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5 Ways to Improve Your Body

Your wardrobe is ready for warmer weather. Your body: not so much. So here are five options to tone, tighten and revamp your frame. Yes, there will be caviar.

EGGHEAD. AND FEET.

Caviar + Your Skin = Happier Skin

Out of Tune: Your skin.
Tune Up With: A dense slathering of an antioxidant-rich caviar concoction, worked all over your face, as well as those bruised and battered feet of yours. Turns out the caviar firms, smoothes and super-hydrates. Which means your stomach lining must be gorgeous by now.

PAINS AND NEEDLES

Chinese Needlework on Your Arms

Out of Tune: Your arms, which are suffering from a touch of carpal tunnel (thanks, texting).
Tune Up With: This ancient Chinese treatment that uses hair-thin needles to relieve deep-set pain in your forearms. Bonus: it’ll also help with that pesky golf/martini elbow of yours.

DOUBLE UN-TROUBLE

Four Hands. On Your Head and Feet.

Out of Tune: The stress points of your head and feet.
Tune Up With: Two sets of hands, working over your scalp and feet for nearly two hours with a deep, pain-relieving, 20-fingered massage. Oh, and this is all preceded by a skin-pounding foot scrub using purified water.

THE SHOCKER

Electrifying Yourself Relaxed

Out of Tune: Your poor and occasionally painful back and neck muscles.
Tune Up With: An electrical current (if they decide you need it). Which is sent into the soft tissue of your muscles to help release trigger points that lock them up. Electric shock: the loose maker.

HAVE A ROW

Fat Shredding with a Champion

Out of Tune: Your body-fat levels.
Tune Up With: This new class, which uses special indoor rowing machines and was developed by a championship rower from Brown. No one in the class can stop rowing until a person reaches 300 meters. Which is more difficult and intense than it sounds.