Maovember's Nov 9 Beer-Active Class Will Help You Get In Tip-Top Shape and Maybe a Little Tipsy

Kyle Mullin | Nov 6, 2017 4:00 pm | Add a comment | 1571 reads

Worried that boozing will leave you with a beer belly? Fret not! Ankit Nayal, professional bodybuilder and personal trainer at BActive Fitness, will soon be heading up a class that combines the often disparate themes of brews and bodybuilding.

Dubbed Beer-Active and part of the month-long Maovember charity campaign, the Nov 9 class has a RMB 100 fee and will begin at 7.45pm at BActive's Sanlitun branch, followed by suds session at Slow Boat Brewery on Nansanlitun Lu headed up by the Beijinger beer columnist Tracy Wang. If you're interested, be sure to act fast: registration is limited to 20 participants.

Aside from hosting the class, BActive is the first big corporate sponsor of the Mao-a-thon charity drive, raising money for noble causes like The Library Project and Bread of Life bakery, which you can read more about here. Nayal will head up the class with fellow BActive trainers Karolina Wolak and Hailie Song in what they describe as a "beer-burning workout" that will teach you just how many keg lifts it takes to work off the calories found in a sudsy pint. The trainers say participants will also:

* Learn all about calories in beer and how you can drink your beer and stay fit, too!
* Sample BActive’s professional workout with star trainers – and using beer kegs as weights!
* Tour Bactive’s 24-hour fitness facility
* Network with other beer lovin’ fitness freaks!

From there, the class will jog on over to Slow Boat for a pint with TBJ beer columnist Tracy Wang.

Nayal says he's looking forward to the class and post-workout pint. "It’ll be a fun and sweat-filled keg training class in BActive. We will be burning the calories contained in a bottle of beer. Instead of using normal weights we will be using kegs, divided into two levels of kegs. You’ll be squatting, swinging, and pressing kegs. Afterwards, head to Slow Boat for a post-workout beer refresher. The goal of this class is to teach you to indulge, but also work hard to maintain a balance."

The Beer Active Maovember fitness class will be held on Nov 9 at 7.45pm, followed by a pint at Slow Boat brewery. The fee is RMB 100. List of clothing required: sports clothes, sports shoes, warm outer jackets for the walk/jog to Slow Boat. For more, check out the poster and scan the QR code below or click here.