For my birthday this year, I was the lucky recipient of a modified home Pilates reformer. Though it's not quite the reformer you'll see in Pilates studios, it's equipped to give you the same kind of workout to strengthen your core and tone and lengthen muscles. I assembled it just this week and was amazed at how quickly I could get it together, with the help of my husband — you might need an Read more

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from Self here on FitSugar! If you're a novice like me, you might not realize that there are many different kinds of Pilates.  And those incarnations are not defined as "hard, very hard, and nearly impossible." Celebrity trainer Sara Kapuchinski just opened her new LA studio i heart fitness xo, where she teaches West Coast-style Pilates to a Read more

Always a sucker for a deal, it was a free week pass that brought me out to review YogaWorks, a chain of yoga studios located throughout California and New York. While the amount (and types) of yoga classes that the San Francisco location offers is remarkable, I found myself coming back for three of its non-yoga offerings — DanceWorks, BarWorks, and SculptWorks. In these classes, I learned to Read more

Germaphobes and fashionistas take note — Blake Brody In-Studio Footwear may be your new favorite fitness accessory. The Blake Brody eco-friendly footwear line looks like a collection of fashion ballet flats, but are so flexible — you can roll them up if you need to! — they won't inhibit the foot's natural range of motion. While it may seem counterintuitive to wear shoes for a studio Read more