New year brings new set of fitness classes to NJC

***Press Release***

Northeastern Junior College’s wellness center and Extended Studies Department are offering you some new opportunities to keep your new year’s resolution. Five new fitness classes begin on January 24^th. Sign up now to enroll as they are expected to be popular offerings. The instructors are seasoned fitness experts who have mastered their own physical fitness and enjoy sharing what they know with other learners.

The college has always offered yoga classes, and this continues when Petie Sabala and Connie Henderson return to teach at different times on different days. Sabala will offer yoga from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, January 24^th to March 14^th.  Henderson will teach a yoga offering from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. on  Wednesdays and Fridays, January 23-March 15^th. Yoga will enhance general health and well-being through strength, flexibility, balance and relaxation techniques and exercises. Students practice yoga according to their individual fitness levels and abilities.

Kari Mueller will offer a circuit training class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, January 24-March 14^th from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Circuit training is a form of conditioning that combines both resistance and cardio training to improve fitness and health. By varying the intensity throughout an activity, students will burn fat and eliminate boredom.

Mueller will also offer a cardio blast class on Mondays and Wednesdays, January 23-March 13^th from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.  This will be a high energy, fun cardio class set to music that will get your body moving. Cardio will include a variety of high and low floor work, intervals and basic dance moves. Strength, balance and flexibility exercises are also included. All levels of fitness are welcome and it is a great calorie burning workout.

Lindsey Lorenzo, a seasoned instructor returns this January with a popular Pilates class. She will teach Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., January 24-March 14^th. Pilates is the ultimate exercise for anyone who wants to tone, streamline, and realign their body. The focus is on the abdominals, or “powerhouse,” which supports the back; this makes Pilates an ideal exercise for those with back problems--or those hoping to prevent them.

New this semester will be a kettlebells class, taught by Kari Mueller, on Mondays and Wednesdays, January 23-March 13^th from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Kettlebells are bowling ball sized weights with a single lopped handle on top. They range in weight from two pounds to over 100 pounds. Kettlebells focus on conditioning and engage multiple muscle groups at once. They are a great way to get a whole body workout in a short time.

All of these classes will be held at the Bank of Colorado Event Center and include an 8-week membership to the facility. Students in these classes can work-out as many times as they choose per week during this time. The cost is $134.72 or a mere $16.84 per week or $2.80 per day (based on six days a week) which is less than the daily punch card rate. These instructors are all happy to work with individuals of all fitness levels, helping you see how to modify movements for your particular ability.

To register for any of these five classes, contact the Extended Studies Department at 521-6900.