Bristol’s fitness hidden gem: A barre class in a former Clifton bar

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The Barre Fitness studio is an infamous renovated bristol pub that has been turned into a barre fitness studio. The studio has been designed to be highly effective using low impact exercises for all abilities

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00:00 [Ballet music]

00:04 Anyone can do bar.

00:06 There is definitely this fear that it is only for people that either love or have done ballet.

00:13 That is most definitely not true.

00:15 I don't have a ballet background.

00:17 Some of us, some of the teachers do, but most of us don't.

00:22 I am here outside the Bar Fitness Studio,

00:25 an infamous renovated Bristol pub that has been turned into a Bar Fitness Centre

00:31 and is a hidden fitness gem of the city of Bristol.

00:34 It is designed to be a highly effective form of exercise using low impact.

00:39 Let's find out more.

00:41 So we're in the Bar Fitness Studio on White Ladies Road.

00:45 We opened two years ago, just after all the lockdowns.

00:51 The main objective really was to bring amazing workouts

00:58 in a lovely environment that you wanted to come to and work out in.

01:02 We specialise in bar.

01:05 We also do some Pilates and some yoga classes.

01:08 So the classes are on the bar menu, hence the classic, the shaken and stirred.

01:14 And bar is very definitely at the core.

01:17 And again, for six.

01:21 The Bar Fitness Studio was launched in 2023 in a renovated Bristol pub

01:26 and is a hidden gem for the Bristol fitness scene.

01:29 Let's find out more.

01:31 We use equipment in bar, obviously the ballet bar,

01:35 but also Pilates balls, light weights, ankle weights are a favourite.

01:41 In some of the fusion style classes and the Pilates classes, we get the ankle weights.

01:46 We have some trainers along the floor.

01:48 If you've seen people using the suspension trainers from the ceiling,

01:51 we have a second studio downstairs, we do those.

01:53 So we really like to challenge the body.

01:55 No two classes are the same.

01:58 So although you follow a format, you're never going to get bored.

02:03 The bar is at the heart of the class menu,

02:06 with classes designed to be highly effective using low impact exercises.

02:11 Let's find out more about how you can exercise in Bristol in 2024.

02:16 You can do it when you're pregnant.

02:24 You can do it quite quickly postnatal, once you've got your checks.

02:27 So it really is for everybody.

02:29 We then are building muscle and therefore toning up.

02:34 We've been here two years in Bristol,

02:37 but we've just opened a new studio in the city centre of Bath.

02:41 So we're bringing bar to Bath.

02:44 Small independent business.

02:50 Yeah, run by myself.

02:54 So from everything from classes to filling up the loo rolls.

03:01 Three, two, and a release.

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