Fitness Friday #22: Turbo Kick

I’ve been licensed to teach Turbo Kick since 2012. I found Turbo Kick when I started taking classes at a local gym. It was unlike any cardio class I’d taken, mostly because of the unique 90-second TURBO round right in the middle of class.

Sometimes TURBO sections include these crazy Jack Jumps (jumping is never, ever required):

Here’s an example of a TURBO routine:

What is Turbo Kick? It’s a total-body workout mix of cardio kickboxing and simple dance grooves set to heart-pounding dance music. The class is high-energy and moves at a great pace.

We have sections of punches, kicks, push-ups, and the signature TURBO round – 90 seconds of the most fun and intense moments you’ll ever experience in a group fitness class.

The class starts with a sports-specific warm-up that incorporates some of the base movements used throughout the class. Then, we move into a punches round, a kicks round, a TURBO round, a punches & kicks round, and then focused area rounds. The focused area rounds include slower versions of punches and kicks to improve form, core movements, glute and leg focus, or push-ups.

For each of the punches and kicks sections, we focus on the right side, then the left side. So each section might be 2 minutes long, but you repeat it. It’s makes it easier to learn the choreography this way, since you go through each set twice.

Here’s a legs set example:

This is a high energy class. In many ways, it’s one of the more challenging classes I teach, because of the fast pace and the amount of choreography needed. Not only do I need to understand and share correct form, there’s a delicate placement of each of the forms together that I have to understand and share, while also showing variations.

It’s a crazy class format for sure. Occasionally, I teach Turbo Kick classes at Washington College.