ABOUT DUALCORE FITNESS
Tara Heston
Meet Tara Heston
Tara is a lifelong athlete and fitness enthusiast, with basketball as her lifelong passion. Along the way, injuries became part of her journey, making many traditional workouts painful. But Tara couldn’t imagine going a day without moving her body—and that’s when she discovered Pilates. Pilates didn’t just make working out enjoyable again—it made it painless.
Her passion for movement led her to pursue a comprehensive path in fitness: she earned her NASM Personal Training certification, completed over 500 hours of comprehensive Pilates training, and expanded her expertise with certifications in TRX, Kettlebells, Percussive Therapy, Corrective Exercise, and Sound Bath.
Tara’s approach to teaching is fun, athletic, and safe. Having navigated her own injuries, she prioritizes form, alignment, and individualized modifications so every session is both effective and accessible.
Why DualCore Fitness?
After years in the industry, Tara was ready to create a workout experience that truly delivered. She noticed a common problem: while high-intensity and functional training were excellent for burning calories and improving fitness, many classes lacked proper form, individualized attention, and safe progression. Meanwhile, her Pilates clients experienced incredible benefits—stronger global and stabilizing muscles, core support, improved posture, and reduced back pain—but often didn’t see the full results they wanted.
DualCore Fitness was born to solve this problem. It’s a fusion of three powerful modalities: FHIT (Functional High-Intensity Training), Reformer Pilates, and Sound Bath.
With DualCore, you get the strength, mobility, and performance benefits of FHIT, the stability, posture, and injury-prevention benefits of Pilates, and the restorative, recovery, and mind-body balance benefits of Sound Bath.
Tara believes in balance. While FHIT is powerful, it’s not meant to be done every day. Pilates can be practiced daily to strengthen and protect the body, while Sound Bath helps restore, reset, and recharge both body and mind. DualCore Fitness allows each member to create a personalized mix, building strength, enhancing wellness, and delivering real results—without burnout.
This is why DualCore Fitness is one of the best, most effective and most efficient workouts around!
Our Classes and Why We Created Them:
The DualCore Signature Class: FHIT + Pilates (TM 2018)
When Tara Heston created DualCore Fitness, it came from a very personal place. After working through multiple injuries and spending years in the Pilates industry, she noticed the same thing: people loved Pilates and felt it was essential for their bodies, but many also felt they needed a second membership to lift weights and build strength.
That didn’t make sense.
As we age, strength training becomes increasingly important. Research shows that weight training helps maintain muscle mass, increase bone density, support metabolism, improve joint health and balance, and reduce the risk of falls. It’s not just about looking stronger—it’s about maintaining independence and quality of life.
At the same time, Pilates offers benefits such as core strength, posture, mobility, flexibility, coordination, balance, and body awareness.
Tara was intentional about not forcing weight training onto the reformer in ways that didn’t feel natural or safe. While the reformer is an incredible tool, it wasn’t designed to replace traditional strength training.
Instead, DualCore uses each tool for what it does best.
The reformer develops mobility, stability, control, alignment, and muscular endurance.
The weight training portion focuses on progressive strength building, muscle development, and long-term bone health.
By combining both, members get the benefits of Pilates and strength training in one class without needing multiple memberships.
This class was built to help people become stronger, move better, stay active longer, and feel confident in their bodies as they age.
FHIT + Jumpboard
Jumpboard classes are popular for good reason. They’re fun, low-impact, and provide an excellent cardiovascular workout while being easier on the joints than traditional running.
However, DualCore felt something was missing.
Many jumpboard classes focus primarily on cardio, which is only one part of long-term fitness.
That’s why FHIT + Jumpboard starts with strength training.
Building strength supports muscle mass, bone health, metabolism, and everyday function. After strength training, members transition into jumpboard work to elevate the heart rate and improve cardiovascular endurance.
The class also incorporates standing work and functional strength exercises to start. Standing exercises recruit more muscle groups, challenge balance, improve stabilization, and better reflect how we move in daily life.
FHIT + Jumpboard was designed to deliver the cardio benefits people love from jumpboard while adding the strength-building component that is often missing.
The goal isn’t simply to burn calories for an hour.
The goal is to build a stronger, healthier body for life.
Athletic Reformer
Athletic Reformer was created because modern bodies face different challenges than previous generations.
We spend more time sitting.
We spend more time on screens.
We experience different movement patterns, stressors, and physical demands.
Joseph Pilates was an innovator who continually adapted his work to the people in front of him. He worked with athletes, dancers, performers, and everyday individuals, always looking for ways to help people move better.
DualCore believes that same spirit of innovation should continue today.
Athletic Reformer respects the principles of classical Pilates while incorporating contemporary movement science.
The class focuses on strength, mobility, stability, coordination, athletic movement patterns, and functional movement that transfers into everyday life.
The goal isn’t to move exactly like people did 100 years ago.
The goal is to help people move better today.
Foundations
Foundations is one of the most important classes at DualCore.
Many people hear the word “Foundations” and assume it means easy or beginner.
While beginners absolutely benefit from the class, that isn’t why it was created.
Foundations was designed because proper movement matters.
The strongest athletes continue practicing fundamentals, and the best movers continue refining technique. Strength built on poor movement patterns eventually creates limitations.
This class allows members to slow down, focus on alignment, improve technique, and build strength without the added challenge of complex balance demands.
For newer members, Foundations builds confidence and understanding.
For experienced members, it builds mastery.
At DualCore, Foundations is a strength-building class with a greater focus on form and control. Members can continue progressing while improving the quality of every movement they perform.
Because no matter how advanced someone becomes, there is always value in returning to the fundamentals.
Burn Series
Burn Series was created for people who want a strength, sweat-focused workout that still respects joint health and intelligent movement.
This class is designed to push the body without breaking it down.
Burn Series focuses on controlled intensity. You will work hard, but with structure, form, and purpose.
The goal is simple: build strength, burn energy, and leave feeling accomplished, not depleted.
Stretch + Self Myofascial Release
Stretch + Self Myofascial Release was created to support deep recovery and tissue health in a way most traditional classes do not address.
This class focuses on releasing tension in the fascia and muscles through controlled self-myofascial techniques combined with guided stretching.
Modern lifestyles create a lot of repetitive stress—sitting, training, stress, and limited recovery time. Over time, this can lead to tightness, restricted movement, and discomfort.
This class helps address that directly.
By combining myofascial release with stretching, we improve circulation, reduce tension, increase mobility, and support faster recovery between workouts.
It is one of the most important classes for longevity, injury prevention, and long-term movement quality.
Did you can't get stronger with tight Fascia?
Stretch + Sound Bath
Stretch + Sound Bath brings together physical release and nervous system recovery in one experience.
The stretching portion helps release muscular tension and open the body. The sound bath portion supports relaxation, stress reduction, and nervous system regulation.
In today’s world, recovery is not optional. It is essential.
We can train the body hard, but we also need space to recover deeply.
This class allows members to physically unwind and mentally reset at the same time.
It is designed to support emotional balance, reduce stress, and create a full mind-body recovery experience.
Sound Bath
Sound Bath became a natural extension of what DualCore wanted to create as a wellness community.
As the world has become busier and more stressful, mental well-being has become just as important as physical health.
Exercise helps build strong bodies, but recovery, relaxation, and nervous system regulation are also essential.
That’s why DualCore invested heavily in training and certifying facilitators. Creating a meaningful Sound Bath experience requires knowledge, skill, and intention.
The goal of Sound Bath is simple:
To create space for people to slow down.
To disconnect from constant demands.
To breathe.
To relax.
To reset.
Many participants report feeling calmer, more grounded, and more relaxed after sound-based meditation experiences. While Sound Bath is not a medical treatment, it can be a valuable tool for stress reduction, mindfulness, and emotional wellness.
DualCore has always been about more than fitness.
The vision has always been to create a place where people can become stronger physically, recover intentionally, and support their mental well-being.
A complete wellness experience under one roof.