The YMCA prides itself in offering you diverse, effective, and fun class programming. We take great care in ensuring that we offer classes that appeal to your mind, body, and spirit. Whether you’re a senior, teen, serious athlete, or new to group exercise–we promise to have something that inspires your motivation to move!

 


Aerobic & Strength

 

ACTIVE TOGETHER

Locations:  Cook County

Active Together is a simple athletic program drawing from all four elements of fitness; cardio, strength, balance & flexibility. This class is great for those new to exercise and for the busy and fit who need to get it all in one class!

CARDIO STEP TOGETHER

Locations: Cook County

This 60 minute energetic cardio workout uses the Step to train for power, speed, agility, coordination and strength. 

CORE & MORE!

Locations: Essentia Wellness Center

This class uses a variety of methods to strengthen your core, challenge your full body, and increase your heart rate! 

CYCLE TOGETHER

Locations: Cook County

A 60 minute cycling experience brought indoors. Roll over hills, chase the pack, spin the flats, climb mountains and sprint to the finish!

CYCLE 30 TOGETHER

Locations: Cook County

This workout will get you fitter & feeling better in only 30 minutes. It's as easy as riding a bike. Inspiring music, motivating coaching will get you to burn calories, improve muscular endurance & build cardio fitness.

CYCLING

Locations: Downtown   Essentia Wellness Center

This is a cardio indoor bike workout using a variety of multi-level workouts with speed drills, hills and intervals on Keiser M3+ bikes, the best bike in the industry.

DEFEND TOGETHER

Locations: Cook County

Defend Together burns calories & builds total body strength. Mixed martial arts movements done at a rapid-fire pace to maximize your cardio fitness. This is a high energy experience and 60 mins of fun!

ForeverWell Combo

Locations: Woodland     Gary New Duluth   Essentia Wellness Center

Class is designed to increase flexibility, joint stability, balance, coordination, agility, muscular strength and cardio endurance.  The workout combines aerobic, flexibility and resistance strength training with plenty of friendly fun.

STRENGTH EXPRESS

Locations: Downtown

Class offers Full body workout focused on strength and core fitness using hand weights, BOSU, and floor mat. Build fitness by meeting a challenge of 45 minutes of continuous strength exercises with balance, flexibility, and body weight activities integrated throughout Workout.  

 

 

STRENGTH TRAIN TOGETHER

Locations: Cook County

Strength Train Together combines traditional strength exercises with functional training moves to make you fitter and stronger. The class uses an adjustable barbell, weighted plates & body weight along with dynamic & motivational music to make you sweat & take you to your personal best!

SILVERSNEAKERS CIRCUIT 

Locations: Cook County    Downtown   Essentia Wellness Center

This workout offers an opportunity to target muscular conditioning, low impact movements to target cardio conditioning, balance and flexibility using hand weights, resistance tubing, a small ball. A chair is offered for support, stretching and relaxation exercises.

TOTAL BODY CONDITIONING

Locations: Essentia Wellness Center

Full body strength and resistance training for a whole body workout that will keep you strong and fit.

TOTAL STRENGTH & CONDITIONING

Locations: Downtown

This is a hybrid training style including both building strength and Improving your cardio. You will be working with resistance bands, dumbbells, and other equipment to help build strength, while teaching proper form, and challenging you with intervals of different bodyweight exercises to increase your endurance! 

TRX Suspension

Location: Downtown

TRX Suspension training is a total body workout that will push you to a new level of strength, balance, flexibility, and core stability using the TRX suspension trainer and your own body weight.  

WATER AEROBICS     

Locations: Downtown     Essentia Wellness Center

Low impact, therapeutic, aerobic, and strength conditioning class.

WATER FITNESS

Locations: Cook County

Water creates a unique environment for improving muscular and cardiovascular endurance, flexibility and Activities of Daily Living (ADL's). This workout uses shallow and deep water, music and is open to all levels.

ZUMBA GOLD

Locations: Cook County

Zumba for the young at heart, combines fitness and dance moves choreographed to lively Latin and other world music for a total  body workout.  No dance ability or background is needed and routines can be adapted to any fitness level. Ages 6 and older

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Mind & Body 

 

Balance and Flex Together

Locations: Cook County

A 60 minute mind-body workout that incorporates yoga and Pilates fundamentals with athletic training for balance, mobility flexibility and the core.

Fitness Yoga

Locations: Downtown 

An athletic practice synchronizing breath with poses, encompasses balance, strength, conditioning & flexibility for stress reduction.

Gentle Yoga

Locations: Essentia Wellness Center

Focuses on slow stretches, flexibility, and deep breathing to help reduce stress.

Silver Sneakers Yoga

Locations: Cook County

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.

Yoga

Locations: Cook County

Yoga uses the practice of breath control, meditation, and postures that increase strength, balance and flexibility in the body as well as the mind.