Castle Hill YMCA
The Castle Hill YMCA offers tons of fitness classes each week, led by trained, responsive, and fun instructors. Try spin, bootcamp, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, and more.
Most classes are free for Y members, and there's no pre-registration, so browse a sampling of classes below, check the schedule, drop into a class, and start working out.
Strength and Conditioning
Boot Camp
A challenging workout for your entire body, using calisthenics such as pushups, jumping jacks, crunches and other body weight exercises.
Circuit Training
A fast paced workout that will challenge you with different activity stations.
Core Training
This class focuses on abdominal, back and core muscle training and stabilization to improve the body’s overall functional strength.
Deep Definitions
Sculpt and define every inch of your body in this strength training class.
Kettlebells
This is a total body workout that blends highly effective techniques for improving muscular endurance, total body coordinated movements and cardiovascular conditioning. Each movement and progression is taught with an emphasis on safety, highlighting essential body alignment. Take your body to the next level with Kettlebell training!
Lower Body Blast
Focus on your lower body — hips, glutes, and legs with this strengthening workout.
Tabata
Non-stop action — a Tabata is a short, 20-second interval followed by 10 seconds of rest. Intervals are stacked in cycles of eight.
Total Body Conditioning
A full body workout designed to strengthen and tone the upper and lower body using an assortment of fitness equipment.
Upper Body Blast
Focus on your upper body — arms, shoulders, chest, and back with this strengthening workout.
Cardio
Cardio Kickboxing
This high energy class blends athletic drills with martial arts to create an intense cardiovascular workout.
Spin®
An intense cardio workout of simulated road bike riding to energizing music.
Yoga, Pilates, and Stretch
Chair Yoga
A yoga class that integrates postures, breathing exercises, relaxation, and meditation to stretch, strengthen, and condition, all from the comfort of a chair.
Hatha Yoga
Integrates postures, breathing exercises, relaxation, and meditation to stretch, strengthen, and condition.
Kundalini Yoga
A system of yoga exercise and meditation that promotes health, happiness, and spiritual awareness, combining breathing, movement, stretching and sound.
Pilates Mat
Based on original Pilates techniques, this class is designed to restore muscular balance, improve posture, helps prevent injury and build strength and flexibility.
PiYo™
PiYo combines the muscle-sculpting, core-firming benefits of Pilates with the strength and flexibility advantages of yoga. And, we crank up the speed to deliver a true fat-burning, low- impact workout that leaves your body looking long, lean, and incredibly defined.
Stretching
An essential component of fitness that is often neglected or left out, this class uses a variety of stretching methods to gradually increase muscle strength and extend the range of movement at the joints.
Vinyasa Yoga
Flowing sequences of yoga poses linked together by an emphasis on breathing technique.
Dance and Zumba
Cize™
CIZE™ LIVE is a professional step-by-step dance where you’ll learn the hottest professionally-choreographed dance routines. From your first class, you’ll be bustin’ out moves you can take anywhere!
Zumba®
A fusion of Latin and International music, this class utilizes dance themes in a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt.
Water Aerobics
Aqua Jog
Build up your endurance by walking, jogging, or running in the low-impact water environment.
Aqua Zumba®
Aqua Zumba® blends to Zumba® philosophy with water resistance, for one pool party you shouldn't miss!
SilverSneakers® Splash
Activate your urge for variety! Splash offers fun, shallow water movement to improve agility and flexibility while addressing cardiovascular, strength and endurance conditioning. No swimming ability is required, and a SilverSneakers kickboard or other aquatic equipment is used to improve strength, balance and coordination.
Water Aerobics
An instructional class of aerobic movements performed in the water, to improve cardiovascular fitness, and flexibility.
Senior Fitness
AOA Cardio Conditioning
A gentle aerobic workout especially for older adults, or anyone who would like to include a low-intensity, low-impact workout in their fitness plans.
Zumba® Gold
The design of the class introduces easy-to-follow Zumba® choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion and coordination. Come ready to sweat, and prepare to leave empowered and feeling strong.
SilverSneakers® Circuit
Combine fun with fitness to increase your cardiovascular and muscular endurance power with a standing circuit workout. Upper-body strength work with hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a SilverSneakers ball is alternated with low-impact aerobic choreography. A chair is used for standing support, stretching and relaxation exercises.
SilverSneakers® Classic
Have fun and move to the music through a variety of exercises designed to increase muscular strength, range of movement, and activity for daily living skills. Handheld weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance; and a chair is used for seated and/ or standing support.
SilverSneakers® Splash
Activate your urge for variety! Splash offers fun, shallow water movement to improve agility and flexibility while addressing cardiovascular, strength and endurance conditioning. No swimming ability is required, and a SilverSneakers kickboard or other aquatic equipment is used to improve strength, balance and coordination.
SilverSneakers® Yoga
SilverSneakers Yoga will move your whole body through a complete series of seated and standing yoga poses. Chair support is offered to safely perform a variety of seated and standing postures designed to increase flexibility, balance and range of movement. Restorative breathing exercises and final relaxation will promote stress reduction and mental clarity.