Health & Fitness Programs

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REGISTERED HEALTH & FITNESS PROGRAMS

GROUP FITNESS

50+ Strength and Stretch

Improve your strength and flexibility in this class designed for older adults. This program begins with a warm-up, then focuses on using tubing and free weights to tone and strengthen your muscles. Gentle stretching completes the workout.

Body Sculpt

This class is focused on helping you get & stay strong. We will be utilizing free weights, your body weight, stability balls, body bars, tubing and more to challenge all your muscles – especially your core! Have fun getting fit!

Butt & Abs

A full hour focused on strengthening the core muscles and redefining the lower body. For all levels of fitness.

Aging Backwards: Essentrics

Discover how to move with pleasure and harmony, how relaxing and stretching muscles strengthens them and makes your joints happy. Essentrics is a full body workout without impact or weights. It is a slow and gentle full body stretch and strengthen workout that focuses on increasing mobility, flexibility and relieving chronic aches, pains and joint stiffness.

Fitness is Golden

A low impact class to improve cardiovascular flow, range of motion, balance, and strength to increase muscle condition and build confidence to improve mobility and strength to daily movements. Chairs are available to assist with balance. This class is ideal for those new to exercise, all levels, and ages.

Jumping Fitness

Jumping is a new low impact cardio fitness movement performed on patented trampolines to upbeat music. It is for anyone wanting a fun HIIT workout!

Parent & Tot Cycle Express

This class allows you to get your fitness class in without the worry of finding childcare. Bring you baby to the class in a stroller, or car seat. Classes are held in the fitness studio and will include an indoor cycling workout and finish with stretching.

POUND Fitness

Using Ripstix®, lightly weighted drumsticks, POUND® transforms drumming into an incredibly effective way of working out. You become the music in this exhilarating full-body workout that combines cardio, conditioning, and strength training with yoga and Pilates-inspired movements. POUND® provides the perfect atmosphere for letting loose, getting energized, toning up and rockin’ out! The workout is easily modifiable and appeals to men and women of all ages and abilities.

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Click to search and register Stretch & Balance

A fun class with stretching, strengthening and core stability using your own body weight to improve flexibility, balance and strength. All levels welcome. Please bring your own mat to class.

New! Stronger & Steadier

Learn exercises to improve strength, stability and coordination to improve mobility and aid in falls prevention. Light weights, tubing, and balance equipment will be used to simulate functional movements and daily tasks. Learn to identify habits that can negatively impact your balance. This is a slow-paced class suitable for participants who are able to sit/stand and walk on their own or with an assisted aide. This friendly based class environment will provide a foundation to improve activities of daily living that will allow for a more functional lifestyle.

TIME

Together in Movement and Exercise is an exercise class for individuals with balance and mobility challenges from conditions such as Stroke, Acquired Brain Injury or Multiple Sclerosis. This specialized circuit style fitness class is offered in partnership with Island Health. Participants must be able to independently walk 10 metres with or without a walking aid without the assistance of someone else.

TRX All Levels

Enjoy this small group class environment in the Fitness Studio. The TRX Suspension Trainer is designed to build power, strength, balance, and flexibility for people of all ages and fitness levels. This total-body training system uses leveraged body weight at the intensity you choose for a functional, core focused workout.

New! TRX Combo

The TRX suspension trainer is a total-body training system that uses leveraged body weight to build power, strength, balance, and flexibility for people of all ages and fitness levels. This class will combine the TRX suspension trainer with a circuit of full body exercises to keep the heart rate up for a fun, core focused workout.

New! Aqua Zumba

Come make a splash by adding a low-impact, high-energy aquatic exercise to your fitness routine. Aqua Zumba® blends the Zumba® philosophy with water resistance, for one pool party you shouldn’t miss! Water creates natural resistance, which means every step is more challenging and helps tone your muscles with less impact on your joints so you can really let loose.

Zumba

Zumba Fitness fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, and to get hooked.

Zumba Gold

Designed for active older adults and people starting their fitness journey, ZUMBA Gold® combines zesty Latin and international rhythms with easy moves to create an energizing and fun fitness experience that is less intense than regular ZUMBA. Improves balance, flexibility and cardiovascular health.

YOUTH FITNESS

Regional Youth Weight Room Orientation

This orientation will provide 13–15-year old’s with an introduction on how to safely use a recreation centre weight room. Content will include weight room procedures, etiquette; cardio and weight training guidelines and instruction on how to use and strength training equipment. Upon completion of this orientation, participants will receive a sticker which permits them to access weight rooms at the following facilities: Esquimalt Recreation Centre, City of Victoria Recreation Centre, Saanich Recreation Centres, and West Shore Recreation, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, Panorama Recreation Centre and SEAPARC.

New! Youth Fitness Foundations

This program is designed for youth looking to live an active and healthy life by developing a fitness foundation with a focus on fun. This program will build on physical literacy skills, strength & cardio conditioning, speed and agility through exercises, games and activities. All levels welcome.

New! Generation POUND (Ages 6-12yrs)

Generation POUND® was created not just as a workout geared towards kids, but a MOVEMENT that aims to change the concept of health and fitness for today’s youth. Get ready to make fitness about self-expression, empowerment, self-love and FUN! How? By introducing alternative ways to, MOVE, ROCK, PLAY and MAKE NOISE! Ready to have fun with fitness to see what you like? No class is the same in this mix and match class, incorporating a different format each week. Class varieties may include circuits, on the ball, cardio dance, indoor cycling, yoga and more! All levels welcome.

RUNNING & WALKING

JDF Trail Walkers

Choose your own "speed" of walking from one of our 3 walking groups. From slow to moderate or fast, you'll find a group right for you. All walkers meet together, to share in the camaraderie that exists in this group and walk the scenic trails nearby. Tuesday & Thursday 9-10:30am. Please contact Krista Enderud: kenderud@ wspr.ca or 250-474-8694 for more information.

Indoor (Concourse) Walking

Come walk The Q Centre Arena Concourse! Concourse walking is suitable for individuals who would benefit from the positive effects of low impact exercise. The program offers a safe, climate-controlled environment with level ground for easy walking. M/W/F 8-9am. Please contact Krista Enderud: kenderud@wspr.ca or 250-474-8694 for more information.

JDF Running Club

This West Shore Community Club is for runners looking to run with other people. Members include those who enjoy running for fitness and fun and those who participate in road races, marathons, duathlons and triathlons. For more information, please contact Val Chura at vchura@shaw.ca.

Program Cancelled?

Sadly, excellent programs are sometimes cancelled when people wait until last minute to register. We need to make decisions three to five days prior to the start date of our programs to allow for proper preparation. Please register early to avoid disappointment.

WELLNESS

New! Aqua Yoga

Aqua Yoga is a low-impact aquatic exercise, performing yoga poses in water. Aqua Yoga poses help you develop strength, static balance, and increases range of motion with little to no impact on joints, especially knees, hips, and ankles. No yoga experience is necessary. 45-minute class

Easy Yoga

Easy yoga is a weekly timeout that will energize your body and calm your mind. Nothing fancy, no difficult exercises, just plain easy yoga that anyone can do and benefit from.

Gentle Yoga

This is a nurturing class to release tension and stress. Restorative yoga poses use the breath to create a free flow of energy in the body. Gain body awareness and a sense of deep relaxation, allowing the body to heal.

Hatha Flow Yoga

Traditional Hatha postures are sequenced to encourage fluid movement between postures. This fluid movement, partnered with breath awareness, helps create a strong connection between mind, body and spirit. This class is suitable for all-levels and blends stretching, strengthening, balancing, and relaxation.

Yoga4Strength

Yoga4Strength is a fun fusion class that combines strength exercises, yoga, core, and balance work. This class will help you increase your strength and mobility. Please bring a yoga mat and a pair of weights to class.

Yogilates

This class is a fusion blend of yoga and Pilates that will challenge strength, balance, stamina and flexibility. It combines the yogic focus of mind and body awareness with Pilates techniques to improve posture and deep core strength to create a strong, stable foundation for movement. Finish with Savasana to relax the mind and body. All fitness levels are welcome, and the class is beginner friendly!

Pilates Fusion

Pilates is a form of exercise which concentrates on strengthening the body with the emphasis on the “power house” core strength. Fusion incorporates exercises from different workout styles, including Yoga, strength training, and Barre. In this class the emphasis is core, posture, toning, balance, flexibility, stretching, and connecting mind and body.

New! Core Yoga

This class will activate deep and superficial muscles of the abdomen through a focus on core exercises. It will also have elements of a traditional flow practice but will articulate more strength, stability and pelvic support in all flow postures.

New! Slow Flow

Want to feel calm and strong in your yoga practice? We'll explore different and creative ways to move your body in a welcoming and relaxed environment. Beginners and beyond welcome to attend!

New! Yoga for Anxiety and Depression

Do you suffer like most people these days with the constant stress of life? Anxiety and depression has become something that such a large amount of people are suffering with. Take a few hours to learn some breathing exercises and tools to help ourselves learn to cope better. We will practice some relaxation & simple yoga poses & breathe work. We will also discuss what we can do in our lives to manage our stress better in our day to day life. You will be given a lesson plan for a home practice.