Nancy Einhart | March 14, 2011 8:00 amThink you can't get a serious workout in 30 minutes? BodyFi will prove you wrong. This Financial District fitness studio specializes in high-intensity, half-hour classes with a hyper focus on strength and core training.Read More
Nancy Einhart | March 2, 2011 4:59 pmI have been stuck in a workout rut, consisting of a 24 Hour Fitness membership, the elliptical machine, Pilates, and running. So I nabbed a pack of classes at BodyFi (425 Washington St., Suite 200, 415-633-6173), a spanking new fitness studio in the Financial District, in search of new ways to work out. Lo and behold, it worked; the rut has morphed into a new exercise high.Read More
Nancy Einhart | December 14, 2010 1:34 pmThe reformer gets reinvented at Pilates ProWorks, a sleek and stylish studio where upbeat music by the likes of Lady Gaga and Phoenix provide the soundtrack to personalized Pilates, barre, and TRX classes. Using an upgraded, more versatile apparatus known as a FitFormer — which allows for stronger muscles, smoother exercises, and less impact on the joints — each 55-minute Pilates Pro class fuses core practice with traditional fitness moves like lunges, shoulder presses, and cardio elements for an all-around workout. Better yet, each class has no more than 10 people, so everyone gets her own FitFormer and plenty of attention.Read More
Kristen Hawley | November 23, 2010 10:06 amWhile some may consider it a super scary workout, jumping on a trampoline is one of my favorite exercises of all time. Luckily, a trampoline park recently opened in San Francisco, and I got to check it out for myself. The House of Air indoor trampoline park (926 Mason St., 415-345-9675) in the Presidio is like nothing you've seen before.Read More