Ballerina Basics: 9 Fitness Essentials for Your Ballet Workout

Ballet is one of fashion's favorite workouts. From Hepburn to Bardot, the appeal of a leotard and leg warmers has a modern day update with our go-to ballerina workout, Ballet Beautiful. Gone is the classic studio and here to stay are the perfect on-the-go sessions you can step into with a quick on-line check-in great for our fast-paced and travel packed schedules. 

With busy days at the office, to jet setting to travel worthy destinations and everything in-between, this fresh take on the ballerina essentials will take you from online to street in the perfect ballerina mind set for your next ballet workout.  

1. Leotard

The classic ballet leotard is the perfect ballerina accessory to take from class to street that easily pairs with classic tights & leg warmers to the street with high waisted jeans or cigarette pants.

Go-to product: Ballet Beautiful Stretch-jersey Leotard, 60$

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2. Facial Kit

Get the perfect pre and post skin care routine under wraps to to help keep skin hydrated and feeling clean all through your workout. This quick travel facial kit with a refreshing rose water toner mist that will help keep your skin feeling fresh and moisturized with a quick spritz to face and skin to get you in a peaceful state of mind to workout and perfect to refresh post workout.

Go-to product: Diptyque The Art of Face Travel Care Set, 75$

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3. On-the-go Wipes

100% organic coconut oil infused make-up remover and cleansing wipes are the perfect on-the-go essential and great way to remove stubborn makeup pre-workout that will help keep skin moisturized without stripping or irritating skin and is also gentle on blemish prone skin. 

 

Go-to product: RMS Beauty The Ultimate Make-up Remover Wipe, 16$

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4. Tights

Complete your ballerina look with perfectly seemed tights you can pair with your leotard to the street with high waisted shorts.

Go-to product: Ballet Beautiful Set of 2 Seamed Tights, 35$

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5. Water Bottle

Water will save the world and keep you hydrated during your ballet workout. A glass water bottle with a durable sleeve you can fill with infused waters, our favorite Cocolibre organic coconut water or simple chilled water to enjoy throughout your workout and post workout on-the-go. 

Go-to product: BKR Glass Water Bottle with Sleeve 500ml, 35$

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6. Muliti-tasking Beauty Balm

We love a great multitasking balm to hydrate lips and a quick beauty balm for brows and lids to infuse skin with a gentle glow that won't interfere with your ballerina session. 

Go-to product: Aerin Rose Balm, 58$

7. Hair Pins

Tuck away strands with a great bun pin that doubles as the perfect street wear accessory you can also style with your wardrobe favorites.

Go-to product: Kitsch Bun Pin, 18$-32$

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8. Ballet Slippers

Add the perfect ballet slipper like our fave Ballet Beautiful satin slippers or add her street wear shoes to your collection for sophisticated casual wear.

Go-to product: Ballet Beautiful Satin Slippers, 120$

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9. Yoga Mat

A great portable mat is the easy on-the-go essential for travel or class room sessions and gentle on wood floors and the perfect surface for your ballet mat routines.

Go-to product: Lululemon The Reversible (Un) Mat, 48$

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Train Like An Angel: 6 Inspired Workouts To Get In Victoria's Secret Model Shape

Tune into the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Tuesday Dec. 10 10/9c on CBS and train like an angel with these Victoria's Secret inspired workouts that will keep you toned & fit this festive holiday season. Maintain a healthy diet with clean eating, fresh pressed organic juices, our favorite protein by Perfect Fit, focus on eating organic with the foods you eat the most of and skip the coffee. You'll be catwalk ready that will have you ringing in the new year in model perfect shape and keep you healthy with routines and fitness right off the runway. 

1. Ballet Beautiful

Touted as the go-to workout for Victoria's Secret Models Lily AldridgeDoutzen KroesLindsay Ellingson and Erin Heatherton, Ballet Beautiful promises to impress with a range of classic and cardio blasting routines to tone & sculpt you into model ready shape.

Can't get into their New York studio? Tune into their online classes or take home their DVD series for the perfect custom workout you can take with you anywhere you travel. 

Photo via: Ballet Beautiful

Photo via: Ballet Beautiful

2. The Extension Room

This inspired ballet studio offers a variety of fitness and workout classes geared toward developing lean muscle, strengthen and give you improved posture and a fluid style of movement. 

From Sugar Plum Fairy workshops and ballet bootcamps to Candle Light Stretches, barre, cardio and core sculpting classes The Extension Room in Toronto has everything you need to give you model legs, sculpted arms and belly blasting workouts giving you a sleek classical ballet physique perfect for your street style model walk off. 

Photo via: Huffington Post

Photo via: Huffington Post

3. iNSiDE Out Studio barre

With low-impact, high result focused workouts, Ottawa's iNSiDE Out Studio barre offers the perfect variety of barre training designed to give you elongated muscles, a flat and toned tummy and increased flexibility, energy and strength. 

Challenge yourself with targeted routines towards lean arms, sculpted legs and toned core that will help you get in shape like a Victoria's Secret angel and focus your workouts with stunning barre techniques proven to give you feeling of being in heaven on earth.

Photo via: iNSiDE Out Studio barre

Photo via: iNSiDE Out Studio barre

4. Tone It Up 

Get these perfect beach workout routines to get you in model ready shape from Tone It Up that will keep you fit and toned for that beach destination holiday with workouts geared to target muscle sculpting, toning and shaping. 

Follow a fitness program that works for you from their wide selection of DVD's and targeted workouts to help you blast away fat and give you the Victoria's Secret physique that will leave you with a model perfect strut well into the new year. 

Photo via: Tone It Up

Photo via: Tone It Up

5. Tracy Anderson Metamorphosis

Be like an Victoria's Secret angel with this fitness program designed to transform you through a targeted approach focused on increasing muscle strength while toning and lengthening. 

Metamophasis is the perfect take home workout to take on the go or get into their Brentwood, New York, Hamptons or Studio City locations. With sleek training and design these routines are sure to get you a model ready shape.

Photo via: Carrie's Design Musings

Photo via: Carrie's Design Musings

6. AeroSpace NYC

This famed AeroBarre ballet-boxing routine followed by Victoria's Secret models Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Doutzen Kroes, Candice Swanepoel and Adriana Lima, is the perfect balance of intense physical movement and graceful extension.  

With basic barre maneuvers along with sculpting technique and fatigue exercises, get into their New York studio or bring home their DVD's with a mix of high performance boxing, jump and ballet workouts sure to give you sleek muscle definition and toned physique for the perfect off the runway walk.

Photo via: Self Magazine

Photo via: Self Magazine