The latest group fitness offering gives you a fast-paced, total-body workout while connecting you with other members.
As you can likely remember from your high school days, working with a stranger or two to reach a goal — finishing a group science project, winning a kickball game — can feel incredibly awkward. And somehow, it doesn’t get any easier as an adult.
But Circuit Breaker, a new high-intensity cardio and strength circuit class that puts your individual performance to the test and forges bonds with other members, is here to change your perspective on group work in the Main Studio.
The class has been three years in the making, and it attempts to fulfill the need for a workout that requires 110 percent effort but doesn’t leave you feeling miserable, says Kristy DiScipio, Equinox’s director of athletic training and group fitness programming who helped develop Circuit Breaker. “With some of our workouts, people were coming in and saying, ‘It's so hard and it's just not fun at all,’ and then we have some classes where members are smiling, happy, and love it but the intensity level is not as high,” she explains. “Circuit Breaker was the way to combine those two elements.”
