Long Island City YMCA
The LIC Y offers over 70 group fitness classes each week, led by trained, responsive, and fun instructors. Try indoor cycling, core training, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, and more. Our classes are free for Y members, so 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.
Cardio Sculpt
Work up a sweat with this intense fusion of cardio drills and strength training.
Core Training
This class focuses on abdominal, back and core muscle training and stabilization to improve the body’s overall functional strength.
Insanity®
Insanity live! Workout in 3 to 5-minute blocks, and take breaks only long enough to gulp some air and get right back to work. It’s called Max Interval Training, because it keeps your body working at maximum capacity through your entire workout. You keep pushing your limits – so your body has to adapt.
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.
Total Body Conditioning
A full body workout designed to strengthen and tone the upper and lower body using sculpting, plyometric training, and hand-held weights for body segments.
Cardio
Cardio Circuit
This efficient and challenging form of cardio training uses a variety of exercises and workout stations
Cardio Kickboxing
This high energy class blends athletic drills with martial arts to create an intense cardiovascular workout
POUND
POUND is a full-body cardio jam session, combining light resistance with constant simulated drumming. The workout fuses cardio, Pilates, isometric movements, plyometrics and Isometric poses.
Indoor Cycling
Intense cardio workout of simulated road bike riding to energizing music.
Yoga, Pilates, and Stretch
Gentle Yoga
Designed to teach basic yoga postures that will enhance flexibility, strength and balance and promote relaxation. Iyengar yoga promotes quiet, an inward focus, and a heightened consciousness mentally for the experience of childbirth.
Vinyasa Yoga
Flowing sequences of yoga poses linked together by an emphasis on breathing technique
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.
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.
Dance and Zumba
Latin Dance Party
A fun choreographed aerobic workout to Lain beats and rhythms.
Zumba®
Zumba® takes the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party.
Martial Arts
Capoeira
This exciting Brazilian martial arts class combines music, dance, and traditional movements. The goal is to increase flexibility, balance, agility and overall coordination and strengthen mental and physical concentration.
Tai Chi
An ancient form of mind body exercise that uses purposeful, slow movements in a form of meditative exercise for relaxation, health and self defense.
Water Aerobics
Aqua Boot Camp
This challenging water workout will put your strength and endurance to the test.
Water Aerobics
An instructional class of aerobic movements performed in the water, to improve cardiovascular fitness, and flexibility.
Senior Fitness
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. Hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance; and a chair is used for seated and/ or standing support.
