Aqua 
Aqua Aerobics
Aqua aerobics is a dance based fitness class, making use of the resistance of the water. The class includes a warmup, aerobic section, muscle strengthening, and some flexibility. It is suitable for weak and strong swimmers, just make the instructor aware of your abilities if you have concerns. It is a fun social class, with a wide variety of music, ideal for all ages, fitness levels and abilities.
Aqua Natal
A low impact exercise class for pregnant or post pregnant women that improves sleep quality, reduces back pain, enhances well-being and encourages bonding.
Deep Water Aerobics
A fun 45-minute aqua class to music that will help improve your cardiovascular fitness and strength in water. Using equipment such as water dumbbells and noodles, the deep water allows for higher-intensity training sessions that place significantly less stress on your body. This class is suitable for all abilities with the option to workout in shallow water.
Masters Swimming
Improve your technique, work towards goals and have fun. If you can swim 4 lengths front crawl then you’re ready to go! Ages 14+yrs.
Powerswim
Powerswim is a short intensive class designed for adults who want to improve their swim stroke, technique and fitness level within a coached environment. This class is more suited to advanced swimmers.
Skills & Drills
Designed to help Adults develop their stroke technique and improve fitness. This session is taken by an Instructor giving adults the chance to improve and develop their swimming skills with the Instructor’s advice. Skills & Drills is more suited towards swimmers who can swim lengths but require more work on their technique.
Aquafit
Lively interval and circuits based class in shallow/transitional water (1.25m - 1.30m), using a variety of equipment.
Strength
Circuits
Circuits offers a combination of strength and cardio exercises with short, rapid movement between intervals.
Using bodyweight, dumbbells and kettle bells, this class is designed to improve strength and endurance while burning calories to give you a full body workout.
This class is suitable for all levels as individuals adjust pace of exercises to their own level of ability and experience.
Les Mills BODYPUMP™
Les Mills BODYPUMP™ is a barbell workout for anyone looking to get lean, toned and fit - fast!
Using light to moderate weights with lots of repetition, BODYPUMP™ gives you a total body workout.
You’ll leave the class feeling challenged and motivated, ready to come back for more.
Les Mills BODYPUMP™
Les Mills BODYPUMP™ is a barbell workout for anyone looking to get lean, toned and fit - fast!
Using light to moderate weights with lots of repetition, BODYPUMP™ gives you a total body workout.
You’ll leave the class feeling challenged and motivated, ready to come back for more.
Cardio
50+ Badminton
A sociable and inclusive Badminton session for people aged 50 and over.
50+ Bowls
50+ Bowls are played indoors in the Arena. This is an inclusive group that meets twice each week and is included with ActiveLife. These sessions can be booked online.
BOXFIT
BOXFIT is a high energy boxing based class designed to improve cardiovascular fitness, reduce stress and burn lots of calories. You will work in partners throughout the class and will be challenged with varying pad combinations and body weight exercises.
Coach By Color Free Induction
The Coach by Color Induction will take you through the safe and correct bike set up, an explanation of the bike computer and its functions and an overview of our Coach by Color indoor cycling class.
This induction will be followed by a FTP RAMP test which will help you get an accurate FTP score and get the most out of the indoor cycling classes.
Coach By Color® - Indoor Cycling
Our Coach By Color® class brings a simple and intuitive form of communication to group cycling to improve the rider experience and to achieve your fitness results in less time.
The Coach By Color® power programme combines accurate zonal training with stimulating colour to help coach your effort during the class.
The instructor will work you relevant to your exercise ability via the Coach By Color® five coloured training zones - white, blue, green, yellow and red - making the class fun but also extremely inclusive.
Cycle Express
Cycle Express is a 30-minute high energy cycling based class that involves performing sprint intervals with some endurance training on an indoor bike. This feel good class will help improve your health, cardiovascular fitness and mood.
Cycle Express is suitable for all fitness levels.
FTP Ramp Test - Free class
The FTP RAMP test will give you an accurate score that you can then input into the Coach by Color® class to ensure your workout is as relevant to your fitness level as possible (please note, you DO NOT have to complete this to come to the Coach by Color® class but it is highly recommended).
The test is for all levels, from beginner to elite, and is simply a starting point which gives the rider something to measure their progress as their fitness improves.
FTP, in its simplest form, is a way of helping a rider understand their current level of fitness on a bike. During the FTP RAMP test, every four minutes the WATTs target will increase 25 watts, all you have to do is “KEEP IT GREEN” for as long as you can. Your FTP value and duration are displayed once you have successfully completed the test. The session will take anywhere from 15 - 45 minutes.
By completing the test, you will gain knowledge on:
- Functional Threshold Power (FTP) test
- Fitness ability and limits
- The different Power Zones
These sessions are free but you must book in advance.
Get Fit
Get Fit is similar to our previous Fit ‘n’ 50+ class and is for those who just want to have fun while exercising!
This is an enjoyable and inclusive workout with great music to help build up cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance. The workout will be mainly aerobics-based but will also include strength exercises, balance and stretching. You are guaranteed to leave this class with a smile on your face!
This class is suitable for beginners but more advanced options are available.
Get Fit II
Get Fit II has been put on the Group X timetable due to the popularity of Get Fit!
This is an enjoyable and inclusive workout with great music to help build up cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance. The workout will be mainly aerobics-based but will also include strength exercises, balance and stretching. You are guaranteed to leave this class with a smile on your face!
This class is suitable for beginners but more advanced options are available.
Pilates
Pilates is a 60-minute full body workout, designed to build core strength, improve posture and increase flexibility. Pilates is suitable for all levels of fitness.
Walking Football
Walking Football is a variant of association football and an excellent way of staying fit and healthy. For older people, it has proven to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke while improving blood pressure. Although a low impact sport, the game produces high aerobic activity and improves balance, strength and stamina, all the while having fun with a like-minded group of people.
Players should check-in at reception and meet at the 7-a-side outfield pitch.
Zumba®
Zumba® combines high energy and motivating music with unique moves and combinations making this a fantastic dance-based fitness workout.
Zumba® is a fun aerobic workout suitable for people of all ages.
Dance Aerobics
Dance Aerobics is an enjoyable and inclusive workout with great music to help build up cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance. The workout will be mainly aerobics-based but will also include strength exercises, balance and stretching. This class is suitable for all abilities.
Women's Only Session
We understand that for women in particular, attending a class for the first time, or participating in exercise, can be daunting. That’s why we offer the Women’s Only Sessions held in the Quayside Studio where women can take part in stretching, a weighted circuit routine, cardio machines and more!
Katie Rafferty, fitness expert and personal trainer, will be on hand for an informal chat about health and wellbeing, and give you advice on how exercise can become part of your daily routine. You can drop in at any point within the hour.
These sessions are included in an ActiveLife membership or charged at the general admission price. You can book online or just come along, and please check in at reception or members can use the Quick Ticket Machine on arrival.
Hula Hooping Salsa
Hula Hooping Salsa is about putting the fun into fitness! It's a brilliant workout incorporating body movement and foot work to Latin rhythms. This is a great class that will get your heart rate up while offering a full body workout.
Active Sit
Introducing falls management exercises and getting to the floor and back up, after functional assessments and health questionnaires. No music and working at your own pace. Led by a level 4 postural stability instructor with exercise referral, older people and chair based exercise qualifications.
Mind-Body
Les Mills BODYBALANCE™
Ideal for everyone, Les Mills BODYBALANCE™ is the yoga based class that will improve your mind, your body and your life.
During BodyBalance, an inspired soundtrack plays as you bend and stretch through a series of simple yoga moves and embrace elements of Tai Chi and Pilates.
You’ll strengthen your entire body, especially your core, and leave the class feeling calm and centred.
Chair Based Exercise
Chair Based Exercise is a gentle class that will guide you safely through stretches, dumbbell exercises, body weight and balance to help improve your strength, mobility, suppleness and circulation.
This class is suitable for beginners and those with reduced mobility. Please don't hesitate to contact Emma if you have any further questions.
Mindful Yoga
Mindful Yoga has an emphasis on awareness of the body and breath, working gently and slowly while still developing flexibility and strength. This combined with a focus on relaxation during movement and the final relaxation period creates a sense of calm and well-being which we can take off our mat into our daily lives.
Mindful Yoga is suitable for all abilities as we work within our own comfortable range of movement.
Movement Matters
Based on laterLife and Otago programmes this is ideal for those wishing to improve range of movement in later years or if recovering from an injury and looking for a progressive approach back to mobility. Incorporating, balance, strength and flexibility, these exercises may be carried out standing or seated.
Movement Matters Xtra
Movement Matters Xtra (MMX) will focus on strength, balance and flexibility exercises to help improve your overall health by building resistance, stamina and an awareness of breath to support movement.
Chair and standing based this is ideal for the 50+ and those recovering from injury. MMX will complement the Movement Matters session.
Relaxation
Relaxation offers a combination of gentle movement and focussed breathing.
The class starts out with gentle movement and intentional breathing exercises followed by deep relaxation. The last five minutes of the class will incorporate movement to be fully awake before leaving.
This class is suitable for all levels and will benefit anyone looking for techniques to help maintain a calm body and mind.
Yoga Align
Yoga Align is about bringing alignment to the body through the physical asanas, breathwork and stillness of the mind.
Focus will be on the breakdown of asanas to be delivered in a meaningful way to bring about change to one’s own practice.
Utilising the breath is key to ease of movement and the calmness of the mind will be promoted to aid concentration and awareness through the asanas.
This is an ideal class to accompany Yoga for Strength.
Yoga for Strength
Yoga for Strength is designed to improve strength, stamina and flexibility.
A combination of dynamic flowing and held postures to increase muscle resilience through deeper stretching and breathing.
This is an ideal class to accompany Yoga Align.
YogaMoveS
This session is aimed at those living with MS and who may independently get up and down from the floor. This class does not require booking, if you would like to attend please head to Studio 2 where our instructor (Jane) will take your details.
Tea/Coffee and biscuits included with discussion in separate room after class.
Yoga for Release
Aimed at those wishing to obtain a deeper stretch with slower movements and longer holds in asanas (poses). This will target muscle tightness, increase flexibility and release held tension. Combined with linking the breath and being mindful in your own practice, this will promote a peaceful but full body experience. Partner work may be included in these sessions.