Before you break your New Year’s resolution to hit the gym every day, try a PureBarre class while you’re still going strong. You’ll love it.
A barre class, named after the horizontal wooden bar in dance studios, is a hybrid mix of Pilates, ballet, and classic aerobics. At PureBarr on Greenville, the class utilizes a small ball, a band, and tiny weights and targets all of women’s softest parts. Every exercise is about small movements with a big burn. (If you don’t think standing on your tiptoes, rotating your hips in small circles can make you hurt, you are sooo wrong.) For my full review, jump.
My class started off with a bit of old-school aerobics moves. (Marching in place, bicep curls, that sort of thing.) It was followed by arm work, leg work, butt work, and ab work. You tone each body part separately and follow each one up with stretching, which I love. Not only does this make each section feel like an easier goal to accomplish, but it makes the class fly by!
Using the bar was fun. Not because it was easy (it’s not), but because it’s a great change of scenery from the treadmill screen. There are some relevés and arabesques, which make you feel like a ballerina, and some wiggling of the hips, which, to the good music, makes you feel like a Britney Spears backup dancer. The soundtrack for the class was motivating, not cheesy (no Journey), and the instructor was helpful (without calling me out during class).
My overall review: A+. Do it. You won’t regret it.
$15 to pop in and try it out (Hey, it hurts to be beautiful.)
