THE WIFE Guide: Best Work Outs

Every new year, millions of wives vow that this year will be the year they get healthier, take on a new work out regimen and most importantly STICK WITH IT! While gym’s like Equinox are all fine and dandy, they can quickly become monotonous and boring. So THE WIFE™ has complied a list of our favorite, most fun and effective workout classes for the international darling, spanning from Los Angeles to New York and London. Click “continue reading” to find out what exciting workout classes will help you lose that pesky 10 pounds. -THE WIFE™

Los Angeles:

• AIR Aerial Fitness: AIR is an intense aerial fitness training program fusing ballet barre work with yoga and pilates with aerial silk hammocks. This highly effective program is designed to strengthen, lengthen + tone your physique in record breaking time. Airfitnow.com
• Ballet Bodies: Ballet Bodies is a fitness studio that draws from and improves upon the basic fundamentals of pilates and ballet, with an ultimate focus on achieving an aesthetic as long, lean and beautiful as a ballet dancer’s. Balletbodies.com
• Rise Movement: This gym is the best kept secret in Los Angeles. Their yoga classes offer challenging vinyasa style with a well rounded set of asanas that builds strength, balance and flexibility, with an importance on breath connecting the body and mind. Not to mention  the best tunes during class to motivate and deepen your practice. Rise-movement.com
• Rise Nation: Rise Nation delivers a group training experience that culminates with and is primarily focused on climbing. Delivering results in a 30-minute class, leaving you with a feeling of exhilaration, balance and strength. Rise-nation.com
• Soul Cycle: SoulCycle is indoor cycling re-invented. Forty-five minutes is all it takes to transform the way you look and feel. Get ready for fat-burning cardio, a full-body workout, and choreography to work your core. Get ready to climb, jog, sprint, dance,  set your intention and break boundaries. Soul-cycle.com

New York:

• Aqua: Aqua is an underwater cycling class, where bikes are placed in a pool and you pedal against the water resistance, with water up to your waist.  Not only do you shape your body in a much more efficient way than on land but you also protect your health, your bone structure, your joints, your muscles. Aquastudiony.com
• Ballet Beautiful: Created by professional ballerina and celebrity fitness guru Mary Helen Bowers, the Ballet Beautiful workout mixes the athleticism and grace of classical ballet with targeted exercises and stretches that sculpt a dancer’s toned, lean physique. Balletbeautiful.com
• City Row: City Row uses intervals of cardio and sculpting on and off of the row machine to deliver a triple threat workout: high-intensity sweat, low-impact burn, total body results. Their WaterRower row machines use water to create dynamic resistance. Cityrow.com
• Gotham Gym: This boxing gym is tucked in the West Village, with big access to the Hudson Waterfront. Gotham provides an abundance of wellness resources, boxing and boot camp classes, and the ability to connect with a team of incredible trainers and educators who are committed to helping you achieve, and transcend, your exercise and wellness goals. Gothamgymnyc.com
• Mile High Run Club: Mile High Run Club is the first dedicated studio for running. With daily group treadmill classes and endurance focused strength training led by elite runners, everyone trains like an athlete regardless of fitness level. Perfect to get you prepared for your next marathon. Milehighrunclub.com
• ModelFit: The modelFIT vision is a unique, bespoke approach to healthy living. It is designed to build an individualized nutritional framework and fitness program for a healthier, happier and more energized lifestyle. Choose from fitness classes or one on one personal training, as well as a selection of organic pressed juices and prepared food.  Signature modelFIT workouts incorporate a mix of pilates, yoga, movement, motion, balance stability, functional training and more. Modelfit.com
• Soul Cycle: SoulCycle is indoor cycling re-invented. Forty-five minutes is all it takes to transform the way you look and feel. Get ready for fat-burning cardio, a full-body workout, and choreography to work your core. Get ready to climb, jog, sprint, dance,  set your intention and break boundaries. Soul-cycle.com
• Taryn Toomey’s The Class: The class is a 75-minute cathartic mind-body experience, working every muscle from the ground up. There are no weights, no props, it is just you and your body. Expect challenging, endorphin pumping workouts designed around inspiring music. Theclasswithtt.com

London:

• Barrecore: Barrecore is intelligent exercise, integrating the fat-burning format of interval training with static stretches after each muscle is worked. Each 60-minute workout targets the major muscle groups and improves posture and alignment no matter what your fitness level. This is how we effectively, efficiently and safely reshape the entire body, creating the highly coveted barre body. Barrecore.co.uk
• HeartCore: Heartcore’s reformer-based classes use core-focused functional training in a highly effective, high-energy class format to provide a comprehensive full body workout in the shortest possible timeframe.  The result is a dynamic and intense 55-minute workout that burns calories rapidly and allows you to sculpt your physique in ways that traditional exercise simply can not match. Heartcore.co.uk
• Hydrofit: Revolutionary in its concept, Hydro-Fit facilitates a unique water biking and water jogging experience in the comfort and privacy of individual cabins. Designed to the highest standard, these luxury cabins aim to provide an optimal rejuvenation for your wellbeing. Hydrofit.co.uk
• Lomax: Their fitness pods contains everything you need for the most efficient workout possible: whether you choose to work with a personal trainer, on your own, or in their signature Blast Class. They also offer a complete range of specialist fitness services such as pilates, RealRyder® indoor cycling and TechnoShape. Lomaxpt.com
• Psycle: Develop a strong body, sharp mind and discover new levels of health and vitality by creating the perfect environment for a community to connect, share experiences and support each other. A high intensity, low impact, head to toe workout on a bike is led by passionate and charismatic instructors. Psyclelondon.com
• Skinny Bitch Collective: The Skinny Bitch Collective is the most talked about wellness and lifestyle project for women right now. This elusive class is designed to throw you as far away from your comfort zone as possible. Boredom becomes the enemy. SBC is about a balanced lifestyle and embraces elements we feel will upgrade every aspect of your life. Thesbcollective.com
• Ten Pilates:  Like traditional Pilates, Dynamic Pilates is designed to readdress the body’s natural balance through a series of exact, controlled movements. Both focus on the core muscles in the waist and lower back area (the centre of support for the rest of the body) to improve strength, flexibility and posture, keeping the body mobile and helping prevent or reduce injury. Build long, lean muscles by combining exercise and stretching into the routines.  Tenpilates.com
• Tri Yoga: London’s favored yoga studio is the highest quality centre for true well-being, combining three key elements of yoga, pilates + treatments. Offering sessions from the best teachers, teaching a broad range of truly authentic styles of yoga in a sacred space. Triyoga.co.uk