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 $45, you get one month of unlimited group classes at Method Gym, located in the Upper East Side (a $225 value).

Method Gym makes the heart beat faster with a busy schedule of muscle-building, lung-strengthening group fitness classes. Using tools such as Zumba, cardio kickboxing, Pilates, and yoga, this workout studio overhauls exercisers and aims them down the road to improved health and fitness. Pop into a 45-minute Cardio Fusion class, a calorie-burning, energetic aerobics session, or try your limbs out in the Hatha Flow Yoga class, where good alignment and lengthy pose hold times are the stars of the flexibility show. Get-fitters can sweat toward a six-pack and quarter-bouncin’ glutes in the Awesome Abs & Butt Blast class, improve posture and flexibility in Pilates Plus, or burn fat while dancing the class away in Zumba, which features Latin–inspired rhythms, simple dance steps, and tiny, thumb-mounted maracas.

Reviews

Method Gym has a four-star average from six Yelpers and a five-star average from Citysearchers:

• After seeing the super new updated equipment and watching a few of the trainers in action I decided that this is where I need to be. A place I can focus and work with a team of instructors who truly care about my health. – champion2112, Citysearch
• I really love what they did to the gym. Its so open and new machines are awesome I love the classes too. I definately reccomend [sic] this to anyone looking for something more affordable and less crowded and intimidating than the large gym chains – CSMobileUser, Citysearch