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YMCA Group Fitness Classes

The Waynesboro Family YMCA Group Fitness Classes are co-ed and designed to fit all levels and ages. These classes are free with your membership. All “Y” instructors are certified in group fitness exercise through a nationally recognized certification organization.

Cancellations for group fitness are posted on the Y’s Facebook page. We recommend you consult our Facebook page when possible before heading to class!

Zoom Online Group Fitness Classes (Members Only)

Please contact the Fitness dept. at ymcafitnessva@gmail.com with your contact information to participate in the YMCA Group Fitness Classes on Zoom.

Please send your First and Last Name and your Email Address where we can send a Zoom link to you for access to the Zoom classes.

Group Fitness Contact List (Members Only)

Would you like to be on the contact list for Group Fitness Class updates, changes, cancelations, substitutes? Please email the Fitness Director at ymcafitnessva@gmail.com to request to have your email and cellphone contact on the list!

Group Fitness Class Schedule

Group Fitness Class Description

Abs/Core: Group fitness class that focuses on strengthening core area, building abdominal strength, building abdominal muscles and core muscles.

Balance & Stability: Senior fitness class that focuses on easy exercises to help build bone density, muscle mass, flexibility and positive reinforcement on health. Chairs are used in this class. No impact exercises.

Bootcamp: This workout is a type of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) — bursts of intense activity alternated with intervals of lighter activity. Includes functional fitness, such as using whole-body, multi joint exercises that simulate movements people do in life.

Cardio Sculpt: Full body workout, targeting all major muscle groups and the cardiovascular system. It utilizes weights and body weight through a variety of resistance training movements to build strength and shed fat. It also includes short cardio intervals to get your heart pumping and increase cardiovascular fitness and burn calories.

Cardio Strength: Total body workout designed to improve cardiovascular health and muscle strength.

Chair Yoga: A wonderful, safe, and gentle form of yoga which is practiced sitting on a chair or using a chair for support during standing poses. Chair yoga is suitable for everyone. This practice helps increase flexibility, lung capacity, circulation and strength, improves balance, and relieves stress.

Classic Yoga: A traditional-style mat yoga class suitable for beginners with modifications offered for intermediate practice; no strenuous inversions. Class begins with light breath work and ends with a short savasana (relaxation).

Gentle Conditioning: Fitness class that focuses on easy exercises to help build bone density, muscle mass, flexibility and positive reinforcement on health. Chairs are used in this class. No impact exercises.

Gentle Yoga: A great introduction to yoga for beginners or an easier class for beginners or those who enjoy a gentler practice.

HIIT: High intensity interval training exercise, incorporates several rounds that alternate between several minutes of high intensity movements to significantly increase the heart rate, followed by short periods of lower intensity movements.

Muscle Mania: The class focuses on all major muscle groups of the upper and lower body. It utilizes weights to impact all major muscle muscles through a variety of movements and innervations. Incorporates cardio bursts throughout the workout.

Pound: Utilizing the energizing infectious fun of drumming. It uses lightly weighted “drumsticks” to transform drumming into an effective way of working out.

Power Yoga: A satisfying blend of steady-paced dynamic sequences coordinated with the breath blended with periods of static holds for strength, endurance, and flexibility.

Spin: Build cardiovascular strength and endurance while burning calories. It offers a challenging low-impact stationary bike ride with fun energizing music. The group ride atmosphere is encouraging and keeps you motivated to come back week after week.

Step Aerobics: Step aerobics is a classic cardio workout…this “step” is a 4 inch to 12 inch raised platform. You step up, around, and down from the platform in different patterns to boost your heart rate and breathing, and strengthen your muscles. Beginners Step Intro class is right before the full step class. In the Intro class you will learn how to use the step equipment.

Strength Circuits: Circuit training is a fast-paced class in which you do one exercise for 30 seconds to 5 minutes and then move on to another exercise. This will give attention to all major postural muscles and trigger a Tabata like effect activating both fast and slow twitch muscle fibers.

Yoga Fusion: A traditional-style mat yoga class with Pilates-style challenges blended in to build core stability and strength, increase flexibility and improve coordination and balance.

Zumba: Zumba combines Latin, International and pop music with interval dance moves that alternate fast and slow rhythms. It is “exercise in disguise!”

Meet our Group Fitness Instructors

Kat Draego
Kat Draego
Clarence Henley
Clarence Henley
Natalie Hall
Natalie Hall
Sue Clark Mirra
Sue Clark Mirra
Bonner Odell
Bonner Odell
Jessica Shepherd
Jessica Shepherd
Erin Cuomo
Erin Cuomo
Kirsten Berezan
Kirsten Berezan
Berkley DeLung
Berkley DeLung
Holly Humphreys
Holly Humphreys