workout stacking
This fitness trend adapts to your life
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Workout stacking is currently considered the fitness trend par excellence. However, it rests on an attitude that some people may already be familiar with. You can find out what’s behind it here.
It is well known that there are different approaches to sport and fitness. Some people enjoy exercise and exercise so much that they can hardly get enough of it and need to slow down rather than push. For other people it is so important to have a well-trained body that they always manage to pull themselves together to exercise. Still others do not value visual effects at all, but primarily want to be fit and healthy. No matter what the respective goals and motivations, workout stacking – or at least the idea behind it – is a fitness trend that is suitable for almost everyone who is able and willing to exercise.
Workout stacking: variable and flexible
The basic idea of workout stacking is to combine several different short workouts in any way you like. Hence the name: “Stacking” means something like stacking or collecting. A stacking element – i.e. a workout – should generally not last longer than ten minutes and can be completely sufficient as a complete workout on days when there is little time, desire, discipline or energy available. It can also be supplemented with other workouts, depending on individual needs.
For example, on YouTube there is a wealth of material that can serve either as a workout template or as inspiration to create your own workout stacks. The fitness influencer Pamela Reif alone offers numerous videos with different focuses and different intensities on her channel: from power HIIT workouts to units to strengthen certain parts of the body to yoga or meditation sessions. And she’s just one of many creative, athletic people who provide us with workout stacking building blocks.
In addition to the flexibility in terms of time, the great freedom of design is also a plus point of the fitness trend: If we feel like sweating and working out and we don’t want to think much, we do our Go-To-HIIT workout one to three times in a row and then jump under the Shower. If we slept badly or have pain in the hips, we choose a yoga stack and/or arm training. Workout stacking can be adapted to the individual needs, requirements and goals of different people. Whether we stack workouts in the narrower sense or vary our training routine more often and react more spontaneously to our current condition and situation: internalizing the basic idea of the fitness trend is certainly good for most athletes.
Sources used: instyle.de, ok-magazin.de