Fitness Guide
On the hunt for a true fitness community that will cheer you on throughout the toughest workouts?? A virtual studio for movement opportunities from the comfort of your own home? Do you want to dip your toes into yoga or Pilates for the first time, or are you just in need of change and want to switch up your cardio and weight regime?
You’ve come to the right place! Take a peek at some local fitness studios—from Kennebunk to Amesbury—that will keep us moving, grooving, and in tip top shape all year long!
STRENGTH & FITNESS
Calling all dance fitness and sculpt lovers of all levels!! Glisten is a dance-inspired, low-impact training method that serves as a celebration rather than a workout, created by professional dancer & fitness trainer Meghan McFerran. Glisten’s classes (all under 40 mins!) will leave you feeling energized, confident from the inside out, and motivated to keep working towards the best version of you. With an extensive library of virtual classes to choose from including: Low Impact to High Energy HIIT, Longer Full Body to Shorter “Mini Blasts”, Dance Cardio to Dance Strength, Sculpt to Stretch, Barre to Chill Vibes, Special Programs, and so much more! Download the Glisten App to get your first class FREE & 7-day free trial to unlimited Glisten workouts! Subscribe to Meghan’s free weekly newsletter to stay tuned for Portsmouth in-person pop up classes this Summer!
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Katy’s Total Fitness is a personal training studio that is owned and run by local, Katy Estes. Katy has been personal training for 8 years, and 7 of those years have been out of a private studio in Kittery, Maine where she still trains today. Katy provides personalized workouts to fit the needs and goals of each client she works with. In addition to working with individuals, she also offers partner training for 2-5 people, and creates personalized workout plans for those who want to work on their goals outside the studio. Katy’s mission is to make sure everyone who works with her does so safely and mindfully, while continually building confidence in themselves.
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Gain Strength and Conditioning uses scientific strength training principles to help members build strength, confidence, and independence through customized programming and personalized coaching. Gain was founded in 2014 with a goal of serving individuals in their 50’s and 60’s who weren’t yet exposed to athletic-style functional training. The Gain Community is now home to college students, 30-somethings, all sorts of runners, CrossFitters, and people in their 80’s! Gain is a space for people to learn how to deadlift, squat, bench press, do pull ups, and throw medicine balls—and do it with other people who are united by the same goal: getting better, so life outside the gym is easier! You can see if Gain is the right fit for you with a 3-session trial for $39.
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Join the Mercuria Running community to reach your running goals! Mercuria Running is a woman-owned and operated organization that works with runners of all ages, at all levels. Mercuria Running offers personalized training plans that are tailored to your goals, in-person form coaching and workouts, and online coaching for ongoing support and adjustments to your training plan as life throws it’s curve balls. You will work with an experienced running coach to run strong, train smart, dream big, and reach your goals!
-> Half Marathon and Full Marathon Training Groups Begin this summer! Learn more here!
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Since 2007, The Fitness Studio at Chases Pond has been a “home away from home gym” for personalized private, semi-private, and group classes in Pilates, TRX, and Circuit Training for the southern Maine and Seacoast New Hampshire community. At 600 square feet, Chases Pond has a spacious feel of a dance studio with a wide variety of exercise equipment and props in a home-based wooded setting. From the Pilates Reformer and Split Pedal Stability Chair, to the Tower Trainer and TRX System, students may integrate strength, balance, and movement-focused exercises into a single session or class. The studio is now offering in-person private and semi-private sessions as well as small group pilates mat classes to vaccinated clients.
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The Port is home to the original CrossFit Portsmouth which, when founded in 2009, was the first CrossFit gym on the seacoast! The Port’s signature program works for everyone at any stage of their fitness journey to accomplish any goal— from improved health and strength, to weight loss and better performance overall. The main priority at this Portsmouth-based gym is to provide the community with all aspects of health and fitness by offering a broad range of services including nutrition consulting, personal training, and specialty courses (such as its very popular “Port Sweat”) to leveled programming tracks for all ability levels. Schedule a free consultation with The Port, and let the team show you what’s so special about their workouts, the lifestyle they encourage, and the community within!
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If you love swinging kettlebells, 90’s rap, bad jokes, boxing, hugs, and high fives Seacoast Kettlebell is the place for you! Our workouts will help you look and feel AWESOME, and you’ll have a blast doing it. This personal training and fitness center—with locations in both Dover and Portsmouth, New Hampshire—was voted one of the Men’s Fitness Top 50 Gym’s in the United States. Come see why!
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Located in Stratham, New Hampshire, AG Fitness is a holistic fitness studio that takes its workouts very seriously… while having a seriously good time!! AG Fitness people are the kind of people that expect workouts to fuel their social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical well-being. Work with nationally certified staff in group fitness classes and personal training sessions, and join the hundreds of participants (including Olympians!) who have called AG home for years. Using the AG Method in a high-vibe, nurturing environment, the team focuses on longevity, wellness, and the pursuit of adventure. The business turns 15 this year! It’s time to celebrate!!
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Did you say you are looking for a wildly festive spot in which to experience a fun and challenging workout with friends old and new?? Well, do we have the place for you! LizFit is a welcoming group fitness center for community members of all fitness levels and abilities. Located inside Spinnaker Point Recreation Center in Portsmouth, LizFit offers a variety of group fitness classes every day of the week, from spinning and kickboxing, to tabata and yoga! LizFit also offers personal training and small group training!
*NEW MEMBER SPECIAL*: LizFit is offering 30 days of unlimited classes for $30. To claim the deal, contact Liz (liz@lizfit.net or call/text 978.257.0112). Available to new members only through March 31.
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9Round Portsmouth is a 30 minute total body kickboxing workout that uses a beginner-friendly foundation of kickboxing to create a workout that is a challenge for any fitness level—whether you’re just starting out or are an elite athlete. The fitness experts at 9Round develop circuit training workouts that change everyday, so you’ll always have a new and exciting challenge to complete. PLUS, the studio’s no class time approach is perfect for a busy lifestyle, so you can show up on your own schedule and your champion trainer will meet you at the door to guide you through all 9 rounds! 9Round meets you where you are and pushes you to become stronger in 30 minutes physically and mentally! Ready to unleash your inner fighter??
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Jazzercise is one of the world’s leading dance fitness companies with 8,300+ franchisees teaching 32,000+ classes per week in 32 countries around the world. Instructors train every year to master the Jazzercise method, which fuses cardio, resistance training, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing and the demanding forms of dance. Classes include CardioSculpt, PowerSculpt, Strength & CardioSculptHiit. With constantly changing moves, new beats, a variety of workouts and calorie-crushing intensity, customers can expect to feel results after three classes and expect to stick with it. Stratham Jazzercise is located in the Stratham Plaza (72 Portsmouth Ave) and has 14 in person and livestreamed classes per week. The studio has several class passes available (10/20/unlimited) and now offers an “All Access” pass that gives you access to our Jazzercise On Demand service that has 100’s of saved workouts to do at your convenience. Seacoast Jazzercise also offers an introductory 2 week special for $49 that allows you access to unlimited classes!
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Olivia Allen Dance & Fitness is a boutique dance & fitness studio that offers solutions that fit into your lifestyle. With small classes and shorter commitments, you and your student can feel more successful in an engaging atmosphere, and still have the opportunity to grow and learn as a dancer. The studio also offers fun and uplifting group fitness classes and personal training packages!
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INDOOR CYCLING
Heading into its 10th year, CYCLEFIERCE is the Seacoast’s first dedicated indoor cycling studio. Riders of all levels are welcomed and celebrated. CycleFierce is known for their highly experienced instructors who deliver challenging, fun, and empowering rides. You’ll find it all at CycleFierce- – rhythm rides, interval based rides, and even 30 min HIIT rides that will leave you drenched and inspired. It’s a place of positivity, connection and empowerment.
The studio is available for private events and fundraisers.
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Studio One Cycle is an indoor cycling studio located in downtown Dover, New Hampshire that offers fun, energetic, and judgment-free classes led by a team of highly-trained instructors! Studio One’s classes are rhythm-based, meaning that the music dictates the workout (dance party on a bike anyone?!) and are designed to take you on a 45-minute journey complete with motivation, inspiration, great music, and community connection. Whether you’re pedaling through the tough times or riding high while experiencing life’s big milestones, Studio One Cycling is here to celebrate each rider every step of the way! Studio Founder Katy and her energetic team are excited to be the first indoor cycling studio in Dover and can’t wait to welcome you to their sweat sanctuary soon!!
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Located in lower village Kennebunk, Maine Revolution: Indoor Cycling & Fitness offers high intensity spin classes for all levels, from beginners to avid cyclists. At Maine Revolution the team wants riders to feel empowered, strong and part of its growing fitness family. The connection and friendships formed in the studio are an integral part of the studio’s mission. Every ride is an opportunity to dig a little deeper, challenge your mindset, and have FUN! Maine Revolution offers indoor and outdoor riding options (weather permitting), private sessions (solo or groups), wedding party and bachelorette party rides. Come join the Revolution!
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YOGA + PILATES
Lee, New Hampshire is now the home to a new barre, yoga, and movement studio… Align!! Align was created by Seacoast movement educator Angela Desrosiers, and she has created a space that welcomes you as you are. A community where you’ll move together, grow together and empower yourself through movement. In addition to in person classes, there is an extensive on demand library as well as retreats, events and more!
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Dover Pilates is a boutique studio that specializes in cross training for life. The team of highly-trained instructors meets you where you’re at and helps clients achieve their goals through the Pilates method. Pilates sessions are held in the studio’s private training setting where instructors work one-on-one to address specific goals of each individual. Small group classes are also held in the private studio where individuals work together with an instructor to build strength, challenge endurance, and increase flexibility.
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Exeter Power Yoga and Healing Center offers creative, challenging, and transformative heated power yoga classes for all levels. In addition to power yoga, this welcoming studio also hosts preteen yoga, restorative yoga, yin yoga, meditation, and yoga nidra classes. Exeter Power Yoga offers Yoga Teacher Trainings, Continuing Education Intensives for Teachers, Reiki Trainings, and guest workshops, as well as private yoga, reiki, and group sessions that are available by appointment.
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The Daily Sweat is a yoga and barre studio focused on helping individuals and families find health, wellness, and community. The studio and team’s mission is to ensure that every person that walks through our doors feels welcomed, safe, and inspired through a balanced wellness program that will stretch, strengthen, and get your heart pumping!
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Once upon a time, two UNH alumni shared a dream of creating a local community of people who build each other up through barre and fitness. The result was Local B Studio. Founded in 2020, this boutique fitness studio offers a variety of classes, including yoga, HIIT workouts, circuit classes, and of course, barre. The studio offers a variety of time slots and class package options to fit all schedules and needs of the community. Experience virtual Local Barre classes from the comfort of your own home! Are you a student at UNH? Browse Local B’s website for special offers just for Wildcats! Not a student at UNH? No problem—Local B Studio offers pop-ups, discounts, and specials throughout the year!
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Based upon concepts of Yin and Yang, classes at Prasada Yoga Center blend the masculine aspects of power and focus from Ashtanga Yoga with some of the more fluid aspects of Vinyasa. This North Hampton, New Hampshire studio offers Vinyasa Yoga, introspective Yin, Flow to Yin Yoga, a slow meditative paced Mindful Movement Yoga, Katonah Yoga, and traditional Ashtanga Yoga. All of these dynamic classes seek to build strength, balance, and mobility through the safety of form and alignment principles while providing students the space to quiet the mind. With knowledgeable and experienced instructors, students are guided to prioritize the breath and explore their own edge in postures to bring mind and body into balance. Prasada Yoga Center provides a safe and supportive learning environment that welcomes all people of all abilities. A robust and comprehensive teacher training is offered every fall for those who are interested in deepening their knowledge of yoga or becoming a yoga teacher.
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CJ Physical Therapy & Pilates specializes in helping people age 40+ be more active, healthy, and mobile. The Physical Therapy specialists and expert Pilates instructors help you be more active, healthy, and mobile by empowering you through movement – instead of pills, procedures, or surgery. They offer private, individualized physical therapy services as well as small group Pilates classes and Reformer sessions. If you’re looking for help getting rid of back, knee, neck, shoulder, or any other musculoskeletal pain or injury, they offer FREE Discovery Sessions with our specialists to determine if you’re a good fit for what they do and make sure they can help you. Want to try Pilates?
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Maha Yoga Shala is a yoga and wellness center based in Dover, New Hampshire that offers ancient yogic practices that allow modern people to develop mental strength, peak health, and spiritual connection. This welcoming studio offers daily yoga and mindfulness classes, kirtan music, tea ceremonies, workshops, and more.
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Bliss out anytime and anywhere with YNDI Yoga’s virtual yoga classes and in-person events! YNDIyoga.com is an immersive and atmospheric online yoga platform with diverse, transformational yoga classes and guided meditations that include custom composed soundscapes and artful visuals. Lana Vogestad, E-RYT 500, and visual artist based on the Seacoast of New Hampshire, invites us to tend to our physical and mental health through on-demand classes and curated events. YNDI members on the Seacoast have access to special events and yoga classes, including in the YNDI Production studio in Rollinsford, which has infrared heating. Membership is $29/month and includes unlimited access to the diverse video library, livestream events, soundscapes and special access to in-person events.
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Located in Epping, New Hampshire, Steam House offers a variety of classes designed to challenge, energize, and heal. Take control of your health and fitness with Steam House’s wonderful team of teachers and students. The schedule is filled with a variety of classes that will allow participants to sweat, build strength and flexibility, and so much more. Choose from HIIT, Yogalates, Vinyasa, Buti Yoga, Original Hot Yoga, Yin Yoga, and exciting monthly workshops! Steam House offers a two week introductory special for $25!
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Almae Pilates offers private reformer training sessions in Hampton, New Hampshire. With over 10 years of teaching experience, Almae is a welcoming space for you to practice movement in your own style and pace. This brand new studio also offers childcare for parents that need a little break for working out.
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Tap tap, hold, tap, tap, hold, is the beat at Barre & Soul Portsmouth, where the team is friendly and the workout is so challenging your legs may feel like spaghetti when you walk down the stairs and back into real life. Barre & Soul is a welcoming barre and yoga studio located in downtown Portsmouth, with additional studios in Harvard Square, Melrose, and Wayland Square.
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Common Roots Collective offers yoga studio and fitness programs that honor and empower individual journeys toward personal growth and well-being. Located directly across from Cable Beach in Rye, the studio provides a serene, safe, and welcoming space where students of all levels can explore yoga. During the warmer months, just steps away, Common Roots offers beach yoga for students who want to soak up the sounds and sights of the ocean to pair with their mindful movement. Whether you need a cup of coffee, lunch to take to the beach, catering for a party, or a yoga class with a view – Common Roots’ Market—located right next door—has got you covered!
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Tucked away from the buzz of downtown Portsmouth, The Pilates Room is quietly nestled on “The Hill”. This cozy oasis offers private and semi-private Reformer Pilates sessions for athletes, people with sports injuries, rehabilitation, and anyone looking to change up his or her fitness routine. Owner Michele also offers pre and postnatal Pilates, mat Pilates and beach yoga sessions. All new friends of The Pilates Room are invited to enjoy a complimentary 30-minute consultation—Click here to book! Learn about the benefits of Pilates!
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Situated in beautiful Rye, New Hampshire, Studio 7 Fitness and Wellness has been operating in the Seacoast for over twenty years. Globally trained and recognized, studio Owner Joanne Smith provides individual and group instruction in GYROTONIC®, GYROKINESIS®, Pilates, and Barre. For availability, please email info@studio7fitness.com or call 603-964-4140!
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Whether you’re in town for vacation, here for the summer or are a year-round resident, The Pilates Studio Kennebunk has something for everyone! This bright, full-service studio offers classes, private sessions, and duet/trio private sessions!
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Common Roots Collective offers yoga studio and fitness programs that honor and empower individual journeys toward personal growth and well-being. Located directly across from Cable Beach in Rye, the studio provides a serene, safe, and welcoming space where students of all levels can explore yoga. During the warmer months, just steps away, Common Roots offers beach yoga for students who want to soak up the sounds and sights of the ocean to pair with their mindful movement. Whether you need a cup of coffee, lunch to take to the beach, catering for a party, or a yoga class with a view – Common Roots’ Market—located right next door—has got you covered!
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Welcome to Engage Your Core Pilates— a boutique private Pilates training studio located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire!
At Engage Your Core, they believe each and every person is unique and each and every body is unique. Your 1:1 Pilates sessions will be designed and customized for you, your body, and your goals. Whether you are just beginning your fitness journey or you are true athlete, Lisa and her team will create the perfect Pilates experience for you!
