Although feeling the burn during a workout is generally a good sign, feeling the burn while sitting on the sofa means your sofa is in the fireplace. Engage in controlled, constructive body burning with today's Groupon: for $20, you get 10 visits and a nutritional evaluation at Hendrick Health Club in Abilene (a $79 value). Though optional, Groupon holders will also get a waived $99 initiation fee should they decide to join Hendrick Health Club.

Named Choice Fitness Center by readers of Abilene Reporter-News, Hendrick Health Club helps health-conscious Texans watch waistlines in an upscale facility filled with high-quality workout machines and a variety of fun classes. With 10 visits to Hendrick’s gym equipment and classes, fitness-seeking folk can fit several types of exercise into their schedules or human-sized fanny packs.

Class schedules vary daily, and include a 60-minute BodyPump barbell class designed to work all major muscle groups, an indoor-cycling RPM workout, and a 55-minute BodyJam cardio-dance fusion. Customize your constitutional overhaul with a complimentary nutritional evaluation, in which a Hendrick Health Club nutritionist uses advanced software and the tears of rare alien races to evaluate current habits and propose future nutritional solutions.

Post workout, grab one of more than 100 smoothie combinations from Hendrick’s City Blends juice bar, or keep track of physical progress with its personalized online tracking system. Hendrick strictly enforces its dress code of shirts with sleeves, gym shoes, and jaunty feather-topped fedoras, and asks that shape-uppers call ahead to schedule nutritional evaluations.

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Readers of Abilene Reporter-News named Hendrick Health Club as their Choice Fitness Center.