Time Out New York / Issue 641 : Jan 10–16, 2008
Get fit
New ways to work out
Where to lift weights—and compete in a cage match, cheerlead or train like Randy Moss. Your localized guide to the freshest gyms and techniques, with programs low-key, intense, hard-core or your choice of all three.
Bluming Studio, LLC
Photograph: David Rosenzweig
Bluming Studio, LLC
Pilates studio owner Elisa Bluming has a new toy, and she’ll share it with you at a discount this month. It’s a Korean Migun massage table, which uses the healing properties of acupressure and infrared heat. “The jade balls roll up and down your spine and stop at your meridians,” explains Bluming. “It’s really good for loosening up tight areas—especially the shoulders and the sacrum—and improving posture.”
Rates: Intro pack includes three hour-long sessions plus a 30-minute Migun massage, $125 through Feb 28.
118 North 11th St at Berry St, third floor (917-868-6916)
Streb Lab for Action Mechanics
You were totally always jealous of the girl who did the fancy cartwheels in middle school. Take revenge and learn the moves yourself: Acrobatics center Streb hosts an intensive workshop Monday 14–January 18 (10am–1pm) on the Pop Action technique, with which “you will learn how to safely leap, fly, fall, land and tumble with skill, pluck and wit,” says education director Sarah Donnelly. Then you’ll incorporate your new skills into routines that would wow your childhood peers—and probably your current ones, too.
Rates: Workshop $180, classes $15 each.
51 North 1st St between Kent and Wythe Aves
(718-384-6491, info@strebusa.org)
