Weight Loss

This year, you actually did it. You crushed it all spring and went into the summer in the best shape of your life. You were the only guy who had visible abs at the Fourth of July beach party. You actually kept up with your program and hit the gym during your August vacation. You even managed to stay away from all the Halloween candy you had laying around your house since what had to be the middle of September. But now comes the tricky part—the holiday season.

Nothing can wipe out a full year’s worth of progress like the dinners, parties, commitments, and stress that come in those few short weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.

To help you avoid falling into those traps, here’s a heads up on the four biggest holiday fitness destroyers and some tips on what you can do to keep them at bay.

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In a circa 2021 fitness landscape full of endless burpees, boot camps, and live streaming cardio, Rashid Shabazz, also known as “Roc,” is sticking with bodybuilding as the go-to training methodology at his suburban Atlanta gym, Roc Fitness.

A former IFBB pro bodybuilder, Shabazz’s affinity for hypertrophy-style workouts isn’t just nostalgia or confirmation bias. No, he’s prescribing “bodybuilding for the masses” because it works. Full stop.

It worked in the 1960s and ‘70s in bodybuilding’s “Golden Age.” It worked in the ‘80s and ‘90s when Lee Haney (Shabazz’s mentor) and Dorian Yates ruled the sport. It worked in the early 2000s, when Shabazz won his pro card as a light-heavyweight at the NPC Nationals (2004) and went onto a respectable IFBB career, highlighted by two Mr. Olympia appearances (2008 and 2010). And it’s been working ever since with his personal training clients of all shapes, sizes, and experience levels — from high school athletes to busy moms to Shabazz’s most famous client, NBA Hall-of-Famer and Olympia Weekend Ambassador Shaquille O’Neal.

“I still pay homage to my bodybuilding roots, and I’ve gotten the general public to not only buy into this style of training, but get great results from it,” says Shabazz, whose celebrity client résumé also includes NFL legends Ray Lewis and Shannon Sharpe. “Depending on how long we do it and how consistent we are, I know we can get results and change the body, because we we’ve done it for so many years in bodybuilding.”

Shabazz and his team of trainers at Roc Fitness in Sandy Springs, GA are hellbent on proving that bodybuilding, combined with community, is still the best path to a better body. And they’re putting their money where their mouths are with the upcoming Roc the Summer Challenge, a 30-day nationwide transformation contest launching on July 5 — with a grand prize of up to $5,000, plus other proceeds going to charity via sponsors.

“A lot of the challenges you see these days are just about weight loss,” says Shabazz. “With the Roc the Summer Challenge, we want to find the person that not only drops the most body fat, but also puts on the most lean muscle. We want people to eat the right foods instead of just starving themselves, and to lift weights instead of just doing cardio, so they can build a body that they can continue building on.”

The Cutting Edge of Physique Transformation

That word — bodybuilding — is off-putting, if not downright scary, to a lot of people. Most of us want to trim down and get leaner, not build up and pack on size, and training like a bodybuilder would seem antithetical to this goal.

That’s a misnomer. Bodybuilding-style training is effective for building muscle, but it’s also great for dropping body fat, and lots of it. On the nutrition side, bodybuilding is all about eating for your goals, even (and especially) when that goal is to drop body fat.

Ultimately, those wanting to lose weight (which is a vast majority of the American population, both men and women) are looking to change — to transform — their bodies. And no athletes on the planet know how to create this type of change better than bodybuilders.

Shabazz’s programming at Roc Fitness is unequivocally bodybuilding, albeit a modern version – one that combines the contemporary group fitness model with bodybuilding’s bedrock training principles of exercise selection, load, volume, and intensity.

Roc Fitness offers hour-long classes every day during the week, starting as early as 5 a.m. A typical class size is between 14 and 22, with one or more certified trainers running the class and providing constant coaching cues. Outside of group classes, members can sign up for traditional one-on-one personal training, either with Shabazz himself or one of the other trainers on his team like Aaron or Omar Whavers (Shabazz’s nephews), IFBB Figure Pro Simona Douglas, or NPC Bikini competitor Nikki Raymond.

This class setup may look similar to CrossFit and other similar “functional fitness” gyms, but the workouts are entirely different. Instead of box jumps, rope climbing, and Olympic lifts, Roc’s classes feature members doing stations on staple bodybuilding exercises like lat pulldowns, leg press, and Smith machine incline press — moves that wouldn’t normally be incorporated into a group setting.

“This is the cutting edge,” says Shabazz of his classes, which are offered as both co-ed and men-only groups. “I’ll take two, three, sometimes four, of the best exercises for a particular body part and run people through a circuit, grouping them together based on their bodyweight and if they’re trying to build more muscle or lose fat. I may say, ‘Joe, you and Alex are going to be on the leg extension while Sam and John are doing leg curls. Finish your five sets, then switch exercises and do five sets of leg curls.’ Imagine that, instead of having a big room of people jumping up and down doing burpees.”

Training is just one piece of the puzzle. Roc Fitness also offers comprehensive nutritional guidance, ranging from basic food education to full-scale diet plans to meal delivery. For the latter, Shabazz has a local meal prep company he refers members to, and there’s even a restaurant around the corner from the gym, Chef Rob’s Caribbean Café, that he works directly with to offer healthy menu items — including his namesake “The Roc Meal,” which consists of an 8-ounce, low-sodium grilled chicken breast with fresh herbs and crushed black pepper, jasmine rice, and streamed broccoli.

“We do everything here — training, meal prep, cardio plan, all of it,” says Shabazz. “I’ve been privileged to do this so many years that it became second nature to pass that information down to athletes as well as regular people.”

Walking the Walk

Shabazz’s last professional bodybuilding show was the 2010 Olympia 202 (now the 212 division), in which he finished a respectable 11^th place months after an impressive 202 win at that year’s IFBB Phoenix Pro. During his career, Shabazz was known mainly for two things: his shredded, aesthetic physique as well as his burgeoning personal training business, already in full swing thanks in part to the cachet of his famous NFL clients like Sharpe and Lewis.

And not much has changed since then. He may no longer be winning bodybuilding trophies, but he’s training others who are. And he’s still in great shape: At age 53, he’s a shredded 200 pounds. As for his business, Roc Fitness is bigger than ever, as is the star power of his celebrity client roster — namely, Shaq, who Shabazz still actively works with as the big man’s “Chief Fitness Officer,” including regular appearances on the TNT reality show Shaq Life.

A lifestyle and career immersed in bodybuilding well into his 50s was inevitable. “It started a long time ago,” says Shabazz, tracing it back to the first photos he saw in bodybuilding magazines in the 1980s of physique stars like Haney and Robby Robinson. “I’ve always loved the way training made me feel. But I also got a kick out of taking everything I learned in bodybuilding and teaching it to athletes I knew, like my little brother when he was in high school playing baseball.”

After graduating from Jackson State University with a business degree, Shabazz held a corporate job before leaving “to pursue what I wanted to do for a living, and that was bodybuilding,” he says. “I didn’t know how I was going to actually pay my bills or feed myself or anything like that, but I knew that’s what I wanted to do. And I was fortunate enough to be able to parlay that over to a great career, something I enjoyed doing and where I’m making a difference. For me, it’s really fun taking an average person and helping him or her do extraordinary things.”

Extraordinary things can mean anything from a middle-aged woman hitting a weight-loss goal to an elite athlete finishing his career with a Super Bowl ring (Ray Lewis in 2013 with the Ravens) to a 30-something taking a fitness hobby to the competitive physique stage. One of Shabazz’s current pupils is his business partner and former overseas professional basketball player Ronnie Cropper, who’s currently training for the amateur Olympia Men’s Physique.

“After I stopped playing basketball, I continued to have a strong desire to compete,” says the 37-year-old Cropper. “When I decided to take my personal fitness to another level, I sought out Roc and his 30-plus years of experience in the bodybuilding world. He’s helped me create a more focus-driven fitness regimen, which is ultimately leading me to my goal of switching to a new sport and competing on some of the biggest stages in men’s physique and bodybuilding.”

The Next Evolution of Fitness

With both competitive and business success under his belt, Shabazz’s eye is on the future — the “4th quarter” of his working life, as he puts it. “Be legendary, leave a legacy. That’s what I’m trying to do right now,” he says.

Part of that involves working to keep the fitness industry on the right path, which Shabazz believes should be influenced by both the current digital age as well as the prior era of the ‘90s and early 2000s. For the younger generation, the tendency is to move everything online, to make training more virtual. But in doing so, you lose human contact. You lose community.

“Thing is, even with this pandemic and the protocol I laid out at my gym with wearing masks and all that, you would’ve thought there’s no way I’d have over a hundred clients in here — but we have,” says Shabazz, who’s quick to share credit with his ex-wife and business partner Gina Alexander for the success of Roc Fitness. “We naturally want to interact with other human beings. You can put a person on the computer all you want, do simulations, and keep them at the house, but they’ll still want to find a way to interact with another person.”

As for the training, Shabazz hopes the younger era will appreciate how he and his counterparts approached the gym during their heydays.

“The people that came before me, they got big and cut on basic barbells and dumbbells,” he says. “My generation had a few more toys, with the newer machines and all that, but I still paid homage to guys like Lee Haney by training old school. Right now, everything’s in the digital age and is in the hands of the younger generation. Hopefully they can take a bit of old school and sprinkle it with the new school and make a huge difference. Because if they cancel out their heritage and what we did before them, our era is going to be completely lost.”

Get Ready to ‘Roc’

First things first. Instead of obsessing about the distant future, Shabazz is laser-focused on his upcoming Roc the Summer Challenge. He’s not doing it alone, though. His Roc Fitness team — including Alexander, trainers Aaron and Omar Whavers and Shaneese Bailey — are equally committed. Most important are the “masses,” the thousands of people that hopefully will take on the challenge and change their bodies and lives through bodybuilding.

“I really want this challenge to be big,” says Shabazz. “I want it to be something that people look forward to and use not just to lose some weight, but to put on some lean muscle. That’s what’s going to keep the weight off — not running all day long, cutting calories, and starving yourself. If you put on a little lean muscle and burn a little body fat, each time you do it you’ll get a little better. And you’ll be able to keep that weight off for good.” 

The Roc the Summer Challenge is scheduled to begin July 5. The challenge is open not only to Roc Fitness in-person gym members, but anyone training at home as well.

“You can take the challenge anywhere,” says Shabazz. “Ultimately, we’re looking to build a fitness community that can do many things together, including trips, cruises, seminars, workshops, networking, and more.”

For more information on how to join the Roc the Summer Challenge and details on entry fees, workout program options, before-and-after photo requirements, and more, visit RoctheSummer.com.

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var jwInfo = jwplayer(el).getPlaylistItem(jwplayer(el).getPlaylistIndex());

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play_id: el, //this will stay constant for all of the events emitted during the same video play
event: (e.mute) ? “sound off” : “sound on”,
video: {
duration: jwInfo.duration, // in seconds
name: jwInfo.title,
video_id: decodeURIComponent( “FZjRfVro” ),
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}).on(‘fullscreen’, (e) => {
var el = decodeURIComponent( “jwplayer_FZjRfVro_eEkK759I_div” );
var vHash = “ami” + decodeURIComponent( “FZjRfVro” );

var jwInfo = jwplayer(el).getPlaylistItem(jwplayer(el).getPlaylistIndex());

window.permutive.track(“VideoEvent”, {
play_id: el, //this will stay constant for all of the events emitted during the same video play
event: (e.fullscreen) ? “fullscreen on” : “fullscreen off”,
video: {
duration: jwInfo.duration, // in seconds
name: jwInfo.title,
video_id: decodeURIComponent( “FZjRfVro” ),
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var vHash = “ami” + decodeURIComponent( “FZjRfVro” );

var jwInfo = jwplayer(el).getPlaylistItem(jwplayer(el).getPlaylistIndex());
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window.lock_50 = false;
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window.lock_100 = false;

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title: window.adInfo.adtitle,
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window.permutive.track(“VideoAdClick”, {
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title: window.adInfo.adtitle,
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creative_name: window.adInfo.adtitle,
ad_id: window.adInfo.adId,
title: window.adInfo.adtitle,
video_type: “instream” //outstream
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name: jwInfo.title,
video_id: decodeURIComponent( “FZjRfVro” ),
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keywords: jwInfo.tags.split(“,”), //keywords for the page
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if ( 0.5 >= progress ) {
window.adlock_50 = true;
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window.adlock_75 = true;
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window.adlock_100 = true;
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console.log(“Permutive video ad progress ” + progress);
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var el = decodeURIComponent( “jwplayer_FZjRfVro_eEkK759I_div” );
var vHash = “ami” + decodeURIComponent( “FZjRfVro” );
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return;
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So your best friend wrote a novel during quarantine? Big deal—you’re getting in the best shape of your life from the comfort of home with this bevy of fitness apps.

Best Fitness Apps and Streaming Platforms to Get Fit From Home

1. FlexIt

Your muscles don’t have to atrophy like your social life, folks. Hook up with virtual personal trainers from 3,000 gyms across the country, including Blink, Gold’s, Physique 57, and more. (You don’t need to be a member of any studio to use the platform.) You’ll train with a trainer over video in a customized workout tailored to your goals. Take the Trainer Matching Quiz and get on the road to better health, whether you’re looking to improve flexibility, rehab an injury, lose weight, or improve overall fitness.

[From $30 for 30-minute session; flexit.fit]

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2. FightCamp

Take classes from pro boxers and NASM-certified trainers with on-demand workouts like Full Body Boxing and Full Body Kicking. There’s even a versus mode so you can challenge yourself or others from prior workouts to beat your personal record. To get set up you’ll need the FightCamp Personal or FightCamp Tribe package, which comprises a bag, quick wraps, mat, pair of gloves, and punch trackers that measure your speed, strength, and stamina throughout each cathartic jab and hook. FYI: The free-standing bag is 67 inches tall and 24 inches at its widest once assembled, so make sure you’ve got adequate space.

[From $430-$1,219 for equipment plus $39/month membership fee; joinfightcamp.com]

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3. Alo Moves

A diverse group of instructors guide you through a carefully curated collection of on-demand yoga, fitness, and mindfulness classes (try a sound bath if you’re in a slump or yoga nidra for restorative sleep) located in studio or naturals settings (we like Alo in the Wild Hawaii). With thousands of classes to choose from, use the handy filter to search by class duration, intensity, style, and more. Or, heed our sage counsel and treat your weary limbs to Yoga for Hikers with the talented Nicole Tsong or Quick HIIT if your quarantine sweats are getting tight.

[$20/month or $199/year; alomoves.com]

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4. Future Fit

If one-on-one virtual personal training is for you, join the Future Fit program, which pairs you with a fitness coach who creates custom training plans each week based on goals, available equipment, and time constraints, communicating via text message and video. To keep you accountable, Future sends you an Apple Watch so you and your coach can keep tabs on your progress. For a sample of the fun that’s in store, a recent week for one user consisted of Push Focus (three-position isometric hold pushups, lunge knee drives, scissors, T pushups, triceps dips, squat jumps, high plank, etc.) on Monday and Pull Focus (feet elevated pushups, hip lifts, pendulum legs, high side plank, pushups, etc.) on Wednesday.

[$150/month; future.co]

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5. Supernatural

This virtual reality fitness program is otherworldly (okay, not really, but man do Machu Picchu and Iceland boast some serious views) and makes torching calories fun, all the while tailoring your sessions to your ability level and desired intensity. It’s available exclusively on the Oculus Quest and Quest 2 headsets, with a mobile Companion App for iPhone and Android to track your progress. Explore the workouts library, connect with others, and pair with an optional heart-rate monitor. Workouts run the gamut but our two favorites are Quick Hits, which last two-to-three songs in length and can be completed in under 10 minutes, and the Meditation/Stretching options for a release at the end of a tough day.

[$19/month or $179/year; getsupernatural.com]

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6. NEOU

They had us at LIMITLESS, a three-week program with Andrew Mariani, where all you need is dumbbells and a willingness to break a sweat. These days, after winter gluttony, we’re also fans of The Biggest Loser’s Bob Harper’s Weight Loss Starter Pack and kids’ workouts to keep the little ones entertained. Overall, NEOU lets you choose from live-streaming and on-demand classes from 100+ studios and instructors in categories like bootcamp, yoga, cycling, and nutrition. With something for all fitness levels, this is a great choice if you share your digs with a couch potato or triathlete, and need a service that caters to you both.

[$12.99/month or $59/year; neoufitness.com]

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7. Row House GO

There’s no low-impact workout quite like rowing. Easy on your hips, knees, and low back, while delivering superb cardiovascular benefits, BYO rowing machine and get to work on building your endurance and muscles from wherever you are. Bonus: When lockdowns are behind us and your group books a lake house, you’ll be MVP for lakefront activities.

[$19.99/month; therowhouse.com]

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8. iFit

Suffering from waning motivation and workout monotony? You’d be amazed what some dog sled action in Alaska or a spin around Bermuda can do for your spirit, even if you’re only staring at them on an HD flat screen in your basement. Explore a sprawling library of instructor-led studio classes and global training videos shot on location in 50+ countries (we’re talking hikes on Mt. Kilimanjaro, cycling the Swiss Alps, or rowing the Zambezi river) with iFit’s immersive, interactive app. It powers NordicTrack, ProForm, and Freemotion bikes, treadmills, and more cardio equipment. Even better, iFit-enabled machines can automatically adjust incline, resistance, and more, allowing you to focus on your burning calves instead of futzing with manual adjustments. When you want to mix things up, don’t miss the collection of off-equipment workout categories like bootcamp, boxing, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, and mindfulness. P.S. If you don’t have IFit-enabled equipment, but seek a globetrotter’s escape, prop your phone or tablet on your own equipment and follow along. Glacier National Park Climb Series we’re coming for ya.

[$15/month for individual plan, $39/month for up to five users on family plan, or $396/year; ifit.com]

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9. Life Time Digital

Choose from 1,000+ live-streaming classes a week, running the gamut from cardio to yoga. (Not to be missed: Life Time’s CEO Bahram Akradi, frequently teaches cycle classes). For something more personalized, you can also take virtual 1:1 training. Got an Apple Watch? The app also features Apple Fitness+ programs. Our top class picks: Upper RX and XTREME. We’ll spare you the grueling details, so you don’t chicken out.

[$15/month; lifetime.com]

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10. Centr

The newly launched Centr Fusion program from Chris Hemsworth’s fitness app merges high-octane workouts with mindful components to give your training a more holistic touch. The six-week progressive program has five unique 25- to 30-minute workouts that get harder week after week to help you grow stronger. Each week comprises three workout styles: BoxHIIT, Strength, and Power Flow. You don’t need a fancy home gym either—just a mat and dumbbells. This is great if you struggle with meditating, as it encourages you to take a moment post-workout to recalibrate and, yes, center yourself.

[Free 7-day trial, $29.99; centr.com]

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11. Zygo

Got a pool? Don’t limit yourself strictly to floating and sipping beer; try this waterproof headset and accompanying app of on-demand water-based workouts. Billed as “The Peloton of the Pool,” there are 100 on-demand workouts paired with music; you can also stream your own tunes, podcasts, and audiobooks Some classes that piqued our interest include the 20-Minute Arm Intervals (a.k.a. “Angry Arms”) and Recovery Swims. For serious swimmers, live coaching is a separate capability that can be utilized by, say, a coach or personal trainer by working as a walkie-talkie. P.S. Yep, the headset works in a lake or ocean, too. Simply rinse off the headset after swimming in salt water.

[$299; shopzygo.com]

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12. Tonal Mobile App

Fans of the wall-mounted Tonal home gym can now take that experience when they’re away from home with its Mobile Workouts beta, available for Apple’s iOs (including the Apple Watch) or Android. Tonal members who have completed a digital weight assessment can access all off-Tonal Guided Workouts ranging from Core Strength and Recovery to Mobility and Kickboxing, and more. For type-As who can’t bear to see their 100-day workout streak ruined, rest assured all workouts get logged to your profile. Got 18 minutes? Six-Pack Attack, here we come.

[$3,740 plus $49/month for membership with unlimited membership accounts; tonal.com]

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13. FitFighter

Embrace your childhood dream of being a firefighter with this stellar strength-and-conditioning system founded by CEO and Iraq War Veteran Sarah Apgar. It was originally designed for the fire service and centered on the patent-pending Steelhose free weights and an accompanying iOS app for Apple devices. Made in America from real firehose and steel shot, the accessory works as a dumbbell, kettlebell, sandbag, med ball, and sledgehammer—all in one. Pick either from an on-demand library of workouts or tune in for live-streamed workouts. A portion of FitFighter profits go to the Stephen Siller Tunnels to Towers Foundation, which honors firefighter Stephen Siller who died saving others on September 11, 2001.

[$150 for the Steelhose and a year of training or $65 for 5lb or 15lb set, $85 for 25lb set, and $10 a month or $100 a year for training; 30-day free trial available; fitfighter.com]

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14. UA Performance Academy

Yes, UA as in that UA. Hone your body’s greatest asset, your brain, with Under Armour’s digital hub. You’ll discover mental strength training knowledge, exercises, and tools used by the world’s top athletes; take audio and/or visual programming across Visualizing Success, Building Optimism, and Calming Your Mind. Rooted in scientific research, this program is inspired by world champions and elite athletes so you, too, can enhance your mental fortitude and wellness on and off the proverbial court.

[Free; underarmour.com]

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15. Academy of Self Defense

We’ve all got pent-up steam to blow off these days. With Academy of Self Defense’s program, hone your skills at Krav Maga, the military self-defense and fighting method developed for the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli security forces virtually. Or, try Muay Thai, bootcamp classes, and combo/all-around fighter fitness options. All classes are taught by professional trainers who will have you feeling like you can star in your own martial arts flick in no time.

[$19/month for a specific class subscription or $39/month for extensive, on-demand access; two-week free trial available; academyselfdefense.com]

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16. Yoga Medicine Online

If you’re looking for something geared toward supporting your well-being, we’re all for these yoga classes coupled with purposefully curated wellness programs. They make use of research-based techniques with a therapeutic focus led by celebrated yogi Tiffany Cruikshank and other talented instructors. Two classes we keep coming back to—Strength & Resilience: Whole-Body and Lung Capacity & Longevity.

[$39/month; yogamedicine.com]

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