Ready for a stellar muscle-toning workout? These four ballet barre exercises from Simone De La Rue's Instagram even made Jennifer Garner sore.

They stretch their arms to the fingertips. It is a Vitality Ballet class, helping them exercise as they enjoy music and dance using their chairs as the barre.

Because ballet barre is low impact, it's great if you recovering from an injury (let the instructor know if you have an injury so they can modify exercises accordingly!).

Barre class typically starts with stretching and a warm-up on a yoga mat to raise the heart rate, then incorporates a combination of Pilates, yoga and ballet movements to sculpt and tone every ...

Gym rat reviews Barreworks, an airy new studio on Queen St. W., that combines ballet dance steps and stretches with core and resistance routines.

Barre classes centre around classic ballet moves such as pliés and arabesques, with a focus on correct form and muscle recruitment as opposed to dance sequences. Legwork plays a major role, which ...

The ballet barre is used for the thigh and seat sequencing (muscles will be feeling the burn). The class works on an overload then stretch/recovery format. Props: barre, weights, playground ball ...

If you're anything like me, follow along with the first 20 minutes of barre and then just enjoy how fast a professional dancer's brain is at retaining complex exercises in a flash!

Down to Business: There’s no ballet at Naperville’s Pure Barre, just stretching and low-impact exercise, owner says ...

Vitality Ballet brings dance to older adults using modified ballet steps that can be done entirely from a seated position. Woods performs a short dance for her students at the end of every class.