Saskatoon Gyms and Fitness

CrossFit Brio Bootcamp’s instructors lead students of all fitness levels through a series of functional exercises that combine intense cardiovascular activity with resistance training in intimately sized courses and boot-camp sessions. They lead routines that are intentionally light on traditional equipment, focusing instead on improving strength with kettlebells and sandbags, bolstering flexibility and balance with gymnastics techniques, and cultivating stamina and basic rhyming skills with jump ropes. The training staff helps students also build up speed, endurance, and stamina during plyometrics and a rotating set of cardio drills. They encourage students to proceed at their own pace during the intense programs, motivating them to push themselves without compromising proper form.

The experienced trainers at Fitness Focus cater to clients of all experience levels and fitness goals with signature group fitness classes and personal training. The facility’s gym stocks equipment alongside TV screens in an open, naturally lit space for those who wish to monitor their own workouts. To shake things up, they can join one of the 30 classes offered per week such as spinning, step, and Tabata TRX, in which participants use the specialized equipment during eight sets of 20-second intervals.

ClubMynx Fitness—a women’s workout studio with a penchant for flirty dance routines—jump-starts fitness regimens with fun, empowering group classes, private parties, and outdoor boot camps. During Ariel Hoop classes, instructors guide students suspended from Lyra hoops through a variety of acrobatic skills and sequences, and Barre Fitness classes shape students into stunning silhouette using ballet barres, free weights, and resistance bands and balls. Pole-fitness classes boost upper-body strength, and private parties entertain entire groups with themed pole-dancing festivities such as Old Chicago Burlesque and Hollywood Divas.

A community presence in Saskatoon since 1908, YMCA remains true to its lasting mission of physical and social enrichment for men, women, and kids of all ages. Staff members uphold the YMCA’s core values of honesty, acceptance, and fairness as they invest in their community’s children and strengthen family bonds critically weakened by overzealous games of Monopoly. They pump up adult fitness regimens with aquatic fitness and boot-camp classes, squash courts, and a full gymnasium outfitted with equipment for basketball, volleyball, and rope-skipping. They’ve also filled their fitness centre with free weights, cardio equipment, and weight machines. When they’re not helping adults trim down waistlines during yoga, cycling, and aerobics classes, staff members are getting back in touch with their inner children. They stimulate imagination, mental development, and growth as they lead children’s day camps, after-school programs, and art classes. This YMCA outpost further strengthens and unites the Saskatoon community through the YMCA Strong Kids Campaign, which raises much-needed funding for kids and families who can’t afford the full cost of any of YMCA’s progressive programs.

Since Judi Sheppard Missett first created Jazzercise in 1969, the dance-fitness fusion has become a household name, and she is still the driving force behind the company today. Though Judi can’t attend all 32,000 classes held weekly in 32 countries, every 10 weeks, instructors around the world receive video of a new routine choreographed by Judi herself. And the routines have certainly evolved since their inception. They currently integrate elements of yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, and resistance training, and are set to a consistently updated soundtrack of top 40, hip-hop, rock, and country hits. Generally, the 60-minute classes begin with a light warm-up before launching into 30 minutes of cardio, a segment with weights and strength training, and then a cooldown with stretches. Students of all ages and experience levels are welcome, but nervous beginners can cuddle up on the couch with their new sneakers and watch videos of signature moves at home before attending their first class.

Positively Fit Personal Training derives its name from the upbeat attitude of owner Amanda Stalwick, who has orchestrated dozens of transformations during her 25 years as a certified personal trainer and triathlon coach. Stalwick tailors fitness programs to clients of all ages and skill levels, including teens, seniors, and adults who've never set foot in a gym or wrestled with a bear's overwhelming cuteness. Instead of focusing solely on the calorie burning, she balances strength and flexibility movements with exercises that bolster cardiovascular endurance.

Personal-training sessions can take place at home, at work, outdoors, or at the PACE Athletic Training Centre. Group training often takes the form of boot camps, which bolster agility and core strength with tools such as kettlebells, yoga poses, and group runs. And during high-performance training sessions, Stalwick draws upon her Ironman experience to push athletes toward personal bests.