About
What Is Acrofit?
Acrofit™ is a complete training system that improves your strength, balance, and coordination using basic acrobatics, cardio exercises, and strength training. You’ll have a fun, invigorating workout, and you’ll discover that you can make amazing progress in a very short amount of time.
The exercises in the class have easier variations for a total beginner and harder modifications for the experienced student. While Acrofit™ is beginner friendly, there are plenty of advanced moves to challenge the seasoned athlete – the exercises are adapted directly from the professional arena, so Acrofit™ is not a “watered-down” version of acrobatic training. There’s always something for every body type and level in Acrofit™!
Classes
Acrofit™ comes in a few different class variations:
- Acrofit Power 1: This 60 minute routines is done on a yoga mat and takes you through a full range of beginner acrobatic movements. Read the full description here…
- Acrofit Power 2: This class is also 60 minute routines and takes you through a more challenging selection of acrobatic movements. Read the full description here…
- Handstand Class: This class teaches you how to do a handstand with proper technique and alignment. Read the full description here…
Mindset
Acrofit™ works the mind as much as the body. You’ll find yourself balancing in ways that you’ve never tried, and trying to figure out new acrobatic moves that your body has never experienced. While everything we do in the class is 100% safe and taught in a professional, secure way, you’ll probably come across a few routines that will bring you to your edge.
When you do, there’s a few things to do. You can breathe, relax and reserve your energy for another try later on, or break through those moments of doubt on the spot. We encourage you to train with precision, and it’s the quality of the movement over quantity that matters most. So that’s what Acrofit™ is all about: going to your own personal edge in body and mind.
Origins
Acrofit™ is created by Alvin Tam, a professional circus artist and coach. Read more about his bio here.
Alvin realized that after 15 years for training and performing, the best system that kept him in shape were the very movements and exercises that he did every day on stage or on the gymnastic mats. Then in 2005, he started taking yoga classes as a way to balance out his intense performing schedule and discovered the joy of breathing correctly and doing a deep meditation at the end of every class. (He also met his wife, a yoga teacher!) After a few years of oscillating between the “hard” and “soft” styles of fitness, he combined both. That’s why Acrofit™ classes start with breathing, build to a greater intensity, then taper off to another session of breathing, and finally a restful meditation.
Acrofit™ is currently taught in Las Vegas.