Best Guy-Friendly Gym Class - Best of New York Health & Self 2009 -- New York Magazine

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Best Guy-Friendly Gym Class

Core Fusion Sport

Exhale, 150 Central Park S., nr. Seventh Ave., and two other locations; 212-249-3000

Most men associate exercise classes with eighties-style choreography done in full makeup or worse (pelvic tilts!). But this hour of intense core training is like a cardio-sculpt class on steroids. Each exercise engages multiple body parts while simultaneously spiking your heart rate. After a sequence of jumpbacks, squats, and twists—all using a wobbly “core” ball to add intensity—laying on the mat to attack legs and glutes with a resistance band almost feels like a respite.

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From the 2009 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine

Our mission this year: to hunt down not just the best but the best values in the eating, shopping, drinking, and general-consuming universe of New York. It’s quite the process, this, requiring eating and shopping and drinking (all in the name of research), followed by heated but civil discussion, and heated but less-civil discussion, until a winner emerges in each category.

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