Group Exercise

 

CARDIO

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.

Zumba®. Cardiovascular workout that uses Latin-inspired dance moves set to international music.

Kickboxing. A high intense cardiovascular class incorporating martial arts, shadow boxing, kickboxing and sports drills.

Mix It Up. A full body cardio workout with a mix of weights, bands, steps & more to shock the body into shape!

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!

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.

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.

Hits and Rhythm. Work through various dance styles and enjoy a mixture of genres while you get your heart rate up and body moving.

HIIT

Boot Camp. Challenges the body with a variety of cardio and strength training techniques. Calisthenics type exercises are the fundamentals of this program.

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.

Reformer Fusion. A hybrid of reformer, sculpt, cardio

Y Fit for All. A total body, functional fitness workout designed to get you real life strong.

HIIT. A total body, metabolism boosting, cardio workout using timed intervals.

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.

Bodilogy. This format includes strength training, stretching, cardio training, boot camp training and good old fashioned aerobic training.  All you need is water and a can do attitude. Come and join the high energy welcoming environment! All fitness levels are welcome!

STRENGTH

Barreless Burn. Combines low-impact aerobic movements and stretches with light strength training. This classes utilizes barre principles without the barre for a total body toning 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.

Sculpt. Blasts all your muscles with high-rep weight training workout for all fitness levels. Combination of upper and lower body exercises with all different modalities and functional movement to strengthen the body!

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.

PILATES/YOGA

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.

All Levels Flow. This class focuses on breathing techniques and improving balance and flexibility through mindfulness and movement.

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

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.

Yoga. Concentrates on improving balance, flexibility, relaxation and breathing techniques. Practicing yoga is a great way to learn how to manage and relieve stress.

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.

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.

AQUA

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.

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

 

GROUP EXERCISE POLICIES

PILATES REFORMER POLICIES

Thank you for your participation in the Y's group exercise classes. We're excited that our class numbers have grown and that you are enjoying the classes that we offer. We are committed to adding more classes as individual class numbers have increased. We will also need all of you to commit to the process in order to continue to offer a quality experience for everyone. We want you to have fair access to as many classes as possible, so please see the following Reformer policy. 

1. All members are allowed to book one Pilates Reformer class a day [this does not include small group (for new members), Mat Pilates, or Reformer Fusion].

 

2. All members are allowed 8 classes a month [this does not include small group (for new members), Mat Pilates, or Reformer Fusion]. 
   1. If members would like to enjoy more, members will be charged $10 a class for overage classes taken in the same calendar month. 

CANCELLATION POLICY

 

1. Cancellation Policy (all classes): 
   1. If a member cancels 5 times, that member won’t be able to sign up for 14 days. 
   2. Cancel means 
      1. A member signs up and then doesn't come.
      2. A member cancels his or her booking by phone less than two hours before class starts. 
      3. A member isn’t checked in by an instructor.
   3. Classes must be canceled more than two hours before the class start time if you do not want to be charged a cancellation. 
      1. 5:45am classes must be canceled by 9:45pm the day before on the app. 
   4. Waitlist registrations can be canceled at any time.