305 Fitness

The endorphin-packed, 55-minute full body cardio dance party workout, founded by Miami native Sadie Kurzban offers a club-like experience complete with DJ booth and performance-enhancing sprung wood floors.

33 East 33rd Street
305fitness.com

Chaise Fitness

ChaiseFitness, founded by mother-daughter team Lauren and Rachel Piskin, is lauded for its core-based workouts that fuses ballet, Pilates, and aerobics with an overhead bungee system that sculpts and defines the entire body. New to the expansive, modern FiDi location is ChaisePedal, an innovative indoor cycling program.

180 Maiden Lane, 3rd Floor
chaisefitness.com

City Row

This hot hybrid, low-impact 50-minute workout method (a combination of rowing intervals and strength training both on and off WaterRower machines), founded by Helaine Knapp, has just opened a two-story Upper East Side location.

1409 Third Avenue (at 80th Street)
cityrow.com

SLT

Amanda Freeman’s popular total-body, muscle-shaking SLT workout, performed on a Megaformer machine, leaves you toned and lengthened without the bulk of traditional weight training. Its tenth studio (and first ground floor outpost) offers a stellar instructor lineup for its “Pilates on crack” workouts.

580 Columbus Avenue (at 88th Street)
sltnyc.com

Wundabar Pilates

The first NYC studio of the method founded by L.A.-based Amy Jordan offers a truly unique, patented machine (a twist on the traditional Pilates reformer with a jump board, “Wunda Chair” and ballet bar) on which to sculpt your arms, butt, abs and legs to amazing results.

21 Thompson Street (at Grand/Watts Streets)
wundabar.com

Physique 57

By adding a new element, specific choreographed lighting, to enhance the tried-and-true barre method class, the brand promises to offer clients an enhanced multi-sensory experience during its tried-and-true workouts.

55 Broadway (at Exchange Alley), Suite 1602
physique57.com

Mile High Run Club

NYC’s dedicated studio for running offers a dynamic mix of indoor group treadmill running classes for devotees at its second, NoMad location.

24 West 25th Street
milehighrunclub.com

AKT in Motion

Founder Anna Kaiser’s buzzy workout methods include heart-pumping dance cardio classes (like AKT Tease and Happy Hour) and circuit training, interval classes like 4Play, Sweat Dream and the newest offering, AKTone, are beloved by Kelly Ripa and Shakira.

1182 Broadway (at 28th/29th Streets), 2nd Floor
aktinmotion.com

ShadowBox

This 45-minute, 40-person group class mixes no contact shadowboxing, heavy bag work and body weight exercises (variations of plyometric/metabolic work) with intense training intervals.

28 West 20th Street
shadowboxnyc.com

Pop Physique

The first NYC branch of this L.A.-based invigorating, ballet barre class was founded by Pilates instructor Jennifer Williams.

31 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
popphysique.com

Crossfit Solace

The 10,000-square-foot Murray Hill fitness space dedicated to out-of-the-box CrossFit options from expert founders Jim Loperfido, Tristan Keeffe and Chad McDonald is the nicest CrossFit studio you’re likely to find anywhere.

38 East 32nd Street
crossfitsolace.com

Flex Pilates

Flex Pilates’ reformer workout is a high-energy, fast-paced workout with quick transitions to tone the whole body, improve posture and sculpt lean muscles. Its NoHo studio class offerings include Pilates, barre and TRX methods.

650 Broadway, 3rd floor
flexstudios.com

Salty Yoga at Breathe Easy

These yoga classes, with poses focused on developing strength, flexibility and range of motion in areas specifically used by the body to breathe, take place in a luxurious Himalayan salt room.

1 Park Avenue, Lower Level
breatheeasyusa.com