Campus Recreation and Harper Wellness offer a wide variety of group exercise classes FREE for Harper students and Health and Recreation Center members! Our classes are led by certified group exercise instructors with expertise in providing motivating, challenging and fun group exercises classes to a wide range of populations.
Indoor cycling unites cycling with amazing music for a workout that will lift your spirit, tone your body, burn calories in a low impact workout. Indoor cycling is fun, rewarding, and a great workout set to amazing music. Feeling nervous about attending an indoor cycling class? Drop into any of our Rhythm Ride and Flex and Ride classes. Our instructors will help designed specifically for beginners. With a few tips and a little training, you'll be ready for all the indoor cycling classes. Bring a water bottle and arrive early to set up your bike. Learn more.
Join us at the Rec Center in M1010 during the solar eclipse for a special guided flow yoga and meditation. An eclipse has a profound inward pull on our consciousness and is an ideal time to do some spiritual practice. This class is free to Health and Recreation Center members, Harper students and Harper employees. Must be 18 years or older with a state issued I.D. All levels are welcome.
Monday
9 – 9:55 a.m. Total Body Barre w/Cindy
12:15 - 1:10 p.m. Guided Flow Yoga w/Cat (Monday, April 8 will be Solar Eclipse Yoga)
5 – 5:55 p.m. ZUMBA® w/Yumi
Tuesday
9 – 9:55 a.m. Guided Flow Yoga w/Kristin
12 – 12:55 p.m. FST (Functional Strength Training) w/Andrea
5 – 5:55 p.m. Cardio Core w/Laura
6 – 6:55 p.m. Rhythm Ride w/Pam
Wednesday
New! 9 – 9:30 a.m. Progressive Relaxation w/Frank
12 – 12:55 p.m. Yin Yoga w/Mary Kay
4:30 – 5:25 p.m. Rhythm Ride w/Laura
6 – 6:55 p.m. Power Hour w/Beth
Thursday
9 – 9:55 a.m. Power Hour w/Laura
12 – 12:55 p.m. Total Body Barre w/Cindy
5 – 5:55 p.m. Pilates with Props w/Andrea and Nancy
6 – 6:55 p.m. Flex & Ride w/Pam (No Class 5/16 & 5/23)
Friday
9 – 9:55 a.m. Core & More w/Andrea and Cindy
New instructor! 12 – 12:55 p.m. Healthy Back Yoga w/Grace and Kristin
Increase your stamina, burn calories and work your core in this powerful (but fun) workout . High and low impact (based on your ability) exercises and drills are performed to raise your heart rate, improve general endurance and condition your core. (All levels)
Core training is the foundation of all movement. This class will improve functional strength for daily activities, improve balance, pelvic health and tighten and tone the mid-section. (All levels)
This circuit style workout is set to motivating music in the cycling studio. Flex and Ride combines segments of resistance strength training with upbeat cycling to help tone and strengthen your muscles and build overall cardiovascular endurance. Arrive early for set up. (All levels.)
Build lean and strong muscles through exercises that mimic the movement of everyday life while increasing overall endurance. This class uses a variety of equipment for a total body workout. (All levels)
Healthy Back Yoga helps reduce stress through safe postural poses and core strengthening techniques. Students are encouraged to stay within their individual limitations by progressing gradually through the various levels of the poses. Props are often used to help support and adapt the poses for everybody. (All levels)
Precise dynamic poses are sequenced together to create a moving meditation that helps calm the mind, increase flexibility, and build strength. This class is fully guided. (All levels)
Pilates with props adds variety while targeting the core, legs, glutes and arms with the use of stability balls, small balls, Pilates rings, foam rollers and resistance bands. This is truly a complete workout that will leave you feeling energized, strong and stretched. (All levels)
Join us for this interval style class alternating cardio segments possibly the track (walk, run or jog) with strength segments utilizing a variety of equipment incuding body bars, free weights, resistance bands, medicine balls, kettle bells, and the BOSU. (All levels)
Progressive relaxation is a practice aimed at reducing tension, stress, anxiety, and pain by promoting deep relaxation through tensing and releasing muscles in a calm and stress free environment. (All Levels)
This indoor cycling class unites amazing music with cycling on a stationary bike for a workout that will lift your spirit and tone your body all at once. Bring a water bottle and get ready to ride to the beat. (All Levels)
This amazing class combines core training with easy to follow ballet exercises to improve balance, activate the abdominals, pelvic floor, and back. (All Levels)
Passive yoga poses are held longer to target the deepest tissues and the connective tissue allowing the muscles to relax. This class is fully guided. (All Levels)
This dance based aerobic workout features movements inspired by various styles of Latin American dance and are performed primarily to Latin American and Pop dance music. (All Levels)
For more information, please contact Laura Crisman at lcrisman@harpercollege.edu or 847.925.6802.
