Breathe Fitness/Barre & Beyond, New Canaan

What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?
Barre & Beyond classes provide challenging, adaptable strength and flexibility components plus low-impact cardio intervals for maximum fat-burning and muscle building. Plus, the customized playlists have everyone dancing. Personal and group training sessions are expertly customized.

Exercise is challenging. How do you keep clients motivated and engaged?
Humor, close-attention to form and individualized attention! I get to know every participant's name, strengths and limitations so that I can add challenges and regressions in every class and track progress.

What was the inspiration to start or run this business?
I was an athlete and fitness enthusiast all my life, and while taking classes, I was constantly thinking about how I could make them even better and more fun. I love helping people feel more fit and fulfilled and on all levels.

What do you love most about your job?
Seeing clients progress and accomplish feats they never thought possible. I love when clients tell me about their successes and how they feel stronger and happier in the rest of their lives because of the work they do with me.