PREMIERE MAGAZINE, July/August 2004

NEW POWER 2004
New Powerful Body Part: The Ass
Ass Workout: The Bar Method
By Anita Chabria

1950 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles. 310-481-0005.
$20 per class; also introductory and package offers.

At the Bar Method studio in West La., “We really emphasize the butt,” says former nightclub promoter and current fitness club co-owner Mimi Fleischman. L.A.’s hottest new exercise combines elements of… yoga, Pilates, and, of course a ballet barre.

The quest for a pleasing posterior has pulled in Hollywood elite from CAA power agent Jennifer Rawlings to actors such as Annabeth Gish and Jsu Garcia, who bent, stretched, and squatted with Fleischman before playing Javier, Jennifer Aniston’s salsa-dancing sidekick in Along Came Polly. “The butt looks very different after a few months of the Bar Method,” Fleischman says. “It’s lifted. It’s rounded. It’s a little bit more prominent.”

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