TeXercise Class Descriptions
IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE:
* Please note: not all of the classes listed below are offered every semester.
*See current schedule for the class options offered each semester.
*Yoga types are listed at the bottom.
*Yoga & Pilates participants should bring their own yoga/sticky mat, as we do not supply them.

20/20/20: A combination of 20-minutes of step, 20-minutes of floor aerobics (including hi-lo &/or kickboxing) and 20-minutes of sculpting and abdominal work. A great total body workout!

20/20/5: A combination of 20-minutes of step, 20-minutes of floor aerobics (hi/lo &/or kickboxing) and 5-minutes of abdominal work and stretching.

Ab Lab: 30-minutes of abdominal and lower-back exercises to give you a strong and centered core.

Advanced Step: This step class involves challenging choreography and moves. Not for beginners.

Aqua Boot Camp: Experience the benefits of boot camp - but in the water! Circuits, strength training, and cardio drills galore - but without the impact.

Aqua Cardio Sculpt: Combine cardiovascular training and muscle conditioning for a great workout in the water! Swimming skills are not required.

Aqua Kickboxing: Enjoy all of the benefits of kickboxing - but in the water!

Aqua Yoga-Pilates: Experience a great mind/body class - but this time in the water! Fuse together the principles of yoga and Pilates, and experience great benefits.

Athletic Circuit Training: Bring out your inner athlete in this class - sure to challenge and push you to the next level with intense circuits and exercises. Led by a Certified Personal Trainer. For intermediate to advanced participants. *This class will be limited to 20 participants due to space and intensity.*

Ballet Moves Workout: Experience a great dance workout taught by an experienced ballet dancer.

Belly Dancing: Check out the latest belly dancing moves - while strengthening your core muscles for a great workout. No previous experience necessary!

Boot Camp Take your workouts to a whole new level with circuits, interval training, and more! Several boot camp and Athletic Circuit Training classes are led by a Certified Personal Trainer.
**Please note: Boot Camp is limited to 20 participants due to space and equipment use.

Cardio Combo Combines two of the following formats: hi/lo, step &/or kickboxing for a great cardio workout! This class includes a short section at the end focusing on abdominals and flexibility.

Cardio Pilates: Combine the principles of Pilates matwork with some standing (vertical) patterns and exercises designed to burn calories while increasing strength, balance, and efficiency of movement. (no previous Pilates experience necessary)

Cardio Sculpt: Enjoy a combination of cardiovascular training and muscle conditioning - all packed into one hour! Instructor can teach step, hi/lo, kboxing, sculpting, and abs.

Coached Swim: Please see Instructional Area for more information on Coached Swim classes.

Core Conditioning Involves movements of balance, stability, mobility, isolation and integrated strength with athletic and aerobic movements. Join us for this class that is sure to challenge you from the inside out!

Dance Fit: This class includes a combination of modern jazz and hip hop moves and choreography that will keep your body moving and in great shape. It is a fun way to keep fit, let loose, and energize yourself! Get fit and let loose while dancing! Dancing to the beats will enhance your cardio endurance, strengthen your muscles, and leave you feeling pumped and energized!

Dance Sculpt: Enjoy an aerobic style of choreographed dancing that will give you an amazing cardio boost. Also included are fun sculpting segments that will tone your entire body. Experience the benefits of both cardio endurance and muscle strengthening while dancing to energizing beats and letting loose!

Dancer's Workout: Build core strength and increase flexibility with exercises from ballet and jazz dance classes. Fun for everyone--no dance experience required!

Deep Water Aerobics: This class takes place in deep water and uses aqua belts (flotation) dumbbells, resistance tubing, and more! Challenge your body, improve flexibility and endurance and enjoy the therapeutic benefits of water exercise. Swimming skills recommended.

Dynamic Strength: Get the most out of your hour by increasing your heart rate and including multi-joint exercises for an effective, challenging and active strength and conditioning class. An action packed hour that gives you a functional strength AND cardio workout!

Dynamic Strength Express: A 45-50minute version of Dynamic Strength (See above).

F/S: Any class noted as "F/S" and then a class type is reserved for Faculty/Staff RecSports members who have purchased a TeXercise or Combo pass. Be prepared to show your F/S ID at the studio door if requested.

Group Cycling: This program is not a part of the TeXercise Schedule. It is sold as a separate pass (or you may purchase a "Combo Pass" (TeXercise + Cycling). Click on "Cycling" link on the top of this page for cycling class descriptions, schedules, & much more. Click HERE for Group Cycling class descriptions.

Hip Hop Dance: Enjoy this great workout with the latest hip-hop songs on the charts. Learn new urban moves while getting a great workout! Not a dancer? Thats ok! This hip-hop workout breaks down moves to different levels allowing you to choose your intensity, it also helps strengthen muscles and boosts cardio endurance.

H20 Pilates Experience all of the great challenges and rewards of Pilates practice while toning and lengthening your core muscles in the water! Swimming skills not required.

JAZZ Dance Workout: A west coast jazz class suitable for beginner and intermediate dancers or soon-to-be dancers. If you like what you see on "So You Think You Can Dance" and are looking for a great total-body workout with choreography, this is class for you!

Kickbox Express: 40-45 minutes of cardio kickboxing with 5-minutes of core and flexibility work.

Kickbox & Sculpt: The best of both worlds... enjoy a 30-40 minute kickboxing segment followed by20-30 minutes of sculpting exercises for a complete workout!

Lower Body Blast & Abs: Target and strengthen your lower body and abdominals with this strength and conditioning class using a variety of equipment. (ex: resistance tubing, body bars, body weight, med balls, and more!)

Nike Training Club NEW! Athletes unite! UT RecSports and Nike have partnered up to bring "NIKE TRAINING CLUB" (NTC) to the TeXercise schedule starting Summer 2011! Nike Training Club is a full-body conditioning class that involves impact moves, maximum intensity, and challenging athletic training drills while using minimal equipment. Whether you're looking to get lean, toned, or get stronger, NTC takes every workout to the next level! Extend your workout beyond class and use the app - FREE on itunes and downloadable to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Pilates Mat is a method of exercise and physical movement designed to stretch, strengthen, and balance the body. With systematic practice of specific exercises coupled with focused breathing patterns, Pilates has proven itself invaluable not only as a fitness endeavor itself, but also as an important adjunct to sports training and physical rehabilitation of all kinds. Pilates rings, bands, or stability balls may be used in this class. This class is 60-minutes. Pilates participants should bring their own sticky/yoga mat.

Pilates Strength: NEW! Tone your core and lengthen your body by using weights, the Pilates ring, and stability balls in this challenging Pilates mat workout set to a fun rock and pop playlist. Socks or barefeet.

Pilates Sculpt: Combine core strengthening and flexibility exercises from Pilates (see above) with great sculpting moves for a complete and challenging total body workout! Please wear/bring shoes.

Pilates Sculpt & Align: This class will give you the tone and flexibility you’re looking for while aligning the body and improving your posture. A fun and challenging class that includes both standing exercises and Pilates mat exercises with props to target all your muscles. Open to all levels.

Pilates with the Ball: Add a new and beneficial element to your Pilates practice by incorporating the stability ball! Not all exercises will incorporate the ball, but many will, which will engage your core muscles in new and beneficial ways.

Power Pilates: Strengthen and condition your body's core muscles while gaining flexibility using the Pilates principles (see Pilates Mat info above). Pilates rings, bands, or stability balls may be used in this 45-minute class.

Salsa Dance Fit: NEW! A high energy cardio workout using basic steps and rhythms from Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cha-cha, and other authentic Latin styles, set to popular Latin Music hits. Have fun and pick up some new moves to take out to the clubs!

Step: Enjoy fun and effective step choreography while getting an incredible cardio workout!

Step & Abs: Approximately 40-minutes of step followed by a 20-minute segment focusing on abdominals, core muscles, and flexibility.

Step Express: 40-minutes of step aerobics with 5-10 minutes of core and flexibility exercises.

Step & Dynamic Strength: Enjoy the best of both worlds! A great 30-minute cardio step workout followed by 30-minutes of Dynamic Strength... a total body conditioning class!

Step & Sculpt: Enjoy the combination of step aerobics and strength training for a great hour-long workout! Also includes a segment for abdominals, core work, and flexibility at the end.

Step & Kickboxing Combo: Get the best of both worlds with this total body conditioning class!

Studio Dance: The class will include a long stretch as well as Pilates toning exercises at the beginning of class to warm up the muscles and increase flexibility. Warmup will be followed by "across the floor" dance technique and concluded with a lyrical/jazz dance combination to boost cardio.

Simply Stretch: This class is all about focusing on flexibility. Don't have it? Don't worry. Start out with a 5-10 minute flowing warm-up and follow it with relaxing and rejuvinating flexibility exercises.

Tabata: NEW! This class will take the best of cardio training techniques and high intensity intervals, while adding functional training and core exercises for a full body workout.

Total Body Conditioning: A 60-minute group strength training class using dumbbells, body bars, resistance tubes, balls, and/or mats. Condition your entire body!

Total Body Conditioning Express: A 45-minute version of Total Body Conditioning (see above).

TurboKick (TM): Kick, punch, and groove the calories away in this intense, action-packed, fun, and effective cardiovascular workout! For intermediate to advanced participants.

Upper Body Blast: Challenge your upper body by using resistance bands, body bars, dumbbells, gliding discs, and/or body weight. This 30-minute class will challenge you and is a great addition to your routine.

Vertical Pilates: Take your Pilates workout to new heights by going vertical! Combine the principles of Pilates matwork with some standing (vertical) patterns and exercises designed to burn calories while increasing strength, balance, and efficiency of movement. (no previous Pilates experience necessary)

Water Aerobics: This fun non-impact water workout challenges and improves cardiovascular endurance and strength while conditioning your body. Swimming skills not necessary.

Yoga: Challenge and connect your mind and body with yoga poses, conscious breathing and relaxation techniques. Remember - yoga is an individual practice, where all judgement, competition, and expectations are let go, and the focus is internal - and on your own practice that day. Yoga is a great way to connect breath, body, and mind.Yoga participants should bring their own sticky/yoga mat.

Yoga Express: 45 minutes of yoga.

Yoga-Sculpt: Combine yoga poses with great sculpting moves for a complete and challenging total mind and body workout! Please wear/bring shoes.

Yoga-Pilates Fusion: Yoga-Pilates Fusion is neither traditional Yoga nor pure Pilates. It is a format that borrows movement and exercises from several types of Hatha Yoga and blends them with Pilates mat exercises to improve strength, flexibility, and balance.

Zumba Dance: Zumba fuses Latin and international music and dance themes together for a great, dynamic, and effective fitness class. The routines combine fast and slow rhythms that tone, sculpt, and inspire!

Zumba-Hip Hop Dance: NEW! A high-impact dance class that incorporates dance sequences from hip hop and Zumba styles. Music will be a variety of Latin, international, and top 40.

TYPES OF YOGA:

Please note: Not all types of yoga listed below are offered every semester. See schedules for info.

Ashtanga (Power Yoga) is light on meditation but heavy on developing strength and stamina. The poses are more difficult than those performed in other styles, students move quickly from one pose to another in an effort to build strength and flexibility. This style is suitable for anyone in reasonable physical condition but should be avoided by those who are new to exercise. Even the "beginners" routines are a physically demanding workout. Ashtanga yoga takes students through a warming up of the body to "activate" the muscles. Students move from one pose to another in a continual flow and combine the inhale and exhale of the breath with movements. This physically demanding yoga was developed to build strength, flexibility, and stamina.

Athletic Flow: Blends the warming qualities of Ashtanga and the biomechanical needs of athletes of all levels (recreational to elite). This is a moving yoga that incorporates yoga breath into flexibilty sequences for tight hips and tight shoulders plus strengthening sequences for the core. Taught for all levels of experience.

Gentle Yoga: Awaken the body gradually with gentle, meditative flows and sustained postures. This yoga class focuses on the breath, proper alignment in asanas, and fostering a mind-body connection.

Iyengar yoga: A widely-known, widely practiced version of hatha yoga, which focuses on alignment, holding of postures for maximum benefit, and use of props to facilitate modifications for different
body types and deepening of poses. Although everyone is welcome, students should bring any props they might own with them (mat, block, strap, blanket, etc.).

Hatha: This mellow form of yoga focuses on simple poses that flow from one to the other at a very comfortable pace. Participants are encouraged to go at their own pace, taking time to focus on the breathing and meditation in their practice. This yoga is ideal for winding down at the end of a tough day.

Hatha Flow: Links the breath to an elegant flow of yoga postures and guided meditations to create a great workout for both the body and the mind.

Restorative Yoga: A combination of breathing techniques with the flowing movements of postures and active relaxation to help you recover from weakness, fatique or stress from daily activities.

Power Yoga: Light on meditation and heavy on developing strength, flexibility, and stamina. This class will flow through poses while emphasizing breath with movement to obtain an invigorating workout.

Sport Yoga Based primarily on Hatha yoga, this is a challenging and fast-paced style of yoga designed not just for the athlete - but all yogis alike. This method is designed to tone and strengthen while increasing overall flexibility.

Vinyasa yoga is the unique linking together of one yoga pose to the next in a smooth, controlled flow. Breathing and movement come together to create heat in the body which leads to increased circulation and concentration.

Vinyasa Flow: a Hatha-based, moving yoga practice which links one pose to the next through the breath. Heat is generated through the breath, which allows more freedom for exploration in the postures.

Vinyasa Fusion: A fusion of flow and alignment. Postures are linked together with your breath to create a deepening and greater understanding of the challenging postures. The ratio of flow and pose holding varies from class to class.

Power Vinyasa: This class will flow from one posture into another to create an opportunity for deep release and transformation. Due to the vigorous nature of this style, it is best if students already have familiarity with yoga practice.

Yoga Tone Focuses on repetitive and more progressive postures to increase muscle tone, maximize caloric use, and improve stress management and relaxation.