Unheated
Strength and core, no heat
Tone & Tighten and Core Circuit, 40 minutes each in an unheated room. Barre runs through Full Circle Barre.
Tone & Tighten: full body, with weights
Tone & Tighten is 40 minutes in a non heated room, a full body strength class built around weights. It is a direct way into the strength side of the studio.
With no heat in the room, the work comes from load and repetition rather than from sweat alone. Pick a weight you can control for every set and let the last few reps be the hard part.
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Core Circuit: forty minutes, core first
Core Circuit also runs 40 minutes in a non heated room, with core strength emphasized. A circuit moves you through a series of short exercises in turn, so no one position wears you out before the next arrives.
Co-owner Tim Ceurvorst comes from fitness, with daily classes, bootcamps, private training and corporate fitness behind him. Ask him at the studio how the strength classes fit around your heated ones.
Barre, and balancing strength with heat
Barre is offered through Full Circle Barre, which has its own sign-up on its own site, so the class is booked there and not on the Yoga Loft schedule.
Strength days pair well with the heated side of the ladder. A common week is one or two unheated strength classes between the hot or power flow classes, so the muscles you work on Monday are not the ones you stretch hard on Tuesday.
Studio memberships include Sculpt and Hot Pilates alongside yoga and sound healing, so a mixed week is already covered once you are a member.
Tone & Tighten and Core Circuit each run 40 minutes in a room that is not heated.
Up the ladder
Strength sits at the bottom. Here is what is above it.
Pair a 40 minute strength class with one of these. Questions about which mix suits you? Ask Tim or send the studio a message.
Barre
Full Circle Barre
Barre is offered through Full Circle Barre. Sign-up happens on their site, not ours.
Sign up at Full Circle Barre85° to 90°
Power Yoga
Express Power Flow, Power Flow and Hot Power Flow. Vinyasa built on strength and breath.
See Power Yoga100°
Hot Yoga
Hot 90 and Hot 60 in the Hatha format, open to all levels. The other end of the ladder.
See Hot Yoga
New here? Your first two weeks of unlimited classes are $49, see the pricing page, and Tone & Tighten and Core Circuit are booked on the Oak Park schedule.