Fitness Classes in North Tustin

The sprightly clicking of tap shoes fills the aural real estate at Kick It Up's wood-floored studio, entrancing listeners with the Morse code of unrestrained footloosing. At other times, feet communicate with movement, including the graceful pliés of classical ballet, the sharp footwork of salsa, or the Latin-inspired shimmies of Zumba workouts. Tots take their places on the dance floor for camps, birthday parties, and drill-team meets, during which instructors (including owner, former professional dancer, and Southern California Dance Theatre alumna Susan Janson) help them to unleash their creativity and build a lifelong love of exercise. Adults can also chase their fitness goals during more structured activities including classes in spinning, cardio dance, and power yoga, which tone muscles as they melt calories, stress, and unfinished games of freeze tag.

Dave and Paula Mugavero have been helping fitness seekers meet their body-sculpting goals for more than 22 years. As the owners of Custom Bodies Fitness, they offer worker-outers a plethora of tools to shape up and get unsolicited invitations to pose for figure-drawing classes. This members-only gym filled with cardio and weight-training equipment also schedules intensive boot camps to help jump-start fitness routines or their personal trainers can craft customized workout regimens for clients. In addition, group classes take place seven days a week, which gives members the chance to make friends with like-minded Zumba aficionados, cycling nuts, and LesMills Body Pump pumpers.

Owned and operated by an all-female staff of motivating fitness instructors and trainers, Newport Fitness for Women fosters a comfortable setting for women to hone their physical and mental strength. The tidy, well-lit facility is flanked by a variety of weightlifting and cardio equipment, including machines, dumbbells, and elliptical trainers, and its airy Pilates studio's gleaming hardwood floors support rows of Pilates Reformers. In addition to inspiring patrons to whip into shape during one-on-one personal-training sessions, the certified trainers lead group fitness classes, including yoga, boot camp, and stretching classes. These sessions add variety to stagnating workout routines, making patrons feel less like a hamster mindlessly running in a wheel and more like a hamster triumphantly escaping its cage to take down the family cat with an MMA chokehold. To supplement their workouts, each guest is treated to complimentary water and coffee, towel service, and a locker room and showers stocked with the pertinent toiletries.

At Curl Fitness, personal trainers, yoga instructors, and Pilates gurus help clients get fit and healthy in a positive, supportive environment. A step above the typical gym, Curl Fitness has an air of sophistication, with its bubbling fountain at the entrance, stunning harbor views, and full retinue of liveried English butlers. After working up a sweat using state-of-the-art cardio and weight-lifting equipment, you can relax at the juice bar, sipping freshly squeezed nectar and protein-packed smoothies. A host of group classes helps students meet and exceed their fitness goals with high-intensity boot camps, gentle yoga, and high-energy Zumba dance workouts.

Huw Lloyd Davies’s fitness-training and life-coaching career took off in no small part due to his personal sense of adventure. Not only has he earned fitness-based credentials from CrossFit and the C.H.E.K. Institute, but he’s also an accredited instructor in sea kayaking, outdoor survival, and adventure-based learning. Stu White has a similar penchant for tackling adventure—he walked to California all the way from New Zealand, blindfolded. His inestimable expertise in human muscles and movement inform an extensive repertoire of physical training, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. Together, Huw and Stu started BodyWorks Lifestyle as a place where they can help others improve their own health and fitness. Alongside an excellent supporting staff, the team curates a curriculum of group training classes, personal-training sessions, nutrition consultations, and holistic life coaching.

The center also offers an online training program, a portal full of videos and written workouts for people who can’t make it to classes because their motorized unicycles are out of gas. The online program includes a weekly telephone chat with one of the gym’s trainers, who speaks to the philosophy of BodyWorks Lifestyle’s inspirational founder.

On the same expanse of cork-padded floor at Gryphon Fitness Studio, feet pivot into tango turns, sabers flash and meet with a clang, and bodies twirl in midair, suspended from shining hoops. Of course, not all of this takes place at the same time. The space is reserved to let instructors, including a former fencing state champion and Zumba enthusiasts, share their various passions. Though their specialties span a range that includes dance, fitness, aerial arts, and three types of swordplay, they all focus on giving each student individual attention and consideration. Rather than pushing their guests toward competition or training them not to blink in progressively brighter spotlights, they devise routines to challenge students at their preferred pace. During day camps for children, the instructors bask in a chorus of happy young voices as they explain the basics of kung fu, fencing, and acrobatics.