"Pittsburgh's School of Circus Arts" on the South Side offers a wide array of classes, including aerial arts classes (aerial silks, aerial ropes, static trapeze, aerial straps and aerial hoop); aerial yoga; pole dancing; and ground disciplines (flexibility, floor acrobatics and strength and conditioning). And because we love a good deal: Get 10% off Iron City Circus Arts gift cards by using the code "Jingle10" at checkout and the coupon code "5OFF" for $5 off your first class.
Prepare yourself to be put through the paces of a professional boxer's workout at Wolfpack Boxing Club. Experience the thrill of punching the heavy bag, shadow boxing in the ring, mastering the speed bag and hitting the focus pads with your coach. Boxing is great cross-training for athletes in sports that require speed, strength, explosion, quickness, eye/hand coordination and endurance.
Now with two locations — in the Strip District and a new one in Cranberry — Stout Training offers classes in authentic fighting arts, including Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, fitness and strength training, mixed martial arts, and Muay Thai and kickboxing.
Finally, our lack of gracefulness won't keep us out of a ballet theater! The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre offers Pilates and yoga, as well as classes in ballet, hip-hop, core conditioning, contemporary and jazz, barre and cardio dance.
Pittsburgh's first indoor bicycle park, The Wheel Mill provides a space for mountain bikers, BMXers and unicycle riders of all ages and skill levels. Eight rooms in the park offer all kinds of terrain, with varying levels of difficulty. There's also several jump lines, a pump track, multiple mountain bike rooms and trails, a park room, a 6-foot mini ramp, and a foam pit and resi ramp. Beginners can take classes and practice skills in the fundamental skills room. The Wheel Mill welcomes riders of all skill levels.
The Steel City Road Runners Club provides events, services, and programs aimed at keeping runners doing what they love — running. The club caters to a wide variety of fitness levels, from the walker to the avid runner in the Steel City. Check out a calendar of events here .
With four locations — Shadyside, Wexford, South Side and Lawrenceville — Amazing Yoga offers classes focused on balanced movement with emphasis on both strength and gentleness. Regardless of age, flexibility or strength, Amazing Yoga has a class to meet for you. Yoga can help you reduce stress, lose weight, heal injuries and emotional turmoil, increase focus and much more. New students receive two weeks of yoga for $25.
Some prefer the treadmill. Others hit the weight bench or swim laps.
Hate the idea of working out alone? (Because it makes you remember that you're exercising?)
We found some cool workout spots around Pittsburgh that offer group classes so you can get your sweat — and socialization — on once the calendar flips to 2018.