Jennifer Vaughan Comes Home to Launch Physique 57

Jennifer Vaughan Maanavi has returned to her hometown, Scarsdale, to open Physique 57 at its first ever pop-up location in the Golden Horseshoe Shopping Center on Wilmot Road. Three signature Physique 57 classes are offered daily by Co-Founder Tanya Becker who is teaching in addition to Physique 57 instructors from the Manhattan location.

Jennifer grew up on Crossway and graduated from SHS in 1989. Her parents still live in her childhood home. Speaking about the opening of the studio she said, "It feels nostalgic to bring Physique 57 to Scarsdale. It has been fulfilling to watch our brand grow on a global scale and a pop-up in my hometown brings the expansion of Physique 57 full circle." Jennifer has fond memories of growing up here and said, ""From the Steffi Nossen School of Dance to Scarsdale High School cheerleading, this is where my love for dance and exercise was born and blossomed. To me, it is only fitting that Physique 57 launch in the place where my fitness journey began."

She originally discovered the Lotte Berk Method when she sought to rehabilitate an injured back and get back into shape while working long hours as a finance professional and MBA student in New York City. Soon she was addicted. Upon learning the only Lotte Berk Method studio in Manhattan was closing, Jennifer put her Columbia MBA to work and opened up an exercise studio to take over where Lotte Berk left off. She sought out Tanya Becker, one of the most adored instructors from her former studio, to act as her co-founder and build an updated and modernized version of the eponymous technique. Together they developed a new challenging and comprehensive exercise program that is now the basis for Physique 57's internationally renowned method.

Physique 57's Interval Overload format is a challenging, muscle-targeting workout that utilizes intervals of cardio, strength training, and stretching. By overloading muscles to their max, then immediately stretching afterwards, muscles are able to fully elongate after every workout, giving clients a long, lean beautiful body. Instructors are trained to teach the method to clients with varied levels and learning styles and continually evaluated to assure quality control. All instructors are dancers and therefore innately attuned to proper alignment, movement, execution and anatomy. This benefit allows for a safer and more effective class.

Check out Physique 57 in the Golden Horseshoe at 1142 Wilmot Road and view their class schedule here.