No Ordinary Fitness

Try these six untraditional workout moves to sculpt muscle and build strength in brand-new, playful ways that conventional lifting can’t touch.

- Cat Perry

ELEVATE YOUR UPPER-BODY WORKOUT

You may have already heard of aerial yoga, or maybe even tried this challenging practice that brings out the kid in you. So you know that like other forms of aerial fitness, it’s a perfect upper-body blaster for your shoulders, bi’s, tri’s, chest, lats, and core. Try it instead of arm day this week to see how great it is for sculpting muscle while injecting fun into your fitness. Celebrity trainer and aerial artist Jill Franklin utilises aerial fitness to build strength and boost her students’ confidence in performance. Here, the owner of Los Angeles’ Aerial Physique in the US shares her three classic moves to try if your gym has silks fabric in its fitness studio.

1 THE PULL-UP HOLD (SHOWN) MUSCLES WORKED: LATS, BICEPS, TRICEPS, FOREARMS & CORE