The INSIDER Summary:
• At a new fight club-style workout class, participants burn calories while swinging heavy weapons like samurai swords, daggers, and nunchucks.
• The class is offered in London by the Skinny Bitch Collective — an invite-only fitness club that is popular with models and celebrities like Ellie Goulding and Nicole Schwerzinger.
• Skinny Bitch Collective founder Russell Bateman told INSIDER that the class will be offered in NYC late 2017.
Most exercise classes don't involve swinging around a samurai sword or a pair of nunchucks.
But that's exactly what happens at SBC Fight, a new martial arts workshop offered by the Skinny Bitch Collective — a grueling fitness club for models and celebrities, with members like Ellie Goulding, Nicole Schwerzinger, and Nicole Harrison. The regular SBC class is also the hardest workout I have ever tried.
A foray into martial arts, SBC Fight incorporates replica weapons including swords and daggers into a challenging fight club-style workout.
The class is currently only offered in London, but it will be coming to New York City in late 2017, Skinny Bitch Collective founder and personal trainer Russell Bateman told INSIDER over email.
INSIDER spoke to Bateman to find out what goes on in a class. Here's what we learned.
Each SBC Fight class is 50 minutes long, and takes place inside a studio in central London.
Bateman started offering the workout to “empower women and equip them with defense tactics outside of the conventional realm," he told INSIDER, adding that it's "amazing for fitness.”
For now, the class is only for women, Bateman told Amuse.
While Bateman teaches the Skinny Bitch Collective classes himself, SBC Fight is taught by a martial arts instructor known only as Frank — or "Master Frank," as he is sometimes referred to on Instagram.
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