Glass Installations Ltd have fitted ballet barre equipment and dance mirrors in many top ballet and dance schools in the country including work for The Royal Ballet, Northern Dance, Phoenix Dance and Dance East as well as many smaller dance schools and ballet companies. It is essential that ballet and dance companies have the best facilities to use and therefore we often fit our top of the range Image “18” Mirrors and integrally fitted ballet barre into dance studios where professional dance and ballet barre classes are taking place. However more often we are now starting to fit both Image “6” Mirrors and barres and our Image “18” into fitness studios for public use in dance and fitness classes focused on core stability workouts. There has been a rise in ballet-inspired fitness and the trend of working out with a barre is starting to take off!
The nation has been very excited by dance motivated fitness for a while now with Zumba Fitness sweeping the nation and now the trendy Strictly Come Dancing inspired Strictly Dance Fit! With the potential to gain toned legs and shapely figures barre fitness is an excellent choice of exercise. We have now seen ‘ballet fitness’ and ‘barre fitness’ classes cropping up everywhere.
Reasons to install mirrors and barres into the fitness studio
The exciting and dynamic new barre classes may initially sound daunting to the beginner, but no fitness or dance training is needed. In fact we do the initial hard work by installing professional dance studio mirrors and professional ballet barres for fitness instructors so you can participate in an enjoyable and strengthening class while keeping check of your posture, alignment and position the whole time.
So, for obvious reasons a secure preferably integrally installed ballet barre is the best choice for these types of classes. Mirrors are of course optional but we find mirrors can:
- Helps with the correction of exercises in such a precise workout.
- Aid the instructor to see small detail
- Add to the overall feel of a ‘ballet class’
We install wall fitted ballet barres with both of our mirror systems. We also install floor mounted ballet barres which can be used with or without mirrors. For portable fitness instructors we also have our portable range. We recommend having a phone consultation to help decide the best route for mirrors and barres for your studio. Please contact any one of our sales team on 01782 317620 for advice.
The advantages of ballet fitness classes
- Small range of motion in movements help to achieve elongated muscles and each class works a surprisingly large amount of different muscles groups and gets into those small posture correcting muscles too which help with everyday alignment and activities.
- A low-impact workout, making it suitable for all most every body type.
- Regular classes build long, lean muscle without bulk. But, the strength of that muscle is achieved as well without sitting doing those boring weights in the part of the gym with no atmosphere!
With a number of fitness instructors combining their pilates instruction with dance elements we have already fitted into some top London based studios with celebrity trainers for their expansion into barre classes including the exclusive Barrecore in Mayfair, Spiral pilates, Platinum Pilates, Kentish Town Studios, to name a few.
There are a few commercial programmes available too including:
- The Bar Method
- Barre 3
- Pure Barre
- The Booty Barre
- Xtend Barre Workout
So you could even install that barre in your own home, or browse a range of our portable mirror and portable barre products, pick up a DVD and you have your very own barre class! We are however delighted with the results in our recent barre installations and hope that if you live nearby one of the studios you could attend a class and check them out for yourself.