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| Alyssa's birthday cake featuring 4 sticks of butter -- just one player in the all-you-can-eat Memorial Day festivities. |
Well, if you're like me and your good morning greeting on this Wednesday came in the form of snug jeans and an overpowering craving for vegetables, I have just the thing for you: a workout that will make your thighs scream, your posture erect, and your triceps pinch.
It's called The Dailey Method -- a fitness potpourri with a Pilates base, a ballet flair, and a reputation for building long and lean bodies -- and it's the only strength workout that I've ever stuck with. In the hour-long class you'll squat and stretch at the bar like a ballerina (a tired and sweaty ballerina), you'll hold plank longer than you want to...like way longer than you want to, and you'll even experience the dichotomy of hilariousness and misery from the trademark thigh dancing.*
Aside from feeling stronger in my arms and abs, I credit TDM with improving my posture and lengthening my running stride. But my favorite part of TDM is that each class challenges you with different and new exercises, so it keeps my interest. Kudos to all of you who touted strength training as essential and efficient long before I did. I get it now.
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| I even bought the $10 socks. #Sucker. |
If you too want to feel like a wannabe ballerina, here's a list of TDM studios. Note, if you don't live near a studio, TDM is very similar to The Bar Method and other barre workouts. I stuck with TDM studio in Santa Barbara because it's closer to my house than The Bar Method and it has free parking. Amen to that.
*You'll have to try it to find out.
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