Workout Series
Discover the ultimate full-body workout with Ballet Conditioning and Ballet Fitness – designed to sculpt, lengthen and strengthen your muscles, regardless of your fitness level or prior dance experience.
These dynamic classes incorporate elements from traditional ballet training to help you achieve the toned and graceful physique of a dancer.
Ballet Fitness
Think ballet, but in fitness style. Ballet Fitness is a combination of ballet steps (plie, tendu, sauté) and fitness techniques (pulses, weights, resistance bands) to build a stronger you. Toned limbs, stronger core, better posture, and increased stamina - achieve all of that in this upbeat class. Accessible to all regardless of previous ballet or barre experience.
Ballet Conditioning
A series of exercises that focus on improving specific muscles group needed in ballet. For example, ballet requires dancers to constantly stand in turn out. In order to hold that turn out, dancers need to activate both turn in and turn out muscles. Muscular limitations and strength deficits will result in inability to control the turnout. To improve in ballet, it is not enough to just have regular ballet classes. Dancers need to condition their body to take on the load. It's about injury prevention; it's about building longevity as a dancer (or non-dancers alike), so that you can dance longer and better as long as you wish.
Why should dancers do this Workout Series?
Regular dance class is not enough
Dancers need to develop fitness in all areas of the body (i.e. upper, lower, left, right, core, spine). Conditioning targets exactly that. By doing exercises specifically designed for each muscle group and adding some resistance (weights, bands) to it, conditioning will help build strength, flexibility, endurance, balance and agility needed to perform in dance.
Improve your range of motion
By strengthening through the range of motion that we do have, we now allow our bodies to safely become more flexible. With the improved range of motion and mobility, dancers can enhance their technique, avoid injury, and allow for more commanding movements.
Injury prevention
As a dancer, you know you get your body to move in ways that sometimes defy logic. But all that joint super-flexibility is hard on your body and can also open it up to injury.
Adding conditioning to your routine can help limit your risk for injury. For instance, with strength training, you're improving the strength of not only your muscles, but also your tendons and ligaments, too. This helps to keep your body in the right alignment, protecting bones and joints.
Work on imbalances
Most of the time, dancers work on turning out. When we externally rotate, the front of the body turns on—the quads, the psoas, but we’re not using very much of the back side of the body. Conditioning works to bridge this imbalance by working on internal rotation as well, with parallel exercises like lunges, bridges, etc.
Great on its own, but better together.
Ballet Conditioning
Ballet Fitness
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Slow, controlled movements with strong emphasis on proper muscle usage.
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Focus on specific muscle groups
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Faster, more upbeat & centered around movements that increase heart rates.
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Targets full-body
Low impact, high results
Prevent injuries, also good for those recovering from injury.
Suitable for all levels,
dancers and non-dancers.