Cardio Class Description
Cardio classes are designed to raise your heart rate and to get large muscle groups working. Everyone’s level of cardio fitness is different and you need to listen to your body. If your heart feels as if it is going to jump out of your chest, simply march in place. Please allow yourself to take any class 3 – 5 times to learn the basic movements. Classes without numbers are taught to mixed levels of fitness, giving modifications for easier and harder options. Step slasses marked 1, 2 and 3 denote beginner, intermediate and advanced with BodyStep being a great option for all levels. Always let your Instructor know if you are new to a class and if he or she should be aware of any injuries or pregnancy. Always bring a towel and water in a closed container.
8Strikes™: Created by Alan Giron, this class is unique, from the heart pounding music that is custom made to the 8 strike combinations that involve 8 points of contact used by kick boxers around the world. Use your fists, knees, elbows and feet to kick inches off your waist line. Squats, pushups and plyometrics will reshape your body. 8Strikes will challenge and improve your endurance, reaction time and reflexes. This class is for everybody.
Belly Dance: Learn traditional bellydance moves that firm and tone the waist and hips. No experience or flat stomach necessary. Men are encouraged to join in the fun!
BODYATTACK™: This sports-inspired cardio workout is designed for building strength and stamina. This high-energy interval training class combines athletic aerobic movements with strength and stabilization exercises. Dynamic instructors and powerful music motivate everyone towards their fitness goals – from the weekend athlete to the hard-core competitor! Like all the LES MILLS™ programs, a new BODYATTACK class is released every three months with new music and choreography.
BodyCombat™: This fiercely energetic, empowering cardio workout program is inspired by martial arts and draws from a wide array of disciplines such as Karate, Boxing, Taekwondo, Tai Chi and Muay Thai. Supported by driving music and powerful role model instructors, strike, punch, kick and kata your way through calories to superior cardio fitness.
BODYJAM™: Set to the latest music and greatest dance moves, this is a 55 minute cardio workout is an addictive fusion of the latest dance moves and hottest new sounds that puts the emphasis as much on having fun as breaking a sweat. It’s cardio fun at its best for those with a passion for movement. You will burn calories, increase your fitness levels and learn to dance better. So grab a friend, get front and center and get high on the feeling of dance.
BodyStep™: This energizing step workout that makes you feel liberated and alive by using a height-adjustable step and simple movements on, over and around the step. You get huge motivation from sing-a-long music and approachable instructors. Cardio blocks push fat burning systems into high gear followed by muscle conditioning tracks that shape and tone your body.
BODYVIVE™: This class is the low-impact, whole body group fitness workout that uses VIVE™ balls, VIVE tubes and body weight to boost fitness and core strength. There are inspirational instructors and music to motivate you. Best of all, you’re left fizzing with energy so you can really take life on! Like all the LES MILLS programs, a new BODYVIVE class is released every three months with new music and choreography.
Boot Camp: In this high intensity class with drills for strength, power, endurance and speed, you’ll be doing lots of relays, sprints, small hurdle running, lunging, pushups, plyometrics, bracing and much more, with options and modifications for those who need them. You will feel accomplished and invincible after completing this class.
Cycle Cardio conditioning on a stationary bike. There is no learning curve… just get on the bike and go. However, you may enjoy your time on the bike more if you wear padded bike shorts or bring a padded seat cover (available in the sports department of any major discount store).
Cycle RPM™ Intervals: RPM™ is the 50-minute indoor cycling workout based on outdoor riding where you ride to the rhythm of powerful music. Take on the terrain with your inspiring team coach who leads the pack through hills, flats, mountain peaks, time trials and interval training. Discover your athlete within – sweat and burn to reach your endorphin high.
Dance With Me: DWM is truly a party with all the important elements for a great cardio workout. Different from any other cardio dance workout, DWM utilizes all styles of dance, such as Hip Hop, Bollywood, Country, Ballroom, Jazz, African, Hula, Russian, Latin Styles, Broadway, Disco, and so much more. There are cardio and toning bursts infused throughout, and the workout is paced so that students of all shapes, sizes and fitness levels can participate and change their body for the better, for life!
Hip Hop: Contemporary hip hop dance classes. Lots of fun if you hang in there for a few classes to get down the moves! We recommend that you have some sense of coordination.
HotHula Fitness: Inspired by the dances of the Pacific Islands, HOT HULA fitness® incorporates easy to perform dance movements set to the sounds of traditional Polynesian drum beats . HOT HULA fitness® isolates your larger muscle groups, increasing strength and definition to your core glutes, quads and arms. And if you like bring a sarong and a flower to wear.
Kickbox: Non-contact boxing and kicking moves done to motivating music in a cardio class setting release your tensions while burning lots of calories.
Lite Step/Lite Workout: With a longer warm-up, slower paced but still motivating music, these classes are great for everyone who wants to move a little slower and get a steady workout for your heart, especially beginners, people with injuries or tight joints and women returning from difficult pregnancies. The large range of motion and fluid movement patterns will leave you feeling worked out and flexible.
Piloxing Piloxing™ is a creative mix between Pilates and boxing, with a mental and physical goal of attaining a “Sleek, Sexy and Powerful” self-image. This low-impact workout is done barefoot and incorporates movements from dance, punches inspired by boxing and core work based on Pilates. It is fun, a perfect fat burning workout and great for your feet.
R.I.P.P.E.D. – The One Stop Body Shock™ is a “Plateau Proof Fitness Formula” that helps you to create continuity, consistency and challenge in each and every R.I.P.P.E.D. class. It is Plateau Proof, because each component of the workout provides a uniquely different emphasis or system response, so your body never gets accustomed to the constantly changing format. Thus, regular R.I.P.P.E.D. participants achieve undeniable, ultimate results in minimal time, boasting 750-1000 calories burned in just 50 minutes (based on two years of data collection from heart rate monitors and dotFit exerspy™ of students taking R.I.P.P.E.D. classes).
Sh’Bam by Les Mills: How can you NOT want to do something that’s called sh’BAM?!! This class features simple but seriously hot dance moves that will shape you up and let out your inner star. The soundtrack is made up of chart-topping popular hits, dance music heard in the world’s hottest nightclubs, familiar classics and modernized LATIN Beats. The class is 45 minutes long.
Step 1, 2, 3: Classes performing moves on and off a step platform that are great for tightening those glutes (your booty)! If you can’t make it to a level 1 class, be sure to be patient if you start with level 2 or try BodyStep™ to improve your cardio fitness first. Let your instructor know that you are new and just keep coming.
WillPower & Grace: A sweaty, cardiovascular barefoot workout. The workout challenges you to ask yourself “What if I HAD to” and then manage it all gracefully with the benefits of cardio-sculpt, the intensity of boot-camp, the self awareness of a yoga practice and the discipline of Pilates. The workouts are strong, inspiring, and barefoot. You are encouraged to “move with integrity” and always “trust your feet”. This class will help you build your physical and mental willPower.
Triathlon Class: Combines lap swimming, stationary cycling and running to simulate a triathlon. Goggles, towel, padded bike seat or shorts and water are recommended. First, set up your bike in the Group Fitness room, and then meet the class in the lap pool.
Zumba: This is a cardio class based on international rhythms. Imagine you are going to a friend’s party and just have a great time dancing to great music. There is no wrong, everything is right and you definitely do not need any dance experience! The moves are simple and sometimes strength-conditioning moves will be added. Lots of fun and lots of sweat!
Class Schedules
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