It’s easy to break a New Year’s fitness resolution if your routine is, well, a little too routine. To keep your motivation high and your regime exciting, try some of these local classes tailored specifically for women. Pottruck will be waiting when you get back.
1. Shapely Girl Fitness
On Monday evenings and Saturday mornings, check out a kepilates class, taught by Shapely Girl founder Debra Mazda at her Center City studio. With 25 minutes each of kettleballs, cardio and pilates, it will burn calories while toning those muscles.
$10, Mondays: 6:30 – 7 p.m., Saturdays: 9:30 – 11 a.m., Guerin Rec Center, ?2201 South 16th Street, 215-385-2037, http://www.debramazda.com/fitness/
2. Balance Studios
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To make sure you stay on track, consider signing up for Easy Escape, an 8-12 week self-defense program that utilizes strength training, yoga and Brazilian jiu-jitsu to help you escape an attacker. You’ll get in shape and gain some street smarts every woman should have. Check out the site for schedule and price details.
114 South Bonsall Street?(between 23rd and 24th and Sansom),? 215-636-9661, http://balancestudios.net/programs/philadelphia-womens-self-defense-philly/
3. Platinum Pole Dance Studio
If your goal is a sexy body, what better way to achieve it than with a sexy class? Learn how to grip, climb and swing around a pole while building strength and flexibility at a Pole Basics Intro session. The studio also offers burlesque, strip tease and chair dance classes throughout the week.
$10, Mondays-7:30 p.m., Tuesdays- 7:30 p.m., Thursdays- 9:30 p.m., Fridays- 4:30 p.m., Saturdays- 7:30 p.m., 610 South 3rd Street, 267-582-3778, http://www.platinumpoledancestudio.com/
4. Philly Premier Pole Dance
For another sexy option, check out the Seductive Dance Class at the Philly Premier studio. In addition to new moves (including a lap dance routine), you’ll learn how to walk with confidence in heels and master your “come-hither” gaze. After all, you’ll need the attitude to back up your new bod.
$12, ($15 on Fridays), Thursdays – 7:15 p.m., 1520 Sansom Street, 267-239-2826, http://www.theartofpoledance.com/
5. Philly Dance Fitness
While the studio boats a variety of dance classes, they’ve thrown them all together in one two-hour “Taste of Philly” workshop for your sampling pleasure, including ballet, piloxing, hip-hop, jazz, Zumba and cardio bellydance. Come see if one of their styles works for you!
$15, January 22nd, 2 – 4 p.m., 1515 Brandywine Street, 215-645-2717, http://phillydancefitness.com/