If you chat with me about fitness for five minutes, I’ll likely talk about barre 🙋🏽‍♀️. I feel like this format sometimes gets a bad rap in the fitness world, but my opinion is that everybody should include it in their workout schedule! Here’s why:
 1. Barre’s foundation comes from physical therapy. Small movements, banded exercises, muscle activation, and stabilization all help prevent injury and are often included in rehab. Doing these as a workout makes it pre- habilitative and can correct imbalances before they cause issues. 2. Because of #1 you become better at all other movement! One of the strongest women I know (👋🏽 Susannah) lifts HEAVY and takes barre regularly because she’s seen it strengthen stabilizing muscles which ultimately has allowed her to push more weight. 3. It is a non-impact form of fitness but is still high intensity. By working muscles for long periods of time under tension (isometric holds, pulsing, small range) we activate slow twitch muscle fibers and ...