The Classes is an intimate and wry look at what happens inside the nation’s boutique-fitness industry.

These are places with big personalities, big egos, big drama, and big problems—places that promise to help people become their healthiest and happiest selves but frequently crush clients and coaches instead.

As an award-winning journalist with a 15-year career as a fitness coach, Christine Van Dusen creates an emotional, entertaining, and humanizing story about the world of fitness, its fallout, and the reckoning that two women face.