Change Your Check

This is the introductory Bar Method program; it's designed to teach the basic techniques as it re-shapes your body. The Bar Method blends intensified versions of traditional toning moves with unique pulse and isometric exercises. It’s a surprisingly tough workout — you get elements of ballet, Pilates, Callanetics, stretching and traditional body-sculpting. Most moves isolate a single muscle group, challenging it in a variety of ways (e.g. a squat done on tip-toes increases intensity, isolates the quadriceps … and improves balance). Other results-boosting techniques include short pulses, varied-tempo reps and multi-plane exercises.

"From the earliest writings of man, we know that the human race has been comprised of the haves and the have-nots. When I was a kid back during the Great Depression, I was obsessed with the desire to know what invisible something separated the haves from the have-nots, being a have-not.

First, I'll visually explain how each success principle works, then I'll teach practical ways of putting it into action

What makes a written work eternal—its message still so fundamental to the way we live that it continues to speak to us, hundreds or thousands of years distant from the lifetime of its author? Why do we still respond to an ancient Greek playwright's tale of the Titan so committed to humanity's survival that he is willing to endure eternal torture in his defiance of the gods? To the cold advice of a 16th-century Florentine exiled from the corridors of power? To the words of a World War I German veteran writing of the horrors of endless trench warfare?