Group Fitness
Join our group fitness classes and experience a motivating environment where you can challenge yourself, meet new friends, and achieve your fitness goals. We offer a variety of classes with options for all fitness levels. Our expert instructors will guide you every step of the way. Come for the workout, stay for the community!
Active & Fit
This class incorporates 20 minutes cardio moves, 20 minutes of strength and abdominal exercise, and 20 minutes of stretching and flexibility exercises. The holistic approach addresses cardiovascular health, muscular strength, and flexibility and helps to maintain an active and independent lifestyle!
Walk and Be Fit
Join us for a virtual walk that includes marching, walking in place, and light stretching to activate your neuromuscular system. Walking can lower your risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes, strengthen your bones, and prevent osteoporosis.
Moving Strong
This class focuses on strength and toning the whole body, while focusing on balance, flexibility, posture, and stability. It’s a great way to elevate your heart rate with low impact aerobic exercises and develop strength for daily living, such as carrying groceries, lifting, bending, and reaching in a safe way that prevents injuries. Class involves hand weights, resistance bands, and floor work.
Qi Gong
Qi Gong, pronounced “Chi Gong,” was developed in China thousands of years ago as part of traditional Chinese medicine. It involves using gentle exercises to optimize energy within the body, mind, and spirit, with the goal of improving and maintaining health, well-being, and mental focus. With Qi Gong’s long tradition, the movements evolved into various styles.
Relaxation Techniques
This class begins with sitting in our chairs with gentle, modified yoga stretches, and breathing techniques. The last half hour, participants stand (or keep sitting, if you prefer), and use the chair for stability while doing easy poses for balance and strength.
Chen-Style Tai Chi
Chen-style tai chi (Taichiquan) is a set of linking movements that help develop balance, body coordination, and strength. Cultivate life energy (chi) through a movement meditation that relaxes the muscles, calms the mind, and reduces stress. The slow movements and subtle shifting of weight develop flexibility and extremely good balance, making it ideal for all ages young and old.
Find the right membership for you!
Whether you’re looking for unlimited access to all our classes, a flexible drop-in plan, or a specialized program, we’ll help you find the perfect fit.
Tai Chi for Mobility and Balance
Tai chi is proven to improve balance and has the potential to restore the physical functioning of our bodies. Performing tai chi regularly is a great way to improve one’s posture and balance. The movements are easy to learn and a joy to practice.
Lifetime Fitness
Stay mobile for life! Learn to strengthen, stretch, and shape specific muscle groups as well as body mechanics while building strong bones and accelerating your metabolism. The goal is to support your lifetime of fitness!
Line Dancing
Line Dancing is a fun way to stay fit and meet friends. Line dancing increases endurance and balance along with enhanced memory and awareness. Each class is choreographed by song and taught so the group is dancing in unison. No partners needed.
Fun with Fitness
Increase your strength, mobility, flexibility and reduce your fear of movement. This intermediate level class includes movement to music and uses small weights, bands and balls in a fun creative way.
Stress Management
While seated, students use their own fingertips, thumbs or knuckles to press acupressure points on the face, arms, and legs while breathing deeply and quieting the mind. These therapeutic practices, along with guided meditation, can produce relaxation, relieve pain, stress, inflammation, muscle tension, and help with insomnia.
Strong for Life
Strong for Life (SFL) is a free exercise Program offered through Adult Aging Services at Stanford Health Care. SFL is an easy-to-follow exercise routine designed to improve strength, function, and balance in older adults with or without limitations. SFL targets specific muscles that are important in everyday life, with such movements as getting out of a chair, walking, and picking up a grandchild.
Participants must submit a health history form with Stanford prior to attending. For more information on this, contact Stanford Adult Aging Services at 650-723-1303.
