Group Fitness Classes
Strength in numbers: a group workout is lots of fun and highly motivating!
At our YMCA you’ll find an extensive mix of fitness classes and programs for your age, ability and interest. Check out the list below for something just right for you!
Our YMCA is a safe, welcoming and inclusive place where you can connect with others and engage in activities that improve your life and help you achieve your goals. We offer a wide variety of programs that can help you and your family lead healthier lives regardless of your background or financial situation.
NEW! Spring Trial Classes
We’re introducing trial classes exclusively for members during our Spring Interim Program Schedule! These classes are a chance to try something new, and if they’re popular, we may add them to our regular lineup.
It’s always fun when you get to try something new, and why not start with Golden Gloves! This program will give participants the opportunity to practice core exercises, boxing specific movements, punches, strength training, and cognitive skills in an exciting transition based format. Let’s take a jab cross into a new fun style of training!
Join our specialized workshop for golfers to boost mobility and strength, enhancing your overall game for the upcoming season. Participants will receive tools and resources to continue their fitness journey throughout the golf season. Offered March 26 and April 2.
This class is designed to learn proper weightlifting techniques. It focuses on teaching safe lifting form, using equipment like dumbbells and barbells, and performing basic exercises like squats, bench press and deadlifts. The class progresses at your pace, with a focus on building strength, preventing injury, and boosting confidence. Instructors provide personalized feedback in a supportive, small group setting to help you develop good habits and progress safely.
This class uses Olympic-style lifts (hang clean, power clean, clean and press, front squat, deadlift, etc.) to help participants of all skill levels develop full-body strength and power. Each class focuses on teaching the fundamentals of 1-3 Olympic lifts, breaking them down into smaller movements to ensure proper form and technique. Whether you’re new to weightlifting or looking to refine your skills, this class provides a supportive environment to build strength, power, and improve coordination.
Our Youth Circuit class is a fun, high-energy workout designed to get youth (ages 7-12) moving and improve fitness. Participants rotate through a series of exercises that focus on strength, coordination, and endurance, with brief rest breaks in between. It’s a great way for youth to build healthy habits, stay active, and have fun!
Drop-In Fitness Classes
Designed for casual to competitive teen athletes, join members from Owen Sound Swimming for this program focusing on general body athletic strength. Mobility and stretching components are included with each class.
Bars and Plates is low in complexity, but high in results! It will sculpt your muscles, increase metabolism, and increase strength using specially designed bars and weight plates. There’s no experience required to join the class, just your desire to build a stronger you.
Develop your muscular strength and endurance using a variety of equipment and techniques. Strengthen and tone the abdominals, upper, and lower body while focusing on proper movement execution.
Challenge and improve your agility, core strength and overall fitness level. Class combines cardiovascular intervals with resistance training techniques. Modifications provided to make this class suitable for all fitness levels — beginners welcome!
Buti is a Sanskrit word that means “the hidden cure.” Through primal movement, dynamic asana and cardio-sprints, students break down the emotional barriers that hold them back from achieving self-love and true human connection. All Buti classes utilize spiral structure technique to facilitate the release and toning of the body -physical, emotional and energetic.
A gentle way to start if you are looking to get moving, we use a variety of exercises and include some strength and cardio to help you get going. Whether you are new to exercise or looking for a class to get you started, this is the class for you.
A variety of high/low impact exercises, step aerobics, power kick boxing and muscle toning. Suitable for all fitness levels.
Get your heart rate up with this combination of body weight exercises, cycling, step aerobics, and resistance training.
Get your heart rate up, build strength and increase flexibility, all from a chair! Chairobics combines aerobic exercise and muscular endurance with great music while participants are seated. Some Chair Yoga and stretching at the end of class rounds out this great low-impact workout.
Focus on abdominal and back strengthening exercises for development of core strength to proactively fight back pain, repetitive stress, weakness and fatigue.
Stationary cycling with the motivation of an instructor, the companionship of a group, and up-tempo music lead to an easy to follow workout for all fitness levels.
Join us for a 30-minute Cycle Sculpt class that combines 15 minutes of high-energy cycling with 15 minutes of strength training using weights. This dynamic workout will boost your cardio fitness while toning and sculpting your entire body!
This class provides low impact, full body conditioning using the Gravity Training System. This workout has the function of an adjustable incline plane and gravity resistance! All fitness levels welcome. If we have more participants than Gravity machines, we will offer alternative exercises and transitions to include everyone!
Challenge and improve your agility, core strength and overall fitness level. Class combines cardiovascular intervals with resistance training techniques featuring the Total Gym Gravity machines. Modifications provided to make this class suitable for all fitness levels — beginners welcome!
Combine a full body Gravity workout with some extra Core exercises using exercise balls, medicine balls, kettlebells and dumbbells.
JOGA a movement system made up of the benefits of yoga combined with the biomechanics of sport. JOGA enhances athletic performance, improves concentration, decreases recovery time and ultimately, transforms an athlete’s game.
A form of martial art, this class is designed to increase muscular strength and endurance, through series of boxing techniques of jabs, hooks, and kicks with the use of punching pads/bags. Participants must supply their own boxing gloves and hand wraps as they are not provided. You can purchase gloves at our Welcome Desk or buy your own (16oz gloves).
Are you a new mom looking for a workout that fits around your baby’s schedule? Bring your little for one of our new Mommy and Me classes:
Stretch & Strengthen – A full body workout class that encourages engagement with your baby and emphasizes core strength
Yoga – Practice Yoga poses (some with your baby in your arms!) in an open and casual setting
Concentrating on posture, balance and flexibility, Pilates is a form of exercise which strengthens the body with an emphasis on core strength.
This practice is for anyone who enjoys Vinyasa yoga, also known as flow yoga. The class moves through yoga postures in a more dynamic way, with opportunities for modifying movements to be more (or less) intense. Elements of core strength, balance, and range of motion are incorporated in a calm space. This class is great for athletic cross-training… or as a perfect way to unwind after a long day.
Combine the cardio benefits of stationary cycling with the strength benefits of Gravity training for a total body workout!
A gentle, easy to follow stretch class to help increase flexibility, improve joint mobility and core stability. Suitable for any fitness level.
Participate in a variety of dynamic, high intensity cardio and resistance intervals to challenge and improve your cardiovascular fitness, balance, core strength and muscular endurance.
Develop your muscular endurance at your own pace with TRX. This class delivers a full-body workout by utilizing one’s bodyweight and gravity on the TRX Suspension Trainer. TRX will provide you with a fast and effective workout, great for people of all fitness levels.
Participate with an instructor on the routine that will be posted as the Workout of the Week right after you complete it. This motivating class will provide a unique workout every time.
Yoga means union, a coming together of mind, body and spirit. Your flexibility, strength and concentration will be improved through a series of yoga postures and breathing techniques. Comfortable clothing and willingness to try new things is all you need to participate.
Registered Fitness Classes
Please be aware of registration dates and register early to avoid disappointment. Fees may apply.
Kung Fu is a traditional form of martial arts that not only educates an efficient style of self-defense but also history, philosophy and ethics. Join us in learning the basics of this art form from SiFu, Trevor Uitvlugt. Register for sessions through ACTIVE Net.
12-15yrs, FREE for members
This program runs in 4-week sessions, participants are required to attend Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday classes. The program will teach teens how to exercise effectively using equipment, free weights and body weight. Receive guidance from staff on how to begin or improve your workout.
This ancient practice is a series of 108 slow, graceful movements developed in the 12th century by a Taoist monk. All at the same time, it is a health exercise, a method of meditation and a martial art. Here we will emphasize the health aspects of this art. The movements are specially designed to relieve stress and fatigue while developing strength, flexibility and concentration. Participants will learn small portions of the set each class until the complete set is learned.
At our YMCA we offer Tai Chi 1 for beginners; Tai Chi 2 for members part way through learning set of 108 moves; Tai Chi 3 for those who have learned the full set of moves and Lok Hup Ba Fa (Advanced Tai Chi).
Join Triathlon veteran Todd Wainwright for this 90 minute coached training program. Each week will include swimming, indoor biking, running and strengthening.
