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The time has come. MIRROR from lululemon, the high-tech smart home gym that fitness enthusiasts use for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), bodyweight workouts, yoga, and more from the comfort of their homes, is now lululemon Studio. lululemon Studio takes original classes and programs from premiere boutique fitness studios and features them on the lululemon Studio Mirror, meaning they can be performed virtually from essentially anywhere.
lululemon Studio
lululemon Studio — previously Mirror — offers eight studio partners and 15 elite trainers. There's a workout for anyone (at any time).
The lululemon Studio hybrid fitness experience was built to satisfy the desires of the training community lululemon has built — “a hybrid experience that combined the convenience of at-home workouts with the community of in-studio classes.” The lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness classes are sourced from their Studio Partners, which include eight world-class fitness studios and 15 expert Studio Trainers, to help users reach their fitness goals.
lululemon Studio members have access to over 10,000 workouts across more than 60 fitness training styles all day, every day.
lululemon Studio Partners
Below are the Studio Partners utilized in lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness and what their training focus is:
AARMY
Cycling and Bootcamp Training
Rumble
Boxing and Strength Training
DOGPOUND
HIIT, Strength & Conditioning, Boxing, Pilates, & more
AKT
Full Body Circuit Training
Forward_ _Space
Dance-based Fitness
Pure Barre
Low-Impact, Full-Body Training
Y7 Studio
Yoga (set to various music such as hip-hop and electronic dance)
YogaSix
Yoga (focused on inward focus for improved balance, strength, and breath control)
lululemon Studio Trainers
Below are the 15 trainers partnered with lululemon Studios and their respective disciplines:
Hollis Tuttle
Cardio, Strength
Gerren Liles
Cardio, Strength
Julie Sanchez
Dance, Barre, Pilates
Armond Jordan
Cardio, Strength, Kickboxing, Boxing
Lance Parker
Cardio, Strength, Tai Chi
Patricia Sabulis
Yoga, Pilates, Meditation
Ashtain Rothchild
Cardio, Strength, Barre, Hip Hop Dance, Boxing
Pilin Anice
Yoga, Barre, Meditation
Lonnie Poupard
Cardio, Strength, Latin Dance, Ballet
Rachel Nicks
Cardio, Strength, Yoga, Barre, Pilates, Meditation
Xtina Jensen
Cardio, Barre, Boxing
Kate Bergstrom
Cardio, Strength, Yoga
Amanda (Robinson) Baxter
Cardio, Barre, Hip Hop Dance
Chris Ryan
Cardio, Strength
Deja Riley
Cardio, Strength, Dance, Kickboxing, Boxing
lululemon Studio Mirror
The lululemon Studio Mirror is what it sounds like. It’s a home gym that streams workouts chosen through the lululemon Studio App. The lululemon Studio Mirror displays the trainer guiding you through each movement next to your reflection — hence, a mirror that functions as a normal mirror when not streaming workouts.
Streaming through the lululemon Studio Mirror is accomplished via a front-facing camera that displays to the 40-inch HD 1080p display. Optional lululemon Studio weights can connect via Bluetooth™ so reps are counted on-screen.
Why Train at Home?
If you are on the fence about investing or committing to a home gym, you can feel assured much of the science supports training at home. Access to home exercise equipment facilitates maintenance, may facilitate weight loss, and has been shown to improve muscle strength, muscular endurance, balance, and muscle power. (1)(2)
A home-based training system such as lululemon Studio Mirror, which is equipped with access to trainers via video, has been shown to improve cardiometabolic health, including reduced fat mass and better aerobic fitness when combined with a healthy diet. (3)
Furthermore, proximity to a physical activity facility is associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness. Suffice it to say, a home gym is as close as a physical activity facility can get. Improvements in body composition and functional fitness from training at home or at a commercial gym are comparable. (4)(5)
So if training at home is potentially just as effective as training at a commercial gym, what does the research say about the specific kinds of training offered by lululemon Studio Mirror?
Training Style Benefits
lululemon’s 15 expert Studio Trainers cover an array of training disciplines, so let’s break down why each might be beneficial for your fitness goals.
Cardio
While cardio, meaning physical activity consisting of 55, 70, 85, and 90 percent of maximal heart rate, can be achieved by an array of exercises. Home-based and aerobic training at a gym has been shown to be similarly effective. (6)(7)
Furthermore, working with a trainer remotely, similarly to how lululemon Studio Members interact with the lululemon Studio Trainers, could actually lead to better results than training without one at a fitness center. According to a 2020 randomized control trial in The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, training virtually with a trainer “is feasible and effective [for] increasing amounts of physical activity [and] elevating exercise capacity.” (8)
Strength/Resistance Training
Current Sports Medicine Reports has shown resistance training offers the following benefits: (9)
Reduce body fat
Increase basal metabolic rate
Decrease blood pressure
Improve blood lipid profiles
Improve glucose tolerance
Improve insulin sensitivity
Increase muscle and connective tissue
Improve functional capacity
Relieve low back pain
Resistance training — defined as “a specialized method of physical conditioning that involves the progressive use of a wide range of resistive loads, different movement velocities and a variety of training modalities including weight machines, free weights (barbells and dumbbells), elastic bands, medicine balls, and plyometrics,” — is beneficial for all ages from youth to middle-age to elderly as a means to improve strength and “reverse…aging factors in skeletal muscle.” (10)(11)(12)(13)
Dance
Dance-focused and choreographic fitness classes can generate notable improvements in health-related quality of life, particularly for mental health and vitality. Dance fitness, such as Zumba®, can be effective for improving aerobic capacity and reducing body weight. (14)(15)
Pilates
Training pilates at home for just six weeks has been shown to increase core muscle endurance. It could also serve as a potentially effective means for easing chronic lower back pain. It has also been shown to be a safe and effective exercise for middle-aged and older adults and helped prevent becoming sedentary. (16)(17)(18)
Meditation
The benefits of meditation are culturally well-known. Strewn across health-focused social media pages are the positives meditation might offer. Unlike ads clamoring to buzzwords and false promises for attention, meditation appears to be the real deal.
Per Behavioral Brain Research, daily meditation for eight weeks “decreased negative mood state and enhanced attention, working memory, and recognition memory as well as decreased state anxiety scores on the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)” — a valid and reliable acute stressor that can be used under experimental conditions. (19)(20)
Boxing/Kickboxing
While boxing and kickboxing may be on the opposite end of the fitness spectrum from meditation, these modalities can have similar benefits to balance the way dance fitness does. Those who followed a four-week program of Thai boxing dance fitness showed “significantly greater improvements in static balance…dynamic balance, and functional fitness.” (21)
People who followed a five-week kickboxing program, training for one hour per session three times per week, saw significant improvements in “upper-body muscle power, aerobic power, anaerobic fitness, flexibility, speed, and agility.” (22)mirro
Yoga
The benefits of yoga are unlikely to be a secret to anyone looking to train at home, but to reinforce that knowledge, yoga can be an effective method of cultivating mindfulness, managing and reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, and is just as effective as stretching for strength to improve functional fitness. (23)(24)
Take a Look in the (lululemon Studio) Mirror
If your fitness goals are to lose fat, improve your functional fitness or cardio, change your body composition, simply maintain a workout routine for a healthy lifestyle, or anything else in between, the lululemon Studio Mirror could be the tool to help you achieve them. Training at home can be just as effective as training at a gym, and lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness offers world-class workouts with expert trainers.
lululemon Studio
lululemon Studio — previously Mirror — offers eight studio partners and 15 elite trainers. There's a workout for anyone (at any time).
As of Oct. 5, 2022, the promo price with free delivery for the lululemon Studio Mirror is $795 USD plus a $39 monthly subscription.
References
Jakicic, J. M., Winters, C., Lang, W., & Wing, R. R. (1999). Effects of intermittent exercise and use of home exercise equipment on adherence, weight loss, and fitness in overweight women: a randomized trial. JAMA, 282(16), 1554–1560. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.282.16.1554
Chaabene, H., Prieske, O., Herz, M., Moran, J., Höhne, J., Kliegl, R., Ramirez-Campillo, R., Behm, D. G., Hortobágyi, T., & Granacher, U. (2021). Home-based exercise programmes improve physical fitness of healthy older adults: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis with relevance for COVID-19. Ageing research reviews, 67, 101265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101265
Roberts, C. K., Segovia, D. E., & Lankford, D. E. (2019). Effects of Home-Based Exercise Training Systems, Combined with Diet, on Cardiometabolic Health. International journal of exercise science, 12(2), 871–885.
Dowda, M., Pfeiffer, K. A., Lobelo, F., Porter, D. E., & Pate, R. R. (2012). Cardiorespiratory fitness and proximity to commercial physical activity facilities among 12th grade girls. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 50(5), 497–502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.09.018
Islami, F., Saghebjoo, M., Kazemi, T., & Hedayati, M. (2021). Gym and home-based combined training in men with primary hypertension: are they equally effective on functional fitness profile, body composition components, and biochemical parameters of hypertension?. Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993), 43(8), 758–771. https://doi.org/10.1080/10641963.2021.1960365
Swain, D. P., Abernathy, K. S., Smith, C. S., Lee, S. J., & Bunn, S. A. (1994). Target heart rates for the development of cardiorespiratory fitness. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 26(1), 112–116.
Aoike, D. T., Baria, F., Kamimura, M. A., Ammirati, A., & Cuppari, L. (2018). Home-based versus center-based aerobic exercise on cardiopulmonary performance, physical function, quality of life and quality of sleep of overweight patients with chronic kidney disease. Clinical and experimental nephrology, 22(1), 87–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-017-1429-2
Chiang, S. L., Shen, C. L., Chen, L. C., Lo, Y. P., Lin, C. H., & Lin, C. H. (2020). Effectiveness of a Home-Based Telehealth Exercise Training Program for Patients With Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity: A Randomized Controlled Trial. The Journal of cardiovascular nursing, 35(5), 491–501. https://doi.org/10.1097/JCN.0000000000000693
Kraemer, W. J., Ratamess, N. A., & French, D. N. (2002). Resistance training for health and performance. Current sports medicine reports, 1(3), 165–171. https://doi.org/10.1249/00149619-200206000-00007
Faigenbaum, A. D., & Myer, G. D. (2010). Resistance training among young athletes: safety, efficacy and injury prevention effects. British journal of sports medicine, 44(1), 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.2009.068098
Westcott W. L. (2012). Resistance training is medicine: effects of strength training on health. Current sports medicine reports, 11(4), 209–216. https://doi.org/10.1249/JSR.0b013e31825dabb8
Seguin, R. A., Eldridge, G., Lynch, W., & Paul, L. C. (2013). Strength Training Improves Body Image and Physical Activity Behaviors Among Midlife and Older Rural Women. Journal of extension, 51(4), 4FEA2.
Dahab, K. S., & McCambridge, T. M. (2009). Strength training in children and adolescents: raising the bar for young athletes?. Sports health, 1(3), 223–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1941738109334215
Barranco-Ruiz, Y., Paz-Viteri, S., & Villa-González, E. (2020). Dance Fitness Classes Improve the Health-Related Quality of Life in Sedentary Women. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(11), 3771. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113771
Vendramin, B., Bergamin, M., Gobbo, S., Cugusi, L., Duregon, F., Bullo, V., Zaccaria, M., Neunhaeuserer, D., & Ermolao, A. (2016). Health Benefits of Zumba Fitness Training: A Systematic Review. PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation, 8(12), 1181–1200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmrj.2016.06.010
Suner-Keklik, S., Numanoglu-Akbas, A., Cobanoglu, G., Kafa, N., & Guzel, N. A. (2022). An online pilates exercise program is effective on proprioception and core muscle endurance in a randomized controlled trial. Irish journal of medical science, 191(5), 2133–2139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-021-02840-8
Bat?bay, S., Külcü, D. G., Kaleo?lu, Ö., & Mesci, N. (2021). Effect of Pilates mat exercise and home exercise programs on pain, functional level, and core muscle thickness in women with chronic low back pain. Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association, 26(6), 979–985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jos.2020.10.026
Denham-Jones, L., Gaskell, L., Spence, N., & Pigott, T. (2022). A systematic review of the effectiveness of Pilates on pain, disability, physical function, and quality of life in older adults with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. Musculoskeletal care, 20(1), 10–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1563
Basso, J. C., McHale, A., Ende, V., Oberlin, D. J., & Suzuki, W. A. (2019). Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators. Behavioural brain research, 356, 208–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.08.023
Allen, A. P., Kennedy, P. J., Dockray, S., Cryan, J. F., Dinan, T. G., & Clarke, G. (2016). The Trier Social Stress Test: Principles and practice. Neurobiology of stress, 6, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2016.11.001
Areeudomwong, P., Saysalum, S., Phuttanurattana, N., Sripoom, P., Buttagat, V., & Keawduangdee, P. (2019). Balance and functional fitness benefits of a Thai boxing dance program among community-dwelling older adults at risk of falling: A randomized controlled study. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 83, 231–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2019.04.010
Ouergui, I., Hssin, N., Haddad, M., Padulo, J., Franchini, E., Gmada, N., & Bouhlel, E. (2014). The effects of five weeks of kickboxing training on physical fitness. Muscles, ligaments and tendons journal, 4(2), 106–113.
Tong, J., Qi, X., He, Z., Chen, S., Pedersen, S. J., Cooley, P. D., Spencer-Rodgers, J., He, S., & Zhu, X. (2021). The immediate and durable effects of yoga and physical fitness exercises on stress. Journal of American college health : J of ACH, 69(6), 675–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1705840
Gothe, N. P., & McAuley, E. (2016). Yoga Is as Good as Stretching-Strengthening Exercises in Improving Functional Fitness Outcomes: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 71(3), 406–411. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glv127
Featured Image courtesy of lululemon Studio
The time has come. MIRROR from lululemon, the high-tech smart home gym that fitness enthusiasts use for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), bodyweight workouts, yoga, and more from the comfort of their homes, is now lululemon Studio. lululemon Studio takes original classes and programs from premiere boutique fitness studios and features them on the lululemon Studio Mirror, meaning they can be performed virtually from essentially anywhere.
lululemon Studio
lululemon Studio — previously Mirror — offers eight studio partners and 15 elite trainers. There's a workout for anyone (at any time).
The lululemon Studio hybrid fitness experience was built to satisfy the desires of the training community lululemon has built — “a hybrid experience that combined the convenience of at-home workouts with the community of in-studio classes.” The lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness classes are sourced from their Studio Partners, which include eight world-class fitness studios and 15 expert Studio Trainers, to help users reach their fitness goals.
lululemon Studio members have access to over 10,000 workouts across more than 60 fitness training styles all day, every day.
lululemon Studio Partners
Below are the Studio Partners utilized in lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness and what their training focus is:
Below are the 15 trainers partnered with lululemon Studios and their respective disciplines:
The lululemon Studio Mirror is what it sounds like. It’s a home gym that streams workouts chosen through the lululemon Studio App. The lululemon Studio Mirror displays the trainer guiding you through each movement next to your reflection — hence, a mirror that functions as a normal mirror when not streaming workouts.
Streaming through the lululemon Studio Mirror is accomplished via a front-facing camera that displays to the 40-inch HD 1080p display. Optional lululemon Studio weights can connect via Bluetooth™ so reps are counted on-screen.
Why Train at Home?
If you are on the fence about investing or committing to a home gym, you can feel assured much of the science supports training at home. Access to home exercise equipment facilitates maintenance, may facilitate weight loss, and has been shown to improve muscle strength, muscular endurance, balance, and muscle power. (1)(2)
A home-based training system such as lululemon Studio Mirror, which is equipped with access to trainers via video, has been shown to improve cardiometabolic health, including reduced fat mass and better aerobic fitness when combined with a healthy diet. (3)
Furthermore, proximity to a physical activity facility is associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness. Suffice it to say, a home gym is as close as a physical activity facility can get. Improvements in body composition and functional fitness from training at home or at a commercial gym are comparable. (4)(5)
So if training at home is potentially just as effective as training at a commercial gym, what does the research say about the specific kinds of training offered by lululemon Studio Mirror?
Training Style Benefits
lululemon’s 15 expert Studio Trainers cover an array of training disciplines, so let’s break down why each might be beneficial for your fitness goals.
Cardio
While cardio, meaning physical activity consisting of 55, 70, 85, and 90 percent of maximal heart rate, can be achieved by an array of exercises. Home-based and aerobic training at a gym has been shown to be similarly effective. (6)(7)
Furthermore, working with a trainer remotely, similarly to how lululemon Studio Members interact with the lululemon Studio Trainers, could actually lead to better results than training without one at a fitness center. According to a 2020 randomized control trial in The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, training virtually with a trainer “is feasible and effective [for] increasing amounts of physical activity [and] elevating exercise capacity.” (8)
Strength/Resistance Training
Current Sports Medicine Reports has shown resistance training offers the following benefits: (9)
Dance
Dance-focused and choreographic fitness classes can generate notable improvements in health-related quality of life, particularly for mental health and vitality. Dance fitness, such as Zumba®, can be effective for improving aerobic capacity and reducing body weight. (14)(15)
Pilates
Training pilates at home for just six weeks has been shown to increase core muscle endurance. It could also serve as a potentially effective means for easing chronic lower back pain. It has also been shown to be a safe and effective exercise for middle-aged and older adults and helped prevent becoming sedentary. (16)(17)(18)
Meditation
The benefits of meditation are culturally well-known. Strewn across health-focused social media pages are the positives meditation might offer. Unlike ads clamoring to buzzwords and false promises for attention, meditation appears to be the real deal.
Per Behavioral Brain Research, daily meditation for eight weeks “decreased negative mood state and enhanced attention, working memory, and recognition memory as well as decreased state anxiety scores on the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)” — a valid and reliable acute stressor that can be used under experimental conditions. (19)(20)
Boxing/Kickboxing
While boxing and kickboxing may be on the opposite end of the fitness spectrum from meditation, these modalities can have similar benefits to balance the way dance fitness does. Those who followed a four-week program of Thai boxing dance fitness showed “significantly greater improvements in static balance…dynamic balance, and functional fitness.” (21)
People who followed a five-week kickboxing program, training for one hour per session three times per week, saw significant improvements in “upper-body muscle power, aerobic power, anaerobic fitness, flexibility, speed, and agility.” (22)mirro
Yoga
The benefits of yoga are unlikely to be a secret to anyone looking to train at home, but to reinforce that knowledge, yoga can be an effective method of cultivating mindfulness, managing and reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, and is just as effective as stretching for strength to improve functional fitness. (23)(24)
Take a Look in the (lululemon Studio) Mirror
If your fitness goals are to lose fat, improve your functional fitness or cardio, change your body composition, simply maintain a workout routine for a healthy lifestyle, or anything else in between, the lululemon Studio Mirror could be the tool to help you achieve them. Training at home can be just as effective as training at a gym, and lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness offers world-class workouts with expert trainers.
lululemon Studio
lululemon Studio — previously Mirror — offers eight studio partners and 15 elite trainers. There's a workout for anyone (at any time).
As of Oct. 5, 2022, the promo price with free delivery for the lululemon Studio Mirror is $795 USD plus a $39 monthly subscription.
References
Jakicic, J. M., Winters, C., Lang, W., & Wing, R. R. (1999). Effects of intermittent exercise and use of home exercise equipment on adherence, weight loss, and fitness in overweight women: a randomized trial. JAMA, 282(16), 1554–1560. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.282.16.1554
Chaabene, H., Prieske, O., Herz, M., Moran, J., Höhne, J., Kliegl, R., Ramirez-Campillo, R., Behm, D. G., Hortobágyi, T., & Granacher, U. (2021). Home-based exercise programmes improve physical fitness of healthy older adults: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis with relevance for COVID-19. Ageing research reviews, 67, 101265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101265
Roberts, C. K., Segovia, D. E., & Lankford, D. E. (2019). Effects of Home-Based Exercise Training Systems, Combined with Diet, on Cardiometabolic Health. International journal of exercise science, 12(2), 871–885.
Dowda, M., Pfeiffer, K. A., Lobelo, F., Porter, D. E., & Pate, R. R. (2012). Cardiorespiratory fitness and proximity to commercial physical activity facilities among 12th grade girls. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 50(5), 497–502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.09.018
Islami, F., Saghebjoo, M., Kazemi, T., & Hedayati, M. (2021). Gym and home-based combined training in men with primary hypertension: are they equally effective on functional fitness profile, body composition components, and biochemical parameters of hypertension?. Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993), 43(8), 758–771. https://doi.org/10.1080/10641963.2021.1960365
Swain, D. P., Abernathy, K. S., Smith, C. S., Lee, S. J., & Bunn, S. A. (1994). Target heart rates for the development of cardiorespiratory fitness. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 26(1), 112–116.
Aoike, D. T., Baria, F., Kamimura, M. A., Ammirati, A., & Cuppari, L. (2018). Home-based versus center-based aerobic exercise on cardiopulmonary performance, physical function, quality of life and quality of sleep of overweight patients with chronic kidney disease. Clinical and experimental nephrology, 22(1), 87–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-017-1429-2
Chiang, S. L., Shen, C. L., Chen, L. C., Lo, Y. P., Lin, C. H., & Lin, C. H. (2020). Effectiveness of a Home-Based Telehealth Exercise Training Program for Patients With Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity: A Randomized Controlled Trial. The Journal of cardiovascular nursing, 35(5), 491–501. https://doi.org/10.1097/JCN.0000000000000693
Kraemer, W. J., Ratamess, N. A., & French, D. N. (2002). Resistance training for health and performance. Current sports medicine reports, 1(3), 165–171. https://doi.org/10.1249/00149619-200206000-00007
Faigenbaum, A. D., & Myer, G. D. (2010). Resistance training among young athletes: safety, efficacy and injury prevention effects. British journal of sports medicine, 44(1), 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.2009.068098
Westcott W. L. (2012). Resistance training is medicine: effects of strength training on health. Current sports medicine reports, 11(4), 209–216. https://doi.org/10.1249/JSR.0b013e31825dabb8
Seguin, R. A., Eldridge, G., Lynch, W., & Paul, L. C. (2013). Strength Training Improves Body Image and Physical Activity Behaviors Among Midlife and Older Rural Women. Journal of extension, 51(4), 4FEA2.
Dahab, K. S., & McCambridge, T. M. (2009). Strength training in children and adolescents: raising the bar for young athletes?. Sports health, 1(3), 223–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1941738109334215
Barranco-Ruiz, Y., Paz-Viteri, S., & Villa-González, E. (2020). Dance Fitness Classes Improve the Health-Related Quality of Life in Sedentary Women. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(11), 3771. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113771
Vendramin, B., Bergamin, M., Gobbo, S., Cugusi, L., Duregon, F., Bullo, V., Zaccaria, M., Neunhaeuserer, D., & Ermolao, A. (2016). Health Benefits of Zumba Fitness Training: A Systematic Review. PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation, 8(12), 1181–1200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmrj.2016.06.010
Suner-Keklik, S., Numanoglu-Akbas, A., Cobanoglu, G., Kafa, N., & Guzel, N. A. (2022). An online pilates exercise program is effective on proprioception and core muscle endurance in a randomized controlled trial. Irish journal of medical science, 191(5), 2133–2139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-021-02840-8
Bat?bay, S., Külcü, D. G., Kaleo?lu, Ö., & Mesci, N. (2021). Effect of Pilates mat exercise and home exercise programs on pain, functional level, and core muscle thickness in women with chronic low back pain. Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association, 26(6), 979–985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jos.2020.10.026
Denham-Jones, L., Gaskell, L., Spence, N., & Pigott, T. (2022). A systematic review of the effectiveness of Pilates on pain, disability, physical function, and quality of life in older adults with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. Musculoskeletal care, 20(1), 10–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1563
Basso, J. C., McHale, A., Ende, V., Oberlin, D. J., & Suzuki, W. A. (2019). Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators. Behavioural brain research, 356, 208–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.08.023
Allen, A. P., Kennedy, P. J., Dockray, S., Cryan, J. F., Dinan, T. G., & Clarke, G. (2016). The Trier Social Stress Test: Principles and practice. Neurobiology of stress, 6, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2016.11.001
Areeudomwong, P., Saysalum, S., Phuttanurattana, N., Sripoom, P., Buttagat, V., & Keawduangdee, P. (2019). Balance and functional fitness benefits of a Thai boxing dance program among community-dwelling older adults at risk of falling: A randomized controlled study. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 83, 231–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2019.04.010
Ouergui, I., Hssin, N., Haddad, M., Padulo, J., Franchini, E., Gmada, N., & Bouhlel, E. (2014). The effects of five weeks of kickboxing training on physical fitness. Muscles, ligaments and tendons journal, 4(2), 106–113.
Tong, J., Qi, X., He, Z., Chen, S., Pedersen, S. J., Cooley, P. D., Spencer-Rodgers, J., He, S., & Zhu, X. (2021). The immediate and durable effects of yoga and physical fitness exercises on stress. Journal of American college health : J of ACH, 69(6), 675–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1705840
Gothe, N. P., & McAuley, E. (2016). Yoga Is as Good as Stretching-Strengthening Exercises in Improving Functional Fitness Outcomes: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 71(3), 406–411. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glv127
Featured Image courtesy of lululemon Studio
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lululemon Studio
lululemon Studio — previously Mirror — offers eight studio partners and 15 elite trainers. There's a workout for anyone (at any time).
The lululemon Studio hybrid fitness experience was built to satisfy the desires of the training community lululemon has built — “a hybrid experience that combined the convenience of at-home workouts with the community of in-studio classes.” The lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness classes are sourced from their Studio Partners, which include eight world-class fitness studios and 15 expert Studio Trainers, to help users reach their fitness goals.
lululemon Studio members have access to over 10,000 workouts across more than 60 fitness training styles all day, every day.
lululemon Studio Partners
Below are the Studio Partners utilized in lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness and what their training focus is:
AARMY
Cycling and Bootcamp Training
Rumble
Boxing and Strength Training
DOGPOUND
HIIT, Strength & Conditioning, Boxing, Pilates, & more
AKT
Full Body Circuit Training
Forward_ _Space
Dance-based Fitness
Pure Barre
Low-Impact, Full-Body Training
Y7 Studio
Yoga (set to various music such as hip-hop and electronic dance)
YogaSix
Yoga (focused on inward focus for improved balance, strength, and breath control)
lululemon Studio Trainers
Below are the 15 trainers partnered with lululemon Studios and their respective disciplines:
Hollis Tuttle
Cardio, Strength
Gerren Liles
Cardio, Strength
Julie Sanchez
Dance, Barre, Pilates
Armond Jordan
Cardio, Strength, Kickboxing, Boxing
Lance Parker
Cardio, Strength, Tai Chi
Patricia Sabulis
Yoga, Pilates, Meditation
Ashtain Rothchild
Cardio, Strength, Barre, Hip Hop Dance, Boxing
Pilin Anice
Yoga, Barre, Meditation
Lonnie Poupard
Cardio, Strength, Latin Dance, Ballet
Rachel Nicks
Cardio, Strength, Yoga, Barre, Pilates, Meditation
Xtina Jensen
Cardio, Barre, Boxing
Kate Bergstrom
Cardio, Strength, Yoga
Amanda (Robinson) Baxter
Cardio, Barre, Hip Hop Dance
Chris Ryan
Cardio, Strength
Deja Riley
Cardio, Strength, Dance, Kickboxing, Boxing
lululemon Studio Mirror
The lululemon Studio Mirror is what it sounds like. It’s a home gym that streams workouts chosen through the lululemon Studio App. The lululemon Studio Mirror displays the trainer guiding you through each movement next to your reflection — hence, a mirror that functions as a normal mirror when not streaming workouts.
Streaming through the lululemon Studio Mirror is accomplished via a front-facing camera that displays to the 40-inch HD 1080p display. Optional lululemon Studio weights can connect via Bluetooth™ so reps are counted on-screen.
Why Train at Home?
If you are on the fence about investing or committing to a home gym, you can feel assured much of the science supports training at home. Access to home exercise equipment facilitates maintenance, may facilitate weight loss, and has been shown to improve muscle strength, muscular endurance, balance, and muscle power. (1)(2)
A home-based training system such as lululemon Studio Mirror, which is equipped with access to trainers via video, has been shown to improve cardiometabolic health, including reduced fat mass and better aerobic fitness when combined with a healthy diet. (3)
Furthermore, proximity to a physical activity facility is associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness. Suffice it to say, a home gym is as close as a physical activity facility can get. Improvements in body composition and functional fitness from training at home or at a commercial gym are comparable. (4)(5)
So if training at home is potentially just as effective as training at a commercial gym, what does the research say about the specific kinds of training offered by lululemon Studio Mirror?
Training Style Benefits
lululemon’s 15 expert Studio Trainers cover an array of training disciplines, so let’s break down why each might be beneficial for your fitness goals.
Cardio
While cardio, meaning physical activity consisting of 55, 70, 85, and 90 percent of maximal heart rate, can be achieved by an array of exercises. Home-based and aerobic training at a gym has been shown to be similarly effective. (6)(7)
Furthermore, working with a trainer remotely, similarly to how lululemon Studio Members interact with the lululemon Studio Trainers, could actually lead to better results than training without one at a fitness center. According to a 2020 randomized control trial in The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, training virtually with a trainer “is feasible and effective [for] increasing amounts of physical activity [and] elevating exercise capacity.” (8)
Strength/Resistance Training
Current Sports Medicine Reports has shown resistance training offers the following benefits: (9)
Reduce body fat
Increase basal metabolic rate
Decrease blood pressure
Improve blood lipid profiles
Improve glucose tolerance
Improve insulin sensitivity
Increase muscle and connective tissue
Improve functional capacity
Relieve low back pain
Resistance training — defined as “a specialized method of physical conditioning that involves the progressive use of a wide range of resistive loads, different movement velocities and a variety of training modalities including weight machines, free weights (barbells and dumbbells), elastic bands, medicine balls, and plyometrics,” — is beneficial for all ages from youth to middle-age to elderly as a means to improve strength and “reverse…aging factors in skeletal muscle.” (10)(11)(12)(13)
Dance
Dance-focused and choreographic fitness classes can generate notable improvements in health-related quality of life, particularly for mental health and vitality. Dance fitness, such as Zumba®, can be effective for improving aerobic capacity and reducing body weight. (14)(15)
Pilates
Training pilates at home for just six weeks has been shown to increase core muscle endurance. It could also serve as a potentially effective means for easing chronic lower back pain. It has also been shown to be a safe and effective exercise for middle-aged and older adults and helped prevent becoming sedentary. (16)(17)(18)
Meditation
The benefits of meditation are culturally well-known. Strewn across health-focused social media pages are the positives meditation might offer. Unlike ads clamoring to buzzwords and false promises for attention, meditation appears to be the real deal.
Per Behavioral Brain Research, daily meditation for eight weeks “decreased negative mood state and enhanced attention, working memory, and recognition memory as well as decreased state anxiety scores on the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)” — a valid and reliable acute stressor that can be used under experimental conditions. (19)(20)
Boxing/Kickboxing
While boxing and kickboxing may be on the opposite end of the fitness spectrum from meditation, these modalities can have similar benefits to balance the way dance fitness does. Those who followed a four-week program of Thai boxing dance fitness showed “significantly greater improvements in static balance…dynamic balance, and functional fitness.” (21)
People who followed a five-week kickboxing program, training for one hour per session three times per week, saw significant improvements in “upper-body muscle power, aerobic power, anaerobic fitness, flexibility, speed, and agility.” (22)mirro
Yoga
The benefits of yoga are unlikely to be a secret to anyone looking to train at home, but to reinforce that knowledge, yoga can be an effective method of cultivating mindfulness, managing and reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, and is just as effective as stretching for strength to improve functional fitness. (23)(24)
Take a Look in the (lululemon Studio) Mirror
If your fitness goals are to lose fat, improve your functional fitness or cardio, change your body composition, simply maintain a workout routine for a healthy lifestyle, or anything else in between, the lululemon Studio Mirror could be the tool to help you achieve them. Training at home can be just as effective as training at a gym, and lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness offers world-class workouts with expert trainers.
lululemon Studio
lululemon Studio — previously Mirror — offers eight studio partners and 15 elite trainers. There's a workout for anyone (at any time).
As of Oct. 5, 2022, the promo price with free delivery for the lululemon Studio Mirror is $795 USD plus a $39 monthly subscription.
References
Jakicic, J. M., Winters, C., Lang, W., & Wing, R. R. (1999). Effects of intermittent exercise and use of home exercise equipment on adherence, weight loss, and fitness in overweight women: a randomized trial. JAMA, 282(16), 1554–1560. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.282.16.1554
Chaabene, H., Prieske, O., Herz, M., Moran, J., Höhne, J., Kliegl, R., Ramirez-Campillo, R., Behm, D. G., Hortobágyi, T., & Granacher, U. (2021). Home-based exercise programmes improve physical fitness of healthy older adults: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis with relevance for COVID-19. Ageing research reviews, 67, 101265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101265
Roberts, C. K., Segovia, D. E., & Lankford, D. E. (2019). Effects of Home-Based Exercise Training Systems, Combined with Diet, on Cardiometabolic Health. International journal of exercise science, 12(2), 871–885.
Dowda, M., Pfeiffer, K. A., Lobelo, F., Porter, D. E., & Pate, R. R. (2012). Cardiorespiratory fitness and proximity to commercial physical activity facilities among 12th grade girls. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 50(5), 497–502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.09.018
Islami, F., Saghebjoo, M., Kazemi, T., & Hedayati, M. (2021). Gym and home-based combined training in men with primary hypertension: are they equally effective on functional fitness profile, body composition components, and biochemical parameters of hypertension?. Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993), 43(8), 758–771. https://doi.org/10.1080/10641963.2021.1960365
Swain, D. P., Abernathy, K. S., Smith, C. S., Lee, S. J., & Bunn, S. A. (1994). Target heart rates for the development of cardiorespiratory fitness. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 26(1), 112–116.
Aoike, D. T., Baria, F., Kamimura, M. A., Ammirati, A., & Cuppari, L. (2018). Home-based versus center-based aerobic exercise on cardiopulmonary performance, physical function, quality of life and quality of sleep of overweight patients with chronic kidney disease. Clinical and experimental nephrology, 22(1), 87–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-017-1429-2
Chiang, S. L., Shen, C. L., Chen, L. C., Lo, Y. P., Lin, C. H., & Lin, C. H. (2020). Effectiveness of a Home-Based Telehealth Exercise Training Program for Patients With Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity: A Randomized Controlled Trial. The Journal of cardiovascular nursing, 35(5), 491–501. https://doi.org/10.1097/JCN.0000000000000693
Kraemer, W. J., Ratamess, N. A., & French, D. N. (2002). Resistance training for health and performance. Current sports medicine reports, 1(3), 165–171. https://doi.org/10.1249/00149619-200206000-00007
Faigenbaum, A. D., & Myer, G. D. (2010). Resistance training among young athletes: safety, efficacy and injury prevention effects. British journal of sports medicine, 44(1), 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.2009.068098
Westcott W. L. (2012). Resistance training is medicine: effects of strength training on health. Current sports medicine reports, 11(4), 209–216. https://doi.org/10.1249/JSR.0b013e31825dabb8
Seguin, R. A., Eldridge, G., Lynch, W., & Paul, L. C. (2013). Strength Training Improves Body Image and Physical Activity Behaviors Among Midlife and Older Rural Women. Journal of extension, 51(4), 4FEA2.
Dahab, K. S., & McCambridge, T. M. (2009). Strength training in children and adolescents: raising the bar for young athletes?. Sports health, 1(3), 223–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1941738109334215
Barranco-Ruiz, Y., Paz-Viteri, S., & Villa-González, E. (2020). Dance Fitness Classes Improve the Health-Related Quality of Life in Sedentary Women. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(11), 3771. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113771
Vendramin, B., Bergamin, M., Gobbo, S., Cugusi, L., Duregon, F., Bullo, V., Zaccaria, M., Neunhaeuserer, D., & Ermolao, A. (2016). Health Benefits of Zumba Fitness Training: A Systematic Review. PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation, 8(12), 1181–1200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmrj.2016.06.010
Suner-Keklik, S., Numanoglu-Akbas, A., Cobanoglu, G., Kafa, N., & Guzel, N. A. (2022). An online pilates exercise program is effective on proprioception and core muscle endurance in a randomized controlled trial. Irish journal of medical science, 191(5), 2133–2139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-021-02840-8
Bat?bay, S., Külcü, D. G., Kaleo?lu, Ö., & Mesci, N. (2021). Effect of Pilates mat exercise and home exercise programs on pain, functional level, and core muscle thickness in women with chronic low back pain. Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association, 26(6), 979–985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jos.2020.10.026
Denham-Jones, L., Gaskell, L., Spence, N., & Pigott, T. (2022). A systematic review of the effectiveness of Pilates on pain, disability, physical function, and quality of life in older adults with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. Musculoskeletal care, 20(1), 10–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1563
Basso, J. C., McHale, A., Ende, V., Oberlin, D. J., & Suzuki, W. A. (2019). Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators. Behavioural brain research, 356, 208–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.08.023
Allen, A. P., Kennedy, P. J., Dockray, S., Cryan, J. F., Dinan, T. G., & Clarke, G. (2016). The Trier Social Stress Test: Principles and practice. Neurobiology of stress, 6, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2016.11.001
Areeudomwong, P., Saysalum, S., Phuttanurattana, N., Sripoom, P., Buttagat, V., & Keawduangdee, P. (2019). Balance and functional fitness benefits of a Thai boxing dance program among community-dwelling older adults at risk of falling: A randomized controlled study. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 83, 231–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2019.04.010
Ouergui, I., Hssin, N., Haddad, M., Padulo, J., Franchini, E., Gmada, N., & Bouhlel, E. (2014). The effects of five weeks of kickboxing training on physical fitness. Muscles, ligaments and tendons journal, 4(2), 106–113.
Tong, J., Qi, X., He, Z., Chen, S., Pedersen, S. J., Cooley, P. D., Spencer-Rodgers, J., He, S., & Zhu, X. (2021). The immediate and durable effects of yoga and physical fitness exercises on stress. Journal of American college health : J of ACH, 69(6), 675–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1705840
Gothe, N. P., & McAuley, E. (2016). Yoga Is as Good as Stretching-Strengthening Exercises in Improving Functional Fitness Outcomes: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 71(3), 406–411. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glv127
Featured Image courtesy of lululemon Studio
The time has come. MIRROR from lululemon, the high-tech smart home gym that fitness enthusiasts use for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), bodyweight workouts, yoga, and more from the comfort of their homes, is now lululemon Studio. lululemon Studio takes original classes and programs from premiere boutique fitness studios and features them on the lululemon Studio Mirror, meaning they can be performed virtually from essentially anywhere.
lululemon Studio
lululemon Studio — previously Mirror — offers eight studio partners and 15 elite trainers. There's a workout for anyone (at any time).
The lululemon Studio hybrid fitness experience was built to satisfy the desires of the training community lululemon has built — “a hybrid experience that combined the convenience of at-home workouts with the community of in-studio classes.” The lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness classes are sourced from their Studio Partners, which include eight world-class fitness studios and 15 expert Studio Trainers, to help users reach their fitness goals.
lululemon Studio members have access to over 10,000 workouts across more than 60 fitness training styles all day, every day.
lululemon Studio Partners
Below are the Studio Partners utilized in lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness and what their training focus is:
AARMY
Cycling and Bootcamp Training
Rumble
Boxing and Strength Training
DOGPOUND
HIIT, Strength & Conditioning, Boxing, Pilates, & more
AKT
Full Body Circuit Training
Forward_ _Space
Dance-based Fitness
Pure Barre
Low-Impact, Full-Body Training
Y7 Studio
Yoga (set to various music such as hip-hop and electronic dance)
YogaSix
Yoga (focused on inward focus for improved balance, strength, and breath control)
Below are the 15 trainers partnered with lululemon Studios and their respective disciplines:
Hollis Tuttle
Cardio, Strength
Gerren Liles
Cardio, Strength
Julie Sanchez
Dance, Barre, Pilates
Armond Jordan
Cardio, Strength, Kickboxing, Boxing
Lance Parker
Cardio, Strength, Tai Chi
Patricia Sabulis
Yoga, Pilates, Meditation
Ashtain Rothchild
Cardio, Strength, Barre, Hip Hop Dance, Boxing
Pilin Anice
Yoga, Barre, Meditation
Lonnie Poupard
Cardio, Strength, Latin Dance, Ballet
Rachel Nicks
Cardio, Strength, Yoga, Barre, Pilates, Meditation
Xtina Jensen
Cardio, Barre, Boxing
Kate Bergstrom
Cardio, Strength, Yoga
Amanda (Robinson) Baxter
Cardio, Barre, Hip Hop Dance
Chris Ryan
Cardio, Strength
Deja Riley
Cardio, Strength, Dance, Kickboxing, Boxing
The lululemon Studio Mirror is what it sounds like. It’s a home gym that streams workouts chosen through the lululemon Studio App. The lululemon Studio Mirror displays the trainer guiding you through each movement next to your reflection — hence, a mirror that functions as a normal mirror when not streaming workouts.
Streaming through the lululemon Studio Mirror is accomplished via a front-facing camera that displays to the 40-inch HD 1080p display. Optional lululemon Studio weights can connect via Bluetooth™ so reps are counted on-screen.
Why Train at Home?
If you are on the fence about investing or committing to a home gym, you can feel assured much of the science supports training at home. Access to home exercise equipment facilitates maintenance, may facilitate weight loss, and has been shown to improve muscle strength, muscular endurance, balance, and muscle power. (1)(2)
A home-based training system such as lululemon Studio Mirror, which is equipped with access to trainers via video, has been shown to improve cardiometabolic health, including reduced fat mass and better aerobic fitness when combined with a healthy diet. (3)
Furthermore, proximity to a physical activity facility is associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness. Suffice it to say, a home gym is as close as a physical activity facility can get. Improvements in body composition and functional fitness from training at home or at a commercial gym are comparable. (4)(5)
So if training at home is potentially just as effective as training at a commercial gym, what does the research say about the specific kinds of training offered by lululemon Studio Mirror?
Training Style Benefits
lululemon’s 15 expert Studio Trainers cover an array of training disciplines, so let’s break down why each might be beneficial for your fitness goals.
Cardio
While cardio, meaning physical activity consisting of 55, 70, 85, and 90 percent of maximal heart rate, can be achieved by an array of exercises. Home-based and aerobic training at a gym has been shown to be similarly effective. (6)(7)
Furthermore, working with a trainer remotely, similarly to how lululemon Studio Members interact with the lululemon Studio Trainers, could actually lead to better results than training without one at a fitness center. According to a 2020 randomized control trial in The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, training virtually with a trainer “is feasible and effective [for] increasing amounts of physical activity [and] elevating exercise capacity.” (8)
Strength/Resistance Training
Current Sports Medicine Reports has shown resistance training offers the following benefits: (9)
Reduce body fat
Increase basal metabolic rate
Decrease blood pressure
Improve blood lipid profiles
Improve glucose tolerance
Improve insulin sensitivity
Increase muscle and connective tissue
Improve functional capacity
Relieve low back pain
Dance
Dance-focused and choreographic fitness classes can generate notable improvements in health-related quality of life, particularly for mental health and vitality. Dance fitness, such as Zumba®, can be effective for improving aerobic capacity and reducing body weight. (14)(15)
Pilates
Training pilates at home for just six weeks has been shown to increase core muscle endurance. It could also serve as a potentially effective means for easing chronic lower back pain. It has also been shown to be a safe and effective exercise for middle-aged and older adults and helped prevent becoming sedentary. (16)(17)(18)
Meditation
The benefits of meditation are culturally well-known. Strewn across health-focused social media pages are the positives meditation might offer. Unlike ads clamoring to buzzwords and false promises for attention, meditation appears to be the real deal.
Per Behavioral Brain Research, daily meditation for eight weeks “decreased negative mood state and enhanced attention, working memory, and recognition memory as well as decreased state anxiety scores on the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)” — a valid and reliable acute stressor that can be used under experimental conditions. (19)(20)
Boxing/Kickboxing
While boxing and kickboxing may be on the opposite end of the fitness spectrum from meditation, these modalities can have similar benefits to balance the way dance fitness does. Those who followed a four-week program of Thai boxing dance fitness showed “significantly greater improvements in static balance…dynamic balance, and functional fitness.” (21)
People who followed a five-week kickboxing program, training for one hour per session three times per week, saw significant improvements in “upper-body muscle power, aerobic power, anaerobic fitness, flexibility, speed, and agility.” (22)mirro
Yoga
The benefits of yoga are unlikely to be a secret to anyone looking to train at home, but to reinforce that knowledge, yoga can be an effective method of cultivating mindfulness, managing and reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, and is just as effective as stretching for strength to improve functional fitness. (23)(24)
Take a Look in the (lululemon Studio) Mirror
If your fitness goals are to lose fat, improve your functional fitness or cardio, change your body composition, simply maintain a workout routine for a healthy lifestyle, or anything else in between, the lululemon Studio Mirror could be the tool to help you achieve them. Training at home can be just as effective as training at a gym, and lululemon Studio: Hybrid Fitness offers world-class workouts with expert trainers.
lululemon Studio
lululemon Studio — previously Mirror — offers eight studio partners and 15 elite trainers. There's a workout for anyone (at any time).
As of Oct. 5, 2022, the promo price with free delivery for the lululemon Studio Mirror is $795 USD plus a $39 monthly subscription.
References
Jakicic, J. M., Winters, C., Lang, W., & Wing, R. R. (1999). Effects of intermittent exercise and use of home exercise equipment on adherence, weight loss, and fitness in overweight women: a randomized trial. JAMA, 282(16), 1554–1560. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.282.16.1554
Chaabene, H., Prieske, O., Herz, M., Moran, J., Höhne, J., Kliegl, R., Ramirez-Campillo, R., Behm, D. G., Hortobágyi, T., & Granacher, U. (2021). Home-based exercise programmes improve physical fitness of healthy older adults: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis with relevance for COVID-19. Ageing research reviews, 67, 101265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101265
Roberts, C. K., Segovia, D. E., & Lankford, D. E. (2019). Effects of Home-Based Exercise Training Systems, Combined with Diet, on Cardiometabolic Health. International journal of exercise science, 12(2), 871–885.
Dowda, M., Pfeiffer, K. A., Lobelo, F., Porter, D. E., & Pate, R. R. (2012). Cardiorespiratory fitness and proximity to commercial physical activity facilities among 12th grade girls. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 50(5), 497–502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.09.018
Islami, F., Saghebjoo, M., Kazemi, T., & Hedayati, M. (2021). Gym and home-based combined training in men with primary hypertension: are they equally effective on functional fitness profile, body composition components, and biochemical parameters of hypertension?. Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993), 43(8), 758–771. https://doi.org/10.1080/10641963.2021.1960365
Swain, D. P., Abernathy, K. S., Smith, C. S., Lee, S. J., & Bunn, S. A. (1994). Target heart rates for the development of cardiorespiratory fitness. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 26(1), 112–116.
Aoike, D. T., Baria, F., Kamimura, M. A., Ammirati, A., & Cuppari, L. (2018). Home-based versus center-based aerobic exercise on cardiopulmonary performance, physical function, quality of life and quality of sleep of overweight patients with chronic kidney disease. Clinical and experimental nephrology, 22(1), 87–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-017-1429-2
Chiang, S. L., Shen, C. L., Chen, L. C., Lo, Y. P., Lin, C. H., & Lin, C. H. (2020). Effectiveness of a Home-Based Telehealth Exercise Training Program for Patients With Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity: A Randomized Controlled Trial. The Journal of cardiovascular nursing, 35(5), 491–501. https://doi.org/10.1097/JCN.0000000000000693
Kraemer, W. J., Ratamess, N. A., & French, D. N. (2002). Resistance training for health and performance. Current sports medicine reports, 1(3), 165–171. https://doi.org/10.1249/00149619-200206000-00007
Faigenbaum, A. D., & Myer, G. D. (2010). Resistance training among young athletes: safety, efficacy and injury prevention effects. British journal of sports medicine, 44(1), 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.2009.068098
Westcott W. L. (2012). Resistance training is medicine: effects of strength training on health. Current sports medicine reports, 11(4), 209–216. https://doi.org/10.1249/JSR.0b013e31825dabb8
Seguin, R. A., Eldridge, G., Lynch, W., & Paul, L. C. (2013). Strength Training Improves Body Image and Physical Activity Behaviors Among Midlife and Older Rural Women. Journal of extension, 51(4), 4FEA2.
Dahab, K. S., & McCambridge, T. M. (2009). Strength training in children and adolescents: raising the bar for young athletes?. Sports health, 1(3), 223–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1941738109334215
Barranco-Ruiz, Y., Paz-Viteri, S., & Villa-González, E. (2020). Dance Fitness Classes Improve the Health-Related Quality of Life in Sedentary Women. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(11), 3771. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113771
Vendramin, B., Bergamin, M., Gobbo, S., Cugusi, L., Duregon, F., Bullo, V., Zaccaria, M., Neunhaeuserer, D., & Ermolao, A. (2016). Health Benefits of Zumba Fitness Training: A Systematic Review. PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation, 8(12), 1181–1200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmrj.2016.06.010
Suner-Keklik, S., Numanoglu-Akbas, A., Cobanoglu, G., Kafa, N., & Guzel, N. A. (2022). An online pilates exercise program is effective on proprioception and core muscle endurance in a randomized controlled trial. Irish journal of medical science, 191(5), 2133–2139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-021-02840-8
Bat?bay, S., Külcü, D. G., Kaleo?lu, Ö., & Mesci, N. (2021). Effect of Pilates mat exercise and home exercise programs on pain, functional level, and core muscle thickness in women with chronic low back pain. Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association, 26(6), 979–985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jos.2020.10.026
Denham-Jones, L., Gaskell, L., Spence, N., & Pigott, T. (2022). A systematic review of the effectiveness of Pilates on pain, disability, physical function, and quality of life in older adults with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. Musculoskeletal care, 20(1), 10–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1563
Basso, J. C., McHale, A., Ende, V., Oberlin, D. J., & Suzuki, W. A. (2019). Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators. Behavioural brain research, 356, 208–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.08.023
Allen, A. P., Kennedy, P. J., Dockray, S., Cryan, J. F., Dinan, T. G., & Clarke, G. (2016). The Trier Social Stress Test: Principles and practice. Neurobiology of stress, 6, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2016.11.001
Areeudomwong, P., Saysalum, S., Phuttanurattana, N., Sripoom, P., Buttagat, V., & Keawduangdee, P. (2019). Balance and functional fitness benefits of a Thai boxing dance program among community-dwelling older adults at risk of falling: A randomized controlled study. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 83, 231–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2019.04.010
Ouergui, I., Hssin, N., Haddad, M., Padulo, J., Franchini, E., Gmada, N., & Bouhlel, E. (2014). The effects of five weeks of kickboxing training on physical fitness. Muscles, ligaments and tendons journal, 4(2), 106–113.
Tong, J., Qi, X., He, Z., Chen, S., Pedersen, S. J., Cooley, P. D., Spencer-Rodgers, J., He, S., & Zhu, X. (2021). The immediate and durable effects of yoga and physical fitness exercises on stress. Journal of American college health : J of ACH, 69(6), 675–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1705840
Gothe, N. P., & McAuley, E. (2016). Yoga Is as Good as Stretching-Strengthening Exercises in Improving Functional Fitness Outcomes: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 71(3), 406–411. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glv127
Featured Image courtesy of lululemon Studio
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