Article: Can these fads really get you fit?; From bouncing on pogo-sticks to martial arts in water ... we test the latest wacky workouts.

Byline: TANIA ALEXANDER

IF YOU'VE recently joined a health club, you may be bewildered by the studio timetable. A few years ago it was simply a case of choosing whether you wanted to do aerobics, circuit training or stretch. Nowadays it feels as though you need a degree in sports science to work out what's on the timetable. There are so many weird and wacky names of classes, that trying to guess what these are can be more exhausting than the exercises themselves.

"Some of the class names nowadays are very OTT," agrees Jamie Baird, fitness trainer at the Agua gym in the Sanderson Hotel off Oxford Street "The health club business has become so competitive ...

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