Boot Camp

This class emphasizes athletic training with no aerobic dance at all! The focus is on strength, speed, endurance, agility and flexibility and is challenging for all levels of fitness. Your instructor Heather serves as your coach as she takes you from beginning to end in a non-competitive workout environment. After each quick but thorough demonstration, participants go through an obstacle course built exclusively for this class. This segment is followed by weight bearing exercises that challenges upper body strength.

Step Classes

Step and Sculpt...This step based class incorporates intermediate to lower advanced step choreography with handweights that may be used intermittently throughout the workout

Step Jam...This step based class is for advanced steppers and contain complex choreography.

FELDENKRAIS® Classes

The Feldenkrais method helps people of all ages and fitness levels learn to move more easily. The gentle, innovative lessons taught by certified Feldenkrais instructor, Vicki Robinson will allow you to observe how you move, become aware of unnecessary tensions and improve your overall coordination. You will learn to ease pain and chronic discomfort, improve flexibility, increase energy, and reduce stress and fatigue. Dress in comfortable workout attire. For more information or any questions please contact Vicki Robinson at three_arts@msn.com This class has a fee of $5 per class, payable at the front desk prior to attending each class and space is limited to 20 students

NRG Bar and Serious Sculpt

NRG Bar and Serious Sculpt are classes that incorporate  weights into a pre-choreographed athletic workout set to powerful motivating music. While NRG Bar incorporates Barbells, Serious Sculpt uses less Barbell and more resistance tubes and hand weights. Both workouts appeal to men and women, from beginners to conditioned athletes. Each 45-60 minute choreographed class works every major muscle group in the body - it strengthens, conditions, shapes, tones and defines muscle. Instruction and participation focus heavily on correct lifting technique with the use of light to moderate weights and high repetition.

The workout covers all of the basic exercises: bench presses, biceps curls, squats, lunges, rows, triceps extensions, military presses, front shoulder raises, and even the clean and press. This total body workout is designed to be an effective way to fight osteroporosis and general muscle atrophy.

GENTLE YOGA:

Release tightness and enhance your range of motion with gentle, gravity based Yoga poses. No previous experience necessary; open to all levels.

Pilates

Whether you want to tone your muscles, rehabilitate from an injury, or train for an athletic event, Pilates Mat will safely guide you in the right direction. The Pilates Method helps to lengthen and strengthen muscles while building a uniformly developed body. Pilates focuses on core strength—abdominals, gluteals, inner thighs—and practices moving from the “inside out.” It helps with posture, body alignment, breathing, control, balance, flow and strength. The mind works with the body to help realign movement patterns, and to work muscles properly and efficiently. Students gain a kinesthetic awareness of their own bodies so that they can integrate the ideas learned in class into their daily lives.

Tai Chi

Also Known as TAI CHI CH’UAN, and is part of the Tai Chi Ch’uan System, which, originally, was a formidable martial art operating on several levels of awareness. It embodies Taoist Philosophy, and accordingly is extremely beneficial to good health. Tai Chi is a comprehensive series of gentle physical movements, and breathing techniques, with mental and spiritual intent, which allows you to experience a meditative state. It is calming and rejuvenating, and assists the body and mind to maintain balance, and exercises the body, mind and spirit, together with the internal organs. It includes both the inner and outer expressions of the body and mind. Here we are able to balance the Yin and Yang life force energy of Chi. In this way this system develops the ability to balance the “yielding and attacking” aspects in martial art combat. It has also been such a major influence in all the martial arts we see today.

Lifetones

Lifetones is Olympic Athletic Club's exclusive conditioning class for people over 60. Lead by personal trainers, this half-hour class serves as a perfect warm-up for resistance training and minimizes injuries associated with improper warm-ups and bad form. Exercises such as exer-balls, tubing and hand weights are used in this class and weekly tips/techniques are also offered.

Silver Sneakers

The SilverSneakers^® Fitness Program is offered through healthcare providers nationwide and provides a basic health club membership with access to SilverSneakers^® Fitness Classes and other senior-safe exercise classes. The SilverSneakers Fitness Class is a strength and conditioning class designed specifically for the Medicare-eligible population and focuses on increasing muscular strength and flexibility.

The popular fitness class benefits participants from "head to toe" with warm-up and range-of-movement exercises before working with hand-held weights, elastic tubing, and balls for a total body workout.

The cool-down, final stretch, and relaxation segments calm and refresh students to return to their daily activities with a renewed sense of confidence.

As participants' conditioning increases, SilverSneakers expands with more challenging choreography that focuses on movement exercises to prepare them for a heart-healthy cardiovascular workout. This level is followed by the third level of exercises developed to enhance conditioning work for improving strength and style.

The class meets the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's suggestion that Seniors incorporate moderate to vigorous physical activity into their daily lives for significant health benefits.

Yoga

Today's hectic lifestyle has left many of us wondering how to manage the stress that comes along with it. While regular aerobic exercise and strength training can help, it isn't the complete answer. Some believe yoga is the piece you need to complete the puzzle of keeping both the body and the mind fit.

Yoga, from the Sanskrit word meaning union, is a 5,000-year-old Eastern philosophy, which incorporates the mind and body in a mutually supportive relationship. Westerners are most familiar with its fitness components but may not realize yoga weaves fitness, wellness and a deep sense of consciousness-raising. Enthusiasts practice various yoga traditions, all of which combine forms of breathing, posture and exercise. The physical exercises are called asanas (postures). These are isometric moves, which stretch and tone muscles. Similar to weight lifting, yoga strengthens muscles by incorporating resistant weight-bearing exercise using the body's own weight as the resistance. While all yoga traditions employ variations of the asanas, each type offers different fitness benefits and wellness goals.

NIA

Nia is a well-being fitness and lifestyle practice. Through expressive movement - the Body's Way - Nia empowers people to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and well-being. Nia changes people's lives.

Nia blends a range of rhythmic music styles with carefully choreographed hour-long routines. It is the first and foremost 'fusion fitness' program of its kind, inspired by three art forms: The Dance Arts - Jazz, Modern, Duncan; The Healing Arts - Yoga, the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, The Alexander Technique; and The Martial Arts - Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi. Come discover the power and joy of this creative, savvy, energizing fitness class. Nia will move you!

Full Body Workout

You will enjoy a two for one workout  with a blend of step training and weight resistance. This incredible challenge is sure to promote lean muscle mass, rev up your metabolism, and improve functional performance.

Kickboxing

Kickboxing is a marriage of aerobics and martial arts which creates a distinctive high-powered, high energy workout. It increases endurance and enhances cardiovascular power while also strengthening the body and the mind. In this class, we utilize punching bags so purchase your boxing gloves at the front desk. Your color options are black, red, blue and pink.