Group Fitness

The Group Fitness Department at Merritt Athletic Clubs offers a friendly, welcoming environment that encourages member participation. Our certified instructors teach safe, well-cued classes designed to increase strength, improve flexibility, or challenge cardiovascular endurance. Our world class programs include BodyPump, BodyFlow, BodyStep, BodyJam, BodyAttack, BodyVive, and RPM and also encompass classes such as cycling, low impact aerobics, and mind-body relaxation classes like yoga and Pilates. These classes are delivering the results people want and changing lives! Great music and passionate instructors inspire exhilarating workouts that more and more club members are making part of their regular fitness routine. Click here to try a class for free!

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Merritt Athletic Clubs' 8th Annual Professional Fitness Conference
Our eighth year, 2008, may be the best year yet! Eight certifications and a remarkable forty-eight exciting workshops are packed under one roof in just one weekend, and with thirteen top presenters driving this inventive fitness machine, attendees are in for a fantastic journey. The information and applications gained in these workshops will fill your tanks with both the confidence and the practical abilities that will bring your clients to their personal best levels. Register by October 15 for Early Bird pricing of just $139.00. Click here for downloadable brochure.

Sunday, November 9 - 7:30AM-4:45PM
Pre-Certification November 7 and 8

For more information, please contact Terry Howard, Area Conference Director
Phone: 410-549-8855
E-mail: thoward@merrittclubs.com


BODYATTACK® is the sports-inspired cardio workout that builds strength and stamina. Movements are simple, high-energy, and provide a platform for achieving the highest personal levels of aerobic and anaerobic fitness. No frills. No equipment. No place to hide! BODYATTACK® is not only the ultimate cardiovascular challenge but also delivers a generous measure of health benefits such as improved heart and lung function, increased bone density, and rapid fat loss!

 

Explosively popular in clubs around the world, BODYCOMBAT® combines kicks, strikes and katas from a range of self-defense disciplines like karate, boxing and taekwondo into an hour-long energetic routine. Music and choreography create a fierce, energetic experience which raises fitness levels throughout the whole body, while reducing fat and cholesterol.

 

A revolution in mind-body training that will change the way you feel about your body forever! A dynamic exercise-to-music program that leaves class members relaxed and renewed, Body Flow combines the best of eastern disciplines like Tai Chi and Yoga with popular new methods such as Pilates.

 

BODYJAM® is a dance-based group exercise program that combines the latest dance and music styles to produce a fitness experience at the cutting edge of modern exercise trends. “BODYJAM® is the cardio workout where you are free to enjoy the sensation of dance. An addictive fusion of the latest dance styles and hottest new sounds puts the emphasis as much on having fun as breaking a sweat.”

 

BODY PUMP® is hailed as "the fastest way in the universe to get in shape." By using barbells with adjustable weights set to motivating music, this revolutionary class will boost your endurance and speed up your metabolism for rapid fat burning. Low on complexity but high in fun, BODY PUMP® has all of the benefits of traditional weight training combined with time efficiency and predictability. EVERY BODY is successful in BODY PUMP®.

 

Watch out, this ain't no dance class! BODY STEP is an ALL-SYSTEMS-GO workout. Compelling cardio fitness that shapes and tones the legs, improves coordination, bone density, posture, and agility...what more could you ask for? BODY STEP retains the essence of a great step class and adds fun and athletic movements to the mix with huge amounts of spunk, personality, driving music, and great training principles. Suitable for anyone who wants an energetic and exciting results-oriented workout.

 

RPM® is an indoor cycling program for developing cardiovascular capacity. RPM mirrors an outdoor cycle ride and can burn up to 700 calories in a single session! RPM® is a favorite of those wanting to reduce body fat and provides a fast improvement in general endurance and an increase in lower body strength.

 

BODYVIVE™ is the low-impact group fitness workout that lets you choose just how hard you work. Using the VIVE™ balls, VIVE™ tubes and optional hand weights you’re talked step-by-step through the entire class by a skilled instructor, while listening to uplifting and inspiring music. Best of all, you finish feeling thoroughly rejuvenated – and fizzing with energy.

For a full schedule of classes and program descriptions, please click on the club link.

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