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
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!
Classic Cardio
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
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
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!
Dance
Bollywood Dance
This unique aerobic workout fuses traditional dance moves from India with modern Hip-Hop and Jazz! Pop Indian music will be used to enhance your BOLLYWOOD DANCE experience! All levels of fitness and dance are welcome.
MixxedFit®
Work out to your favorite songs and add explosive and body toning movements making your workout more effective and challenging. The choreography is simple and easy to follow, allowing you to create your own intensity and focus on getting lost in the music.
Multi-Step
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 Party
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
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®
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
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 with Bollywood, Brazilian Funk, Flamenco Dance from Spain, K-pop from South Korea, Tango from Argentina, Reggae and Dancehall from Caribbean-Jamaica and EDM from America! Fans, skirts and scarves all provided adding a dramatic flair to choreography!
Fusion
Barre Sculpt
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
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
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
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
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®
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
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
Elevator-Vinyasa Yoga Challenge
Take your yoga practice to new heights with the Elevator Challenge: Continually adding one more pose to the flow each time it is repeated until we reach the “top”. There you’ll be given a chance to challenge your mind and body to reach heights you may never thought possible. Class is for all levels but must have a willingness to try!
Fitness Pilates
A core-centered workout where the movements are challenged by changes in tempo, range of motion or by adding resistance thru the use of fitness equipment.
FlameFLOW Yoga
The worlds of Yoga and High Intensity Interval Training collide: a beautiful Vinyasa flow sprinkled with some cardio guaranteed to make your heart rate jump. No two classes are alike!! Everyone is welcome! Modifications will be given, sweat will pour, and fun will be had!!
Gentle Flow Yoga
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
Take time between your work day 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
Take time between your work day and evening to clear your mind, de-stress, recharge your body and have some fun in our multi-level class of Yoga postures.
Pilates
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
Incorporates traditional Pilates movements with barre combinations using equipment such as weights, balls, and bands.
Revitalizing Yoga
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
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
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
De-stress and recharge your body through Yoga postures combined with traditional strengthening and stretching exercises.
Yin Yoga
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
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 in the Park
Join us throughout the summer for this great workout! Set the mood for your weekend by practicing several styles of Yoga to clear your mind and refresh your body. Please bring your own Yoga mat, towel, and water. It is best not to eat within one hour of class.
Yoga Sculpt
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
BODYPUMP™
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.
Power Hour
Strengthen and shape your body with this challenging workout that uses a variety of equipment and resistance movements. For all fitness levels!
Pure Strength
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
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
Spin
An indoor cycling program for all fitness and skill levels! Control your own intensity while being challenged with overall body conditioning.
Total Body Spin
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!
Chair Yoga
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
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
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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