I sweated through a barre class at Barre3 Toronto (325 King St. W.), and brought along my mom and best friend Emily, since three reviews are better than one. Plus, it's more fun to plié with friends.

Barre exercises pack a two-in-one punch, improving our mobility while also building strength. Stretches are woven throughout a barre class to complement the strength exercises.

What To Expect In A Barre Workout Class Each barre class is roughly 45 to 60 minutes and designed to be a full-body, muscle endurance workout (as I've definitely experienced).

Part of why I enjoy ballet barre class is that I go with one of my best friends. Kathleen Trotter has been a personal trainer and Pilates equipment specialist for 10 years.

The fundamentals of barre "The key element of barre that keeps it different from other classes is that it is low-impact and low-resistance but features high reps," says Black. At London's Frame ...

Xtend Barre, the mega-barre-brand with hundreds of locations worldwide, just launched Xtend Barre Circuit 7 in studios across the country—a new class with no plie-ing or tucking —that the ...

Barre Beautiful u2028u2028Located on Yonge just south of Eglinton, the boutique-style Barre Beautiful will challenge you during their 35- or 55-minute classes.

When Barre became so popular in 2015, I retrofitted one of our studios to include built-in bars. Attendance grew to the point that we added mobile bars and expanded the class to the basketball floor.

The beauty of barre, similar to mat Pilates, is that you need minimal to no equipment. As soon as I stepped foot into the studio the only bits of equipment for the class were a chair, a light loop ...

Gold Barre, a figure skating-inspired class created with Olympian Tara Lipinski, launches this spring. If 2015 was the year of the barre studio, 2016 may be the year that the workout finally ...