It takes about 15 muscles to smile, 50 to frown, and 148 to save a curbside couch from life in a landfill. Soothe sympathetic sinews with today's Groupon: for $19, you get a half-hour hot-stone, Swedish, or relaxation massage at Glebe Fitness in The Glebe (a $40 value).

At Glebe Fitness, skilled orthotherapist Melinda Tombs soothes weary muscles with hot-stone, Swedish, or relaxation massages. In half-hour sessions, bodies nagged by tension, sore muscles, and bossy shoulder parrots purge their corporeal compromisers via Tombs’s skillful mitts, which knead muscles to help wring bodies free of mental and physical discomfort. Massages include the use of lockers and showers, and the gym can provide chilled mineral water and towel service on request. Buyers beset with particularly stubborn muscles or those who recently defrosted from a three-year deep freeze may apply this Groupon's value toward longer sessions ($45+/45 minutes). Tombs offers her services Monday–Thursday from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.