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To relieve stress and find your ever-elusive Zen, barre classes and power yoga are a sure, graceful bet. Sometimes, though, you just really want to punch things.
Tyler Thompson knows the feeling, and that's why he left his logistics company to open Title Boxing Club's first Nashville outpost in February. As co-owners, he and his father, Paul Thompson, gutted a 7,000-square-foot building in midtown to produce a fitness facility that's as shiny as a pair of satin boxing trunks. 'Every wire, every window, every bageverything is brand new,” Thompson says. The space is dominated by row after row of perfectly aligned punching bags60 of themthat are used for hour-long boxing and kickboxing classes, the club's two main offerings.
Thompson says you can burn up to 1,000 calories in these so-called Power Hours. Each session starts with a 15-minute warm-up, which involves weaving full-speed through the maze of punching bags. Then comes the meat of the workout: 30 minutes of boxing or kickboxing divided into eight three-minute rounds of various punch-and-kick combinations; every round is followed by a minute of active restwhich, unfortunately for your cardiovascular system, bears no resemblance to actual 'rest.” At this point, your body might be ready to signal a KO, but there's still 15 minutes of medicine-ball-infused core work to cap off the hour.
Current membership is 75 percent female, and Thompson emphasizes that it's a no-sparring facility. Best of all, he adds, 'everyone can go at their own pace and intensity level.”
1906 Church St., 615-942-5919; nashville-churchst.titleboxingclub.com
A Cool Springs location recently opened its doors (co-owner Sheeva Rouhanifard) August 18.
Title Boxing Club Cool Springs, 1550 West McEwen Drive, Suite 70, Franklin, TN 37067