YMCA Anthony Bowen Group Exercise Class Descriptions

Aerial Yoga$- incorporates everything practitioners love about Yoga, while adding an element of flight as the practitioner is safely suspended a few inches above the ground by a silk Yoga hammock. This class decompresses the neck and spine, ensures proper alignment naturally (gravity assisted), and it deepens Yoga postures and stretches.

Align & Flow - is a potent alignment-oriented practice that emphasizes the forms and actions within yoga postures. Classes progressively and safely sequence towards more complex peak poses, and spend time breaking down techniques for honing awareness and skill on and off the mat. This practice emphasizes cultivating adhikara (devoted studentship) and draws upon a wide range of postures that build strength, flexibility, and refined awareness in body and mind.

All Terrain Cycle - This technical class will help you develop expertise in techniques (e.g. cadence, hill climbing, intervals, flats) with challenging workouts carefully designed to run over 12-16 week segments.

Barre Above - A total body workout that lifts your seat, tones your thighs, abs, and arms, and burns fat through isolated movements. The is on the barre and on the mat.

Boot Camp - Boot Camp is an intense, calorie-burning program providing fun, creative and challenging moves that keep participants focused, empowered and constantly moving towards their fitness goals over a one-hour class period. Workouts include a wide variety of constantly changing circuits including drills, games, obstacles, plyometrics, relays, weighted supersets and partner training.

- A fiercely energetic and empowering workout that is inspired by mixed martial arts. Drawing from a wide array of disciplines; such as karate, boxing, taekwondo, tai chi and muay thai; you’ll unleash your inner warrior as you strike, punch, kick and kata your way through calories to superior cardio fitness.

- Great bodies aren't born, they are transformed, using the proven BODYPUMP™ formula: THE REP EFFECT™ a breakthrough in resistance workout training. Focusing on low weight loads and high repetition movements, you'll burn fat, gain strength and quickly produce lean body muscle conditioning.

Body Sculpt- This total body weight bearing workout uses various types of resistance to strengthen every muscle group to maintain muscle mass and bone density.

Boxing & Boxing Blast- This high intensity workout requires and builds strength power, agility, balance, flexibility, meditative focus, aerobic and anaerobic capacities all in one activity while using the heavy bags. Boxing Blast Express is a 30-minute class.

Core Yoga - is a combination of isolated Yoga poses (held for 1-2 minutes) that transition right into resistance moves using the same muscle group. Benefits include improved flexibility and core strength.

Dharma Yoga - Students will learn how to ignite the entire body flow of vital energy as they sweat and release stress as they flow from one pose to the next with mindfulness and ease. Poses are approached from their basic building blocks to progressively challenging variations. A series of deeper balancing, stretching, back bending, twisting and inverted variations will be taught; including arm balances and inversions.

Forrest Yoga – Forrest Yoga is renowned as an intensely physical and internally focused practice that emphasizes how to carry a transformative experience off the mat and into daily life. This style teaches you how to breathe deeply, connect in feeling with your body, use the power of breath to bring aliveness into every cell of your body.

Furious 60- A High Intensity Interval Training workout that uses shorter rest periods between body weight, resistance and cardiovascular exercise designed to maximize your anaerobic and aerobic thresholds, helping you to build muscle and increase endurance.

- A high-impact cardio workout like nothing else. Designed to burn fat and rapidly improve athletic capability, this explosive, 30- minute team training session combines high impact body weight exercises and uses no equipment. Led by a highly-trained coach, Les Mills Grit TM Cardio provides the challenge and intensity you need to take your training up a notch and really get results.

- Les Mills Grit: StrengthTM is an intense 30-minute team training session that blasts all major muscle groups and takes your training to the next level. This class builds strength and tones lean muscle; puts your metabolism into overdrive to burn fat for hours after the workout. Stimulates the production of growth hormones, which will help reduce fat and help develop lean muscle.

Gung Fu- 7-Star Praying Mantis is a 2000+ year old combat style that incorporates striking.(da), kicking (teui), locking (cum na), throwing (shuai), hei gung (energy skill), combat application (san sao), traditional weapons and lion dancing (mo si). Join us and learn this complete martial art in a low-stress, family environment. Classes are available for women and men of all ages and experience levels.

Hatha Yoga- the foundation of all Yoga styles. It is an easy-to-learn, basic yet challenging form of Yoga that incorporates Asanas (postures), Pranayama (regulated breathing), meditation (Dharana & Dhyana) and kundalini (Laya Yoga) into a complete system that can be used to achieve enlightenment or self-realization. Hatha Yoga may also include a series of deeper balancing, stretching, back bending, twisting and inverted variations will be taught, including arm balances and inversions.

Hip Hop Zumba- The most entertaining way to get a sizzling cardio workout to Hip Hop music! You’ll use the latest Latin dance moves to shimmy and shake your workout up! Join the party! Jiu Jitsu Foundations- is a style of grappling that offers very effective self-defense skills and develops the practitioner’s fluidity and athleticism by building a solid foundation rather than preparing for a competition.

Kickboxing - This high intensity workout will function as the first step in learning both kickboxing and boxing as sports, disciplines and art forms. This class will both require and build strength power, agility balance, flexibility, and meditative focus, aerobic and anaerobic capacities all in one activity.

Meditation (Yoga: Breath & Meditation) - Join us as we learn how to apply the power of loving-kindness (metta) to our lives. It involves a group of us doing the loving-kindness (metta) meditation and focusing it on an area of our lives we would like to resolve or need to work out. At the end of the month, we will observe and see what shifted. As one engages in the power of loving-kindness, one benefits physically, mentally and spiritually. Pilates Chair- Pilates Chair classes creates a unique and challenging way to build strength in the core, improve balance and increase muscle coordination and control.

Pilates Mat - Pilates Mat classes are designed to improve strength, flexibility, coordination and balance through a series of pushing and pulling exercises that may add resistance for an extra challenge.

Pilates Reformer- Pilates Reformer classes are designed to improve strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance through a series of pushing and pulling exercises that may add resistance for an extra challenge. Participants progress through strength phases by increasing the resistance through a series of springs attached to the reformer that are easily engaged or disengaged depending on the exercise and the relative strength of the individual. PiYo- is a hybrid, athletic workout, which combines the mind/body practices of yoga and Pilates, as well as the principles of stretch, strength training, conditioning and dynamic movement. Power Core - This is a total body workout that incorporates Pilates, core and overall strengthening postures targeting the arms, thighs, seat and core. These fluid exercises are designed to help you sculpt & tone your way to a POWERFUL body.

Power, Strength, Speed Cycle- Take on the terrain through hills, flat roads, mountain peaks, time trials and interval training. Discover your inner athlete as you sweat and burn calories to reach your endorphine high.

Power Yoga - Designed to build strength while increasing balance, flexibility and endurance. Power Yoga expands on the sequences of Vinyasa to incorporate more challenging arm balances, inversions and twists in conjunction with deep breath to detoxify the body.

Restorative Yoga - Restorative Yoga is designed to progress from small movements to holding passive yin postures and restorative postures with props against the wall and on the floor. Great for balance, flexibility and circulation, relief of stress, stiff muscles and aching joints. This is a safe and slow moving class for beginner students!

Rhythm Ride- Ride that your pace and movements are to the cadence/beat of the song.

Rocket Yoga - Rocket is a physically demanding style of yoga that resequences the disciplined traditional Ashtanga system into a playful, energetic practice. It begins with traditional sun salutations and standing postures, then progresses into creatively-linked arm balances, inversions, and seated postures. Tabata- A High Intensity Interval Training workout that uses shorter rest periods between body weight, resistance and cardiovascular exercise designed to maximize your anaerobic and aerobic thresholds, helping you to build muscle and increase endurance.

Tae Kwon Do- Taekwondo is a modern martial art originating in Korea. It is characterized by its fast and high kicks. It aims to achieve physical and mental harmony by training the body and mind to attain the pinnacle of perfection. The class is instructed by Master Howard Davis, a Kukiwon 5th Dan black belt with 47 years of experience. Classes typically consist of a series of warm-up calisthenics, stretches, kicking and punching drills, sparring and self-defense techniques, and forms. Beginners through black belts are welcome.

Thai Kickboxing- Kickboxing is a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from Karate, Muay Thai and Western boxing. Kickboxing is often practiced for self-defense, general fitness, or as a contact sport.

Vinyasa Yoga - a perfect complement to any fitness routine and is considered an athletic yoga practice. Practitioners flow from one posture to the next in conjunction with breathing to build heat and increase flexibility. Vinyasa translates to breathe-synchronized movement and offers a wide variety of poses, sequences and challenging progressions.

West African Dance- This class welcomes all levels to participate in an energetic union of music, dance and oral tradition of the people of West Africa. Students will learn the rich history of traditional dances, will express strength, improve stamina, and gain confidence. Yoga 101- designed as an introduction to the practice of yoga. Class is slower paced than an all-levels class, and focused on developing clear and safe alignment in foundational poses.

- The most entertaining way to get a sizzling cardio workout. You’ll use the latest Latin dance moves to shimmy and shake your workout up! Join the party!