HIGH INTENSITY /STRENGTH & MIND/BODY Classes Class Description
High Intensity/Strength formats are designed to enhance muscular strength and endurance, speed and agility, and most importantly to change your body composition! Mind/Body classes are designed to improve balance, flexibility and core strength, as well as practice body awareness and mindfulness. MInd/Body classes are best enjoyed when bringing a sticky Yoga mat, available at all major Sporting Goods Stores. However, using a Gym mat will suffice for trying the classes at first. Allow your body 3 – 5 classes to learn the basics of each class.
BODYFLOW™: This Yoga, Tai Chi and Pilates workout leaves you feeling long, strong, centered and calm. It’s your personal time out from the stress and strains of daily life – a 55-minute group exercise-to-music class that enhances your physical and mental well-being.
Body Pump: BODYPUMP is the original barbell class.Designed for all ages and fitness levels, BODYPUMP delivers real results, real fast. This athletic-based workout uses barbells with adjustable weights to work every major muscle group in the body. With motivating music and easy to follow moves, BODYPUMP strengthens, tones, and defines the body.
Boot Camp: Both cardio and strength, this high intensity class practices drills for strength, power, endurance and speed. You’ll be doing lots of relays, sprints, small hurdle running, lunging, push-ups, plyometrics, bracing, and much more, with options and modifications for those who need them. You will feel accomplished and invincible after completing this class.
Booty Blast B.A.R. – A Barre Principle Class: LVAC may not have ballet barres installed in any of our locations, but we put a different spin on the popular barre principle classes. In this Ballet Aerobics Resistance (B.A.R.) we use low impact movements to target the muscles of your core and your lower body (hips, thighs, butt). The movements are small, the focus is on alignment and good form and the repetitions are high – you will feel the burn! And instead of hanging from a barre you get to hold your own to tone your upper body.
CORE: (Different Name, Same Great Results) Abdominal and Back Strength – a class which may use just your bodyweight, balance balls, or medicine balls, either on mats or on balancing equipment, to strengthen your abdominal and back muscles. CORE will help support your body in everything else you do.
CORE/Corepower: A complete and intense total-body sculpting class, with emphasis on the abdominal and back muscles, using a variety of equipment.
Fitball: Uses a stability ball to develop strength, balance, and flexibility. Offered at Flamingo & Sandhill (East) only.
Flexibility: Guides you through safe stretches in order to increase range of motion and relief tension in tight areas of your body, using stretching techniques from various modalities.
Healthy Back: Prevent injury, feel better, add stretching to your workout. Learn beginning core work as well as use of the foam roller and PNF stretching techniques to facilitate greater range of pain-free motion! Great for beginning exercisers, people with injury issues and all who desire more flexibility.
Hot Pilates: Hot Pilates is a challenging full body workout using Pilates principles to create long lean muscle mass. What makes it hot is the combination of low impact, high intensity movements, making this one of the best weight loss programs that also helps you improve your posture.
MRT: A muscle-conditioning class designed to enhance muscle tone, definition and endurance using bands, balls, weights, as well as your own body-weight for resistance. Movements that take you through all three planes of motion will improve your functional fitness as well. Don’t forget to take a cardio class to show off that long and lean muscle.
Pilates: Floor work class based on the principles of Joseph Pilates. A core conditioning class that mainly aims to improve posture and balance by strengthening the abdominal and low-back area. May also focus on strengthening upper and lower body with your own body weight or small equipment.
P.I.T. Pure Intensity Training: Looking for something to really challenge your workout? Exclusively at LVAC, P.I.T. will have your muscles burning from head to toe! Mixing old calisthenics with modern-day functional training, this will be one of the newest programs to add to your existing exercise regiment!
Tabata: The class starts with a 5 min. dynamic warmup while the Instructor explains what is about to hit you. He or she will take you through 4 minutes of Tabata: 20seconds compound exercise – 10seconds rest – 20seconds same exercise – 10 seconds rest – until 4 minutes have been completed. Because you work as hard and as fast you possibly can, this is optimal for ALL fitness levels. After a short rest you will do a second set of 4 minutes or have the option to use core exercises instead. You should push yourself SO hard that you will NOT be able to do any exercise afterwards. Use this to finish your workout or when you are short on time! The class finishes with a warm-down and standing stretches.
Tai Chi: The traditional slow, focused, moving meditation health exercise.
willPower & grace®: This the high-energy, cardiovascular solution that mind-body practitioners have been looking for and the foot-fitness conditioning program that athletes need. This workout is as philosophical is it is physical; a full-body functional workout meets sports psychology. We integrate the smartest and safest barefoot training methods to strengthen your feet while progressively correcting imbalances in your ankles, knees and hips. This unique workout appeals to “morning moms,” sports athletes and teens, but must be experienced to be understood.
YOGA CLASSES – For your own comfort, dress in layers and be prepared to take off your shoes and socks. You can enhance your Yoga Practice by bringing a firm blanket or large beach towel to sit on and cover up with during relaxation. You may also want to bring a small towel to cover your eyes during relaxation.
Yoga: Yoga helps promote balance, focus, strength, and relaxation, through mind/body connection. We recommend you try different instructors to find the style you prefer. Yoga classes are always taught with options for easier and harder modifications. For your own comfort, dress in layers and be prepared to take off your shoes and socks. You can enhance your Yoga Practice by bringing a firm blanket or large beach towel to sit on and cover up with during relaxation. You may also want to bring a small towel to cover your eyes during relaxation. If you work the late shift and are looking for a class to help you distress, check out our Tuesday early morning Vinyasa Flow class at GV at 12:15am. So you might arrive 11:45pm Monday night for some cardio and stay for the 12:15am Yoga class.
Beginning Yoga: A class for people who are new to Yoga, those who desire a slower practice once in a while and those who want to review proper alignment. Mini lessons focus on alignment of the most basic postures and Sun Salutations are reviewed and practiced at a slower pace. A great class to learn the options to take during mixed level Yoga classes
Ashtanga (Intro/Prep) Yoga: Ashtanga moves through a set series of poses always done in the same order, moving through sun salutations and performing each pose individually to build flexibility and stamina. To help you learn the series safely and effectively LVAC currently offers these classes In shorter versions, moving slower In “Prep” to help you learn the series, and practicing as much of the complete series during “Intro” as time allows.
Gentle Yoga: A slower approach to a traditional Yoga class, keeping joint limitations in mind for the practice of poses. This gentle approach isn’t always easy and yet its simplicity may take you places you didn’t know you could go!
Integrative Yoga: Breath, awareness and movement come together to enhance the wellbeing of body, mind, spirit. Different styles of hatha yoga blend into an intuitive practice, including mindfulness practice, deep relaxation and quiet contemplation. All levels welcome.
Iyengar Yoga: In addition to the basic benefits of a Yoga class, this style of yoga is noted for great attention to detail and the precise alignment of postures.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga: This style focuses on linking breath with movement. Participants can expect to move through variations of the sun salutations and have postures linked together to increase strength, stamina, and flexibility. This is a vigorous varied practice. Some may be more vigorous than others.
Yoga Blend: Here you will discover how traditional Yoga and modern Fitness principles can be blended into an effective workout. You may find elements from Pilates and Functional Training incorporated In these classes.
Class Schedules
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