A 20-Minute Barre-Inspired Workout a Professional Ballet Dancer Swears By

A 20-Minute Barre-Inspired Workout a Professional Ballet Dancer Swears By

When you think about ballet, the first thing that might come to mind is beauty, grace, and maybe a tutu. While ballet is all of that, it’s also a sport that requires incredible amounts of endurance and both physical and mental strength.

“In being a ballet dancer, there are mental things involved, like connecting to your muscles. It’s having to pay attention to every bit of your muscle, and still have to perform at the same time,” says ballet dancer Deidre Sears, founder and artistic director at  Elevé Dance Theater. “The most important thing is your core. If your core isn’t strong, it’s very difficult to do anything else.”


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If you’re not quite ready to enter into your ballet era, you can attend barre fitness classes, which are low-impact workouts that have used the ballet barre as inspiration. “Barre is an accessible workout that combines the best of the best: the core strength of Pilates, the mindfulness of yoga, the high intensity of strength workouts, and the high energy beats of a dance party, all mixed into a jam-packed 50 minutes of positivity and strength building,” says Michelle Ditto, vice president of training and technique at Pure Barre says.

While barre as a general concept is derived from ballet in terms of how the barre is utilized as a tool for balance, barre as a fitness concept “combines a myriad of tenants of a well-rounded fitness routine with the goals to build strength, improve flexibility, enhance endurance, among many other benefits,” Ditto says.

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