Get Ready to Get Fit

This Uptown Dallas hot spot is all you need to get the body you want

Getting fit can mean running all over town from gym to spa, juice joint to healthy food store. This might add extra steps on your Fitbit, but it sure is a hassle.

Skip the bother and make West Village your only stop. At this upscale Uptown Dallas shopping and lifestyle destination, you’ll find all the fitness-related businesses you need in one location.

Eat well
The art of nourishment is elevated at Brewed + Pressed. Load up on 100 percent organic and raw-pressed juices; tonics, shakes, and nondairy milks; Stumptown coffee; and plant foods. After a hard workout, our favorite drink is the white shake, made with activated almond milk, frozen banana, tocos, coconut butter, maca, and pine pollen.

Exercise is just one component of healthy living, so Simply Fit Meals is an essential destination. These ready-to-go meals get you going. It offers 40 to 50 options on a rotating menu, so you’ll always have fresh, enticing fare.

Get your juice on at Buda Juice, where their organic, cold-pressed juices are never processed or pasteurized to maintain maximum nutrients, enzymes, and vitamins. In addition to juices, they offer the popular Buda cleanse, a one-, three- or five-day program that replaces normal meals with four signature cold-pressed juices, raw soup, and Buda almond milk.

Look good
Of course, you’ll need something to wear for your workouts. The Gap brand has expanded with Gap Fit, a line of activewear designed for high-performance and coordinated style. Pair their cross train capris with the Breathe tie-back tank, or the G-stride shorts with a Coolmax layer shelf tank, and you’ll be the talk of Katy Trail.

You should also head to Lorna Jane for activewear made by the woman who coined the phrase over 25 years ago. This Aussie brand, founded by Lorna Jane Clarkson in 1989, has transformed the industry with its stylish threads. She’s the most awarded fashion designer of activewear for a reason: these are some fashionable workout clothes. Think designer details like a lightweight open mesh panel top paired with performance fabric that skims the torso; socialite sports bras that keep you sleek even when sweating; and a shimmer high-tech legging with diagonal mesh paneling. These are clothes you won’t want to take off even after you get home.

Work out hard
After you’re fueled up and dressed for success, the hard work begins. Indoor spin studio SoulCycle is all the rage in New York City and LA, and the business is expanding to West Village by the end of 2016. The 45-minute, fat-burning, full-body workout incorporates hand weights and core work, and the choreography keeps you on your toes. SoulCycle is the signature class; for more sweat and results, take the SoulSurvivor class. It’s amazing what 15 more minutes can do.

Get sculpted and firm with the 8 Method at InCinR8 Fitness Studio. Owner Danny Connolly is a nationally recognized fitness expert who created the method. It relies on sculpting and strengthening techniques combined with eight-minute intervals of optimum aerobic activity to change bodies from flabby or flat to fab and fit. InCinR8 offers multiple classes per day.

Another option is West Village’s BuiltCo. Using a five-part system of workouts, food, supplements, cardio, and recovery, owner and athlete Miguel Martinez transformed himself into a hard body — and you can too. Find your own fast and impressive results at this fitness center, where nationally recognized and certified personal trainers get remarkable results with clients.

Founded by dancer, choreographer, and fitness guru Carrie Rezabek Dorr, Pure Barre is the largest, most established barre franchise in the country. It has more than 375 locations — and growing. The West Village outpost is hopping with people performing small, isometric movements to burn fat; sculpt muscles; and create long, lean physiques.

Relax and restore
Every great workout deserves a reward, and what could be nicer than a visit to Massage Envy? The West Village location of this popular chain offers one-, one-and-a-half-, and two-hour massages on your schedule, in a spa environment that maximizes relaxation. Custom massage types include trigger point therapy, reflexology, cranial sacral therapy, Swedish, deep tissue, and sports.

You can also take care of your newly rockin’ bod at Spa Habitat, which offers a large variety of luxe spa services in a relaxing environment. You won’t find any artificial fragrance, color, or harmful chemicals or preservatives in the products; they’re all organic and natural. We love the generation green facial, featuring wrinkle-fighting cape jasmine stem cells, antioxidants, Brazilian acai oil, and firming dark chocolate.

Head to Lorna Jane for activewear made by the woman who coined the phrase more than 25 years ago.

Photo courtesy of Lorna Jane

Head to Lorna Jane for activewear made by the woman who coined the phrase more than 25 years ago.

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The top 10 stories that defined city life in Dallas in 2025

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Southern Methodist University is the 103rd best college nationwide, and it ranked No. 5 in Texas, Forbes says.

Editor's note: Stories about city life were some of our most-read headlines of the year in Dallas. Readers devoured stories about suburbs, schools, and transportation, curious to see what made the best-of cut for scores of rankings. And, of course, we all needed to check in with the world's richest people and see which ones live in Texas.

Here's a look back at the most-read Dallas city life stories of 2025:

1. 5 Dallas high schools rank among America's best in 2025, per U.S. News. Five prestigious Dallas-area high schools are living up to their reputations for top-tier education after being ranked among the best high schools in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings.

2. 27 Dallas billionaires land on new Forbes list of world's richest people. More billionaires have made it onto the 2025 World's Billionaires List than ever before, according to Forbes. This year, 27 Dallas billionaires are among the richest people in the world, including Elaine Marshall, Lyndal Stephens Greth, and Jerry Jones.

3. Techy Dallas suburb is No. 1 hot spot for remote workers in U.S. A SmartAsset survey of cities with the biggest remote workforces has revealed Frisco is the No. 1 city with the highest share of remote workers in the nation. The study found over 40,000 Frisco residents work from home, which is more than a third of all of the city's workers aged 16 and older (117,193 total workers).

Person working from home Working from home comes with its own challenges, like picking which part of the couch to work from. Photo by Jodie Cook on Unsplash

4. 3 affluent Dallas neighbors dominate new list of wealthiest U.S. suburbs. Three well-to-do Dallas-area communities — University Park, Southlake, and Colleyville — are among the wealthiest suburbs in America in 2025, a report confirmed. The three affluent Dallas neighbors were lauded in GoBankingRates ranking of the 50 wealthiest U.S. suburbs, based on 2022 and 2023 average household income data sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau.

5. 4 Dallas-area universities make 2026 list of world’s best schools. The University of Texas at Dallas, University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, and University of Texas at Arlington are among the top 1,200 schools included in the QS World University Rankings 2026. The Princeton Review agreed, also naming SMU, UTD, TCU, and University of Dallas to its best-in-the-U.S. list, while Forbes named six DFW universities to its list of America's top colleges.

6. 11 cities around Dallas make list of best places to live in the U.S. Nearly a dozen Dallas suburbs, including perennial favorite Flower Mound, have landed among the best places to live in 2025, according to U.S. News & World Report.

7. Dallas middle school ranks No. 1 in Texas for 2026, per U.S. News. More than a dozen Dallas-Fort Worth elementary and middle schools have excelled on U.S. News and World Report's just-released list of the best K-8 schools in Texas for 2026, with one that's first in class: The No. 1 best middle school in Texas is Dallas ISD's William B. Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted.

8. North Dallas suburb lauded as 5th best U.S. city for working parents. Frisco already has a reputation as a great place for families and a top spot for remote workers, so it's no surprise that the city has clocked in as one of the best places in the country for working parents, too.

Frisco Frisco ranked No. 5 nationwide in a 2025 study. Visit Frisco/Facebook

9. City of Dallas to put a pause on curbside trash collection issue. In October, the city of Dallas put the curbside trash collection debate on hold. According to a release, the Sanitation Department temporarily paused implementation of an alley-to-curb program that was approved, in order to evaluate additional options for continuing alley service where residents strongly prefer it.

10. Dallas suburb proclaimed 8th best U.S. city to drive in, per report. Dallas roadways are no picnic, but in one neighboring town, it's easy street: A report by WalletHub puts none other than Plano on its list of the top 10 best U.S. cities to drive in for 2025.