About classes
Sport & Exercise offers a jam-packed timetable of classes suitable for all abilities - all included in your membership.
Get your heart pumping and muscles burning with our high-intensity classes.
With the added benefit of burning calories long after the class is finished. Great for those who enjoy a challenge!
Les Mills - Body Attack
A high-energy fitness class with moves that cater for total beginners to total addicts. We combine athletic movements like running, lunging and jumping with strength exercises such as push-ups and squats. A LES MILLS™ instructor will pump out energizing tunes and lead you through the workout – challenging your limits in a good way
Level: All Levels
Duration: 45 minutes
Les Mills - GRIT Athletic
Is a 30-minute high-intensity interval training (HIIT) sports conditioning workout, designed to make you perform like an athlete. This workout often uses a step, bodyweight exercises and multi-dimensional sports conditioning training to increase your overall athletic performance: strength, agility, speed and power.
LES MILLS GRIT Athletic takes cutting-edge HIIT and combines it with powerful music and inspirational coaches who will be down on the floor with you, motivating you to go harder to get fit, fast.
Level: All Levels
Duration: 30 minutes
Les Mills - Grit Cardio
Is a 30-minute high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout that improves cardiovascular fitness, increases speed and maximizes calorie burn. This workout uses a variety of bodyweight exercises and provides the challenge and intensity you need to get results fast.
Level: All Levels
Duration: 30 minutes
Les Mills - Grit Strength
Is a 30-minute high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout, designed to improve strength, cardiovascular fitness and build lean muscle. This workout uses barbell, weight plate and bodyweight exercises to blast all major muscle groups. LES MILLS GRIT Strength takes cutting-edge HIIT and combines it with powerful music and inspirational coaches who will be down on the floor with you, motivating you to go harder to get fit, fast.
Level: All Levels
Duration: 30 minutes
HIIT
High-intensity interval training sessions use bursts of activity and short rests to choose maximum results. If this sounds good to you, HiiT up this class!
Level: All levels
Duration: 30 minutes
These workouts are designed to enhance core strength.
Core Conditioning
An intensive total abdominal workout
Level: All levels
Duration: 30 minutes
Discover the power of the pedal in our cycle classes.
Les Mills - RPM
A cycling workout that delivers maximum results with minimum impact on your joints. You control your own resistance levels and speed so you can build up your fitness level over time. If you want a true sense of achievement, get into an RPM class today.
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes
Les Mills - Virtual RPM
An alternative to our instructor-led RPM classes, virtual classes mean you can conveniently exercise with some of the best instructors in the world at your local gym as a filmed session is projected for a cinema-style workout experience.
Level: All levels
Duration: 30 minutes & 45 minutes
Spin
With no complicated moves to learn, you will pedal your way to a leaner, stronger body. A great fat burner.
Level: All levels
Duration: 30 minutes and 45 minutes, 60 minutes
Velo-Soul class
This Latin-inspired spin class is unlike anything else on our timetable. With its high-intensity cardio, it promises to push you to your limits. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sweat but the endorphins make it worthwhile!
Level: All levels
Duration: 60 minutes
Move to the beat of the music to improve your cardio fitness and dance skills. Come and get your whole body moving with our dance classes!
Barre
Barre is a high-intensity, low-impact class combining ballet-inspired moves with elements of Pilates, dance, yoga and strength training. Barre delivers a full-body workout, great for strengthening your core and toning your glutes and legs.
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes & 60 minutes
Dance Fit
A fun, dynamic, dance workout. Variety in every class, styles ranging from Zumba & Africa through to disco, and hip-hop. The class is designed to be accessible to those who have never danced before, but it will also push more experienced movers. Tone up, lose some weight, or simply have fun.
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes
Cardio Street Funk
A high-energy dance-based class, packed with funky modern routines guaranteed to get your heart pumping to the beat of the tunes!
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes
Ballet Fit
A fun, dynamic and low-impact class using movements inspired by classical ballet, yoga and Pilates. Ballet Fit combines mat work, mobilisations and standing exercises to music, aiming to improve posture, balance and alignment.
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes & 60 Minutes
These classes are designed to help improve flexibility, mobility, and range of motion in the body.
Strength Mobility
Incorporating flexibility and strength, this class will help you squat deeper, push harder and jump higher. Please note this class does not have exclusive use of the Circuit Gym.
Level: All levels
Duration: 30 minutes
Martial Arts classes are fast-paced and empowering ways to keep fit.
Hatton Boxing
Hatton Boxing classes from Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton pack a punch and get lots of muscle groups firing all cylinders. They're a great cardio workout, too!
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes & 60 minutes
Les Mills - Body Combat
BODYCOMBAT™ is a high-energy martial arts-inspired workout that is totally non-contact. No experience is needed. Learn moves from Karate, Taekwondo, Boxing, Muay Thai, Capoeira and Kung Fu. Release stress, have a blast and feel like a champ. Bring your best fighter attitude and leave inhibitions at the door.
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 mins
Focus your body and mind, these classes concentrate on relaxation, control and stability. Perfect your technique and feel great!
Les Mills - Body Balance
Ideal for anyone and everyone, BODYBALANCE™ from Les Mills is the yoga-based class that will improve your mind, your body and your life.
Levels: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes & 55 minutes
Stretch & De-Stress
The class is a time to slow down and give our bodies a little more attention and includes exercises for mobility, stretching and posture. The environment is calm and focuses on working with your body not against it. We finish with restorative and resting poses to balance our mind and body.
Levels: All levels
Duration: 30 minutes and 60 minutes
Improve your strength and hone your physique with our energised strength classes
Les Mills - BODYPUMP
BODYPUMP™ is for anyone looking to get lean, toned and fit – fast.
Using light to moderate weights with lots of repetition, BODYPUMP gives you a total body workout. It will burn up to 540 calories*. Instructors will coach you through scientifically proven moves and techniques pumping out encouragement, motivation and great music – helping you achieve much more than on your own! You’ll leave the class feeling challenged and motivated, ready to come back for more.
BODYPUMP instructors provide options to suit everyone. It’s a good idea to start with really light weights or even just a bar. Start slowly with just one to two classes a week and build up from four or five tracks to a full class. You’ll find your fitness and strength improve over a number of sessions.
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes
*AUT University (2014, April) Exercise Intensity and energy expenditure during the Les Mills BODYPUMP class
Body Con
BODYCOMBAT™ is a high-energy martial arts-inspired workout that is totally non-contact. No experience is needed. Learn moves from Karate, Taekwondo, Boxing, Muay Thai, Capoeira and Kung Fu. Release stress, have a blast and feel like a champ. Bring your best fighter attitude and leave inhibitions at the door.
Level: All levels
Duration: 45 mins
Body Conditioning
Is a full-body workout that focuses on strength, aerobic and fitness exercises. This challenging workout is designed to get you toned and make you feel great. These classes will use a combination of weights and body weight exercises.
Levels: All levels
Duration: 45 minutes
We offer a selection of classes suitable for our senior members. If you would like to take part in these classes please email group.exercise@ed.ac.uk for details on how to book a space.
Monday 1000 to 1100 AFL Fitness
Wednesday 1000 – 1100 AFL Yoga
Friday 1000 – 1100 AFL Circuits