Well, there’s tons of big kids in our city who haven’t forgotten and who refuse to buy into grunting in stuffy weight rooms or spinning to nowhere. Let’s join them.

PUNK ROPE

Because sweating until the last drop of light goes out, is what playing is about, the Punk Rope group meets every Sunday in August in Coney Island for an hour of jump rope, relay races and boot camp drills followed by rollerskating to 80s, Disco and New Wave classics at Dreamland Rollerink.

$12. August: 9, 16, 23, 30. 3052 West 21st St on the Boardwalk.

Punk Rope 2-3 p.m. and Roller Skating 3-7 p.m.

JACK RABBIT BENEFIT RUN

Taking care of a buddy who’s gotten bullied is all part of the game. Friends and supporters of Greg Hamilton, a store manager at JackRabbit Sports who’s helped hundreds of aspiring athletes meet their fitness goals, is undergoing major treatment for his battle with testicular cancer. To raise the much-needed funds for his fight, JackRabbit organized a 5K run at Prospect Park on Tuesday night.

8.4 $20. 7PM Prospect Park at the Bartel Prichard lot (near the movie theatre). Register at Active.com or at race start.

RECESS

When we were kids, we threw away the rules and made up our own. Central Park’s field day kits complete with a basketball, 10 cones, 3 bats, a horse shoe set, playground ball, Nerf ball, football, Frisbee, 2 handballs, soccer ball, jump rope, 2 whiffle balls and hula hoops will keep you making up games all day long.

Call to reserve: 212-348-4867, 9am-7pm

FIT 2 DATE

One of the best parts of gym class was tripping your crush. While you probably won’t tease the guy you like during Erica French’s rigorous co-ed weekly Fit 2 Date relay race courses (lots of wheelbarrows and suicides), you will likely meet him.

$223. August 5, 12, 19, 26 in Battery park, 6:30pm and August 3, 10, 17, 25 in Central Park, 6:30pm.

We never thought the GAP could outdo our Favorite T. But they did.

Meet the latest edition of the rotating NYC concept store, Pure Body, open now through July 22nd.

SDC investigated the temporary midtown Zen scene, which sells the recently released ultimate layering essentials line by week, and doles out freebies by weekend. We fell upon a free yoga class and walked away with a Jade mat, some Fruit Essence Water and 15% off all our new workout gear.

Now piling on fabrics may sound counter intuitive in this heat, but these lightweight cotton spandex pieces are soft, comfortable and don’t cling when you sweat. We particularly like the Pure Body Tank ($14.50) and Foldover Pant ($39.50).

Throughout the day, on July 18, round-two of gift-giving returns, when Sadie Nardini teaches four free hour-long alternative yoga classes, like Learning to Fly and Total Body Transformation. The teacher is different this week, but the goodie bags are the same. Limited to 12 participants per class, so register in advance.

If you don’t mind.

680 Fifth Avenue, Store Hours: Mon–Sat: 10a.m.–9p.m. and Sunday 11a.m.–7p.m., 212-330-8080

July 18th

10-11 a.m The Fierce Club Flow

12-1p.m. Learning to Fly

2-3p.m. The Fierce Club Flow

4-5 p.m. Total Body Transformation.

Your Perfect 7.10-7.12 Weekend

EAT

We now know how to discern the healthy chips from the tales, but can you play them right? When you finish a bag of Guiltless Gourmet chips (through September 30th), enter its code on the Web site to see if its your ticket to hundreds of prizes. Personally, we’re playing for the 4 day/3 night stay at a five-diamond Las Vegas resort, a $1,500 spa gift certificate and $1,500 in cash. http://www.guiltlessgourmetsweeps.com/entry.form

SWEAT

Bungee chord meets trampoline at the Women’s Health free one-day Are You Game? event where the mag’s reps encourage you to try new cardio options (like we do!). In addition to the experimenting with Euro Bungee, you’ll play Million Dollar Knockout, hula-hoop Pilates and get some spa treatments. July 11, Hudson River Park at Pier 46 (Charles Street and West Street), 10a.m – 5 p.m. http://origin.www.womenshealthmag.com/areyougame/

CHILL

We’re not sure how a slimming massage works, but we’re not asking questions. Dashing Diva’s citrus-based aromatherapy summer special, “Slim Diva,” comes with such a ten-minute leg and foot rub, cooling neck kneading and pedicure.

http://www.dashingdiva.com/DashingDivaStore/t-salons2.aspx, $48 through August 31.

SHOP

We posted Omala’s Bamboo Double Layer tank in our Dip Deeper section on Wednesday, before, we found out that Skinny Dippers would be treated to 25% discount off all purchases through July 13th. It’s def going in our Skinny shopping cart now. Enter the promotion code SkinnyDipOMALA at checkout. http://www.omalausa.com/

We peel open subway doors with the might of our heels, coerce our landlords into lowering our rents, and break a sweat on any piece of grass or concrete we find available (speaking of which, we’re going to Brooklyn Bridge Bootcamp tonight). It’s true, we rarely give our warrior selves a break. To keep it that way all summer long, we’re hitting up three affordable NYC weight training facilities that keep us panting, toned and our guns and wallets fully loaded.

Elissa’s Personal Best

Armed with an MS in Exercise Physiology from Columbia University, aerobics and Pilates certifications, hot pink hoops and a scrunchie to match, Elissa Hyman has been training her clients with such 80s signatures as leg lifts and clapping push-ups long before shiny leggings resurfaced at American Apparel (25 years long). The big haired decade makes its way to this 750-square-foot subterranean Upper East Side studio in the form of Inner Circle and Whitesnake so your $65-$75 one-hour training sessions make you feel less recessionista responsible and more so Jane Fonda rad.

334 East 79th Street, Suite LLD, 212-744-2378

Absolute Fitness

There are no frills, but there are calories and buns to burn during these 30-minute private sessions, led by husband-wife team, Rob and Jana Castillo, who have been offering New Yorkers affordable ($35-45) one-on-one strength training since 1996. You won’t get a chance to stare down the clock during these circuit, cross and target trainings where you’ll be doing weight training, medicine ball movement, balance ball stretching, and Pilates, as the effective method here is defined by minimal rest between sets. Not to mention, your coaches, well they’re not the easily distracted kind and will be counting your every move. Though they will allow you to request your favorite countdowns—40’s and showtunes being the favorite soundtracks around these parts.

124 East 40th Street Room # 20, 212.681.9724, http://www.absolutefitnessnyc.com/

Move Into Greatness

Our very own fitness expert, Colleen Wahl, offers classes in building bones without breaking down the pocketbook at her Move Into Greatness studio. Dynamofit, a weekly 60-minute six class series ($120) is rooted in Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals so that students learn movement literacy. You guessed it–no more cubicle-shoulder crunching. You’ll walk away with less pain and able to navigate your own weight room just as confidently as the Monster energy drink guzzling, body weight lifters do. Check out the schedule or request a slot especially for you and your buddies.

320 West 37^th St, suite 1504, 585.507. 2967, www.moveintogreatness.com

LONG WEEKENDER

SWEAT

Tickets sold out quickly for this weekend’s reopening of Lady Liberty’s crown since it was closed for safety reasons after 9/11. Reserve yours for later this month and practice the 354-step climb while on your StairMaster and volunteering to get all forgotten roof-top BBQ essentials from the kitchen. www.statuecruises.com 877- LADY-TIX (877-523-9849).

CHILL

Spa treatments at Chelsea Piers are slashed 20% through September 7th. But that’s not enough for our skinny budget. Mention SDC when you spend at least $64 (Covers a 25-minute Swedish Massage, 25-minute Customized Skin Care Experience, 55-minute Tibetan Foot Revival or 55-minute Spa Pedicure, among other pamperings) and redeem your one-week full access gym pass. The offer is on the massage table til July 31. http://www.chelseapiers.com/scspahome.htm 212.336.3780 Pier 61 23rd Street and the Hudson River

SHOP

Get new sneakers to match your hot-pink-summer-toes at Urban Athletics where Skinny Dippers get 10% off anything full priced. Ask about the training programs before you run out the door, so you can break in your new kicks as soon as you tie ‘em up. July 5-8 www.urbanathleticsnyc.com/ 2 World Financial Center 212.267.2247 and 1291 Madison Avenue 212.828.1906

EAT

Compassion Over Killing declared July National Veggie Hot Dog Month. So we’re making Sensei.com’s Bunny Dog recipe which entails eating neither bunnies nor dogs.

Ingredients:

4 lg Carrots, peeled
1/4c BBQ sauce
4 Light wheat hot dog buns
Condiments (relish, ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, etc)

Trim carrots to 6” in length (cutting off the thin ends). Cover and microwave with 1 to 2 Tbsp of water for 3-4 minutes or until they just begin to cook. Place on a hot grill (upper rack) and baste with BBQ sauce until the veggies reach desired level of doneness. Place into a bun and lather your fave toppings.

Just Dance…and Strengthen

We’ve been kicking ourselves especially hard throughout this season of So You Think You Can Dance, for tossing our pink slippers for pottery when we were six, now that we want to be ballerina Caitlin Kinney when we grow up.

So imagine our delight when Kinected’s husband-and-wife team Matt McCulloch (a masters Pilates instructor) and Carrie McCulloch (a recent Mount Sinai Med School grad and certified Pilates instructor) asked us, “Well, what kind of body do you want?”

We scratched our heads and glanced around the airy Chelsea loft’s five-foot boa sporting skeleton, physical therapy rooms, reformer and Gyrontonic machines, until our eyes landed on the ballet barre. Our toned hosts quickly wiped the drool from our faces and gave us a sneak peek at July’s stability, grace and agility class, Releve.

Ballet pirouettes meet advanced Pilates in this weekly 75-minute sweat session taught by Erin Malley (also the Artistic Director of Malleable Dance Theater). You and 11 inner-tutu-wearers perform traditional ballet progressions with some added thera-band resistance to build long, lean, strong muscles. As you activate your core, you’ll wrap the lengthy rubber band around your legs, just right, so that typical tendus (precise foot-sliding), arabesques (leg extensions), and ports de bras (arm carriages to front, up and sides) ignite more than the motivational image of becoming the next reality star-dancing queen. You’ll get balance-building, butt buffing and some actual moves to throw down in front of the judges, er, mirror next week.

Mondays 3pm-4:15 p.m., Kinected, 151 W. 19th St, 2nd Fl, 212.463.8338, www.kinectedcenter.com one class $18, 5-pack $85, 10-pack $160