I half expect to relive a combination of "Flashdance" and high school drill team when I head to Pure Barre one weekday morning. Because that's likely not the case, I leave the leg warmers and bodysuit ...

Fitness is not just about sweating it out in the gym, it is also about finding workouts that strengthen the body while adding grace and balance. That is exactly what Malaika Arora shows us with her ...

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Dance and fitness trainer Kaley Hatfield shows us how to do ballet barre at home in Yahoo Life’s fitness series, “Take 5.” If you don’t have a barre, no problem. All you need is a chair for stability.

The focus is on small movements done in high repetitions. There’s stretching and toning, and parallels to Pilates, yoga and ballet. Ballet dancers have perfected their grueling workouts for centuries ...

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Meghan Prout, right, works her arms during a mixed-level barre class at The Bar Method studio in Moiliili. A ballet barre and mirrors wrap around two sides of the 1,000-square-foot studio. Stacks of ...

Barre and Pilates are both popular workouts right now. Fitness experts explain the benefits, differences and which is best ...

Desperate, as always, to dramatically improve my appearance in one day, and inspired by a friend who claims she “remade” her body with a ballet-bar workout — at press time, her tush was heading for ...

Fitness empress Michelle Austin has become a minor international celebrity in recent years. In her television infomercial broadcast on four continents, Ms. Austin promises that her ballet bar workout, ...