Mt. Scott Community Center

Group Fitness Class Descriptions

ACTIVE AGING – Lifelong Fitness (specially designed for older adults)

Healthy Aging Yoga: This gentle yoga class offers an exploration of mindful movement while increasing balance, agility, and ease. Incorporating slow subtle practices, as well as familiar postures (asanas), we can welcome greater functionality into our body. Healthy aging yoga helps restore a sense of peaceful calm while enhancing flexibility, mobility, and strength. Altogether this benefits the needs of aging bodies and minds. This class is also excellent for beginners and those who want to slow it down for a bit.

Low Impact 20/20: Combines all your favorite aspects of fitness and puts them into one solid workout! Combine 20 minutes of cardio and 20 minutes of strength. The class is light to moderate intensity with free weights, and bodyweight movements.

Stretch and Flex: This is a gentle stretching and flexibility class that works all muscle groups with slow stretches, flexibility, and breathing exercises. Progressive flexibility allows for a full range of motion which enhances daily living. Ideal for beginners and those seeking a low-impact option.

ZUMBA Gold™: For the largest growing segment of the population: baby boomers! It takes the Zumba formula and modifies the moves & pacing to suit the needs of the active older participant, as well as those just starting their journey to a fit and healthy lifestyle.

CARDIO/STRENGTH

Circuit Drop-in: Get your circuit training workout on your schedule. This instructor-led two-hour circuit training window allows participants to come and go as they please. The instructor will set you up with a workout upon arrival. Circuit training is a form of body conditioning that includes endurance training, high-intensity aerobics, and resistance training performed in a circuit with short rest breaks between each exercise.      

HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training): This class combines high-intensity cardio and strength intervals to build your cardiovascular fitness while improving muscular strength. The short bursts of activity will get your heart rate up and keep boredom at bay. You’ll wonder where the time went! We’ll finish the class with some floor abdominal work and a relaxing stretch to increase mobility.

Kettlebell Strength: This class is all about increasing strength and mobility. Kettlebells and dumbbells will be used to challenge our muscle endurance. You might be begging for high knees to give those trembling muscles a break, but it's not happening in this class You'll get cardio from swinging that bell. At the end of class, you will be rewarded with a full-body floor stretch.  

Morning Coffee: An early morning fitness class can have the same effect as coffee. Try starting your morning with a high-intensity workout to get those muscles working. When increasing your heart rate, you increase your circulation and digestive system. The extra oxygen you send to your organs will wake you right up! This class will provide a mixed bag of workouts including circuit training, HIIT style workouts, weight training, and more. Get your morning started off right!

Pilates Method: Gain energy, develop stamina, tone up and feel fit. Non-impact exercises work the deep, core abdominal muscles to help achieve efficient and graceful movement. Devote time to concentrated strength. Improve balance, posture, flexibility, and body alignment.

DANCE FITNESS

Creative Dance for Kids (ages 5-8): a joyful way for children to explore movement through music and dance. Your child will work on developing physical skills, stimulate imagination, and creativity.  Using creative movement, students can simultaneously develop motor skills, rhythmic awareness, coordination, and balance in a safe environment.

Nia: An energetic blend of the dance arts, martial arts, and healing arts. Get your heart pumping in a fun, easy, and creative way that feels effortless. Relax your mind, strengthen your body and lift your spirits! Practiced to world music, Nia teaches you to move in a way that most benefits your individual body.

The Ellové Technique ®: A conditioning and cross-training class taught by certified dance specialists and educators. The pure techniques of ballet, yoga, fitness, and Pilates are set to music in a seamless movement sequence that improves strength, flexibility, and control. Incorporating principles of dance medicine and science, The Ellové Technique reduces injury risk by targeting muscle imbalances, refining alignment, increasing endurance, and practicing safe stretching techniques.

ZUMBA™: A high-energy combination of Latin, Reggae, and Salsa dance steps. Routines combine fast and slow rhythms to achieve a balance of cardio & muscle-toning benefits. Join our certified Zumba instructors; no previous dance experience necessary!  

MIND/BODY

Core and Stretch: Combine 20 minutes of core strengthening and 20 minutes of flexibility. Progressive flexibility allows for a full range of motion which enhances daily living. All fitness levels will benefit from this class. Modifications can be made for beginners or those seeking a lower intensity/slower paced workout.

Hatha Vinyasa Yoga 1: This class is suitable for those new to yoga and for regular practitioners. Hatha Vinyasa Yoga 1 will incorporate longer holds that increase mobility and strength, as well as more fluid vinyasa movement that flows from one pose to the next. Practice meditation, breathing techniques, and mental focus to support our physical practice. Modifications of postures (asanas) will be offered. Hatha Vinyasa Yoga 1 could be combined with Hatha Vinyasa Yoga 2 for more in-depth practice. This class may not be suitable for people with mobility challenges or those seeking a very gentle practice. Please bring your own mat and blanket (optional). Blocks and straps will be provided.            

Hatha Vinyasa Yoga 2: Blend strength, breathwork, and mindfulness in a vigorous asana practice that combines the deep, long holds of yin, the strong alignment work of Hatha, and the flowing vitality of Vinyasa. This energetic class aims to cultivate resilience, joy, and stamina. It is most suitable for those with some vinyasa yoga experience or fitness background, though all are welcome, and modifications will be offered. This class may not be suitable for people with mobility challenges or those seeking a very gentle practice. Please bring your own mat and optional blanket. Blocks and straps will be provided.

Prenatal Yoga: Discover the gifts of this traditional exercise during pregnancy as you prepare for birth and motherhood. Take time to stretch, tone, and relax, caring for your body and mind as you connect with other expecting women.

Tai Chi (Chen Style): Practitioners perform a series of postures designed to achieve balance and harmony in both body and mind, as well as to improve overall health. All movements consist of continuous turning of the waist and spine, wrist and shoulder, ankle, and knee. It contains vigorous as well as gentle movements.

Personal Training

Available beginning January 2022.
Personal training gives you the opportunity to find real, achievable goals and to meet those goals in a safe and timely manner.