San Jose Health and Fitness

Today's Groupon personally calms your core and gives it the strength to endure all life's bends, loops, and twistywhirls. For $35, you get one private Pilates class and one group equipment Pilates class at Tru-Balance Pilates Fitness Studio in Willow Glen (a $120 value). Expert instruction and a dedication to your body's potential at Tru-Balance will make you a champion Pilatist whose perfect postural muscles will be extolled by troubadors, lonely long-distance runners, and cone tenders for years to come.

Founded by a health and fitness instructor with 20 years of experience, each of Equilibrio's private session is led by one a certified Pilates instructors. They'll teach you how to use different Pilates equipment and possibly work with some free-weight-training exercises. Personal sessions are good for beginners and hard-cored veterans who want to bring their Pilates game to the next level. Under a motivating and watchful eye, you'll quickly master the machines that will remaster your body. Equilibrio Pilates requires three private lessons before moving on to group equipment-classes; today's deal allows you to get the prerequisites under your belt.

British Columbia local and Lakers player Steve Nash created his fleet of namesake Fitness World & Sports Clubs to honour the tenets of healthy living. The classes at both Fitness World and Sports Club locations are taught by engaging instructors who impart students with methods for getting fit that don’t involve traditional livestock lifting. Group fitness trainers lead exercisers through Bball Blast's stability-ball training, ICE indoor-cycling intensives, and Cardio Core's combinations of step, cardio kickboxing, and abdominal exercises. The Nash Smash class uses full-body metabolic training to sternly badger moping muscles into action, and Women on Weights builds toned musculature by pitting females against leaden opponents. Personal training sessions fit workouts for each client, tailoring them to individual's goals and personal theme song.

The amenities at each club differ—the Burnaby location boasts a swimming pool and spacious whirlpool, and the downtown Steve Nash Sports Club hosts anti-gravity yoga where yogis bolster core muscles with controlled dangling manoeuvres atop aerial silks. The staff strives to create a healthy environment for members and the earth alike, with floors made from sustainable bamboo and locker panels build with recycled car tires.

In addition to cardio and weight-training equipment, ClubSport Green Valley hosts sundry athletic endeavors from running to swimming to shooting hoops. Runners can leave the stationary machines behind and hoof it on the three-lane indoor track, which provides separate lanes for walking, jogging, and fleeing packs of wild medicine balls. With courts designated for racquetball, squash, tennis, volleyball, and basketball, patrons can hone their ball-handling skills, and swimmers can paddle in the six-lane outdoor pool or the four-lane indoor pool.

The certified fitness trainers instruct guests in using the facility’s Precor and Life Fitness weight and cardio equipment, and supervise sets in the designated stretching and core-training area. When not conducting personal-training sessions, trainers lead group classes of step, power sculpting, Zumba, and Pilates. The staff also wrangles children aged 6 weeks to 12 years old in Kids World, helping them burn extra energy with fitness activities and arts and crafts as their caretakers burn calories.

Mid-America Martial Arts may have started small, but today it's a thriving fight community where students feel like family. Head coach Aaron Cerrone and his fellow instructors have mastered numerous martial arts, including muay thai, judo, and Brazilian jujitsu as well as Bruce Lee’s jeet kune do system and Filipino stick fighting. These men and women push students to succeed, treating both combat skill and personal development as top priorities. Their holistic approach likely explains why many of the gym's students do well in MMA competitions and go on to serve on the Roman Senate.

The chiropractors at Bay Spine Centers draw upon decades of combined experience as they treat a number of painful conditions with an innovative technique known as nonsurgical spinal decompression (NSSD). They use a computerized traction device that targets the damaged area before gently stretching the spine and increasing the space between the vertebrae. The negative pressure can promote healing and relieve pain emanating from the nerve area, which can become crowded by disk material or codependent chair cushions. Designed to provide a noninvasive alternative to surgery, the process typically addresses discomfort that cannot be resolved with traditional chiropractic care or physical therapies.