You already know that Curves works to give women a fast, efficient 90-minute workout in just 30 minutes. To achieve that, we combine strength-training, sustained cardio activity, warm-up, cool-down and stretching.

Strength training has long been a missing component in women’s fitness, but it’s a crucial to a healthy body. Pound for pound, muscle burns more calories than fat - and it also looks a lot better! Dieting without strength training leads to muscle loss, which makes it harder to lose weight. Strength training is also good for building strong bones. Sustained cardio activity -keeping your heart in its target training zone for at least 30 minutes - is great for burning calories and building lung capacity and aerobic fitness.

The Curves workout has been proven to be effective at protecting muscle, burning body fat and raising metabolism. In clinical trials, the least fit exercisers expended 164 to 238 calories during a 30 minute Curves workout, while the fittest burned more than 500 calories.