Planet Fitness is honoring Heart Health Month with a special limited-time offer, where new members can join the fitness giant for $1 down and $15 a month through February 28.
The promotion aligns with Heart Health Month, highlighting the American Heart Association’s recommendation that adults get 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity per week to maintain good heart health. In addition to strengthening the heart, routine exercise also supports healthy blood pressure and improved glucose levels.
Planet Fitness’ National Lead Trainer, Teddy Savage, offers the following tips for those looking for a heart-healthy workout:
High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT): Doing exercises such as lunges, squat jumps, or burpees for a time interval of around 40 seconds helps raise heart rate and energy levels. Not only does this build your muscle mass, but it will also boost your heart strength.Mobility and Joint Health: Incorporating mobility-style workouts that feature movements such as hip openers or bear crawls can help bring blood flow to the muscles and lubricate joints.Partner Power Workouts: Winter blues don’t stand a chance when getting stronger with a friend. PF Black Card members can bring a guest for free anytime, making it easy to team up for partner exercises like medicine ball squat tosses, alternating lunge ball exchanges, partner leg pushdowns, and other dynamic combo movements that make working out more fun and engaging. Mindfulness & Mental Strength: Release winter stress with yoga-inspired moves such as warrior 1 and 2, triangle pose and downward dog, designed to ground thoughts while stretching and strengthening muscles.
“This Heart Health Month, it’s important to note that both strength training and cardio are great ways to increase aerobic activity for a healthy heart,” Savage said. “Whether you’re using the new plate-loaded strength equipment or getting stronger through HIIT exercises and partner workouts, Planet Fitness provides a welcoming community where everyone can focus on their heart health and strengthening their goals together.”
All Planet Fitness memberships include a free training session with a certified fitness trainer and access to the Planet Fitness app, which features hundreds of on-demand digital exercises.
The fitness franchisor recently announced several leadership changes ahead of its full fiscal year 2024 results and 2025 outlook on February 25.
Other fitness, nutrition and activewear brands are honoring Heart Health Month, including Orangetheory Fitness, Retro Fitness, Reebok, Daily Harvest and more.
