Group Exercise Class Descriptions

Most classes are light to moderate intensity. Class formats have modifications to accommodate all different levels of fitness. Please let your fitness class instructor know if you are new to the class or need modifications so they can offer you options.

Classes run 45-55 minutes unless otherwise noted in the class description. The equipment you need will be listed in the class description. Classes using chairs, barres, or water fitness equipment will provide these for class participants.

Beginner

Goal - improve your overall physical health.

Build strength, improve balance, and engage your core with moves that boost your metabolism and overall health! Challenge yourself at your own pace to feel empowered and energized in a friendly, no-pressure environment where safety, good form and feeling great are our top priorities! It’s fitness that meets you where you are!

Randall Oaks Recreation Center- RORC

Rakow Center- RA

Classic Cardio (RORC)

Come join the fun in this high-energy, low-impact cardio class! Enjoy the music without the fancy footwork – there may be a few “retro” steps, too!! All fitness levels welcome – especially beginners!!

Different Drummer (RORC)

Different Drummer is a unique sensory/motor program using drumsticks to tone the body. Add energetic music and you can’t help but have lots of fun! No previous drumming experience or skills are required. Participants may also be seated, if necessary.

Forever Strong (RA)

Work your major and minor muscle groups with movements addressing strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, balance, and coordination. Great for all levels of experience – especially beginners!

Zumba® Gold (RORC)

A modified Zumba(R) class that recreates the Latin and world rhythm moves you love at a lower intensity! Focus on cardio, balance, toning, and coordination. Perfect for active agers, beginners, or anyone needing a gentler workout.

Dance

Goal – fun, calorie-burning, aerobic workout.

Randall Oaks Recreation Center- (RORC)

Rakow Center- (RA)

Bollywood Dance (RORC)

This unique aerobic workout fuses traditional dance moves from India with modern Hip-Hop and Jazz! Pop Indian music enhances your BOLLYWOOD DANCE experience! All levels of fitness and dance are welcome.

MixxedFit® (RA/RORC)

MixxedFit(R) is a people-inspired fitness program that combines explosive dance movements with bodyweight toning.  It’s simple enough to catch on, hard enough to sweat, and fun enough to feel like you’re living your best life!

Multi-Step (RORC)

High-energy and exciting choreography will guarantee a fun workout! This unique format uses two to four steps to increase your cardio endurance!

Saturday Morning Dance Party (RA)

Can’t get enough Dance in your week?  Come experience the FUN of high energy, low-impact, calorie-burning workouts – sometimes with explosive and body-toning movements from a variety of Dance formats:  Bollywood, MixxedFit®, Zumba®, World Rhythms and More!!  You create your own intensity!  A “Shuffled” schedule will add to the excitement of “What’s next”!

Shimmy Dance (RORC)

A low-impact dance class with focus on strengthening and toning abdominals, hips, chest, and back muscles while celebrating belly dance and world rhythms music.  Also improves balance, posture, coordination, movement control, and hip mobility.  FUN for all ages and fitness levels!!

Zumba® (RA/RORC)

Combine low and high intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning Dance Fitness Party! As you feel the Latin and World rhythms, you’ll see why Zumba® is often called “exercise in disguise”!

Zumba®: World Rhythms (RORC)

Travel all over the globe with this calorie-crushing Dance Fitness Party designed for all fitness levels! This curated Zumba® class features modern pop, jazz and hip-hop from India , Brazil ,  Spain,  South Korea,  Caribbean and more! Fans, skirts and scarves are provided to add a dramatic flair to choreography!

Fusion

Randall Oaks Recreation Center- (RORC)

Rakow Center- (RA)

Barre Sculpt (RORC)

Get a great full body workout combining elements of Pilates, Yoga, Strength, and Dance with varied levels of cardio intensity. Lighter weights, more repetitions, and larger ranges of motion are used to tone, sculpt, and stretch those muscles.

Cardio Kickbox Power (RORC)

Build your confidence and cardiovascular endurance with this high-energy class incorporating a variety of punching/kicking combos as well as strength and balance work while increasing your coordination and stamina! High and low impact options make this a great experience for all fitness levels.

Circuit Fit (RORC)

Experience a variety of cardio sports-related drills to improve your overall fitness. Work at your own pace but be motivated to push your limits.

Interval Training (RORC)

Burn some serious calories by performing functional and body weight exercises in quick bursts that will get your heart rate up to increase your cardiovascular endurance. Follow that with more traditional strength moves for a total body workout.

Multi-Step & Spin (RORC)

Alternate between two great cardio classes to keep your body guessing and progressing toward your ultimate fitness goals!  Every first, third (and fifth) Wednesday join us for a heart pumping Multi-Step class. Then every second and fourth Wednesday, challenge yourself to Spin for a high energy calorie blasting ride.

PILOXING® (RORC)

Uniquely blends the power, speed, and agility of boxing with the beautiful sculpting and flexibility of Pilates. It’s a fat-torching, muscle-sculpting, core-centered, interval workout.

Total Body Blast (RORC)

Incorporates fat-burning cardio drills, muscular strength and endurance training using a variety of equipment or body weight, balance challenges, and core work, ending with a relaxing stretch. Multiple fitness level options are offered to create a challenging workout perfect for you!

Mind & Body

Goal - improve balance and normal daily activities. 

Randall Oaks Recreation Center- (RORC)

Rakow Center- (RA)

Fitness Pilates (RORC)

A core-centered workout where the movements are challenged by changes in tempo, range of motion or by adding resistance through the use of fitness equipment.

FreeFLOW Yoga (RA)

All are welcome to this class that combines elements of Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga. We begin with standing poses and end on the floor. Good for people with limited mobility as well as those more advanced in their Yoga practices.

Gentle Flow Yoga (RA)

Learn a breathing technique that heats the body from within and improves your focus. Combining sun salutation-based, breath synchronized and mindful movements, this challenging class will leave you feeling reinvigorated yet relaxed.

Happy Hour Yoga (RORC)

Take time between your workday and evening to clear your mind, de-stress, recharge your body and have some fun in our multi-level class of Yoga postures.

Hatha Yoga (RORC)

A gentle practice of slow paced, mindful movements using complete breath to help improve balance, endurance, flexibility, and strength.  It also aims to create greater joint stability and helps reduce anxiety.  For beginners to advanced!  Just come as you are!

Pilates (RA)

Pilates is a mind/body relationship which focuses on breathing and strengthening the powerhouse muscles (abdominals and lower back). Pilates rings will be used.

Pilates Mix (RORC)

Incorporates traditional Pilates movements with barre combinations using equipment such as weights, balls, and bands.

Revitalizing Yoga (RORC)

Wind down your week with a gentle Yoga class including breathwork, stretches, long Yin holds and ending with deep relaxation. Yoga massage balls may also be used.

Stillness (RORC)

Here is an opportunity to explore the benefits of meditation and learn how to quiet the chatter in your mind, find some peace, or enhance focus and concentration.

Sunday Stretch (RA)

Need a designated, uninterrupted stretch time? Join us for a stretch class that will leave you feeling refreshed and ready for the week ahead!

Yoga Body & Mind (RORC)

De-stress and recharge your body through Yoga postures combined with traditional strengthening and stretching exercises.

Yin Yoga (RORC)

A gentle meditative practice with focus on holding poses for longer periods of time to mindfully stretch, stress, and lengthen connective tissues (facia, joints, and ligaments), while challenging you to sit calmly with your thoughts and sensations.  In addition to improving flexibility, Yin Yoga helps open blockages to allow energy to flow freely, alleviate tension, and reduce anxiety!  Yin Yoga is beneficial for everyone – from beginners to advanced!

Yoga for Every Body (RORC)

No matter who you are or what your abilities are, Yoga benefits Every Body. This class offers poses combined in a playful flow sequence designed to build strength and greater flexibility. Supportive props are available and encouraged.

Yoga Sculpt (RORC)

Sculpt/Flex/Flow! An all-around great workout with relaxation time at the end. Yoga Sculpt incorporates light weights to sculpt your body and traditional Vinyasa Yoga flows to improve your cardio and flexibility.

Resistance ( Arrive 10 Minutes Early for Setup) 

Goal - improve strength or endurance, posture, balance, and bone density.

Randall Oaks Recreation Center- (RORC)

Rakow Center- (RA)

BODYPUMP™ (RORC)

BODYPUMP™ is the original barbell-based workout specifically designed to help you get lean, toned, and fit. Combines motivating music and scientifically proven movements to help you achieve these targets quicker than working out on your own.

BODYPUMP™ Heavy  (RORC)

An addictive, confidence-boosting experience!  Slow tempo weightlifting paired with strategic recovery periods fires up your metabolic engine to build lean muscle and leave you feeling energized, strong, and ready for more.  This is as close as you’ll get to training with heavy weights on the gym floor, but in a class setting.

Power Hour (RA)

Strengthen and shape your body with this challenging workout that uses a variety of equipment and resistance movements. For all fitness levels!

Pure Strength (RORC)

Bring the weight room into the studio! Use heavier weights and fewer reps to increase muscular strength rather than muscular endurance. Appropriate for all fitness levels!

RIP (RORC)

If you love BODYPUMP™, then you will love RIP! Incorporates exercises from both traditional and non-traditional techniques and matches these movements to music to create a simple, safe, fun, and effective method of strength training.

    Spin (Arrive 10 Minutes Early for Setup)

    Goal- Burn calories, build muscle strength, improve aerobic capacity

    Randall Oaks Recreation Center- (RORC)

    Rakow Center- (RA)

    Spin (RORC)

    An indoor cycling program for all fitness and skill levels! Control your own intensity while being challenged with overall body conditioning.

    Spin/Abs (RA)

    An indoor cycling program for all fitness and skill levels! Control your own intensity while being challenged with overall body conditioning. Combines Spin, Core work, and stretching.

    Total Body Spin (RA/RORC)

    Experience an energizing ride followed by strength work for the upper body and core. Great for all fitness levels, you’ll leave feeling “totally” conditioned!

    50 Years & Older

    Goal - improve balance and normal daily activities. 

    Randall Oaks Recreation Center- RORC

    Rakow Center- RA

    Chair Yoga (RORC)

    Practice Yoga adapted to the needs of those with mobility issues. Be led through seated Yoga poses designed to enhance your overall physical fitness and control pain. You’ll perform coordinated movements to improve your balance and reduce your chances of falling. All this leads to a greater sense of well-being during your normal daily activities!

    Senior Aerobics/Stretch & Strength (RA)

    Join us for easy-to-follow, low-impact aerobics in a casual and friendly atmosphere! Strength movements follow and the class ends with stretching for the entire body. You are encouraged to work at your own pace with modifications offered throughout the class. Come join the fun and be challenged at the same time! Non Fitness Member Punch Passes are available for this class. Ten half-hour sessions for $20(R)/$25(NR).

    Vertical Pilates (RORC)

    Would you like to strengthen your core without lying on the floor? Here’s the class for you! Performing standing Pilates exercises will strengthen and tone your core muscles as well as improve your balance and stretch your body.

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