DALLAS - You can hear the music pumping in Snider Plaza, but it's no dance club.
It is called Beats Per Minute. A Pilates cardio class meant to build long, lean muscles, while raising your heart rate like traditional aerobics.
"You want to be in [and] out, drenched in sweat when you leave, muscles quivering, that whole feeling,” said Kendall Coleman, a class instructor.
“I quiver every time I'm in here,” said student Nikki Hunt.
Hunt isn't a gym rat. In fact, she finds the gym scene a little intimidating at times.
But not here.
"I am definitely beginner [or] intermediate level and I feel comfortable in here," she said.
Kendall Coleman is the instructor and DJ, blaring music with a good beat for each repetition.
Even News 8's Shelly Slater tried the class.
"Clearly I didn't know what I was doing with this machine, but that's okay," she said. "All you have to do is remove the springs right here to change the intensity. You can line them up and make it really hard, or do what I did, take them all off and make it a little easier."
And it gets easier with experience.
"You really have to want to bring it," Hunt said. "And it's hard the first time you come, because you are moving around, changing the springs. But they work with you. After two or three times, you've got it down."
Classes can cost as little as $15 apiece. The clients come in all ages.
"We have a guy who is 78 years old who comes in here, and he rocks it out," Coleman said.
She said while BPM challenges your muscles, it's easier on the joints, with one outcome in mind.
"It's kind of the model body," Coleman said. "You can tell they are toned, but you wonder where they got that muscle come from."
Hunt admits the day after a workout, she feels it big time. But with a busy life, she needs something that works fast.
"I get my cardio and my strength training and it's over in 50 minutes," Hunt said. "So it is perfect."
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