Smart Workout
Smart Workout
ph:(212) 661-1660
124 East 40th Street
Muscle Strength
Small Group Exercise Classes

 


Our Muscle Strength workouts include: Ballet Burn, Body Conditioning, BOSU Ball, Belly Dancing, Boxing, Cheerleading, The Circuit, Face Conditioning, Fencing, Helix, Hula Hoop, Kickboxing, Katami Bar, Kettlebells, Massage, On the Ball, Pole Dancing, Pilates Reformer, Spin, Step and Sculpt, Tred n' Shed, Trampoline, Warrior Workout, Wedge, and Yoga



Body Conditioning

We have three different 30 minute workouts, each addressing different parts of the body; lower body, upper body, and abs, as well as 45 minute and 60 minute versions of a Total Body Conditioning class. Free weights are utilized to increase resistance.


Ballet Burn

Listen to the strains of Swan Lake and Nutcracker Suite, as we stretch and tone our total body with ballet moves.


BOSU Ball

The BOSU Ball (an acronym for “both sides utilized”) is essentially an exercise ball cut in half. Jogging on the “ball” side is low impact aerobics, and also challenging to the core muscles and balance. Push-ups done on the “flat” side (ball side down) include the challenge of stabilizing the ball, in addition to the strength of the push-up. The BOSU workout integrates balance, core stability, cardiovascular, and muscular endurance.


Belly Dancing


Belly dancing offers many benefits.   In addition to the obvious—learning a graceful, fun and exciting new art form—belly dancing works several muscle groups.

Different movements target different areas of the body.   For example, the “shoulder shimmy” is great for deltoids, biceps and triceps.   “Hip drops” are great for the obliques as well as the glutes, calves & quads; and the constant shifting of body weight from one leg to the other leg, increases loading on the hip joint, knees and ankles, in a safe way.


Boxing

Boxing training stimulates all muscle groups, and provides the perfect combination of aerobic (with oxygen) and anaerobic (short-burst, without oxygen) exercise. The boxing workout improves every type of physical capacity: strength, coordination, reflexes, aerobic fitness, anaerobic fitness, and endurance.


Cheerleading

Hip Hip Hooray for Smart Workout’s Cheerleader Workout

Use pom poms and soft weights to get into Cheerleader shape. This very special routine works upper and lower body and is fantastic cardio, too.
Great Moves. Great Exercise. Great Fun.


The Circuit

This class utilizes our Cable Resistance weight-based machines. Audio cues prompt you to change stations every two minutes, as our instructors guide you through a series of exercises on our cable resistance weight-based machines. This class combines both upper and lower body workouts, toning muscle groups of the entire body.


Face Conditioning

While sitting Indian style, we systematically exercise each of the muscles of the face, neck, and jaw. A facial massage is included, to stimulate circulation, relax tension, and indulge!



Helix

A lateral aerobic trainer, the Helix engages in a “sideways figure 8” motion, which tones the inner and outer thighs, glutes and core, while delivering an intense cardiovascular workout.

In contrast to conventional cardio machines which work on a front-to-back plane, the Helix’s horizontal figure eight motion achieves sculpting results usually obtained only by weight training, all while conditioning aerobically and burning fat!

Smart Workout’s original class moves through a range of “Helix motions”: arcs, surfing, leg pumps, squats, grinding, semi’s and ball riding, executed at varying speeds and resistance levels.

Smart Workout’s Helix class is a great training for tennis players, golfers, and skiers, and for anyone who wants a fantastic workout.


Hula Hoop

This low impact aerobic exercise is an intense calorie burner. Weighted hula-hoops are used to tone abdominal muscles, promote correct body alignment, and increase balance.


Katami Bar


This is a total body muscle workout, using the Katami bar as a resistance aid. The trapezoidal shape of the Katami bar keeps your arms on an even plane, adding ease and accuracy to your workout.


Kettlebells

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Kickboxing


This workout is a fast combo of side kicks, jabs, crosses, hooks, uppercuts, and foot work. It is an intense workout, which burns loads of calories, and builds strength and endurance.


Massage

Rooted in Eastern healing traditions, Massage combines passive stretching, and gentle acupressure, to energetically balance the body. This interactive hands-on class teaches a natural, non-invasive approach to providing relief from injury, stress and pain. Increase self awareness as you give and receive this ancient healing, which promotes proper alignment, enhanced flexibility and greater physical and emotional well being.


On the Ball


Sixties music sets the pace, as we bounce up and down on the ball. This is a fun, fun way to get a cardio workout, all the while engaging the core and increasing balance. We add bands to work upper body muscles, making this an all over workout for aerobics and strength.


Pole Dancing

The newest exercise sensation hits New York, and SMART WORKOUT has it!   The fantasy of pole dancing and the benefits of Pilates, combine into this fabulous striptease-inspired workout that develops upper body and core strength.   Let your inhibitions loose in these fun-filled workout, led by our expert pole dancers. click here to watch our pole workout

Schedule a private 90-minute lesson for yourself and up to 10 of your friends.   Fabulous for Birthdays, Bachelorette, and Girls’ Night Out. (Pole Parties may be reserved by non-members) see Pole Dancing for details.


Pilates Reformer

Experience the ultimate Pilates workout by incorporating the use of the Reformer, an apparatus specially designed to help achieve maximum results in Pilates.

Training with the aid of the Pilates reformer equipment, helps you:

  • Increase muscle tone
  • Improve flexibility
  • Strengthen your back and improve posture
  • Decrease stress and improve energy level

Step and Sculpt

“Step” is a low-impact aerobic workout, incorporating the action of stepping onto a platform to intensify the workout. “Step and Sculpt” is fusion workout, incorporating the use of free weights within an aerobic step routine.


Warrior Workout

Warrior Workout is a boot camp body conditioning with a focus on strength, agility, and speed. This is the intense training needed to build a warrior’s physique. A fast paced combo of dead lifts, planks, jogging over hurdles, push-ups, and sit-ups, this training will burn fat, build muscle, and give you killer abs!


Wedge

Get a new angle on fitness with this unique foam tool that provides an incline and decline position, and works all major muscle groups including the abs, butt, thighs, triceps, chest and lower back.


Yoga

Yoga is a therapy which helps you to become more aware of your body’s posture, alignment, and patterns of movement.   It makes the body more flexible, and helps to relax, even in the midst of a stress-stricken environment.

Physiological Benefits of Yoga include:

  • increasing flexibility, and relieving stiffness in the back and neck
  • increasing lubrication of the joints, ligaments and tendons, helping to prevent injury
  • muscle toning, increasing strength throughout the entire body, including the spine
  • improving postural alignment and correcting round and sluggish shoulders

These enormous physical benefits are just a “side-effect” of this powerful practice.   Yoga harmonizes the mind with the body, relieving the detrimental effects of stress upon our physical, endocrinal and emotional systems.


Pre-Natal Yoga

Smart Workout offers yoga trainings specifically designated as “Pre-Natal.”

The trainings with this designation are led by yoga teachers with advanced certifications for the specialty of pre-natal instruction.

And even the other yoga trainings at Smart Workout (those not specifically designated “pre-natal”) are also taught with a sensitivity for the pre-natal condition. All the yoga teachers at Smart Workout are certified Yoga Teachers, with a minimum 200 hour certification (which includes pre-natal instruction), and in addition, are given extensive instruction on pre-natal care, as part of our in-house training program.


 











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