The Best Specialty Fitness Clubs in Toronto

The best specialty fitness clubs in Toronto offer a reprieve from the traditional grind of the gym. Whether perfecting your Plié at the barre, or working on your surf skills, these boutique fitness studios encourage a different way to break a sweat in a group setting.

Here are the best specialty fitness clubs in Toronto.

5 - Barreworks

With locations on Queen West and at Yonge and Eglinton, Barreworks fuses the principles of Pilates and ballet into a one-hour cardio, strength and stretch class. The studio offers yoga and spin classes at both locations.
10 - F45 Training Toronto

This popular Australian gym has locations in Yorkville and Liberty Village, and offers an intense 45-minute circuit with workouts ranging from boxing, spinning, TRX and weight lifting.
8 - Studio Lagree

The fitness studio with locations on King West and Forest Hill Village offers a workout that's commonly referred to as ‘Pilates on crack’. They work the body on the Megaformer, an advanced version of the Pilates reformer unique to Lagree's studios.
6 - The Uptown PowerStation

This North Toronto gym has a little bit of everything including spinning, TRX training and yoga. The classes revolve around strength, flexibility and endurance and members are always educated on proper form and nutrition practices.
11 - Surfset Toronto

This Yonge and Eglinton workout lets you climb onto a surfboard without ever hitting the waves or going outside. While you’re learning the basics of surf culture, classes focus on Balance, Burn, Build and Blend, a mixture of all the workouts.
9 - Ferris360

This studio shocks your body with its signature class, the Power 60. The Yonge and Davisville location offers a full-body cardio workout, which incorporates Tabata HIIT training, kettlebells, and the VersaClimber, a vertical climbing machine.
7 - The Monkey Vault

There's no fancy equipment in this 10,000-square foot facility near St. Clair and Keele. It's all about using your own body strength in this parkour-focused gym. If you like running, climbing, and jumping, the Monkey Vault will train for outdoor parkour.
4 - Hourglass Workout

This popular Queen West workout is built to empower women with a focus on getting an hourglass shape through rigorous sets of dumbbells, TRX ropes and heavy weights.
3 - Pursuit OCR

This 10,00-square foot facility near Queen and Dufferin is the largest indoor obstacle course and playzone in Toronto. The obstacles course consists of 19 obstacles, and even has a cyrosauna.

by Lori Harito via blogTO