Fitness Classes
Group Fitness classes are included free of charge with your membership. If you are not a member you can attend classes by paying a $7 drop-in fee.
If at any time you do not feel well during class please notify your instructor immediately.
Cardio Step in room 1004 - NEW
Cardio Step combines high-energy Bollywood music with aerobic exercise using a step platform to enhance cardiovascular endurance and coordination. It provides a fun, dynamic workout that boosts fitness levels while engaging multiple muscle groups. All fitness levels are welcome!
Thursdays, 5:15 p.m.
Cycling in room 1004 -NEW
Cycling-Express group fitness class offers an intense, low-impact cardiovascular workout on stationary bikes, led by an instructor who guides you through various terrains and intensities. This class helps improve endurance and burns calories in a 30-minute class. All fitness levels are welcome!
Mondays, 5:30 p.m.
Cycling Express in room 1004- NEW
Cycling group fitness class offers an intense, low-impact cardiovascular workout on stationary bikes, led by an instructor who guides you through various terrains and intensities. This class helps improve endurance and burns calories in a 1-hour class. All fitness levels are welcome!
Wednesdays, 6:45 a.m.
HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) in Room 1009 -NEW
Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:15 p.m.
Intro to Strength and Conditioning in Room 1004 - NEW
In this class, we’ll explore a variety of movement patterns (push, pull, hinge, etc.) and methods related to strength and conditioning. Every class will be a total body workout incorporating fundamental movement patterns emphasizing strength and resistance training. There will be a mix of upper-body and lower-body exercises, core and torso work each session. All fitness levels are welcome!
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 a.m.
Total Body Fitness in room 1004
Total Body Fitness is a high-energy conditioning class designed to challenge you with short, intense cardio intervals combined with muscle-strengthening exercises. Movements and intensities can be adjusted to suit each participant, ensuring that everyone can achieve an effective workout tailored to their fitness level. All fitness levels are welcome!
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 12:00 p.m.
TRX in room 1009
TRX stands for total-body resistance exercise. By holding onto the two straps with your hands or suspending your feet into the foot cradles, you leverage your body weight against gravity to create as much or as little resistance as you want for each exercise. It improves strength, stamina, balance, coordination, flexibility, and body control. All fitness levels are welcome!
Tuesdays, 12:00 p.m.
UNMC Running Club
Meets outside the Pharmacy building
Mondays, 5:30 p.m.
Yoga 5-week series in room 1009
Cost- $30 for all sessions; see the front desk for more details.
Saturdays in September, 10:00 a.m.
Yoga in room 1009
Yoga classes enhance flexibility by reducing muscle tension and expanding your range of motion. They also improve muscular endurance and balance. By focusing on holding poses, relaxing muscles, and breathing slowly, yoga fosters complete mind-body relaxation. All fitness levels are welcome!
Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:00 p.m. | Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:15 p.m.
Instructors
Decature Banker, MPH, CSP
Decature is a NESTA certified personal fitness trainer with additional certification in TRX. He has 10 years of experience training in both individual and group settings, with clientele ranging from youth athletes to adults. He strives for efficiency and his classes offer a fast-paced blend of strength training and conditioning.
Decature is also a senior specialist in the UNMC Environmental Health and Safety Department with an MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health and a BS in Business. He strongly believes that the Center for Healthy Living’s mission to encourage wellness among faculty, staff and students can have a positive impact in the overall health and safety of the UNMC community.
Annie Bode, APRN, DNP
Annie Bode, APRN, DNP is a women’s health nurse practitioner. Her career in health care and her specialty in integrative medicine led her to yoga as a form of ancillary health care and wellness for body, mind and spirit. She is a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200) with additional certification in Yin Yoga (RYT 100). Annie’s yin yoga sessions aim for a balance between effort and surrender, enabling a greater sense of ease in our bodies and resilience in our spirits.
Yin is a relatively new form of yoga working with fascia, connective tissue and the nervous system. A regular Yin yoga practice activates the parasympathetic nervous system and enables a mind-body connection using breath and body awareness. Yin enables increased flexibility and range of motion. Yin yoga is both a deep physical practice and a form of mindfulness meditation.
Yin yoga is a non-competitive yoga style. It is a personalized practice that is safe and appropriate for each body with its own unique muscular and skeletal variations. Yin yoga is accessible to all bodies, regardless of age, physical ability or specific health condition.
Annie currently leads the 5 p.m. yoga session. She is available for individual yoga sessions or therapeutically themed group classes. Annie has experience working with individuals to achieve relief of chronic arthritis pain, back pain, headaches and post-partum mood disorders.
Devashree Patel, PhD
Devashree has PhD in Yoga Therapy and LifeSciences, with 18 years of teaching Hatha yoga style.
Hatha Yoga has three elements: physical poses (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation (dyana).
Regular Hatha yoga practice relieves stress, promotes mental calmness, improves strength, flexibility, stamina, range of motion, and balance.
Devashree taught in the Sivananda School of Yoga before coming to work as a yoga instructor at the Center for Healthy Living at UNMC and as a Yoga faculty at UNO’s Department of Health and Kinesiology.
“Yoga is a gift that keeps giving,” she said. “It is a gift that was given to me by Sivananda yoga school and now it is a gift I want to pass on to others. I know for sure yoga helps people decrease their stress levels and if you have a less stressed society you have a happier society, and by teaching Yoga I will be making a contribution to my society and the world.”
Julia Gollobit
Julia completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training with One Yoga in Koh Phangan, Thailand, studying Hatha and vinyasa yoga. She likes to incorporate meditation and mindfulness in each class. Julia strives to teach her students body awareness and calming techniques as this is what draws her to yoga. Outside of yoga, Julia runs a pet sitting business and loves to go on hikes.
