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If the studio’s name is anything to go by, their signature H-Kore class is the best example of a hardcore workout. It takes time to get comfortable on a Megaformer machine, but once you become familiar with the exercises and longer holds, this full body workout will strengthen and tone your body unlike any other.

Quick-witted, charming and ever curious, Rats are attracted to new challenges. A megaformer class at H-Kore will challenge them to adapt to a new form of workout unlike any other. Not one to shy away from hard work, they will achieve their fitness goals by trying the latest workout trends.

The exercises you do here are perfect for toning up. You’ll work on the mega reformer (a big, scary-looking machine that’s not all that scary, really) under the watchful eye of the instructors at their yoga and Pilates classes. You’ll definitely be sore after one or two sessions, but also a whole lot stronger.

Fitness booking app ClassPass analyzed more than 100 million workouts to determine that the Megaformer workout was the fastest-growing fitness trend in America. The machine-based class, which has been popularised by celebrities including Sofia Vergara, combines pilates with cardio by way of a contraption designed by trainer Sebastien Lagree of Lagree Fitness.

Lagree is a high-intensity, low-impact, full-body muscular endurance program. This workout is mentally and physically challenging in ways that will have you prepared to attack the course like never before. Lagree Fitness is perfect for those looking to work through an injury, prevent future injuries and tighten up their core to spend more time on the course.

Let's just lay it all out on the table: Megaformer workouts burn tons of calories, while knocking out cardio, strength training and muscular endurance training all in one class. And plenty of A-listers like Chrissy Teigen, Meghan Markle, Jennifer Aniston and Michelle Obama swear by the core-crushing, total-body sweat session.

Thanks in part to glowing praise from celeb fans like Meghan Markle, Kim Kardashian and Michelle Obama, the Megaformer is "one of the fastest growing trends in fitness," according to ClassPass, whose users attended more than a million Megaformer classes in 2019 — a jump of almost 40 percent from 2018.

Training at H-KORE integrates strengthening, stretching and sweating in one go. Using their Megaformer (an amped up version of a Pilates reformer) machines, the sessions combine high intensity training with low impact moves to reduce the risk of any injuries. By using the special apparatus, the moves will train muscles you didn’t know you had (400+ to be exact). And as the name suggests, it is hardcore, so if you don’t exercise daily, you will be experiencing somewhat severe muscle soreness the days following your visit.