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Group Fitness Classes

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Classes are open to DoD ID card holders and their guests, ages 16 years and older.

Class schedule

Group Fitness classes are currently being held at Hercules PFC and Tolson Indoor Pool.

Class descriptions
  • Athletic Step
    A simple and fun class using a height adjustable step. Great functional workout to tone the lower body and increase overall conditioning.
  • Aqua Cycle
    Tired of the normal cycle class? If the answer is “yes”, then join us for Aqua Cycle! A challenging and restorative alternative to your normal cycle class. 
  • Aqua Zumba
    Brings new meaning to the idea of an invigorating workout. It combines Zumba rhythm and dance steps with a pool party. Fun but challenging, water-based, body- toning workout.
  • BARRE- Ballet- inspired moves with elements of Pilates, dance, yoga and strength training.
  • Body Tune Up
    This hybrid modality class combines physical therapy principals, breathing dynamics, stretching modalities, and fun exercises that create immediate stability, relieve tension, and increase energy. You’ll feel more connected and mobile in your body; reducing pain and increasing performance.
  • BOGA Flow
    A floating Yoga class! BOGA Flow is essentially Yoga on a BOGA Mat in the water and is an exciting new way to enhance your current yoga practice. The BOGA board is large enough and sturdy enough to support someone standing on it. Yoga practices on a board floating in the water helps to improve concentration, balance and core strength. All levels from beginner to advanced yogis welcome and encouraged to try a class.
  • Boot Camp
    Interval training alternating various body sculpting moves and aerobic exercises on the step, with barbells, bands, or weights.
  • Burn & Firm Cycle
    A challenging cycle workout with emphasis on shaping the glutes and legs. Intervals on the bike are combined with squats, lunges, and plyometric off the bike.
  • Cardio Kickboxing
    An aerobic exercise combined with boxing and traditional martial arts movements. Strengthen and tone your muscles with a variety of punches, strikes and kicks to develop killer legs, toned arms and abs.
  • Core
    Utilizing both the mat and the stability ball, this low impact class provides high impact results! The focus of exercises activate all the core muscles using a variety of sequences, leaving you feeling strong, flexible, and balanced.
  • Cycling
    Cycling is more than just a workout. Each session has a specific purpose and is carefully designed and timed to energize, challenge and empower students to achieve their health and fitness goals.
  • Dance & Tone
    Full body high energy class where you can dance to great music and tone your muscles using hand weights at the same time. Come join the party!
  • Glute Camp
    This class will guide you in mastering the proper techniques for efficiently targeting your glutes. It includes hip mobility exercises to assist and enhance your glute strength, engaging not only your glutes but also your lower body and core. All fitness levels, from beginners to advanced, are warmly welcomed to join.

  • HIIT
    High Intensity Interval training, a total body, aerobic and strength conditioning workout. This type of training gets and keeps your heart rate up and burns more fat in less time.
  • Pilates
    Devised to utilize both the mat and stability ball, this low impact class provides high impact results! The principles of Pilates are applied in sequences that activate the core muscles leaving you feeling strong, flexible, and balanced.
  • PiYo
    PiYo is a hybrid, athletic workout, which combines the mind/body practices of yoga and Pilates, as well as the principles of stretch, strength training, conditioning and dynamic movement. During a PiYo class, you will find yourself standing in a yoga pose one minute, and down on the floor in a Pilates pose the next!
  • Prenatal Yoga
    This is a wonderful way to connect with yourself and your baby for the journey that lies ahead! No previous yoga experience is necessary to participate in yoga classes for pregnancy.
  • Sculpted
    The original full body barbell workout. Sculpted is a total body strength and conditioning workout combining the benefit of traditional weight training for that lean, tone look with fast results.
  • Strength & Cardio
    This class will push you by training hard using a variation of cardio (high intensity), strength (w/weights, bands or body strength) and core. You will feel like a champion after this class.
  • Strong by Zumba
    STRONG by Zumba ® is a revolutionary high-intensity workout led by music to motivate you to crush your ultimate fitness goals.
  • Temple Building Dance Fitness
    Temple Building Dance Fitness offers a high intense, cardio inspired workout to Contemporary Gospel and Gospel Hip Hop music. Our goal is to lift your spirits with encouraging music while building strength and endurance in your body with a variety of exercises. We are family friendly and all skill levels and abilities are welcome!
  • Ultimate Workout
    This is a high intensity, heart pumping interval training that will chisel your muscles. It’s a workout on fire!
  • Water Aerobics
    Take the plunge and try this low-impact workout that builds muscle strength and boosts your endurance. Each water aerobics class includes a warm-up, cardio and strength-training exercises, and a cooldown.
  • Yoga (Flow & Hatha)
    Yoga increases flexibility, while building strength and stamina through various poses and postures. Yoga also helps improve posture, rejuvenates energy level, relieves stress, reduces fatigue and/or chronic pain. A Flow class links movement and breath. This class will heat the body. A Hatha class focuses on the breath and poses. Poses are held longer and is a gentle yoga.
  • Zumba®
    Zumba® (Zumba® Latin Dance-Fitness) fanatics will experience an absolute blast in one exhilarating hour of caloric-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!
  • WELLBEATSTM ( FREE Virtual Class)
    • TKO (kickboxing conditioning)
      TKO is non-stop movement to channel one’s inner fighter.  Benefit from the power behind the punch and total-body training.  A fusion of martial arts disciplines, each class includes a combination of punches, kicks, strikes, and techniques for a knockout experience.    

    • Rev (performance cycling)
      Experience the ‘best ride’ of your life with our Rev cycling classes.  Maximize calorie burn and increase cardio and muscle endurance with our unique mix of sprints, climbs, intervals, drills, terrain and technique training to challenge you in every class.    

    • Fusion (Yoga/Pilates meld)
      Invigorating and vitalizing, each WELLBEATSTM Fusion class is the perfect integration of yoga and Pilates exercises, with attention to breath, form, flow and body balance.

    • Stomp (all around step)
      WELLBEATSTM Stomp is truly a ‘step revival’… as step was originally meant to be taught - Go up, over and around the step for a total body, cardio-driven workout.  Easy to follow yet inventive step patterns make Stomp doable and fun!  Give this fresh take on step a try!

Prices and purchase options

Single class

  • $5 per class
  • Payment options:
    • Debit and credit card accepted at Hercules PFC (no cash or tokens)

Class pass

Event prices may vary and are available for purchase through WebTrac or at Hercules PFC and Towle Courts PFC. Pricing does not apply to WELLBEATSTM virtual group fitness classes. WELLBEATSTM classes are free.

Hourly child care options

Interested in group fitness classes but need hourly child care? Hourly child care options are available through CYS. Children must be registered with CYS. For more information, visit Hourly Care.

Instructors Wanted

MWR Fitness Program is looking for Group Fitness Instructors.

Looking for instructors certified in:

  • Barre
  • Zumba
  • Yoga
  • Pregnancy Fitness
  • HITT
  • Cycling
  • Step
  • Pilates
  • Aqua Zumba
  • Aqua Yoga and more!

If you are interested in becoming an instructor, please contact us: +1 (910)394-2892

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