What Is It: Gold Barre is a barre-based workout – taught at Equinox gyms nationwide – that focuses on the lower body and core. The moves are inspired by the routines of Olympic gold medal winning ...

It's the ballet-inspired workout that burns so good. Getty Images It would be hard not to have heard the buzz about barre workouts, given that barre studios can be found almost anywhere. Maybe you’ve ...

I took my first barre class inside Life Time Clarendon, and to be clear, I walked in expecting something it wasn’t. It was an ARORA class, Life Time’s program built for active aging. I knew exactly ...

Markham Heid is a contributor at TIME. He is the author of The Habit Trap, due out in early 2027. Bethan Mooney for TIME In ballet training, the barre is the horizontal handrail dancers grip while ...

Sick of swimming and bored of bike rides? You’re in luck: there’s a new cross-training trend in town. Ballet might be typically seen as the preserve of small children and impossibly flexible ...

In the small carpeted room, three walls had ballet bars attached, and there were mirrors on two of the walls. The very friendly instructor introduced herself, and said, "You've done barre before, ...

When it comes to different types of workouts, I felt like I had already tried the most challenging ones out there so, when the opportunity to try Pure Barre came up, I wasn’t too intimidated. While I ...

A high-repetition sequence of isometric exercises, I went into my first Barrecore class a little over confident and somewhat naive. Unlike the HIIT classes I had grown accustomed to, my heart rate ...