Fuel Body Lab

The studio at 3003 P Street NW operates inside a Georgetown townhouse, which gives it the small-group character that a townhouse space naturally produces. Kelly founded what was then called Fuel Pilates in 2010, when barre fitness was still arriving in Washington and the boutique studio market was less developed than it would become by the mid-2010s. The P Street address was among the first studios in the city to offer barre classes, and the early clientele built the kind of loyalty that founding customers maintain when the instructor knows their names and their movement history rather than cycling through strangers in a large class.

The 2017 reinvention brought the current name and the class expansion that defines the studio in its present form. Kelly introduced trampoline fitness to Washington in that year, becoming the first DC studio to offer the format professionally. Trampoline, called tramp internally, uses rebounders as the primary equipment for a cardiovascular and strength workout that produces different physical demands than barre or reformer work. The addition gave the studio a four-class menu that covers the range of what Georgetown’s boutique fitness clients look for in a single studio: Pilates technique, barre conditioning, cardiovascular trampoline work, and the strength-focused sculpt and Tabata formats.

Group reformer sessions are capped at four participants, which is small enough that each class functions closer to semi-private instruction than a group class in the conventional sense. The instructor adjusts the workout to the specific capacity and history of the people in the room, which is what the small-group format makes possible and what most group fitness studios at larger scale cannot deliver. The Cadillac, reformer, chair, and mat equipment are available for private Pilates instruction for clients with specific rehabilitation goals, those new to the equipment, or advanced practitioners working on technique elements that group classes cannot address with adequate specificity.

The pricing reflects the boutique format. Group reformer and tramp drop-in rates are $44 per class. A ten-class pack runs $400. Private sessions begin at $125, with a ten-session package at $1,100. These rates are consistent with Georgetown’s boutique fitness market, which operates at a premium relative to conventional gyms and is supported by clientele who value the small-group format over the economies of scale that larger studios offer.

The P Street townhouse location puts the studio on a quieter residential block rather than on the high-traffic Wisconsin Avenue or M Street corridors. The surrounding blocks are primarily residential, which gives the studio a neighborhood character that distinguishes it from the branded fitness chains in Georgetown’s commercial core. For Georgetown residents and university faculty and staff who want a fitness studio within walking distance of the residential neighborhood, the P Street address offers one of the most accessible boutique options in the market. Class bookings are available through the website at fuelbodylab.com, where the current schedule and package options are listed and the format of each class type is explained for new clients considering their first visit.