The Best Playlist for Butt Workouts

Every week, Your New Favorite Playlist introduces you to workout-worthy tunes from a different fitness brand. This week, Physique 57 shares a playlist from its new class, Physique 57 F.I.T.

The entire idea behind barre classes, for the uninitiated, is that, by repeating small ballet-inspired movements (a.k.a. pulses) for an extended period of time, you work your muscles past the point of exhaustion—and seriously sculpt them in the process. But Physique 57 decided to make things even more hardcore by introducing a brand-new class called Physique F.I.T. (short for “focused interval training”) with longer butt and arm segments to really tone and tighten these areas. “Physique F.I.T is a full-body class, but it is formatted so that we stay in one muscle group for a long period of time, our goal being to take that particular muscle group to fatigue, and then transition to another muscle group,” says Katie Mitchell, a Physique 57 F.I.T. instructor. 

Matching the music perfectly to the pulses in the workout is crucial. “Our choreography moves to the beat of the music, so music provides clients with a meter to keep them moving,” says Mitchell. Here’s a playlist from the class, which launched yesterday in New York and Beverly Hills.

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You can download the playlist on Spotify. Not ready to sweat this second? Sample some of the songs:

Physique 57 has locations in New York and California.

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