YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE

Stay active, make friends, and feel great! We offer group exercise classes for all fitness levels and interests. From strengthening to stretching, you’ll find a fitness experience that keeps you motivated and leaves you energized.

CLASS RESERVATIONS

In order to better serve our members, we offer reservations for our free group exercise classes through our app for iOS or Android devices and on our website. Reservation perks include:

  • ALWAYS HAVE A SPOT: No need to rush to class! If you’ve made a reservation, you’re guaranteed to have a spot, even for our most popular classes. Class is full? Sign-up for the wait list and you’ll be added as spots become available.
  • CALENDAR REMINDERS: Add any class to your personal calendar, set your own reminders, and coordinate your schedule. Please note that calendar reminders do not automatically update if changes are made and need to be manually removed if you cancel your reservation.
  • EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS: After reserving your spot, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a calendar reminder to download and a link to easily cancel your reservation if you can’t make it. You’ll also automatically be sent an email if your class is cancelled.
ONLINE RESERVATION INSTRUCTIONS APP RESERVATION INSTRUCTIONS


Reservations open six (6) days prior to each class and can be made online or in our Y app until the class starts. Feel free to stop by the Welcome Desk for assistance.


CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

ACTIVE OLDER ADULTS

AOA Functional Fitness

Improve your daily life by strengthening your muscles, increasing your range of motion, and staying active. Suitable for most fitness levels, exercises can easily be adapted to fit your needs or by using a chair for support. Need more of a challenge? Add resistance by using hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, or a ball.

SILVERSNEAKERS® CIRCUIT

Alternate standing upper-body strength work with upbeat, low-impact choreography to maximize your fitness benefits. Suitable for nearly everyone, your instructor can adapt the exercises depending on your skill. A chair is available for standing support, as well as hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball for strength training.

SILVERSNEAKERS® CLASSIC

Increase muscle strength, range of movement, and endurance with low-impact training. You can easily modify the workout to suit your fitness level and use hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, or a ball for resistance. You’ll also have a chair for seated exercises and standing support.

SILVERSNEAKERS® YOGA

Relieve stress as you move through seated and standing yoga poses designed to increase flexibility, balance, and range of movement. We’ll finish with restorative breathing exercises and relaxation to promote reduce stress and mental clarity. A chair is used to meet a variety of fitness levels.

ZUMBA GOLD®

Dance to the beat! All the ZUMBA® excitement and Latin-inspired moves you love, taught at a slower pace. The lower-intensity, easy-to-follow choreography allow you to focus on balance, range of motion, muscular conditioning, and coordination. Come ready to sweat and leave feeling strong.

CARDIO

Advanced Freestyle Step

Step up your workout with freestyle cardio and muscle conditioning. Recommended for experienced steppers, the fast-paced class strengthens coordination, balance, and agility by using an adjustable height step. You’ll be coached through high-intensity sequences to get close to anaerobic calorie burn, alternating with recovery breaks to regain energy. Mat work is required.

CYCLING

Low-impact, high-energy cardio fitness that’s as easy as riding a bike! Experience a calorie burning workout that strengthens your heart, tones your legs, and boosts your endurance. Powerful music motivates you on a journey of hill climbs, sprints, and flat riding. Suitable for all levels, you control the intensity by changing the resistance on the stationary bike.

Les Mills BODYCOMBAT®

Get fit, fast, and strong! Fuel your cardio fitness with a fiercely energetic martial arts-inspired workout that's totally non-contact. You'll learn empowering moves from Karate, Taekwondo, boxing, Muay Thai, capoeira, and Kung Fu that will help you develop coordination and destroy calories. Engage your whole body as you punch, kick, block, and strike to driving music. Mat work required.

Les Mills BODYSTEP®

A mix of upbeat, rhythmic stepping, with squat and lunge patterns to tone your legs, work your glutes, build stamina, and improve coordination. The combination of movements like burpees, push-ups, and weight plate exercises creates an uplifting, full-body workout. To get your heart rate up, we play invigorating music and inject a whole lot of personality so that everyone leaves feeling successful.

COMBINATION

Les Mills BODYATTACK®

Find your athletic potential! Improve your functional fitness and maximize your cardio stamina with high-energy, sports-inspired moves for all fitness levels. Running, lunging, and jumping combine with strength exercises such as push-ups and squats for a whole-body workout. Our instructor will pump out energizing tunes and lead you through actions that challenge your limits and leave you with a sense of achievement.

STRONG Nation®

Start training to the beat! STRONG Nation® combines body weight, muscle conditioning, cardio, and plyometric exercises synced to original music that's been designed to match each explosive move. Every squat, every lunge, every burpee is driven by the music, helping you make it to that last rep and ensuring you're challenged to the max.

Total Body Circuit

Get ready to sweat! Work through a powerful combination of circuit training exercises that cover cardio, conditioning, and core. We’ll use different equipment and vary the intensity to challenge your muscles and energize your whole body. Great for all levels.

DANCE

Advanced Line Dancing

Make friends, improve your health, and have fun learning dance steps set to a variety of upbeat music. We'll practice advanced level choreography and precise patterns to enhance your balance, improve your coordination, and boost your confidence.

Cardio Mix

Increase your heart rate with a combination of core, strength, and aerobic exercises. Both motivating and challenging, cardio workouts can help you live longer and healthier by improving your cardiovascular endurance and reducing your risk of heart disease.

Dance Jam

Find your groove with a high-energy class inspired by a variety of upbeat dance styles. The awesome mix of music and moves will motivate you to burn calories, get fit, and have fun! All fitness levels are welcome. No mat work required.

Hip-Hop Step

The ultimate fusion of step aerobics and hip-hop dance! Fun and exhilarating, we’ll incorporate vibrant hip-hop elements with basic step movements on and off a bench. Great for all fitness levels.

LaBlast® Fitness

Fitness powered by dance! Choose your own intensity as you move through a ballroom workout set to your favorite pop, rock, Hip-Hop, and country music. You'll experience a full array of dance styles without a partner -- from Jive to Foxtrot and Viennese Waltz to Lindy Hop. Whether you want to tone your body, maintain a healthy lifestyle, or learn to dance, you'll have a great time!

LINE DANCING

Make friends, improve your health, and have fun learning dance steps set to a variety of upbeat music. We'll practice beginner level choreography and easy-to-follow patterns to enhance your balance, improve your coordination, and give your memory a boost.

ZUMBA®

Perfect for everybody and every body, ZUMBA® is an energy-boosting dance fitness party that takes the "work" out of workout. Let the Latin and World rhythms move you towards better health with choreography that combines cardio, muscle conditioning, balance, and flexibility. The mix of low- and high-intensity exercises creates a calorie-burning class that's effective and fun.

SHALLOW WATER

Water Aerobics

Make the most of water’s resistance! Jump in the pool for a total body workout that will increase your cardiovascular endurance and muscle strength. All fitness levels are welcome, however you must feel comfortable in water that is chest deep.

Water Aerobics Flow

Gain flexibility, improve strength, and increase your heart rate, without putting stress on your joints. Perfect for all fitness levels -- no swimming skills needed, but you should be comfortable exercising in water that is chest deep.

Water Cardio Rhythm

A high-energy workout with low impact moves. You’ll strengthen, tighten, and tone by using water’s natural resistance. It’s a great option if you’re looking to relieve stress and take a break from high impact activities.

STRENGTH

BARRE Blend

Blend the very best of ballet, Pilates, and muscle conditioning to create a full-body, toning workout. Using small, pulsing movements, we’ll focus on form, alignment, and core strength. The precise combination of standing exercises and mat work will lengthen and strengthen your muscles while also testing your endurance.

Chisel

Let’s sculpt a better you! Strengthen multiple muscle groups using hand weights, resistance bands, and stabilization techniques. The full-body workout features standing and floor exercises that build bone density and tone muscles to increase efficiency in your daily activities.

Core Blast

Target, define, and tone your abs! Have a blast building strength, stability, and endurance in the muscles that support your core. The power packed, athlete-inspired exercises will improve your balance and help prevent injuries. All fitness levels welcome. Mat work required.

Les Mills BODYPUMP®

The ideal class for anyone looking to get lean and fit, fast! Using light to moderate weights with lots of repetition, the total-body barbell workout will burn calories, tone muscles, and improve bone health. We'll pump out encouragement and great music while coaching you through the scientifically-backed moves, techniques, and mat work. You’ll leave feeling challenged and ready to come back for more.

PILATES

Feel energized as you perform repetitive exercises that promote strength, stability, and flexibility. Using a mat or other equipment, Pilates tones and develops muscles through techniques that stem from your core.

STRETCH

Hatha YOGA

For thousands of years, the practice of Hatha yoga has balanced the mind and body. Focus on aligning your energy to find a sense of calm as we transition through seated and standing poses. Each class features a combination of techniques, including yoga postures (asanas), breathwork (pranayama), chanting or reciting (mantra), hand gestures (mudra), and cleansing practices (shatkriyas, shatkarmas).

Les Mills BODYBALANCE®

Feel more confident and less stressed while improving your flexibility and core strength. We’ll transition between standing and floorwork as we move through a series of yoga, tai chi, and Pilates exercises set to an inspiring soundtrack. You’ll focus your mind and concentrate on your breath to create a lasting sense of calm.

Power YOGA

Boost your spirit, mind, and body with energizing yoga movements. We’ll put less emphasis on the restorative benefits of yoga and more on building strength, increasing stamina, and burning calories. You’ll feel empowered as you flow quickly through chaturanga, warrior poses, cobra, utkatasana, crescent lunges, and more. There will be transitions from mat work to standing poses throughout class.

TAI CHI

Find strength and serenity. Originally developed as a martial art, Tai Chi has evolved into a graceful form of exercise that puts minimal stress on joints and muscles. Each posture flows into the next, ensuring that you're in constant motion. The gentle movements will help ease stress, improve balance and posture, and increase flexibility.

Vinyasa Flow

Unite your mind and body by using your breath to guide you through a dynamic yoga practice. Focused breathing allows you to ease into postures that build flexibility, strength, and balance. You'll flow seamlessly from the mat to standing poses as you increase your heart rate and release tension. All levels are welcome.

YMCA360

Online · Y App · Android TV · Apple TV · Roku

Log in to YMCA360 and workout anytime, anywhere! Access on-demand videos and livestream classes 24/7 on your cell phone, computer, or smart TV. All you need is an internet connection and a valid email address.

LOG IN INSTRUCTIONS

YMCA360 AT THE Y

Studio TVs at the Briscoe Family YMCA Wellness Center and a portable television at Rite-Hite Family YMCA have YMCA360 installed, which means we can offer a virtual group exercise class instead of making last-minute cancellations. YMCA360 classes may also be included on our group exercise schedule.


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BRISCOE FAMILY NORTHSIDE RITE-HITE FAMILY

Group Exercise schedules are subject to change without notice.