West Hollywood, Calif. --Move over, pole-dancing, kettlebells and Zumba. Drumstick-smashing is the latest rage to hit the Hollywood exercise circuit, offering a workout similar to Pilates or boot camp ...

Try to beat this workout. “Cardio drumming” is all the rage — you place an exercise ball in a bucket and whack it with drumsticks to the beat of a song to burn calories, relieve stress, strengthen ...

Everyone knows exercise is a stress reliever, but sometimes you just want to hit something. Pound, a drumming-inspired workout, capitalizes on that idea to shape a 45-minute sweat session providing ...

At the Rex Wellness Center in Garner, there's a lot of pounding going on. Instructor Lori Kelly has assembled a very large percussion section for the center's latest aerobic craze: drum class. At the ...

Seated on yoga mats, everyone readies themselves for the music with green sticks in hand. "Lean back without falling back," Pound instructor Shannon DiNigro Enders says to the class at Studio 55 in ...

Even as we layer in moves borrowed from plyometrics, pilates and dance aerobics, we never drop the sticks. A mix of pop and rock music propels us, drum riffs carefully timed to moves we learn to ...