Group fitness class descriptions
Our group fitness classes are here to get you moving and make you feel good.
Need some motivation to move? Unsure how to put a workout together? Looking for some variety in your routine? Whether you're looking for an easy way to get fit, or something more intense, we provide a variety of fun and challenging group fitness classes! All fitness levels and experiences are welcome!
Group Fitness Classes are included with membership and will vary throughout the term. No registration is required! But be sure to get to the class before the scheduled start time - 5 minutes late, please join us next time.
Our instructors are certified with the Manitoba Fitness Council, Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology or other nationally recognized training agencies.
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Aging actively
These Resistance Training, Aqua, Yoga and Cycle classes are designed with our 55+ populations in mind. Workouts are social, fun and geared to enhance your day-to-day life activities!
Aqua
Enjoy the buoyancy and resistance effects of water in this fun and refreshing deep water workout that will improve your cardiovascular and muscular endurance without any jarring impact.
Cycle
This cycling workout will combine steady-state and light-to-moderate training intervals to keep your heart rate up, strengthen your legs, and boost your endurance. Enjoy the low-impact benefits of cycling in a self-paced, music-filled, ‘road’-safe workout.
Resistance training
Enjoy a social atmosphere while you work on general muscular conditioning (strength and endurance), flexibility, stability, and balance exercises as well as appropriate power, agility, coordination, and speed movements. A fun way for you to improve your health, increase your mobility, reduce injury risk, and help you live your strongest life!
Yoga
This gentle yoga experience includes postures and flows will work your endurance, balance, and flexibility as well as your breath and focus. You will leave class feeling calm, refreshed, yet full of energy!
Yoga release
This class is a combination of flowing yoga poses to warm you up followed by myofascial release movements, using deep, passive poses and/or foam rollers and massage balls, all geared towards improving your mobility and flexibility.
Aquatic
Water workouts are low impact but high intensity! Use the pool as your full body resistance training machine.
Aqua bootcamp
Aqua Bootcamp is a fast-paced circuit-style interval training workout in the deep end of the pool for those who want to work hard but keep it low impact. Participants must be comfortable being in the deep-end. Aqua belts are provided.
Aqua interval
High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is getting wet! Experience an aqua workout in the shallow end that uses interval training formats where you alternate between working hard and recovering. This total body workout uses the natural resistance of the water to challenge the body.
Cardio & choreography
If you love to follow routines and just want a cardiovascular workout, then these classes are for you.
Cardio (Joe Doupe)
Join Brenda as she takes you through a cardio workout! Step, aerobics, interval, cycle or a fusion. Every week is different and all levels of fitness are welcome.
Reebok step
Enjoy a continuous cardiovascular choreography-based workout using Reebok step benches that will keep you on your toes with fun routines.
Zumba
Zumba is a high energy, Latin-inspired, dance-fitness class that will have you dancing to a variety of rhythms. There are no rules except to have fun, sweat, and get lost in the music! Ditch the gym workout and join the dance party!
Zumba (Joe Doupe)
A fun class that incorporates dance with some Latin moves. You'll forget that you're exercising!
Cycle
Whether you are a seasoned cyclist or a novice rider, these dynamic and motivating classes will build your strength and endurance and add variety to your workout routine.
Cycle xercise
This AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) training class alternates between a set distance ride on the bike and various body weight or band loaded functional training exercises. The faster you complete each task, the more rounds you do. Experience a new way to train your entire body!
Cycle xpress
Shift your workouts into high gear and ride to the beat of energy-infused music in a black-light experience! Class styles will vary from intervals to real-road rides and everything in between.
Interval & combo
Theses classes include a wide variety of combinations of strength and cardiovascular training to maximize your workout time and cover all your exercise needs.
Abs & cardio
Target and challenge your abdominal and lower back muscles. The addition of cardiovascular intervals will get your heart rate up for a fun combo workout.
Glutes & cardio
Target and challenge your glutes and leg muscles with a leg workout. The addition of leg-focused cardiovascular intervals will get your heart rate up for the best leg-day ever!
HIIT cardio
This cardio-focused interval training workout will utilize a variety of work to rest formats as well as different portable equipment and body weight exercises.
HIIT combo
This interval training workout will utilize a variety of work to rest formats as well as different portable equipment and body weight cardio-strength-power-speed-agility exercises to challenge your entire body! Get ready to work hard for awesome results!
Lunch crunch (Joe Doupe)
A 30-minute class that could include HIIT or Tabata type training. Often includes body weight exercises or dumbbells. A great class for those who wan to to a quick, intense workout and get back to class or work.
Met Con
This full body calorie-burning, functional fitness conditioning workout will challenge your muscular strength, endurance, coordination, and power while creating a continuous cardiovascular training effect. This no impact, no cardio move class is METabolic CONditioning to the max!
Total body strength PLUS
Enjoy a total body workout geared to improve your muscular strength and endurance while using a variety of portable equipment and body weight exercises. The addition of cardiovascular intervals to the workout adds an extra body challenge!
Mind body
Join us to find your center and breathe, balance your mind and body, harness your core power and inner focus and recover from your workouts or life stresses.
Pilates
Build strength and flexibility in your core to improve your posture and balance. Learn to stand taller, move with more stability, and engage your core in all activities. Focus is on the quality of controlled movements and sequences that will benefit and challenge not your body but your mind.
Pilates (Joe Doupe)
Pilates improves flexibility, builds strength, and develops control and endurance in the entire body. There is an emphasis on alignment, breathing, developing a strong core and improving coordination and balance.
Yoga (Joe Doupe)
This slow-paced class works to stretch connective tissues as well as create healthy stress for joints, ligaments, and tendons. Breath is linked in to assist our practice and quiet our minds,
Yoga flow
Enjoy a fusion of fitness to challenge you and yoga to connect your body and mind as you flow and blend one pose into the next.
Yoga PLUS
Increase your flexibility and challenge your muscular endurance with static and dynamic yoga poses that will make you longer and stronger. Additional resistance may be added with elastic resistance, blocks, small balls, stability cushions, or light dumbbells.
Yoga release
This class is a combination of flowing yoga poses to warm you up followed by myofascial release movements, using foam rollers and massage balls or yin poses to improve your mobility and flexibility to help you feel, move and perform better.
Yoga restore
Slow down and reconnect with your body and mind as you relax into this practice. Treat yourself with the exploration of recovery poses and breathing exercises to create balance within you.
Muscle building
These workouts are solely focused on building and strengthening your muscles using a variety of equipment, combinations and timing formats.
Abs & glutes
Target and challenge your abdominal and lower back muscles. The addition of glute and hamstring work will result in a complete core body workout.
Abs & mobility
Target and challenge your abdominal and lower back muscles with a core workout. The addition of a full body mobility moves (that are not yoga, stretching, or resistance training but a functional approach to moving the body through a variety of range of motions) creates a functional workout for the whole body.
Barre
Find your inner grace as you experience the Barre workout, inspired by dance and is a fusion of flexibility, balance, and resistance training. Movements will tone and sculpt your entire body.
Body conditioning (Joe Doupe)
Combine alternating segments of upper, lower, and core body strength exercises for an energizing, non-cardio type of workout.
Circuit room strength
Build muscular strength and endurance with a station based class using both cable machines as well as body weight, slam balls, dumbbells, kettlebells, dynabands and more! Maximum 8 participants.
Mobility Mastery
This dynamic workout will include flexibility exercises but it is not stretching; yoga postures but it is not yoga; strengthening moves but it is not resistance training. Movements and positions are based on real life functioning and will help your body move better, train better and feel better!
Strong (Joe Doupe)
This is a combo of body weight, muscle conditioning, cardio, plyometric moves synchronized to music!
Total body strength
Enjoy a total body workout geared to improve your muscular strength and endurance while using a variety of portable equipment and body weight exercises.
TRX & …bells
Not only will you use your body weight with the TRX Suspension System but ...bells (kettlebells, dumbbells, and plate-loaded barbells) will be added as you work through tried-and-true push, pull, press, and lift exercises. Build and sculpt your muscles in this strength-focused workout.