Group Exercise

Get your heart pumping with sessions design for all levels with varied intensities.

• Cardio Kickboxing: Look no further for an engaging, high-intensity session! No equipment is necessary to utilize basic kickboxing techniques such as jabs, hooks, and kicks for an exciting and sweaty cardiovascular workout.
• Cycle:  Let music and engaging leaders take you through a fun stationary bike ride! This session will simulate the varied terrain of an outdoor ride including steady flats, hills, and sprints while using music to create an irreplaceable atmosphere where all fitness levels can be challenged.
• CycleBeatz: BPM meets RPM! This electrifying session will spice up your workout by conquering challenging hills, steady flats, and high-intensity intervals all while maintaining your speed to the beat. Ride under the blacklights, and let the music lead you. No cycling experience is necessary!
• Step: This upbeat cardio session utilizes the Step bench with simple and fun movements choreographed to the beat of the music to challenge your coordination and cardiovascular endurance.

Love moving to music? Try out these formats designed to make fitness fun. No experience necessary!

• Cardio Hip Hop: Come ready to sweat as you dance the day away with a continuous cardio workout based around your favorite hip hop songs and moves.
• Zumba: Dance to fast and slow rhythms in this Latin-inspired dance fitness session. You don't need to know how to dance to have fun in this session!

Join us on the mat to reduce stress, improve mobility, boost energy, and build strength.

• Fusion Flow: Move to the beat and experience a session like no other. Fusion Flow brings together movements from yoga, pilates, and barre into innovative combinations choreographed to music. Leaders build creative sequences of bodyweight exercises to enhance strength and flexibility. No prior experience is required.
• Mat Pilates: Strengthen the core postural muscles of the abdominals, lower back, as well as the chest, upper back, shoulders, and glutes. Focus on controlled movements and exercises to create strong, lean muscles. Detailed instruction on alignment will be given in this session and small equipment may be introduced.
• Pilates Reformer: Registration and fee for participation is required prior to joining the Pilates Reformer Series. When registering, please review the series length and dates to ensure you can attend the sessions during the series. You'll find available series options on our registration page! 
  • Target your deep core muscles through this strength and flexibility workout using the Pilates Reformer! Develop proper control, focus, and form while ensuring balanced, equally trained muscles. These sessions aim to refine posture through classic Pilates movements on the reformer and build strength throughout the entire body. Prior participation in Pilates Reformer or Mat Pilates is recommended. Sessions are led in a small group setting, no more than six participants, in SPH 171 at Bill Garrett Fieldhouse (GF).

Build muscular strength and endurance through exercises designed with balance, coordination, and individual intensity options in mind.

• Barre Fitness: Join this fun and empowering session that brings together the benefits of Pilates, dance, yoga, and functional training. With the help of the barre and light weights, you will build strength through small, controlled movements, isometric holds, and high repetition. All abilities are welcome–no dance experience is necessary to enjoy this workout!
• Core: Focus on all the muscles of the core (from the armpits to the hips) during this short and sweet session. Building strength in the core will help you improve overall strength and posture, decrease back pain, and increase stability.
• Kettlebell Strength: Use dynamic, full body kettlebell exercises to focus on developing strength, endurance, and power. Whether you are new to kettlebells or a kettlebell pro, this session will be sure to teach you something new about this versatile piece of equipment!
• Pure Strength: Target all the major muscles in the body in this head-to-toe workout by dedicating one song to fatiguing each muscle group. A "light weights, high reps, short recoveries" formula will build tension quickly and put a higher demand on the muscles.
• Strength Core: Build total body strength by targeting every major muscle group during this session. You will learn to use a variety of equipment such as stability balls and body bars for resistance training.

Join these efficient sessions to blend conditioning and strengthening exercises into one session. All fitness levels welcome.

• Boot Camp: Utilizing different drills, circuits, and challenges, this workout focuses on agility, strength, cardiovascular fitness and core stabilization through unique formatting and equipment usage. Weather permitting, portions of this session may be held outdoors.
• Cardio Kick & Core: Fit both cardio kickboxing and strength training into the same session! Begin with 30 minutes of cardio kickboxing followed by 30 minutes of strengthening your shoulders, back, chest, abdominals and glutes!
• HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training): Complete a full body workout with resistance and cardio bursts in just 30 minutes! Short intervals of high intensity cardio or strength movements will keep your heart rate elevated through the entire workout. You're guaranteed to sweat in this challenging but rewarding session!
• Step Strength: Enjoy 30 minutes of cardio combinations on the step bench followed by 30 minutes of total-body strengthening exercises for a complete workout!
• Total Body Conditioning: Combine strength exercises and cardio bursts into work sets that will challenge your strength and endurance. TBC provides total body muscular conditioning with interspersed bursts of high-intensity cardio exercises. With plenty of modifications and progressions, this workout is well suited to accommodate any fitness level!

Blend cardio and strength exercises into one experience using the water as resistance. Great to reduce impact on joints and welcome to all fitness levels.

• Aqua Dance: Take your favorite dance moves to the pool! Just because we're in the pool, doesn't mean we won't sweat! Come ready to sweat as you dance the night away with a continuous cardio workout based around your favorite songs and moves. By taking this session to the pool, we will have that added resistance of the water that's sure to give us a great workout! 
• Deep Water Exercise: Experience the benefits of low impact exercise while enhancing your cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength. With buoyancy belts to help you float, no swimming experience is necessary to benefit from water’s natural resistance.
• Shallow Water Exercise: Enhance your cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength in the shallow end of the pool! Different pieces of equipment will be used to create a fun, upbeat, cardio and strength workout. 

Learn postures, breathing techniques, and meditation skills in sessions designed to relieve stress, strengthen muscles, and boost mood.

• Foundational Yoga: Utilize the fundamental principles of alignment and breath work to experience common yoga postures. You will work through a variety of yoga poses through step-by-step verbal descriptions and demonstrations. All levels welcome to dive deeper into foundational poses, breath work, and mind-body connection.
• Hatha Yoga: Use breath, postures, and sequences to align the skin, muscles, and bones. The postures are also designed to open the many channels of the body, especially the spine, so that energy can flow freely. With focus on the breath and movement, you will feel refreshed and rejuvenated after this session.
• Inversions & Arm Balances: Flip your perspective, work on building upper body and core strength, and improve balance! This session builds on the foundations of Power Vinyasa to incorporate arm balances and inversions into your yoga practice. The flow of this session will include deep stretches and strengthening postures necessary to build the skills needed. Everyone will have the opportunity to have play time with various poses as well as learning to incorporate the poses into the flow sequence. Some prior experience with yoga is recommended but no previous experience with arm balances or inversions is necessary.
• Moving Meditation: Explore a calming practice through yoga poses, breathing techniques, and meditation practices. Each session will incorporate these three related practices to create a calming atmosphere and encourage mindfulness. Equipment necessary for the session is available to borrow within the studio. If looking for an introduction to the varied practices within yoga, this is a good place to start.
• Power Vinyasa Yoga: Using breath and movement synergistically, Power Vinyasa gradually builds heat in the body to improve stamina and strength. This session is quicker-paced and offers a nice challenge, but it is suitable for beginners, athletes, and advanced enthusiasts alike.
• Restorative Yoga: Center your body and mind with a gentle and relaxing session. Incorporating poses that will help you de-stress, soothe, and realign your physical and mental being, this session is designed to encourage mindfulness and a deepened self-awareness. 
• Slow Flow Yoga: Find length, alignment, and stillness in the body through powerful yet gentle poses. Flowing from one posture to the next, participants will begin to learn how to incorporate breath with their movements to find balance and peace within each pose. All levels welcome.
• Yin Yoga: Take time to indulge in slow, mindful movement and stillness. In this session, postures will be held for a longer duration to help the muscles and mind relax, allowing for healthy mobility of the joints. Surrender, relax and restore with yin yoga!