I've recently started visiting various downtown fitness studios after discovering ClassPass. I visited Undrcard a couple weeks ago for one of their themed nights. The class I signed up for was the Rihanna vs Drake group boxing class.
As soon as you enter, the people at the front desk ask you to sign in and pick your bag. The bags are categorized based on how good of a view you can get of the instructor from your spot (useful!). Once you choose your bag, you take your outdoor shoes off along the main entrance, and head inside. This studio is a lot larger than I expected considering most downtown fitness studios are quite small. There's a boxing ring in the middle of the studio set up for pad classes and across from it is the main fitness room for the group boxing classes. Along the back side wall there are lockers available to use for free, with key locks that come with them as well. If you keep walking towards the back, you'll hit the change rooms. The women's was well stocked with bathroom amenities like dry shampoo and spray deodorant, in case you wanted to use it.
The class itself was very high energy. The instructor led us through an intense warm up and then straight into different combos on the bag. At times she would crank up the volume of the music and make the lights flash in the room, when she wanted us to go harder or give it our absolute most. There were plenty of squats incorporated into the combos as well and a good mix of different boxing moves. In these classes there are no official water breaks so its up to us to go grab water whenever we feel the need to. At the end of the class, we did 10 mins of ab work on the floor. It was a little weird because the bags were hanging over us and there was barely any room for people to lie down with their legs stretched. I feel like this fitness room could be a bit bigger so people feel comfortable punching. At times the bag behind me was swinging and hit me on the back when we were in the middle of the workout.
After the workout, since there was another group starting the next class, it was chaos at the lockers with people trying to get in and people trying to leave. I think this happens everywhere though and it can't really be avoided.
I would come back to Undrcard to try another themed night, but other than that they don't have much variety in their classes and every class is labelled "group boxing" so its more or less the same. It would be nice if they had classes targeted to arms/shoulders, another for booty/legs etc. read more