00:00 It is so much fun. You know, you are the coolest person in the street. You've got a great story
00:06 to tell the next day. Like, what did you do last night? Well, I was flying across the
00:12 studio on Thomas Street. I was doing handstands with one hand. I was doing one finger press-ups
00:19 because that's what bungee does. It makes the impossible possible.
00:24 A fitness studio in Manchester city centre holds a weekly class for thrill seekers looking
00:29 to exercise in a fun and challenging new way. Body Bar in the northern quarter started out
00:34 as the first pole fitness studio in Manchester but now offers an aerial bungee class for
00:39 those who want to try a resistance workout like no other. Every week participants clamber
00:44 into harnesses and are attached to the ceiling before undertaking an intense exercise class
00:50 that makes strength training and cardio much more enjoyable. We went down to test out this
00:55 unique workout for ourselves and try something completely new.
00:58 I like to find things that are unique, something that is weird and wonderful. If it's weird
01:02 and wonderful but worth doing, then if you get benefits from it, then we're going to
01:07 bring it. It gets you giggling. Straight away you giggle. As soon as the first move you
01:12 bounce up and down. You feel like you're a baby in the baby bouncer. It gets people laughing
01:16 straight away. If you're laughing, you're having a good time. So yeah, you're getting
01:19 happy and healthy at the same time. It's high intensity but it's low impact. So the cords
01:27 will always pull you and you have to push against them. So you've got resistance training
01:33 and cardiovascular. So it's perfect. You've got all your muscles working at the same time.
01:40 As long as you remember to breathe, I remind you to do that, you're going to win. It's
01:45 okay. Eight years ago, I went on the bungee course in Amsterdam, which was fun. I would
01:52 get on a bike and go to the training every day. It was a long weekend. It was really
01:57 fun. We wanted to bring some cardio workouts. We're mainly a pulse studio. So we wanted
02:03 to get people to cross train a little bit, get some cardio, but make sure it was fun.
02:07 That was for sure. So yeah, flying through the air, bungee, spinning, jumping, that was
02:13 for us. The problem with it, why it's not around so much is because it's quite tricky
02:18 to rig. So we've got like the hooks in the ceiling and it's just not something that's
02:24 easy to set up in studios. Diving out head first, flying across the floor. Yeah, I think
02:31 that's quite a surprise, knowing that you can do it as well. Jumping head first and
02:37 spinning around and flying and doing handstands. I think that surprises people that the cords
02:44 make things possible. You can do handstands even if you don't think you can.
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