Lagree is a challenging but accessible workout that everyone should try at least once. Of course, be warned-once will never be enough. Once you master the balance of a lunge on a moving carriage or watch in amazement as burpees become one of your favourite exercises, you might wonder how you ever went without it.
But it’s really more than the achievement of perfect form during a plank to pike, it’s the feeling of strength and accomplishment after 45 minutes of pushing your body slowly and steadily to the brink while your muscle fibres strengthen with each move. It’s the afterburn for 24–48 hours when all your work translates into improved muscle tone and burning calories. It’s the knowledge that you can do hard things even if they are just hard things for a minute.
Lagree will leave you more confident, strong and calm to handle not just workouts but your life when you leave the studio. You will gain a better posture, a feeling of peace and probably a friend or two on the journey.
You Will Find Your Community
Because of the nature of Lagree with the slow steady time under tension movements, you are challenged often throughout a class. Somehow knowing you aren’t in it alone is a big motivator to help you work a little harder. And while you are mentally cursing your instructor who you swear has forgotten how to tell time because a minute is definitely shorter than this-it’s nice to glance over and share a grimace with a fellow classmate who is feeling it, too.
You Will Feel Calmer
One of the best aspects of Lagree is that its slow steady movement and breaths physically work to calm you while you work out. By breathing in for four counts as you move into your lunge and breathing out as you take four counts to rise, you activate the parasympathetic nervous system. This is the area of the body that allows you to relax which in turn causes your cortisol levels to drop.
The Shape Of Your Body Will Change
Lagree will change the shape of your body. Whether your goal is weight loss or just a trimmer physique, the exercises employed in Lagree are designed to sculpt and refine problem areas that we all struggle with.
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