Group Exercise

The Y has over 100 time slots and 25 different formats for group exercise. It's an experience worth coming to enjoy and get in shape.

CARDIO	HIIT	STRENGTH	PILATES/YOGA	AQUA
CARDIO	HIIT	STRENGTH	PILATES/YOGA	AQUA

Y Cycle. Indoor cycling will increase your cardiovascular endurance and strengthen your abs, lower back and legs while providing an aerobic challenge just for you. With some of your favorite tunes to keep you motivated, Y Cycle allows the instructor to create indoor rides through mixed terrain to most mimic an outdoor ride.	Boot Camp. Challenges the body with a variety of cardio and strength training techniques. Calisthenics type exercises are the fundamentals of this program.	Strength Train Together. Blasts all your muscles with this high-rep weight training workout for all fitness levels. Combination of squats, lunges, presses and curls with functional integrated exercises to strengthen and sculpt the body!	Functional Yoga. Not another style of yoga but rather an approach to practicing. These classes and poses are based on real-world situational biomechanics; we explore how a joint or body part is supposed to move. Each yoga pose is broken down into its basic components and then taught in a way that each student can modify in a way that honors their body’s history of injury, surgery, or trauma. This is a beginner friendly class and offers a nice change of pace for more advanced students.	Shallow Water Fitness. Works your whole body in multiple directions and promotes smooth movements (instead of quick, jerky motions). It also allows you to work at a higher level that you could tolerate on land, which helps improve mobility and strengthen cardiovascular endurance while easing arthritis pain.

Zumba®. Cardiovascular workout that uses Latin-inspired dance moves set to international music.	Mash Up. This Tabata class includes alternating periods of short intense anaerobic exercise with an even shorter, less-intense recovery period. With a variety of exercises and methods for this training, you'll always be targeting major muscle groups for a whole body workout.	Pumped Up Barre. Pump up your mind and body with a total body workout fusion of resistance, toning, and flexibility barre exercises that will sculpt and stretch major muscle groups. Class may include balls, bands or dumbbells.	All Levels Flow. This class focuses on breathing techniques and improving balance and flexibility through mindfulness and movement.	Deep Water Aerobics. Incorporates a balanced workout that includes warm-up, aerobic training and cool down. These classes practice various strength, toning and flexibility stretching. Due to the natural resistance of the water, the muscles will strengthen in a low impact environment

Kickboxing. A high intense cardiovascular class incorporating martial arts, shadow boxing, kickboxing and sports drills.	Reformer Fusion. A hybrid of reformer, sculpt, cardio	SilverSneakers Classic. Uses standing, low-impact choreography alternated with standing upper-body strength work with hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles and a SilverSneakers ball. A chair is available for standing support.	Mat Pilates. Mat Pilates consists of Pilates exercises and movements done on a mat. Pilates is a total body conditioning exercise method combining flexibility and strength. It’s purpose is to develop mind and body uniformity, provide balance, flexibility and strength to improve posture and to focus on the core muscles

Mix It Up. A full body cardio workout with a mix of weights, bands, steps & more to shock the body into shape!	Y Fit for All. A total body, functional fitness workout designed to get you real life strong.		Reformer Pilates. Pilates is a method of exercise that consists of low-impact flexibility and muscular strength and endurance movements. Pilates emphasizes proper postural alignment, core strength and muscle balance.

Retro Hi/Low Aerobics. Remember Jazzercise? This total body workout takes you back to the Retro 80's format of an Aerobic class. Fun, high/low moves and great music from the past!	HIIT. A total body, metabolism boosting, cardio workout using timed intervals.		Yoga. Concentrates on improving balance, flexibility, relaxation and breathing techniques. Practicing yoga is a great way to learn how to manage and relieve stress.

Step Aerobics. This classic workout uses the step and body weight for an amazing choreographed workout. Come for the music and the moves to get your heartrate up.	Body Amp. Total body sculpt with low to no impact, so it’s great for any fitness level. Heart rate does increase through muscle building cardio with weighted squats, lunges, curtesy lunges and various other lower body moves! You’ll work arms, legs and core in class with no jumping.		Chair Yoga. Brings the best of a yoga practice to those who require or prefer the support of a chair. The class helps participants stay healthy, vibrant and confident by focusing on developing small and large muscle groups, stretching, balancing and strength building. Chair yoga classes help maintain mobility, improve flexibility, cultivate mindfulness and increase body awareness.

Line dancing. This class is a great way to get moving while having fun. In 45 minutes, you'll learn all the moves! Come to the first class in the week (Mondays at Flowood at 10:00 am or Tuesdays at Clinton at 9:30am) to get more of a breakdown.			Silver Sneakers Yoga/Stretch. Get ready to move through a complete series of seated and standing yoga poses. Chair support is offered so you can perform a variety of seated and standing postures designed to increase flexibility, balance and range of movement. Restorative breathing exercises and final relaxation will promote stress reduction and mental clarity. This class is suitable for nearly every fitness level.