Group Exercise - YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston

Aqua Beat

A low impact aqua class designed to take pressure off your bones and joints. Water provides natural resistance in all directions, helping to strengthen your body without the need for heavy weights.

Aqua Craziness

A low impact, high energy class that uses the resistance of the water while minimizing impact to joints and back. Fun music, kickboxing and aerobic movements as well as weights, bands, and noodles for strength and toning.

Aqua Muscle Sculpting

A moderate impact aqua class that incorporates the sound of great music, aerobic movements, and muscle toning using weights, bands, and noodles.

Bootcamp

Instructors incorporate interval exercises with circuit stations and sports drills to offer a total body workout for anyone ready to take fitness to the next level. Our 35 or 60 minute class is a high intensity cardio and strength workout.

Cycle

This class is a non-impact individually paced cardio workout on our specially designed Keiser M3 stationary bikes. Remember: Although the program is free for members, you must sign-in up to 30 minutes before each class to reserve a bike.

Fit & Fun

Entertaining exercise for the over -60 crowd! Improve aerobic capacity, strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination.

Free Wheelin’ Friday

This cycle class features a 10 minute warm up, followed by 35 minutes of cardio spin, then finishing off with a 15 minute cooldown including core and stretching. Please register 30 minutes beforehand to reserve a bike.

Group Active

Group Active® gives you all the fitness training you need – cardio, strength, balance and flexibility – in just one hour. Get stronger, fitter and healthier with inspiring music, adjustable dumbbells, weight plates, body weight and simple athletic movements. ACTIVE YOUR LIFE!

Group Blast

Group Blast® is a highly effective workout designed to get your heart pounding and sweat pouring as you improve your cardio fitness, agility, coordination, power, and strength with exciting music and motivational coaching.

Group Power

Group Power® will blast all your muscles with a high-rep weight training workout. Using an adjustable barbell, weight plates, and body weight, Group Power combines squats, lunges, presses, and curls with functional integrated exercises. Dynamic music and a motivating group atmosphere will get your heart rate up, make you sweat, and push you to a personal best! POWER UP!

Hatha Yoga

Meaning “Sun-Moon”, Hatha yoga aims to bring together opposites in your life and create balance. Breath work and postures work to align your body and allow energy to flow freely.

Kick N Core

Incorporates kickboxing techniques with an interval training style cardio workout. After the first half of the class doing standing moves, we take it down to the floor for core focused moves to finish us off!

Making Waves

Low impact moderate cardio water class, focusing on strength, flexibility, and stability. Suitable for most fitness levels.

Mindful Flow Yoga

A well-rounded class starting with gentle stretches and breath awareness to increase mobility, some core building & standing postures, and a nice long relaxation.

Morning Boost

A high energy boost to get your day going. This class consists of various circuit training, weight training, aerobics, mat work, cardio and stretching.

Pilates/Yoga

Combination of pilates core work with yoga stretching, breathing and postures.

Power Flow Yoga

This is a power yoga practice (all levels) combined with high intensity interval training (HIIT). You get the yoga vibes combined with a rigorous, fast-paced workout. It is designed to hit every aspect of your physical fitness, while creating mindfulness, and awareness of your body. It incorporates strength, flexibility, balance, power, endurance, agility, and coordination.

Qi Gong

Qi Gong (pronounced chi kung) offers a unique way to support your health through low-impact movements, mindfulness, and breath-work. You’ll unlock new movements designed to subtlety build strength, enhance mobility, and improve posture.

S.A.S.S.

Strength Agility Shaping Stretching = S.A.S.S. Let’s get fit and stay fit together in the pool! A whole body aqua workout including cardio.

Silver Sneakers Aqua

Shallow water exercise class done to music from yesterday and today. Silver splash boards, foam weights, and noodles are used for resistance training if desired. All ages and fitness levels welcome. Swim skills not required.

Sit & Fit

Total body workout with the majority of the exercises completed from a seated position. Dumbbells, Resistance tubes, and Fitness balls are used to add intensity to the exercises. A great work out for those folks with limited mobility or limitations.

Sprint 8 Cycle

Sprint 8® is an efficient, fat-burning sprint-intensity interval program on the bike that gives you a complete cardio workout, including warm-up and cool-down, in just 20 minutes.

Strength & Conditioning

Strength and conditioning class using body weight, hand held weights, tubing, and bands to firm up the muscles while increasing power and endurance.

Tabata

A high-intensity interval training workout conducted in 4-minutes segments: 20 seconds of activity, followed by 10 seconds of rest. Includes a mix of cardio and strength exercises that can be scaled to your ability level.

TRX

Using TRX suspension makes gravity your resistance, adjusting the level of difficulty is as easy as moving your hands or feet! Progression is limitless! Registration required, limit 8 participants per session.

Yin/Restore Yoga

Yin Yoga focuses on stimulating the connective tissue by holding postures in a reclined or seated position for 3-5 minutes. Working to create space and mobility in the tightest areas. Restorative Yoga allows the body to relax, using props for support

Yoga for Flexibility

With a focus on your breath, we incorporate relaxing movements & gentle stretches for a mind/body workout.

Yoga Foundations

A gentler class that focuses on learning proper breathing techniques, body alignment and basic meditation.

Zumba

We take the “work” out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party. Once the Latin and World rhythms take over, you’ll see why Zumba® Fitness classes are often called exercise in disguise. Super effective? Check. Super fun? Check and check. A total workout, combining all elements of fitness – cardio, muscle conditioning, balance and flexibility, boosted energy and a serious dose of awesome each time you leave class.

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