Miami Shores Gyms and Fitness

The courses take advantage of all the epic challenges a professional sports stadium has to offer, including thigh-searing stairs, sprint-worthy turf, and more push-up spots than you can fathom. Basic Training's experienced, motivating instructors won't make you march in step, salute them, or shave your head, but they will push you hard. They're athletes themselves who know how to help you meet your goals for a 10K, marathon, or pinewood derby. Plus, they'll teach you proper body mechanics and why and how each exercise works.

Miami Life Center's cadre of patient practitioners coach students through intensive Ashtanga classes with attention to detail that earned the studio recognition as Miami New Times' Best Yoga Studio in 2008. Amid frosted windows and gleaming hardwood floors, pupils fortify spinal alignments and hone concentration with methodical breathing and gentle postures in basic Ashtanga classes. Gentle Therapeutics yoga methodically strengthen sinews with the aid of bolsters, resistance straps, and chairs to refresh fatigued muscles and boost balance. Additionally, expectant mothers may ease into therapeutic poses including sun salutations and celebratory stork high-fives with relaxing prenatal yoga sessions. The studio's flexible lineup of classes includes weekend and late-night class times to accommodate pupils with busy schedules or raccoons who need a peaceful retreat from unruly graveyard block parties.

Novelty shirts airbrushed with bikini-clad bodies provide the convincing, if temporary, illusion of fitness. Find a more permanent fitness solution with today's Groupon. For $45, you get five group circuit classes at Nomi Pilates, a $175 value. Your Groupon also gets you 50% off a $100 private session should you choose to partake (you can purchase it when you go to the studio). This North Miami boutique studio offers a range of classes aiming to reform the shape of your body, mind, and shadow.

Start 2010 with a kick in your pants from yourself using the foot of someone else with today's side deal: for $65, you get a four-week boot camp session at South Florida Fitness Boot Camp. You'll also get 20% off your next session should you choose to return. Each session meets three days a week, with each class lasting about 45 minutes. That's more than two hours of dedicated team fitness per week for a month, about the same amount of time as the average person spends reading cereal boxes.

If people are always laughing at you in a dubbed voice and loudly declaring that your kung fu is weak, it may be time to stop watching movies and start working out. Today's deal will get you in fighting form: for $50, you get 10 dance, fitness, or martial-arts classes of your choice at Temple Arts Fitness in Davie (a $150 trial value or a $100 value for new gym members). This Groupon can be used for any class, though you'll have to call ahead to schedule OmGym, Pilates, or spinning. Parking is free.

Achieve a rock-solid body without feeling like Rocky with today’s eye-of-the-tiger side deal: for $90, you get five Gravity Power Pilates classes at Pilates One in Coconut Grove, a $200 value. These classes are structured in a group setting and led by certified and dedicated instructors.