At Bar Method, owner and instructor Kate Arnold likes when your legs shake like jelly. In fact, she encourages it. “Great shaking!” she says to students from her microphone as she scans the room of 20 ...

After only one Bar Method class in Chicago in 2009, Kate Arnold was hooked. “I immediately fell in love with it. I was amazed at the changes I saw in my body, my posture, my alignment, and my ...

The Bar Method workout was developed by instructors who wanted a safe, smart, and personal workout. Under the guidance of physical therapists, the instructors came up with a safe workout for students ...

Burr Leonard is a marketing manager’s dream. Her sinewy physique belies her 62 years — and serves as a striking advertisement for the fitness empire she built through the past decade. On a recent East ...

The Bar Method, a maker of fitness apparel, exercise equipment and home-workout DVDs, has raised an undisclosed amount from San Francisco-based growth equity firm Mainsail Partners. Terms of the deal ...

The Bar Method opened its third Massachusetts location in Wellesley this summer (the other two are in the Back Bay and Hingham) bringing the barre technique franchise total to 79 in the U.S. and ...

Nobody will ever mistake me for a ballerina. The fact is my tutu needs to be a four-four. But, for Motivation Monday, it was all about bellying up to the bar! The Bar Method, which is based on ballet, ...

What's a fitness writer to do when every glam magazine in the grocery store is screaming about the latest fitness trend? Gird her loins and jump in, of course. And so I found myself at The Bar Method ...

Meghan Prout, right, works her arms during a mixed-level barre class at The Bar Method studio in Moiliili. A ballet barre and mirrors wrap around two sides of the 1,000-square-foot studio. Stacks of ...

This summer, there are lots of opportunities to attend free barre classes in Philly – which is great for those trying to get fit on a budget. Earlier this month, we learned that barre3 is hosting free ...