The class
Stepfit
55 minutes of continuous step choreography on a platform.
Barry's
50 minutes split between treadmill intervals and strength work on the floor.
Barry's is treadmill intervals and strength work in a dark, loud room. Stepfit is choreography on a platform in a dark, loud room. The room is the part that matches.
Barry's Tampa is at 1514 W Swann Ave, in Hyde Park.
Stepfit
55 minutes of continuous step choreography on a platform.
Barry's
50 minutes split between treadmill intervals and strength work on the floor.
Stepfit
The platform. You are climbing for most of the class.
Barry's
The treadmill — walking, jogging, running, inclines and speed pushes.
Stepfit
Bodyweight against the platform. Glutes, legs and core.
Barry's
Free weights, bands, medicine balls and dumbbells on the floor rounds.
Stepfit
Casa 21 on W Waters Ave — a Latin dance club, taken over before it opens for the night.
Barry's
The Red Room, their own studio, red-lit and loud.
Stepfit
Choreography and a beat. The count tells you what comes next.
Barry's
Your coach's intervals, and your own pace on the tread.
Stepfit
$19.95 a class. No membership, no contract.
Barry's
Varies — check with the Tampa studio.
Go to Barry's if you want to run and lift. A lot of people love the treadmill, and they should keep going. Come to STEPFIT if the treadmill is the exact reason you stopped — this is still a cardio class, you are just stepping up and down for most of 55 minutes instead of running.
Two hard classes with the same taste in rooms and music, built on different machines. One is a treadmill. Ours is a platform, and we supply it.
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