Why Low-Impact Ballet Fitness Is More Than a Pilates Workout
Discover how low-impact ballet fitness combines Pilates, core strength, balance and graceful movement for an intelligent full-body workout.
Can Ballet Fitness Change Your Body After 40? Strength, Posture and Flexibility Explained
Discover how ballet-inspired fitness can help adults over 40 build strength, improve posture, increase mobility and develop graceful movement — without previous ballet experience.
Why More Adults Are Discovering Ballet: 7 Benefits Beyond Fitness
What if the secret to better posture, greater strength and more graceful movement was hidden inside classical ballet?
For generations, ballet has been associated with professional dancers, years of training and extraordinary physical discipline.
But something is changing.
Can You Get a Dancer’s Body Without Becoming a Ballerina?
You don’t need to become a professional ballerina to benefit from ballet training. Discover how ballet-inspired fitness can develop posture, strength, mobility and graceful movement for adults.
How Former Principal Ballerinas Train the Core Differently From Conventional Fitness
Discover how professional ballet training approaches core strength differently from conventional fitness — with a focus on posture, alignment, stability, control and graceful movement.
Spring: Where Beauty Meets Preparation
Spring is nature’s yearly act of artistic creation — a bursting forth of stored energy into blossoms, leaves, light, and song after winter’s quiet incubation. All appears so natural and so easy, like watching a beautifully trained ballerina glide across the stage — weightless, fluid, luminous. Yet behind every effortless arabesque and every blooming magnolia lies something deeper: preparation, patience, and unseen work.
Why so many Adults practice Ballet today
Many adults are drawn to ballet as a fitness activity because it offers a unique combination of strength, flexibility, and elegance. Ballet basics are a fantastic foundation for both physical and mental health.
Hitting your New Year’s resolution goals with mindfulness
This is time of year when gyms are packed and everyone's trying to commit to their New Year's fitness resolutions. But is there a "secret ingredient" to working out that makes it more effective?
How exercise rejuvenates your mind & body
Did you know that regular physical activity has a healing effect on the human body and brain, allowing it to improve its complex functioning processes. With the help of moderate physical activity, the process of rational cognition of the world is improved and targeted interaction with it is ensured.
Exercise and Fitness - Is it Optional?
Sedentary or a physically inactive lifestyle became a modern day issue, leading to a risk of several health problems. So what does sedentary lifestyle do to our body?
How Ballet Makes Your Life More Beautiful
Many think of ballet as a beautiful fantasy reserved for little girls or the physically gifted, but ballet technique offers amazing benefits that can lift your fitness level to new heights, regardless of your age.
10 BENEFITS OF Ballet for Everyone
Regardless of your age or abilities, ballet is for everyone, and it is never too late to start learning ballet as an adult. Before you come up with any excuses in your head or think you just couldn’t possibly embarrass yourself in front of everyone in ballet class, read through our top 10 reasons why you should consider ballet as a great form of exercise.
5 Reasons Why Movement is the Best Therapy
When you are in pain, most people do not think about movement. Usually, the first thought that comes to mind is to reach out for the painkiller medicine or something more invasive. Often without realizing that many musculoskeletal aches & pains can be solved with directional movements, specific exercises and stretches.
Why you should take up ballet as an adult
An increasing number of adults are turning to ballet and ballet-inspired fitness classes to keep them in shape during adulthood, there are plenty of good reasons to do so.
Fixing the feet with ballet
Have you ever suffered from foot cramps, fallen arches, weakness around the ankles or simply tired, achy feet?
Many of us rely on high tech athletic shoes or insoles for support. But the assumption that the right pair of shoes will fix everything obscures a major underlying cause of foot discomfort: weak muscles and stiff joints.
Effective techniques to achieve your exercise goals
We all have expectations when it comes to exercising, achieving goals, learning dance steps, ballet technique or simply losing weight. To maintain what you’ve accomplished, become healthier, fitter, and leaner, stronger – is what drives us to do and take action on our goals. How can you make sure you are successful, whether at the ballet studio, exercising at home, gym, outside, traveling or at home? To begin the process, to make sure you are successful in achieving your best body shape – you must have some effective process in place.
How to avoid boredom eating
In the current climate, where a fridge is just round the corner most of your day, mindless eating can become the downside. As they say: “we need to practice social distancing from the food!”
However, there are simple steps which you can take to reduce your chances of falling victim to boredom eating! Let’s discuss some handy tips to help avoid mindless eating.
New Year’s Resolutions & Can You Get the Results from Exercising at Home?
The weather is quite freezing here and the natural instinct is to find every excuse to stay indoors. We opt for the cozy comfort of our homes and more often than not, become ever more sedentary in the process as our well set New Year’s Resolutions start to drift off… So how can we stop this? If you ask any fitness professional whether it's possible to get a good workout at home, chances are they'll respond by saying you can get a good workout anywhere. What stands in the way of you and a solid workout isn't where you do it—it's whether you do it.
Start creating your Christmas body resolution today!!!
Christmas is a time of giving and sharing and it’s also the time of the year when we create new classes and ballet exercises at Ballet Body Sculpture studios in Zurich and London. We are happy to welcome you with all our unique training programs, no matter whether you are a complete beginner or already have some ballet experience, start sculpting the best body you desire for 2020! But wait a moment…
The Loss Of Femininity In Fitness
The problem with many women, is they think they are in competition with men, which means they end-up wearing the same cloths and working-out the same way.
There’s nothing wrong with this — if that is a woman wants to be less than she can be, and loose the advantage of her grace and femininity. For some women, this statement of strength fits the identity they desire to be - often because the polarity of their core energy is strongly male. However, as a general trend in the way women approach life, it tends to lead them in the wrong direction if they want to embrace all that they can be.