The Ultimate Guide to Life Time Classes
A complete look at the studio, yoga, and cycle class offerings in our athletic country clubs — and tips for finding the right fits for you.
By Emily Ewen | Life Time Editorial
Many experts recommend creating a workout routine you enjoy and want to stick with — and group fitness classes are a great place to start. From yoga to barre and strength training to high-intensity interval training, every workout class offers unique benefits.
They also provide community and allow you to step in for a pre-planned workout — all you need to do is show up and move through it.
At Life Time, the extensive roster of group fitness options means there’s something for everyone, as well as every goal, every mood, and every unique fitness need. Life Time offers hundreds of classes on the schedule each week, all included in your membership.
Additionally, each class can be modified to fit varying fitness levels. If needed, ask your instructor for modifications and they’ll work with you.
To help you make the most of the group fitness class experience, we rounded up a list of some of the options available to potentially add to your routine. Whether you’re looking for cardio, strength, a combination of the two, or yoga, choose your preference and get ready to try something new. (Check your club’s schedule for class days and times, as offerings vary.)
Classes
Try: XTREME HIIT
Goal: Get your heart pumping with high-intensity intervals for a metabolic boost.
Equipment: Dumbbells, bench, resistance bands, kettlebells, weighted bar
Length: 45 or 60 minutes
What to expect: This class takes high-intensity interval training (HIIT) to a new level: You’ll perform weighted movements at a pace that elevates your heart rate. Every class challenges the entire body through progressions of movements: The more muscles you use throughout those progressions, the higher your heart rate goes. You can expect an exhilarating and breathless full-body workout that delivers a metabolic boost that lasts beyond the class.
Try: REMIXX CARDIO
Goal: Improve stamina and cardio endurance in a fun, fast-paced environment.
Equipment: Optional light dumbbells
Length: 45 or 60 minutes
What to expect: This high-energy class is a fun, mood-boosting way to fall in love with movement — and get sweaty. Every class features simple combos of exercises, including kickboxing, high- and low-impact aerobics, and athletic drills. The music is as energizing as the moves you’ll perform.
Try: LIFT Barbell Strength
Goal: Strengthen your body while focusing on proper form for basic weight-lifting moves.
Equipment: Barbell, dumbbells, gliding discs, weighted bars, resistance bands, mat, bench
Length: 45 or 60 minutes
What to expect: As the name suggests, this class is all about building muscle. Featuring a series of moderate-resistance, high-rep moves, it puts your full-body strength and endurance to the test. The goal for each class is to lift a little heavier and to feel a little stronger than before.
Try: SHRED
Goal: Mix strength and heart-pumping cardio moves for a results-driven full-body workout.
Equipment: Barbell, dumbbells, kettlebells, resistance bands, bench, mat
Length: 45 minutes
What to expect: SHRED is a circuit-style workout comprised of one-minute exercise sets that target your upper body, lower body, and core. While the focus is strength, you’ll rev up your heart rate with one-minute athletic cardio drills after completing the muscle-burning strength sets. SHRED offers scalability to meet your needs, meaning this class is for everyone from beginners to experienced athletes.
Try: MAXOUT Upper body
Goal: Build upper-body and core strength through resistance training.
Equipment: Barbell, dumbbells, kettlebells, bench, mat
Length: 45 or 60 minutes
What to expect: This class prioritizes strengthening and toning the muscles in your chest, back, shoulders, arms, and abs. Feel your muscles burn with heavy weights and high-energy sets before finishing off with a quick round of metabolic conditioning.
Try: MAXOUT Lower Body
Goal: Stabilize and strengthen your lower body through functional movements.
Equipment: Barbell, dumbbells, kettlebells, resistance bands, bench, mat
Length: 45 or 60 minutes
What to expect: MAXOUT Lower Body is your powerful “leg day” workout. You’ll lift heavy and push your limits while conquering squats, lunges, deadlifts, and more. All the movements are focused on building strength and endurance in your glutes, quads, hamstrings, and calves. You’ll finish class with a high-energy challenge to build your aerobic capacity.
Try: MAXOUT Core
Goal: Go beyond crunches to unlock a strong core and better posture.
Equipment: Dumbbells, kettlebells, weighted bar, gliding discs, mat
Length: 30 or 45 minutes
What to expect: In this class, you’ll spend time performing a wide variety of core exercises — including neutral, flexion, extension, and rotational core movements — that target every area of your core. At the end of each class, there’s a MAXOUT Core challenge.
Try: SURRENDER YIN
Goal: Relax your mind and stretch your body.
Equipment: Yoga mat
Length: 45, 60, or 75 minutes
What to expect: Move through a slow, meditative yin-yoga practice to create greater mobility in your joints while mindfully stressing your body’s connective tissues and challenging the calmness of your mind. An instructor guides you through a sequence of yin poses, encouraging you to concentrate on your breath as you hold the poses for extended periods. The room is set to a low heat of around 75 degrees F.
Try: SOL Guided Vinyasa
Goal: Learn the fundamentals of yoga in a fully guided class.
Equipment: Yoga mat
Length: 45, 60, or 75 minutes
What to expect: Synchronize your breath to your movements as you flow through a blend of standing and vinyasa yoga poses. Your teacher provides cues throughout class to gently guide you, offering modifications as needed. This class is designed to systematically untie the knots that can block the flow of energy in the body, especially those in the back, thighs, and glutes. The room is set to a medium-high heat between 85 and 95 degrees F.
Try: ROOT HATHA
Goal: Calm your mind while increasing mobility and strengthening your body.
Equipment: Yoga mat
Length: 45, 60, or 75 minutes
What to expect: Flow through a series of foundational yoga poses while noticing the physical sensations and energetic aspects of the practice. This is a slower-paced, beginner-friendly yoga class that provides the opportunity to breathe deeply as you build steadiness in each posture. This Hatha yoga experience can help you feel more grounded while also inspiring acute muscle engagement to create greater stability in the joints of your body. The room is set to a low heat of around 75 degrees F.
Try: FLOW VINYASA
Goal: Level-up your yoga practice with a faster-paced flow.
Equipment: Yoga mat
Length: 45, 60, 75, or 90 minutes
What to expect: This vinyasa-style yoga class features a series of flowing yoga sequences, then sets you free to explore the poses at your personal pace. Allow your breath to guide you to a state of mental calm during this powerfully energetic experience. The room is set to a medium-high heat between 85 and 95 degrees F.
Try: FIRE HIIT
Goal: Fire Up with high-intensity interval training and zen out with a guided flow.
Equipment: Yoga mat
Length: 45, 60, or 75 minutes
What to expect: This class is a unique fusion of high-intensity interval training and yoga, with mindful recovery in between. You move quickly, sweat, and lose your breath before finding it again in guided yoga poses. The room is set to a medium heat of 85 degrees F.
Try: Warrior Sculpt
Goal: Build cardio and strength through mindful yoga movements and metabolic conditioning.
Equipment: Yoga mat, light to moderate dumbbells
Length: 45 or 60 minutes
What to expect: Move mindfully through yoga poses including upward- and downward-facing dog and warrior, as well as strength moves such as overhead presses, pushups, and squats. This class is set to energizing music, which serves as the soundtrack for your mind-body journey. The room is set to a medium-high heat between 85 and 95 degrees F.
Try: LIFE BARRE Fusion
Goal: Increase total-body strength, build stability, and increase balance.
Equipment: Floor-mounted barre, dumbbells, resistance bands, gliding discs, Pilates ball, weighted bar
Length: 45 or 60 minutes
What to expect: This class combines cardio, strength, balance, and mobility exercises that are choreographed for both on and off the barre. It’s an all-in-one approach that’s designed to work your entire body as well as help you better connect with it through mindful, purposeful movement. Each class features a variety of props to amplify the muscle burn.
Try: LIFE BARRE Strength
Goal: Increase total-body strength, build stability, and increase balance.
Equipment: Floor-mounted barre, dumbbells, resistance bands, gliding discs, Pilates ball, weighted bar
Length: 45, or 60 minutes
What to expect: LIFE BARRE Strength is a low-impact experience in which you’ll focus on enhancing your muscular definition using dumbbells and resistance bands on and off the barre. You’ll also flex the mind-body connection as you move from working major muscles to smaller ones with intentional isometric movements.
Try: LIFE BARRE Core
Goal: Increase total-body strength, build stability, and increase balance.
Equipment: Floor-mounted barre, dumbbells, resistance bands, gliding discs, Pilates ball
Length: 30 or 45 minutes
What to expect: This class combines graceful ballet-inspired sequences with challenging core exercises. Pulling from ballet, yoga and Pilates, each class targets your core muscles, as well as your glutes and lower back, which impact core stability. This low-impact workout can help improve your posture and balance via movements that are both on and off the barre.
Try: LIFE BARRE Classic
Goal: Increase total-body strength, build stability, and increase balance.
Equipment: Floor-mounted barre, dumbbells, resistance bands, gliding discs, Pilates ball
Length: 30 or 45 minutes
What to expect: Practice the precision, control, and elegance of a classical ballet class and the power and strength of barre fitness. From pliés and arabesques to squats and shoulder presses, this on-and-off-the-barre class uses a variety of props and tools to challenge the strength, flexibility, stamina, and mobility of your entire body.
Try: AMP
Goal: Boost your mood with high-energy cardio intervals and great music.
Equipment: Indoor cycling bike
Length: 45, 50, or 60 minutes
What to expect: Often called a “party on a bike,” this class features choreographed, on-the-bike moves that are synchronized to the music and lights. The energetic instructors, along with the camaraderie with fellow cyclists, help keep you motivated so the workout flies by. You won’t track metrics in this class; simply show up to ride, break a sweat, and celebrate your efforts with the others in the class.
Try: EDG
Goal: Improve your cycling endurance or train for a cycling race.
Equipment: Indoor cycling bike
Length: 45, 50, or 60 minutes
What to expect: Rhythm and metrics meet in this music-driven class that challenges your inner athlete. The high-intensity format is designed to improve your strength, speed, and stamina through objective-based challenges. You’ll use your bike’s console to measure your success as you go.
Try PWR
Goal: Improve your cycling endurance or train for a cycling race.
Equipment: Indoor cycling bike
Length: 45, 60, 75, or 90 minutes
What to expect: This class integrates targeted metrics as you move through various levels of intensity. This class is programmed using objective training so you can elevate your performance on the bike both inside and outside of the cycle studio. If you wear a heart-rate monitor, you can more accurately pace yourself and measure your progress over time.
Try AMP Sculpt
Goal: An effective full-body cardio and strength workout with a variety of movements.
Equipment: Indoor bike, light dumbbells, resistance bands
Length: 45, 50, or 60 minutes
What to expect: Ride to the rhythm and lift to the beat with the same party-on-a-bike vibes you’ll find in AMP — but with an infusion of strength work. AMP Sculpt combines a high-cardio, choreographed ride with muscle-sculpting sections on or off the bike, using light to moderate weights.
Try EDG Sculpt
Goal: An effective full-body cardio and strength workout with a variety of movements.
Equipment: Indoor cycling bike, dumbbells, resistance bands
Length: 45, 50, or 60 minutes
What to expect: This class is a cycle experience with double the impact. Expect high-intensity, objective-based challenges paired with muscle-sculpting strength training, both on and off the bike. This key combination can help you unlock transformative fitness results.
Emily Ewen
Emily Ewen is an associate content strategy manager at Life Time.
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