New fitness trend sweeping the UK sees women screaming and popping balloons bearing their angry words
Ladies also jump up and down on bubble wrap and pummel pillows with baseball bats in the Tantrum Club classes
IN a world where we are taught to restrain ourselves and hold our emotions in, it can be a bit of a relief to finally let it all out.
Introducing Tantrum Club, the rage-ercise workshops where women are encouraged to scream, shout and pummel their way to inner peace.
Club founder Adele Theron wanted to create a space for stressed mums and city workers to stop suppressing and really let go of all those negative emotions.
Clutching baseball bats carrying the ‘it’s tantrum time’ slogan and wearing goggles, the ladies prepare to lay into a pile of pillows as part of the self empowerment and anger management classes.
Female participants are also urged to yell as loudly as they can, jump up and down on rolls of bubble wrap, and write their ANGRIEST thoughts on balloons – before popping them.
Not only have customers said they feel less stressed, but apparently they also lose weight and even look younger after attending the classes.
The creators explain: “We are a bunch of women who believe that we operate differently to men when it comes to emotions.
“Some people are content to spend hours rationalising whether their anger, frustration or sadness is constructive in their attempts to be ‘emotionally intelligent’ or ‘enlightened’.
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“Swallowing back your emotions in all the things that happen every single day vs. actually feeling those emotions and having a right to your emotions is causing an epidemic of stress-related illnesses in the UK.
“Your fatter bum, stress lines on your forehead, general morose feeling of resignation and even your feelings of gloom are to do with the fact that you are just SO DAMN SUPPRESSED.
“If you suppress your anger, your frustration or your sadness – you also suppress your joy, your happiness and your fulfilment.
“Human beings don’t have a ‘dial’ which enables us to only express the emotions we would like to express.
“Emotions just ARRIVE and if you ignore them or suppress them, you kill off pieces of yourself in each moment you choose to rationalise an emotion.
“It’s time for a CHANGE to sweep our planet.”
The self-styled b*****s with bats are currently building their empire of angry ladies.
There are currently two tantrum instructors – Kellie Ahl, a wellbeing coach working with kids, teens and their families in Hertfordshire and London, and Katie Philips, a life coach and Reiki practitioner in Sussex and London.
Founder Adele Theron and her partner Bridget Hunt are now looking to roll out Tantrum Fitness by 2017.