Class Guide

This Girl Can

This Girl Can classes are female only classes, all fitness abilities are welcome but they are specifically designed for beginners/anyone with injuries/or anyone who may need that confidence boost to help get them comfortable in other classes. This class acts as a brilliant ‘stepping stone’ and introduction to other fitness classes that you may not feel strong enough or fit enough for. It will be covering various exercises introductions such as  dance, aerobics, boxfit, yoga etc and varies week to week. Come along to boost confidence, meet new friends and join a team to overcome any physical or emotional barriers that may have prevented you to try other exercise classes in the past!

Balance and Stretch

Ideal for anyone and everyone, Balance and Stretch is the yoga-based class that will improve your mind, your body and your life.

During Balance and Stretch an inspired soundtrack plays as you bend and stretch through a series of simple yoga moves and embrace elements of Tai Chi and Pilates, as well as working your core and improving your strength, co-ordination and balance. Breathing control is a part of all the exercises, and instructors will always provide options for those just getting started. You’ll strengthen your entire body and leave the class feeling calm, centered and happy.

Tai Chi

A low impact aerobic exercise suitable for all ages and levels of fitness. Will help improve your posture, focus and balance.

Body Tone

A full body workout using body weight, mat work and resistance training exercises.

Boxercise/Boxing Class

Uses boxing moves in a circuit, with pads and gloves, effectively toning your upper and lower body.

Trim and Tone

A great workout using weights for all major muscle groups

Fitball

Is a low impact, low intensity full body workout with a real focus on core stability. Working with the Swiss Balls you will work each muscle in the body and really target your balance, core and all those under used muscles. This class is open to any level of fitness.

LesMills Core

Exercising muscles around the core that provides the vital ingredient for a stronger body. A stronger core makes you better at all things you do, from everyday life to your favourite sports – it’s the glue that holds everything together.

LesMills BodyCombat

Step into a BODYCOMBAT workout and you’ll punch and kick your way to fitness. This high-energy martial-arts inspired workout is totally non-contact and there are no complex moves to master. A LES MILLS^™ instructor will challenge you to up the intensity and motivate you to make the most of every round. You’ll release stress, have a blast and feel like a champ.

LesMills BodyBalance

Ideal for anyone and everyone, BODYBALANCE^™is the yoga-based class that will improve your mind, your body and your life.

During BODYBALANCE an inspired soundtrack plays as you bend and stretch through a series of simple yoga moves and embrace elements of Tai Chi and Pilates. Breathing control is a part of all the exercises, and instructors will always provide options for those just getting started. You’ll strengthen your entire body and leave the class feeling calm, centered and happy.

LesMills BodyAttack

BODYATTACK^™ is a high-energy fitness class with moves that cater for total beginners to total addicts. We combine athletic movements like running, lunging and jumping with strength exercises such as push-ups and squats all performed to energising music.

Body Pump

BODYPUMP^™ is THE ORIGINAL BARBELL CLASS^™, the ideal workout for anyone looking to get lean, toned and fit – fast.

Using light to moderate weights with lots of repetition, BODYPUMP gives you a total body workout helping you achieve much more than on your own! You’ll leave the class feeling challenged and motivated, ready to come back for more.

Body Blast

Looking to lose weight, tone up or improve your aerobic fitness, strength, stamina, endurance and energy levels? You’ve come to the right session. These classes are designed to be fun and challenging at the same time. Sessions will vary week to week.

Clubbercise

We darken the room, get the disco lights going and start to work up a sweat whilst dancing to ‘90s floor fillers, from rave to dance anthems. The routines are easy to follow and always have high- or low-impact options.

Group Cycling / Indoor Cycling

Calorie killing at its best, and without the stress of any complicated moves! Great music, motivational instructors and a chance to burn up to 450 calories per 30mins will complete your journey to calorie-burning heaven.

HIIT

HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training: get the maximum workout for the minimum amount of time! HIIT is proven to give the best results, combining high intensity exercises followed by rest – allowing you to exercise up to your own maximum levels, and get the big muscle groups working!

Kettlebells

These sessions are a total-body work-out using the latest in fitness equipment – the Kettlebell. This small, bell-shaped weight will combine cardiovascular, strength, endurance and flexibility training in one blast.

Strength & Conditioning

A focused class using equipment and bodyweights specifically designed to strengthen, sculpt and condition the body.

Box-Fit

A circuit-based class utilising boxing training techniques to effectively tone your body.

Aqua Aerobics

A fun and invigorating all-over body work-out in the water, designed to effectively burn calories with minimal impact on the body. Great for those who are new or returning to exercise. (Xcel Leisure Centre & Centre AT7 only.)

Aqua Zumba

Blends the Zumba philosophy with water resistance! There is less impact on your joints so you can really let loose. Water creates natural resistance, so every step is more challenging and helps tone your muscles.

HydroRider

A fusion of the old classic of indoor cycling and the benefits of water based exercise. Enjoy our bespoke and specialist water cycling class focusing on cardio, strength and endurance, but most of all, fun!

Pilates

Designed to concentrate on slow and measured movements in order to create lean and stronger muscles around your torso. A gentle but highly effective session for improving posture, flexibility and preventing injury.

Yoga

One of the worlds most practiced spiritual disciplines originating from modern India. Developed over thousands of years these sessions concentrate on bringing balance and harmony to both body and mind, through postures and breath. They can help to boost the immune system, encourage relaxation and correct posture alignment.

Yogilates

Incorporates a refined awareness of the breath and the core using yoga postures to improve flexibility and correct imbalances in the body.

Bums, Legs & Tums

Complete a lower body workout for all those problem areas, incorporating the use of hand weights, steps, bars and bands. Improving your aerobic fitness and tone those three key areas.

Circuits / Circuits training

Push yourself that little further with a class of exercise stations targeting specific muscle groups, improving your strength and cardiovascular fitness. Each instructor is different, so you may find one session time focused and another all about repetitions!

Core / Core Fit

This workout targets that tricky abdominal area to help flatten, tighten and tone the abs, glutes, back, obliques and ‘slings’ connecting the upper and lower body, improve functional strength and assist in injury prevention like nothing else.

Weight and Abs

A workout targeting core areas along with resistance training exercises. A workout to hit those hard to reach areas!

Gently Does It

A fun, low intensity, low impact session designed for older adults who want to work their heart, muscles and increase flexibility, all in one easy to follow class designed to revitalise your body through exercise.

Total Body Conditioning

A low impact session designed to work and strengthen all major muscle groups, improve cardio efficiency and increase flexibility.

Zumba

A Latin inspired dance-fitness class. It fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy to follow moves to create a dynamic fitness program that will blow you away!