Regular Pilates exercise leads to the musculature and posture necessary for carrying out everyday activities, from hauling groceries to carrying bookcases around to replace a lost e-reader. Avoid struggling with paper weight with today’s Groupon: for $25, you get five group mat-Pilates classes at Las Colinas Pilates in Irving (a $75 total value).

Captained by Romana’s Pilates–certified instructor Elizabeth Boyd, the private Las Colinas studio defines and strengthens cores with strict adherence to Joseph Pilates’s original regimen. Elizabeth caps each 45-minute session at 8 participants, ensuring every fitness seeker gets individual attention and a spot in impromptu human pyramids. Classes range in difficulty from basic mat, which focuses on proper technique, to intermediate sessions that build on familiar exercise and challenges cores with quantum-physics pop quizzes. The studio’s schedule sets calories ablaze Monday–Saturday during morning, midmorning, and afternoon classes.