Group Fitness Class Descriptions
IN-STUDIO: on demand classes streamed on Studio A TV screen (classes available on www.ymca360.org). Ask the front desk for details).
Barre & Bands Strength: Strength | Class begins with gentle barre exercises using a chair and ramps up to strength exercises using hand weights, dynabands and mini-stability balls.
Ballet Barre: Core | A total body workout that utilizes movements and positions from Dance, Pilate, Yoga and Functional Strength Training. Focuses on optimal alignment and posture to improve balance coordination, stability and strength and overall function. Most movements utilize bodyweight and light weights to focus on muscular endurance, core and joint stability.
Beginning Balance: Restore | Our entry level class to balance and stability. A low intensity class designed to help improve your overall strength and balance.
Body Blast: Strength | This high energy workout challenges your entire body by working all major muscle groups using barbells, dumbbells and body weight. Gain strength and tone your body while being motivated by amazing music and instructors.
Body Circuit: Strength | Strength training meets cardio in this inspired full body workout designed to get your blood pumping. Get energized in this circuit format performing a mixture of challenging intervals using weights, cardio machines, and calisthenics.
Body Sculpt: Strength | An impactful body-shaping class. We focus on improving core strength, enhancing flexibility, and increased blood flow, by guiding you through a range of traditional weight bearing and cardio exercises.
Bolly X: Cardio | A popular dance fitness group exercise class that combines the upbeat music of India's Bollywood with a high-intensity interval training format, that burns calories, guarantees a good time, and is fun for all ages and fitness levels.
Bootcamp: Strength | Combines all aspects of fitness into a fast-paced, total body workout. Your strength, speed, and agility, as well as your cardio fitness will be challenged with traditional, non-traditional, and functional exercises.
Chair Fitness: Strength | Light exercise, done mostly seated, to strengthen your core for improved balance, strengthen muscles and improve flexibility.
Core Express: Core | A quick abdominal burner designed to sculpt your abs and unlock your potential. Class serves as a great supplement to our other classes.
Core Express Gentle: Core | A gentle version of our Core Express class. Quick abdominal burner designed to sculpt your abs and unlock your potential.
Core + More: Core | An extended version of our Core Express class. An abdominal burner designed to sculpt your abs and unlock your potential.
Cycling: Cardio | Burn calories, improve your heart health, and boost your muscle endurance. Your legs will get a serious workout.
Cycling Sculpt: Cardio | Combines great music with cardio and strength training using light weights.
Cycling Open: Cardio | Join others for some cycling and socializing in this open cycle time. Go at your own pace.
Dance Aerobics: Cardio | This class starts with a warm-up, heart-pumping cardio sections, cool down, and a lot of fun!
Groove and Strength: Cardio | A fun, low-impact workout that combines easy-to-follow dance aerobics with light strength training. Move to iconic and current hits while boosting your heart rate, then finish strong with dumbbells and bodyweight exercises to improve balance, mobility, and flexibility. NO floor work.
Head to Toe: Strength | Includes light to moderate cardio, strength, balance, mobility, and flexibility.
HIIT: Strength | High Intensity Interval Training with quick, intense bursts of exercise followed by short recovery periods.
HIIT Circuit: Strength | Build strength, power and endurance in this exciting and dynamic workout using circuits.
Kettlebell: Strength | Learn the fundamentals of training with kettlebells to build overall strength and conditioning.
Pilates Seated: Core | a system of core-focused exercises performed mostly seated, using a chair for support and assistance.
Pilates Mat All Levels: Core | Controlled exercises to build strength, flexibility, and posture for all levels.
Pilates Beginner: Core | Introductory Pilates to gain strength and flexibility with long, lean muscle development.
Pilates Intermediate: Core | Builds upon beginner mat Pilates with slightly more advanced variations.
Perfect Balance: Restore | Gentle workout designed specifically for fall prevention and movement-related injuries.
Morning Restore: Restore | Designed to relax and restore spirit, mind, and body with a focus on core strength and recovery.
QiGong: Restore | Combines postures, movement and breathing techniques for physical and mental health.
Strength & Tone: Strength | A full body workout using light weights and intervals for total body toning.
Stretch, Core & More: Core | Full-body workout mixing stretching, core, light weights, cardio, and balance.
Strength & Stability: Strength | Low impact strength exercises with an emphasis on balance, coordination, and mobility.
Stretch & Balance for Falls Prevention: Strength | Focuses on seated and standing exercises for strength, flexibility, and balance.
Stretching: Restore | A restorative, dynamic and static stretching to improve flexibility and range of motion.
Tai Chi: Restore | Mindful movement designed to cultivate life energy (qi) and promote serenity and body control.
Top to Bottom Intervals: Strength | Total body movements for strength, conditioning, and mobility.
Total Barre: Core | A fusion of Pilates, yoga, and barre to tone, sculpt and lengthen the body.
TRX: Strength | Suspension training with intervals and calisthenics to shape a rock-solid physique.
Women's Total Workout ($): Strength | Semi-private training for women that includes cardio, calisthenics, TRX, and strength training.
U-Jam: Cardio | Urban dance fitness experience set to global beats with easy-to-follow choreography.
YMCA Strength: Strength | Full-body class using dumbbells, barbells, and bodyweight to build strong muscles.
Yoga
- Yoga Renew: Strength | Mixes hatha yoga poses and squats, sit ups, push ups and other traditional fitness moves into flowing sequences. People of all fitness levels can participate and modifications are used when needed.
- All Levels: Restore | This format centers both breath and body - aligning the physical and mental by practicing stillness and gentle movements for extended periods of time. Poses may be seated standing and on the floor, and can incorporate props such as straps, bolsters and blocks, ultimately promoting deep muscle relaxation and improved flexibility.
- Yoga Chair: Restore | Explore the range of movement of yoga postures with chair support. Members that find it difficult to get on and off the floor are a perfect fit for Chair Yoga.
Flow: Restore | Intertwines posture with breath in a series of movements that flow seamlessly together within your exercise regime, you bring balanced health and harmony to your body and mind.
- Gentle: Restore | A gentle and slow-flowing approach to Yoga with emphasis on increasing flexibility and range-of-motion. Experience a release of stress and an increase in focus with gentle stretching in this wonderful class.
- Restorative: Restore | A revitalizing format that focuses on controlled breathing paired with a gentle flow and static stretching. Using a mixture of props and hands on adjustments from the instructor, you will unlock flexibility and improve your overall well-being.
- Rowdy Yoga: Strength | A high energy, low impact class designed to get you moving and feeling good! Build strength and endurance powered by DDPYOGA. Increase flexibility and mobility, burn calories, and have fun! Modifications and progressions offered to accommodate varying levels of ability. Appropriate for intermediate beginner fitness level and up.
- Viniyoga: Restore | The Viniyoga approach to an āsana (implementing postures) focuses on the following four points: Function Over Form - the science of adapting the forms of the postures to achieve the best results for each student; Breath and Adaptation - the emphasis on breath as the foundation for movement to produce different results that best serves each student; Repetition and Stay - the practice of repeating a movement and then staying in the stretch for long-lasting adaption; and the Art and Science of Sequencing - allows the teacher to create practices of different orientation, length, and intensity to suit the intention and context of each practice.
- Vin Yin: Restore | Vin Yin is a unique combination of a traditional Vinyasa Flow format integrated with a contemporary Yin Yoga philosophy. For the first half of the class, you'll synchronize breath with a rhythmic flow designed to improve overall strength and mobility. For the second half of class, you'll focus on traditional Yin poses and passive stretches designed to lengthen your connective tissues helping you relax into the deepest layers of the body.
- Vinyasa: Restore | A flow style of yoga that simply intertwines postures with breath. The flow is a continuous synthesis of the movements between body, breath and heart. Bring balanced health and harmony to your body and mind by incorporating Vinyasa Flow yoga within your exercise regime.
- Yin: A deeply relaxing class for both mind and body. Provides a gentle, quiet, and meditative practice, all poses are done on the floor so that the muscles can relax and allow the deep connective tissues surrounding the hips, thighs, and lower back to be gently stretched. Poses are held for longer periods of time (generally 3-5 minutes) and awareness is brought to sensations in the body.
- Gentle Yin: Restore | This class deeply relaxes both your mind and body. During your yin practice this class provides a gentle, quiet, and meditative practice that teaches us to relax and accept ourselves just as we are. All poses are done on the floor so that the muscles can relax and allow the deep connective tissues surrounding the hips, thighs, and lower back to be gently stretched. Through mindful stretching, Yin Yoga maintains the health of the connective tissue and encourages free flow of qi (energy) in the body. Poses are held for longer periods of time (generally 3-5 minutes) and awareness is brought to sensations in the body.
- Yoga All Levels: Restore | This format centers both breath and body - aligning the physical and mental by practicing stillness and gentle movements for extended periods of time. Poses are done on the floor, and can incorporate props such as straps, bolsters and blocks, ultimately promoting deep muscle relaxation and improved flexibility.
- Yoga Mixed Level: Restore | This format centers both breath and body - aligning the physical and mental by practicing stillness and gentle movements for extended periods of time. Poses may be seated standing and on the floor, and can incorporate props such as straps, bolsters and blocks, ultimately promoting deep muscle relaxation and improved flexibility.
- Yogalates: Core | A combination of yoga and Pilates exercises for your whole body that focus on effort and relaxation. Attention is paid to strengthening your abdominal and back muscles while loosening your back. However, your arm and leg muscles are not forgotten. This class is very suitable for beginners, but is also popular with people who have experience with yoga. After this lesson you will feel rested and stronger
Zumba: Cardio | We take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party. Once the Latin and World rhythms take over, you'll see why Zumba® Fitness classes are often called exercise in disguise.
Zumba Gold: Cardio | Perfect for those who are looking for a modified Zumba® class that recreates the original moves at a lower intensity. The design of the class introduces easy-to-follow Zumba® choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion, and coordination. Come ready to sweat, and prepare to leave empowered and feeling strong!
Zumba Toning: Strength | A dance fitness class that combines cardio and strength training to tone and sculpt your body. It's similar to a regular Zumba class, but with added resistance from weighted toning sticks or dumbbells to help you focus on specific muscle groups.
This list is ALL classes available across branches, each branch may have slightly different offerings. Please view your branch's schedule to see what is currently available.