Abs & Stretch
Get ready to ignite your core with an intense abdominal workout designed for all fitness levels! From dynamic planks that challenge every muscle to the exhilarating rush of mountain climbers, each exercise is crafted to sculpt and define your abs. And don't forget the satisfying stretch at the end; it's the perfect finale to a session that's as fun as it is effective.
Embrace the burn and enjoy the journey to stronger, more defined abdominals!
Body Burn
Let's get physical! This low impact workout using multiple equipment will tone, strengthen and burn away calories without ever adding any jumps. Feel the repetition, music and The Burn!
Box and Kick Class
One on One Mitt/Pad Workout combined with Cardio Drills. Kick and Box away building Strength, Coordination and Stamina. The Elite Box and Kick class is held at Elite Fitness Studio in Carroll Gardens, NY.
Cardio Core Crusher
This high intensity class will offer exercises targeting the abs, lower back, glutes and hips. All the areas that make up the core of the body. As your core becomes stronger, your entire body becomes stronger, leaner, toned and more adaptable to all workout levels.
This class is 45 mins of nonstop cardio and core work. You will warm it up, light it on fire, and cool it down!
Circuit Training
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) TRX, Core Strength, Kettle Bell, Medicine Balls, Battle Ropes, and Sand Bags, a Total Body Workout.
Cycling at Elite Fitness Studio
A form of exercise with classes focusing on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery using stationary exercise bikes with a weighted flywheel, frequently called spinning.
Overall: A typical class involves a single instructor leading members through routines designed to simulate various terrain with movements and positioning similar to riding on outdoor terrain.
Participants can gage performance based on a perceived exertion scale
Cycling typically burns between 400-500 kcal in 40 minutes
Indoor cycling strengthens major muscle groups in the lower body; toning quadriceps and hamstrings, along with working the back and hips.
Overall, cycling offers an effective workout with training, even during the off-season, varied routines keeping it fresh. A great workout for all ability levels, and you don't even have to wear a helmet.
Dance Cardio Class
Dance cardio is a fun way to get your sweat on! It is a high energy, easy to follow, cardio class designed to get the heart rate up and work the entire body.
In this class you will work on coordination, balance, and endurance.
If you are tired of the treadmill and looking for a new way to burn calories this is the class for you! The Elite Box and Kick class is held at Elite Fitness Studio in Carroll Gardens, NY.
ELITE DEFENDER
The Elite Defender class focuses on strength and endurance training that is crucial to protecting yourself from a would-be attacker. Your training will emphasize the correct body position, balance and form while striking to defend yourself. You will learn basic escape and evade techniques, as well as how to access situations and areas for potential attackers. The class will teach you the integral Defender mindset while under attack. Most attackers are not expecting a defensive response from their assailant. We will teach you the element of surprise and some basic Defender responses. The Elite Defender class is held at Elite Fitness Studio in Carroll Gardens, NY.
Elite HIIT Boot Camp
The Elite HIIT Boot Camp is designed in a way that pushes you harder than you'd push yourself. These total body workouts focuses on correctness of form and ranges of motion through stretching, warm-up and cool-down.
Elite Lite and Low Class
Low intensity effective work out for all beginners, senior adults and those recovery from injury or pregnant.
This class combines an easy to follow routine, that will keep you motivated just enough without having you gasping for air.
Pilates Offerings at Elite Fitness Studio
Whether performed on a mat or with specialized equipment—is an important and integral part of our fitness routine.
With an emphasis on breath, core conditioning, and body awareness, Pilates exercise is a safe and highly effective way to stretch, strengthen, and streamline your body without putting stress on your joints. The perfect complement to cardiovascular exercise, strength training, sports conditioning, or rehab. Pilates will leave you looking toned and feeling rejuvenated.
Did you know...?
Insurance companies are now reimbursing clients who participate in routine Pilates programs. Check with your carrier to see if you qualify.
Pilates | Mat
Pilates Mat is an education in body awareness. It teaches you how to train your mind and build symmetry and coordination in the body. Focus on breath and alignment of the spine.
Elite Power Sculpt Class
A non-impact, floor based class that uses hand weights and other studio equipment to condition and sculpt all body parts.
Strength Training at Elite Fitness Studio
Endurance Training
Improve your overall fitness by focusing on building your endurance, whether you're a runner, cyclist, or casual urban warrior. We offer a number of classes with our highly qualified trainers that can suit your needs.
Strength Training
Typically the first step of any fitness regime or weight loss program, building a core foundation of strength in your body promotes the breakdown and rejuvenation of muscle tissue for a overall health, overall fitness and strength, increasing the amount of energy your body needs, and ultimately, with a strong healthy diet, providing an overall change in your energy levels while at work, or play.
Core Strength Training
Not to be ignored, Core strength training is more than isolation of abdominals, as it focuses primarily and overall body reconditioning using a variety of techniques to not only boost overall strength, but trim, tone, and work out supporting structures: lats, deltoids, shoulders, back, quadriceps, etc...
Though not typically seen as such, core strength training specifically yoga, pilates, and rowing offer you the opportunity to improve elasticity, overall strength, and total body reconditioning.
All options are offered as classes, and also available for private coaching or group coaching options with the trainer of your choice.
Special Offerings at Elite
Strength Training Basics
Learn and improve upon your own strength with the help of our skilled trainer as we progress you through various techniques to strengthen your body, as well as your mind. Using established principles, we seek to not only improve your physical strength, but focus on technique, and knowledge as we guide you from fundamental movements in muscle/endurance building into more advanced movements and the use of equipment.
Contact us and schedule a training session today to build your fundamentals, and progress to more advanced concepts.
Expect the introduction of more advanced techniques allowing you to become more familiar in a gym environment, more experimental in your own regimen at home, and feeling stronger in mind, and in body.
As always you should consult your health care professional before beginning any strength program. You should also know that building muscle mass increases the amount of energy your body requires to function, therefore a well balanced and healthy diet should be incorporated as part of any fitness plan.
Lastly, years of research show that a good base of muscle mass will also reduce the amount of fat in your body, leading to the basic strength course as being a wonderful tool in developing musculature, endurance, and with the proper diet, a good starting point for embracing a newer healthier you.
TRX Kettle-Bells
TRX focuses on the dynamic core, utilizing stabilization muscles in conjunction with body weight exercises to not only drastically improve your strength and muscular endurance, but to tone and shape your body.
Kettle-Bells are a russian invention used for over 300 years in developing the strength agrarian farmers would need in their work. Later incorporated into the training regimine of the Soviet Army, their shifting center of gravity make them ideal in the contemporary world in improving grip strength, utilizing stabilization muscles and your core, as well as in improving your overall strength.
Combining the two, we have developed a course in which we progress you in using both historically tried and true, as well as more advanced techniques to build your body in mind in ways you wouldn't even believe. Contact us for more information.
TRX Suspension Training at Elite Fitness Studio
Designed by a former Navy SEAL, the TRX Suspension Trainer is a simple yet effective piece of exercise equipment that lets you use your own body weight to get a complete, full-body workout almost every-time.
The term suspension training refers to an approach to strength training that uses a system of ropes and webbing called a "suspension trainer" to allow the user to work against their own body weight.
The two-pound strap and anchor system work with your body weight to allow hundreds of specific movements to help you achieve the type of fitness you want. Working with our trainers, together you can create a routine that builds power, strength, flexibility, balance and endurance.
Endless variety of exercise
Core Specific Exercises
Strengthening of core stabilization musculature, and elongation leading to a strong, lean physique; especially when paired with Yoga, or Pilates.
Typically, cost-prohibitive, elite offers free classes you get as a member, as well as equipment you can use during our normal course offerings, in your private training, or, if you so choose, in your private group coaching sessions.
Yoga offerings at Elite Fitness Studio
Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa based yoga, also called flow because of the smooth way that the poses run together. It is one of the most popular contemporary styles of yoga. It's a broad classification that encompasses many different types of yoga, including Ashtanga and Power Yoga in contemporary yoga parlance.
Yoga is an ancient body/mind practice that would help you explore your body and release stress while strengthening and toning your muscles.
Power Flow Vinyasa Yoga
Power Flow Vinyasa Yoga is an athletic vinyasa class focused on building strength through the connection of dynamic movement and breath.
This class features more challenging asana sequences moving quickly from one pose to the next. Class can be made accessible for all levels looking to level up their practice.
Try a free three-day-trial pass for our local 11231 and 11201 community members, or contact us today about what we can do to help you find your reason.