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A Few Halloween Workouts To Try

Christine Hennebury

I am actually in the middle of two other posts for our blog here but I am not going to have either of them ready in time to post for tomorrow (I’m typing this on Monday night).

One of those posts has been in progress for a while but the other one was a fun idea that I came up with late on Monday afternoon and I won’t have time to finish it this evening. I was busy being low-key annoyed with myself for my semi-regular habit of coming up with fun ideas when it is pretty much too late to pull them off when I realized that I have often thought of event-themed posts for Fit is a Feminist Issue on the day of the actual event and it is probably too late for our readers to give them a try.

And THAT made me realize that Tuesday the 27th would actually be a useful time to post Halloween-themed workouts because we would all have time to actually try some.

So, here we are!

I’ll post my too-late-to-pull-off-today idea a little later in the week and, in the meantime, I’m actually doing a Halloween-themed post in plenty of time.

I’m calling that a victory!

Now, these workouts vary in length but please remember that you can do just part of the video if you are pressed for time or energy or you could do the shorter ones more than once, I guess. 🙂

Have fun!

A Spooky Halloween Workout from Kate Carmela. Image description: still image shows the instructor standing with her arms extended out to the sides. She is wearing all black and her shirt says ‘if you got it, haunt it’ with three ghosts in between the two phrases. In the background, there is a replica of the Seymour plant from Little Shop of Horrors.
This video from Yoga with Adriene is called Yoga for Inner Space travel. Image description: the still image shows Adriene wearing an alien costume – a pair of antennae and shiny green bodysuit that extends to her wrists and ankle. She is standing with her legs apart and her hands on her hips and the background is of thousands of stars in Outer space so it kind of looks like she’s floating in the stars. The word ‘inner’ is in capital letters on the left side of the image and the word ‘space’ is in capital letters on the right side of the image with Adriene in the middle..
This video from ZT’s Fitness Studio is called Chair Halloween Edition/ Chair Dance/Chair Fitness/Chair Zumba. Image Description: the steel image shows about a dozen adults exercising in their chairs in a fitness studio that has been decorated for Halloween with various wall, hanging purple decorations, and witches’-brooms hanging on the back wall. The instructor is wearing a purple and black witches, hat and purple and black striped leggings with yellow and black socks. Everyone in the class has their right arm raised in the air and they are lifting their right knee upwards..
This video from yoga with Kate Amber is called Spooky Halloween Yoga for a Scary Stretch. The still image shows the instructor wearing a skeleton costume (on her body) mid-yoga pose. She is crouched near the floor with her right arm and leg extended to the right, her left knee is bent with her foot flat on the floor and her left hand is rest on the floor near her left foot. There are pumpkins on the floor near her.
This video is called Fun Halloween Fitness Challenge: Just 7 Minutes from Lucy Wyndham-Read. The still image shows the instructor standing side-on with her left side facing us and she has her face toward the camera. She’s wearing a black outfit (long sleeved shirt and capris) with white sneakers and wearing cat ears. She is holding the a broom aloft but we can only see a straw handle. The rest of the image is a digital background of storm clouds, black birds, bare tree limbs, and a wooden boardwalk. Text reading 7 Minute Fun Halloween Workout is in the centre of the image.
This video from DanceFitWithNic is called Halloween Dance Workout for Beginners/Fun & Low Impact. The still image is mostly in red and black with some text in white. The instructor is pictured on the right wearing a red jacket with black trim and she has her hands raised towards the camera like extended claws. Her black hair is pulled loosely back from her face, she has dark circles of makeup around her eyes and dark lines on her cheekbones and her mouth is open so we can see her top teeth – she looks like she is growling at the viewer. Text on the screen reads “Halloween Edition 15 Minute Dance Workout. Home Workout. No Equipment – Full Body.” The words “Min” and “No Equipment” are in red and the rest is in white. There’s a red frame around “15 Min” and around “Home Workout. No Equipment – Full Body.”

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Published by Christine Hennebury

I'm a writer/storyteller/director/creativity & lifestory coach with a black belt in ITF Taekwon-do. I read voraciously and I write like my fingers are on fire. I'm the founder and Chair of the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl and I'm a former president of the St. John's Storytelling Festival. I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie.

One thought on “A Few Halloween Workouts To Try”

  1. Last night at my tap class, the class next door asked us to watch what they’re working on. A bunch of teen & pre-teen ballet students, some of them dressed as Smurfs! (Just for Hallowe’en, nothing to do with their ballet.) It was pretty funny! Working out in costumes is often extra-entertaining.

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