest crossover trends I've read about include:
What do you think? What crossover class do you want to see?
For example, the latest crossover trends I've read about include:
- Doga - Yoga with your dog. Bond with your dog while holding yoga poses.
- Slackasana - Yoga on a slackline. Ok, I admit, that does sound fun to me. But it's mostly because I want to try slacklining, not because I feel an inherent urge to combine yoga with slacklining.
- Koga - Combining the best of kickboxing and yoga. Two great tastes that taste great together? Not so sure about this combination myself.
- Goga - Yoga for golf. I'm not sure it's actually all that popular or trendy, but I thought I'd include it for the sheer absurdity of its name.
What do you think? What crossover class do you want to see?