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1 Sorting Out the Differences of Bar Method, The Dailey Method, Body Bar, and More
Women's Health
2 Emily Blunt Covers Women's Health: Transforming Into a Ballet Dancer For The Adjustment Bureau
Fitness
3 Punch It Out: Aerobarre, Where Boxing Meets Ballet
Fitness
4 5 Movies to Get You Up and Dancing
Class Act
5 Class Act: Ballet For Beginners
Fitness
6 What to Expect From Your First Adult Beginner Ballet Class
Celebrity
7 Have You Ever Been Told to Eat More?
Yoga
8 Barre3: Madonna's New Fitness Regimen
Holiday
9 Celebrate Her Inner Dancer With These Barre-Inspired Gifts
Yoga
10 Trendy Fitness: Popular Workouts of 2010
Ballet-inspired workouts are all the rage this year; it's likely that you know someone who spends time on the barre. Whether she loves Bar Method, Pure Barre, or Barre3, we have the perfect fitness gift for her! Read more
Your parents will be happy to know that those ballet classes you took as a kid aren't going to waste, thanks to a new wave of ballet-inspired workout classes popping up in cities all across the country. Put on your yoga wear, find your place in front of the bar, and stretch your way to a elongated, lean body — Black Swan style. But what class does what? Or are they all quite similar? Here's a Read more
Fitness mashups are key to keeping your fitness routine from becoming stale. Aerobarre, a new hybrid blending boxing with ballet moves, is a new way to get your sweat on while working muscles you never knew existed. Yep, those shy muscles are often the deep, supporting ones that give your tush that lifted look. Actress Katie Cassidy (you might recognize her as the schemer from Gossip Girl and Read more
Actress Emily Blunt teamed up with Matt Damon, her co-star of The Adjustment Bureau, for the March covers of Women's and Men's Health. It's the first time that the two magazines have ever shared cover models, and they could not have picked a better pair. Here's what Emily told the magazine about getting in shape to play a ballet dancer for the film: "I looked like an aerobics teacher. My Read more
A workout is a workout, but how we get our sweat on changes with the times. The recession seems to be influencing our fitness lives, from ditching running shoes to skipping fancy classes. Dance workouts are rising in popularity, and the ancient art of yoga continues to spawn hybrids. Read on for highlights of the fitness trends from 2010. Running sans sneakers: The buzz about barefoot running Read more
Stirred by Black Swan, Natalie Portman's dramatic body transformation, and my regular practice of the Bar Method, a ballet and dance based strength training and toning program, I recently ordered my first pair of Capezio shoes since childhood and signed up for ballet. The class, which was offered at my gym, promised to help me "discover my inner ballerina" with classical ballet technique for Read more
In the new thriller Black Swan, Natalie Portman plays a prima ballerina, a part that she really got into. During filming, director Darren Aronofsky was so concerned with how lean Natalie was getting that he insisted that she eat more: "At a certain point I looked at [Natalie's] back and she was so skinny and so cut — I was like, 'Natalie, start eating,' I made sure she had a bunch of food in Read more
If I had my druthers, I'd dance my days away. From ballet to hip-hop, I love to get down, especially when I know I'm burning some calories off my frame. In a ballerina frame of mind, I ventured out to see the new movie Mao's Last Dancer. The autobiographical flick about a Chinese dancer's life story and his dancing skills was so inspiring. It was certainly one of those movies that made me want to Read more
After calling it quits with trainer Tracy Anderson last year, Madonna has a new trainer. Heck, she has a whole new fitness method! For the last several months the singer has been working with trainer Sadie Lincoln, founder of barre3 — a vigorous workout that combines elements of yoga, Pilates, and ballet barre. Much like the Tracy Anderson Method, the barre3 workout promises clients a long, Read more
Ava Baraket, 2, and her mom wait in Central Park to participate in an attempt to break a world record. The group of 230 dancers from all over the US succeeded by setting the record yesterday for "Most Ballerinas En Pointe," keeping the position for 1 minute and 7 seconds. View 5 Photos › Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Read more
