FITNESS CLASSES AT YOUR Y
The list below are classes that are currently offered at either the Downtown Y or Westhills Y locations.
AquaFit
This low impact class will work your whole body to improve muscular strength and endurance, aerobic fitness, mobility, and flexibility by using the resistance of the water. This class can be done in both shallow and deep water. This class is open to all fitness levels. Class style is subject to change.
AquaCircuit
A circuit-style aquatics fitness class consisting of stations focusing on upper body, lower body, and core exercises, and cardiovascular intervals.
Baby and Me – Bootcamp
A functional total body workout designed to build your strength and endurance while keeping baby by your side. Included modifications and considerations for post-partum bodies. All ages of children welcome.
Barre
This class focuses on challenging the entire body through the fusion of Ballet, Pilates, Yoga, and strength exercises. This is a low impact class that uses light free weights and high repetitions to improve muscular strength and endurance, posture, balance, flexibility, and core stability. All fitness levels welcome; no dance experience is required.
Bootcamp
Challenge yourself in a high-intensity interval workout that uses your own body weight and a variety of fitness equipment to work cardio and increase your strength while improving your core strength, balance, coordination, and body awareness.
Cardio Dance
Dance the night away in this high energy class designed to improve cardiovascular fitness in a fun and energetic environment. This class incorporates a variety of dance styles, upbeat music, and invigorating choreography to create a full body workout leaving you feeling energized. All fitness levels are welcome.
Cardio Dance Low Impact
This low impact class is designed to improve coordination and cardiovascular fitness by incorporating a variety of dance styles, upbeat music, and easy to follow choreography to create a full body workout. All fitness levels are welcome.
Cardio, Strength & Stretch
This class offers a complete workout to improve muscular strength and endurance, cardiovascular fitness, and flexibility. Begin the class with an energizing and upbeat aerobic segment followed by a full body strength segment using free weights, resistance bands, steps, and more. Finish the class with a longer, guided full body stretch to improve flexibility and promote recovery. All levels welcome; modifications of exercises available.
Chair Yoga
Chair yoga is a gentle practice in which postures are performed while seated and/or with the aid of a chair. It is an accessible class suitable for those with limited mobility or flexibility who still want to enjoy the benefits of yoga. This class will focus on gentle movements that help ease stiffness, improve range of motion, build strength, stability, and balance.
Circuit
This class includes a series of timed exercises with short recovery intervals put together to give you a full body workout. Think “maximum results in minimum time”. Exercises include endurance, resistance and cardio training.
Core Strength
Strengthen and tone your core using weights, stability balls, and your own body as resistance for the ultimate full body workout.
CycleFit
Join us for the ultimate intensive workout combining both aerobic and anaerobic exercise through drill training and speed work. Build strength, endurance and flexibility in a fun environment that lets you modify your own intensity! Please bring a water bottle and towel.
Cycle And Strength
This high energy class will get your heart rate up and your cardio in with the class beginning on the cycle bikes. The second part of class will have you lifting weights and working with resistance bands for a full body sculpt.
Gentle Fit
For the beginner to fitness – safe, effective, low-impact strength and cardio to increase muscle conditioning and fitness.
Glutes and Abs
A combination of strength and cardio exercises will activate your entire core in this Pilates based workout. This class will have your tummies and glutes fired up!
Interval Express
30-minute workout using a tabata style format (20 seconds workout, 10 seconds rest) to keep you motivated while improving your overall fitness. By training with free-weights, resistance-bands, and body-weight this quick workout will give you a range of strengthening, stretching, balance, and core exercises.
Pilates
This low impact class focuses on improving full body strength with emphasis on creating strength, stability, and awareness and connection to the core and pelvic floor while also improving posture, balance, and flexibility. All fitness levels welcome; please bring your own mat.
Senior Strength
This class focuses on challenging the entire body using different modes of equipment including but not limited to free weights, resistance bands, or bender balls to improve muscular strength and endurance, balance, mobility and flexibility, and coordination in a low-impact and gentle paced environment. Open to all ages and fitness levels, but best suited for older adults, those who are new to fitness, or are returning from an injury.
Step
This upbeat and energetic class will lead you through a series of different step choreography to create a challenging and dynamic full body workout. This class will have you stepping into improved coordination, rhythm, endurance, and strength. The adjustable height of the steps allows participants to tailor the intensity of the class, making it suitable for all levels.
Strength and Sculpt
A weight training class focusing on compound exercises to sculpt and enhance your strength. This class will teach correct form with a focus on how to safely use free weights. Come join us to get a full body workout in a fun and supportive environment. Whether you are picking up a weight for the first time or training to lift heavier this class is for you!
Strength
This class focuses on challenging the entire body using different modes of equipment including but not limited to free weights, resistance bands, or body bars to improve muscular strength and endurance, balance, coordination, and power. All levels welcome; modifications of exercises available.
StretchFit
The first half of this class will involve low-moderate intensity training to improve both core and balance. The second half of this class will focus on a deeper full body stretch that leaves you feeling energized and refreshed! This class is suitable for Healthy Living participants.
energized and refreshed! This class is suitable for Healthy Living participants.
STRONG Nation®
STRONG Nation® by Zumba® combines body weight, muscle conditioning, cardio and plyometric training moves synced to original music that has been specifically designed to match every single move. Every squat, every lunge, every burpee is driven by the music, helping you make it to that last rep, and maybe even five more.
Baby & Me Total Body Strength [TBS]
A free weight class featuring strength and resistance exercises that will get your muscles working and body sweating, without hard to follow choreography! All parents welcome, special modifications and considerations for post-partum bodies included. All ages of children welcome.
Total Body Strength [TBS]
This strength class follows a set routine of exercises for 2-3 months. Improve muscular strength and endurance, and confidence in the exercises using different modes of equipment including but not limited to free weights, bosu, resistance bands, or body bars. All levels welcome; modifications of exercises available.
TRX
This class focuses on challenging the entire body by using the TRX suspension strap using bodyweight exercises to build strength, flexibility and mobility, balance, and coordination. Support from the strap provides added leverage and support to go deeper while providing greater stability. All levels welcome; modifications of exercises available.
Yoga
Flow through a series of postures that work to stretch, strengthen and tone your muscles while calming and connecting the mind, body and spirit. Engage in a Yoga practice that is right for you by modifying or intensifying postures to fit your comfort level. Easy to follow format, all levels welcome. Please bring your own mat.
Zumba™
Combines Latin and International music with a fun and effective cardio workout.
Body Fusion
This class combines the use of equipment, including balls and bars, with a focus on the mind-body connection in a fun and engaging atmosphere.