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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).


Aqua Blast:  This total body water workout builds cardiovascular endurance while pushing range of muscular strength and motion in your upper body, lower body and core.

Band & Bells Strength: improve hip & shoulder stability with the versatile Dynaband and dumbbells. This class is great for rehabilitation as well as general strengthening. Build total body strength in this fun and engaging workout!

Ballet Barre: A total body workout that utilizes movements and positions from Dance, Pilates, Yoga and Functional Strength Training. It focuses on optimal alignment and posture to improve balance. coordination, stability, strength and over function. Most movements utilize bodyweight and light weights to focus on muscular endurance, core and joint stability.

Beginning Balance: Our entry level class to balance and stability. A low intensity class designed to help improve your overall strength and balance.

Body Blast: 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 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: Body sculpting is 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. Multiple exercise levels will be shown throughout each segment. Classes are fun and motivational for all!

Boot Camp: 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. You will also be introduced to metabolic resistance training, which will have you still burning calories hours after the workout is completed.

Chair Fitness: Light exercise, done mostly seated, to strengthen your core for improved balance, strengthen muscles and improve flexibility. This is a good class to work on balance and strength for falls prevention. This class is also great for socializing while improving your overall health.

Circuit Strength: A well-rounded class, this full body strength workout utilizing dumbbells, bands, barbells, and bodyweight exercises. Each circuit consists of different stations targeting all muscle groups.

Core Express: 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: A gentle version of our Core Express class. Quick abdominal burner designed to sculpt your abs and unlock your potential. Class serves as a great supplement to our other classes.

Cycling: indoor Cycle helps you burn calories, improves your heart health, and boosts your muscle endurance. Your legs will get a serious workout. By the end of class, you'll have a steady stream of feel- good brain chemicals called endorphins. This class can cater to the beginner and advanced beginner.

Cycling & Sculpt: Leave your cares behind and escape to the Cycle Studio for a fun, high-energy Cycle/Strength class that combines great music with cardio and strength training using light weights. Enjoy an awesome calorie burn and total body toning in this incredible combo class.

Dance Aerobics: this class starts with a warm up, then some heart-pumping cardio sections with a cool down and a lot of fun!!


Head to Toe: From light to moderate cardio, strength training, balance, mobility, flexibility, this class is formatted for those looking to improve overall health and fitness using dumbbells, body weight, mats.

HIIT: High Intensity Interval Training is a training technique in which you give all-out, one hundred percent effort through quick, intense bursts of exercise, followed by short, sometimes active, recovery periods. This type of training gets and keeps your heart rate up and burns more fat in less time.

Kettlebell: : In this Kettlebell class learn the fundamentals of training with kettlebells. Build a bulletproof physique as you forge physical resilience and strength. This class is built around full-body exercises geared towards improving overall strength, conditioning, athleticism, and fat loss.

Masters' Swimming: This amazing one hour workout focuses on fundamentals, stroke technique, conditioning and stamina building. Whether you want to compete, improve or maintain your fitness, or just come have fun swimming, Master Swimming can be just the right thing for you! *Coach on deck during every Masters workout.

Pilates Mat:  

  • Beginner: low-impact mat exercises designed to strengthen your core muscles, increase spinal mobility, boost balance, alleviate back pain and tightness, and improve mind-body awareness. A nice combination of strengthening, therapeutic stretching, flow, and a good dose of fun.
  • Intermediate: our Pilates Mat format with a little edge. Designed to build upon our beginning mat Pilates class, this format introduces slightly more advanced exercise variations guaranteed to improve your core strength and stabilizing muscles.

Morning Restore: Start your day off right designed to relax and restore the spirit, mind, and body. This class will look at the whole body and the importance of strength, flexibility, posture,
core strength and recovery.

QiGong: combines exercises that integrates postures, movements and breathing techniques to improve physical and mental health, and bring positive healing energy to your life. Most movements can be done in a sitting position.

Senior Groove: A unique exercise class that focuses on restoring walking gait and improving stability, while also providing a fun and lighthearted experience. You'll enjoy dancing and stretching. We welcome participants of all levels, and even those who use walkers, canes, or skateboards can join in the fun.

Splash  &Tone: Have fun and tone your entire body with this low intensity cardio class. We combine water aerobics and strength training with bells, noodles and balance work to strengthen muscles and shed calories. Enjoy toning your body to fun music and get inspired by our high energy instructors

Strength & Tone: A fun, full body workout using light weights and intervals designed for the ultimate total body toning experience.

Stretch & Core: explore a perfect blend of flexibility and core strengthening exercises in this fun and engaging format. All fitness levels are welcome!

Stretch, Core & More: This fun, full-body workout incorporates a unique mixture of stretching, core strengthening, light weight lifting, low impact cardio, and balance exercises to help with daily functional movements and overall physical well-being.

Strength & Stability: low impact exercises for strength and endurance, with an emphasis on balance, coordination, and mobility.


Stretch & Balance for Falls Prevention: Using seated and standing exercises, this class increases strength, flexibility, and balance while focusing on the breath. The instructor guides participants in enhancing personal awareness and consciousness to help prevent falls, explore a perfect blend of flexibility and core strengthening exercises in this fun and engaging format. All fitness levels are welcome!

Stretching: a restorative class of dynamic and static stretching! This class is designed to increase flexibility, muscle control, and range of motion.

Swim FUNdamentals: Swim technique for adults that want to improve upon or learn swim strokes and build workouts. Strokes will be broken down by function; kicking, arm movement, breathing and body position. Whether you are a seasoned swimmer looking to make improvements or a new swimmer learning the basics, everyone is welcome. In addition to technique, these classes will provide a fair amount of distance allowing you to burn some
calories and get a great workout. We suggest that participants are comfortable in water floating on your front and back and comfortable with your face in the water.

Tai Chi: the ultimate purpose of Tai Chi is to cultivate the “qi”, or life energy within us, to flow smoothly and powerfully throughout the body. The essential principles include mind integrated with the body, control of movements and breathing, generating internal energy, mindfulness, song (loosening 松) and jing (serenity 静).

Top to Bottom Intervals: Total Body H.I.I.T is a series of total body movements utilizing multiple muscle groups simultaneously to strengthen and condition the body as a whole. While also increasing your body's mobility and ability to move as a whole from top to bottom.

Total Barre: A fusion of Pilates, yoga, and core strengthening exercises. A mixture of exercises using ballet style bars for support and a blend of body weight movements designed to tone,
sculpt and lengthen your body. This unique full body workout is designed to add strength without the bulk!

TRX: Utilizing TRX as the backbone of this class, you will explore a mixture of intervals and calisthenics to shape and sculpt a rock-solid physique. Each workout incorporates full body movements that flow seamlessly together resulting in an exciting and effective training
experience.

Women's Total Workout ($): Be all the woman you can be during our unique and innovative Semi-Private Group Training Class designed with women in mind. This class provides interval
training, cardio bursts, calisthenics/TRX, and strength training. You will receive personalized measurements and nutritional feedback.

U-Jam: combines the energy and grittiness of urban dance with fitness. A cardio dance experience that feels more like a 90’s House Party than a workout, U-Jam brings funky, adrenaline-based beats from around the world with easy-to-follow choreography, so everyone can get their Jam on!

Yoga

  • All Levels: 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
  • Chair: Explore the range of movement of yoga postures with chair support. Members that find it challenging to get on and off the floor are a perfect fit for Chair Yoga
  • Flow: : by incorporating Vinyasa Flow yoga that simply 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: 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: : Focuses on controlled breathing paired with a gentle flow and static stretching. Using a mixture of props and hands on adjustments, you will unlock flexibility and improve your overall well-being.
  • Viniyoga: 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.
  • Vinyasa: a flow style of yoga that simply intertwines postures with breath. The flow is a continuous, non-fragmented, 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.

Zumba: we take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party. Once the Latin World rhythms take over, you'll see why Zumba® Fitness classes are often called exercise in disguise.

Zumba Gold: 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 to leave empowered and feeling strong!

Rainy Day Pickleball Schedule: refer to branch for specific information.

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.