Los Angeles - November 30, 2007

Ab to the Future

BodyMelt Treatment

Flux capacitors. Flying DeLoreans. Workless workouts.

Sounds like the future.

Possibly even tomorrow, if you’re in the mood for the BodyMelt. It’s a new treatment said to tone and tighten buns, abs, and thighs while you lie around.

Strip down, put on spa-issued paper skivvies, and get measured before being slathered in slimming serums. Then make yourself comfy on the massage table while the tech applies clay and algae masks, followed by sheets of electrodes on both sides of your bod.

What comes next is about as relaxing as doing 300 crunches, lunges, and squats simultaneously: Your muscles are electrostimulated by both galvanic and faradic currents four out of every six seconds for half an hour.

As for old-fashioned exercise?

Who knows if you’ll ever go back, McFly.

Available at The Spa, Equinox West Hollywood, 8590 Sunset Boulevard, between Alta Loma Road and Sunset Plaza Drive, West Hollywood (310-657-4372).