Group fitness classes active at Student Rec

 At UTM's student recreational center, their goal is to encourage participation and educate students about the benefits of exercise.

The center strives to come up with more inventive ways to help encourage the students to stay in shape. In the last year several group fitness classes have been added to the program and student participation has grown considerably.

Group fitness is a healthy and effective alternative to standard workouts. Classes are held in the group fitness and multi-purpose room; and anyone can attend at anytime during the semester.

The center's assistant director, Eric Simmon's says that he participates in a group fitness class and looks forward to seeing those same familiar faces each time class meets. Simmon's says, "he believes that group exercise has been great a source of encouragement to the students."

Neil Allen, a group fitness instructor at the center says that anyone who wants to join a group fitness class is welcomed but warns that everyone should go at their own pace and build speed gradually.

Allen says, "Some student come just for the classes, and he believes that the number of students utilizing the facility has grown since the group fitness classes began."

A list of group fitness classes include:

1.    Indoor Cycle

2.    Drums Alive: Rhythm is the source of inspiration for this new group experience.

3.    Cardio Boxing

4.    Zumba: A Latin- inspired dance-fitness session designed for dancers and non-dancers alike.  

5.    Butts, Guts, & Thighs: Shape up your quadriceps, hamstrings, hip adductors/abductors, gluteus maximums, and abdominals in this muscle conditioning session.

6.    Ab Lab

7.    Tighten, Tone, and Sculpt:  You will get a full body toning session in forty five minutes.

8.    Kettle bell Training: Functional, compound exercises work multiple muscle groups simultaneously, developing strength, muscular endurance and efficient calorie burn.

9.    TGIF:  sixty minutes of pure calorie burning!