Health+Wellness

Charlotte is obsessed with the ORANGE EFFECT. Orangetheory Fitness combines both strength training and cardio for high-intensity 60-minute workouts, split into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training. Participants wear heart rate monitors to track intensity and maximize metabolic burn. The OTF mission is to maximize excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, otherwise know as the afterburn effect = […]

Looking for something new but still want your weekly yoga? Check out the relatively new fitness studio in Morrison shops, VIBE5 (pronounced “Vibes”). While the studio offers lots of yoga (7 class types including what has to be CLT’s first hot hip hop yoga class), there are also several strength classes, plus a boot camp […]

Certainly the QC’s most innovative and full-on fun workouts, AIR® Fit Charlotte is recognized as the nation’s leading aerial fitness training method. Designed for all levels, it strengthens the core and tones your physique in record-breaking time. What’s the AIR® difference? The aerial hammocks of course. AIR® is an intense aerial fitness training program fusing […]

In a compact studio in the Design Center on Camden Road, First Wind offers all sorts of fitness classes ~ state-of-the-art cycling, barre, strength & cardio circuit, Beat Yoga and Ride to the Circuit and Ride to the Barre fusion classes. Everything is very well-priced too, including some amazing first-timer deals. You can read our recent […]

If you are a scoop reader, you’ve no doubt read about Liz Hilliard and her daughter Clary Hilliard Gray, and their incredibly popular studio and online workout program, Hilliard Studio Method. Unique and powerful, HSM is a core-centric, Pilates-based workout that uses the latest techniques to get your heart-rate pumping and the sweat dripping. This high […]

Flywheel’s F* Resolutions Challenge This year, Charlotte’s most popular cycle & barre studio is offering us two ways to Never Coast until we hit our New Year’s Goals.  Flywheel & Flybarre kick off a 4-week and an 8-week F*Resolutions Challenge on January 8th. Head over to the Cotswold studio for their launch party on Friday, January 5th from […]

“Healthy balance is not about better time management but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.” I’ve begun to realize that yes, the holidays are a time to create memories and uphold traditions, but to do so, we have to create some boundaries, prioritizing and making space for our health. The […]

Hitting the gym or heading to a studio for a class are ideal ways to workout for some. But if you need more one-on-one help, if you are an athlete (or non-athlete) recouping from an injury, or if you need a general workout plan catered to your post-operative or aging body, the new OrthoCarolina Wellness […]

Charlotte native Karen Hill picked the name FIRST WIND for her Cycling & Fitness studio because after personally over-coming a heart condition that hindered her athletic ability most of her life, she strives to offer clients of all fitness levels a unique, welcoming, and exhilarating workout atmosphere. Not where you get your “second wind” but […]

With the holidays coming up, we all know we’re going to indulge. The key to surviving the over-abundance and over-serving is to keep your exercise schedule going from Halloween straight through New Year’s Day. It’s so easy to give in to that sluggish, overfed feeling, plus it’s cold and dark outside, with long lists of […]

Looking at the calendar, we realized that we’ve got months ahead covered up with long pants, boots and maxi dresses. Seems like now would be the perfect time to get those unsightly veins treated. We checked with our clients, the local experts at CHARLOTTE RADIOLOGY VEIN CENTERS for some useful facts on getting rid of […]

Celebrate the Bar Method opening in Waverly with a discount for their South Park location! THE BAR METHOD is opening a second Charlotte location soon at the new Waverly development. This is the second location for Bar Method SouthPark owner Autumn Frk. The new studio expects to open early 2018 and will offer amenities such […]