by Lani on September 9, 2011
This question from Susan posed such a juicy opportunity to help you step up the results from your body shaping workouts that it’s worth a laser focus. Often we are looking for something else: A new way to workout, or the workout magic – that we don’t see how just doing what we are doing …
San Francisco’s great-bodies golden girl, Burr Leonard of Bar Method fame, has just released 2 new DVDs. For at home workouts these 2 will absolutely anchor your collection.. I’m a BIG Bar Method fan and do Bar Method workouts about twice a week. Plus, I am a targeted body shaping addict and Bar Method allows …
by Lani on December 19, 2010
As we cruise into the end of one year and the beginning of the next, thoughts often turn to ramping up fitness, health, and body shaping with the flip of the calendar. Have you gotten the results from your workouts this year that you imagined and desired? What’s different from 365 days ago? Are you …
by Lani on November 29, 2010
If you’ve been waiting for the new Bar Method DVDs to come out on the market, you need wait no more. This serious triple play is available NOW, and in this short video I give you the inside scoop and my personal review. There are 3 videos in the set: Dancer’s Body, Beginner’s Workout, and …
by Lani on March 14, 2010
Previously, I addressed a client question regarding the “tuck”, or posterior pelvic tilt position, outside of exercise sessions. Click HERE to read Part 1: “Is It Possible To Tuck Too Much?”. More on pelvic tilts and tucks The backward, or posterior, pelvic tilt referred to by my client in Part 1 is an exercise position …
Recently, the following question was presented to me by a client regarding implementation of the “tuck” position outside of exercise sessions. As a topic that has needed addressing, no time like the present. Q. Lani, today I’m having a soreness in my lower back that I usually don’t have. I’ve been trying to really connect …
by Lani on February 5, 2010
Chronic inflammation spells bad news for our health, plain and simple. And though inflammation is a natural and necessary way that the body stimulates healing, when inflammation becomes continuous and chronic, it becomes damaging. The most common causes of inflammation in the body are physical inactivity and diet. And until recently, high-intensity exercise has been …
by Lani on November 3, 2009
Ah, the dreaded weight loss plateau. Actually, you should embrace the plateau for many reasons. But that’s the topic for another day. For now, we’ll concern ourselves with breaking a weight loss plateau. Has this happened to you? You’ve been puttering along with your usual dietary plan and fitness routine. Then progress seems to slow, …
by Lani on August 29, 2009
Note: Burr Leonard will be my September 8 TeleSeminar guest. If you haven’t yet had the chance, be sure to view the up-close-and-personal video experience with the Bar Method creator Burr Leonard: Raising the Bar on studio workouts: the Bar Method. Not only will you see clips from a live class taught by Burr, but …
by Lani on August 19, 2009
Wait til you see the list of guests lined up for late summer TeleClasses and seminars! (Harley, kitten extraordinaire, takes a closer look – photo top). The summer has been jam packed with rich content delivered by my summer TeleSeminar series guests…and it ain’t stoppin’ there. Check out the upcoming solid gold lineup: August 25: …
by Lani on August 7, 2009
I’ve never had a bad Bar Method Studio workout experience. As it turns out, there is a choreographic genius to the orchestration of the Bar Method Studio workout, and you recognize it from the drop of the first downbeat. And the effect is intentionally designed. The birth of this brilliance? In the mind of Bar …
From your first step inside a Bar Method studio, you become aware that there is something different about this workout. It’s not just the soothing, serious colors and beautiful photographs on the wall. It’s not just the sculpted, lovely shape that the women (and yes, sometimes men) who come to these classes seem to have …
[fb-like] The long awaited opportunity to work out in the headquarters of the Bar Method Workout studios in the San Francisco Marina District finally presented itself today. And all expectations were (ouch!) fulfilled. Keep in mind, this is ouch in a GOOD way. The kind where you leave an hour- long workout with spring in …
[widget id="text-459297251"/] OK, I give up. Not on my morning workout, but on finding THE socks that help carry me through it. While tearing through my drawer trying to find them, it occurred to me how much value we can find – motivation, inspiration, and connection – with the simple rituals around which we surround …
by Lani Muelrath on May 11, 2009
Long steeped in the basics of T-Tapp, Supersets, and Yoga as my favorite workout regimens, there come the times when I have a hankering to get back to my dancer’s roots. See, dance is where I started. Actually, my love affair with dance began concurrently with my first study of yoga with my Mom years …
