YOUR URBAN OASIS IN LUGANO Courses & Activities

A mix of elements from various disciplines, combined with ground-based, quadrupedal movement, using only your body weight as a training tool.

Mobility, flexibility, strength, and endurance. Anywhere, anytime, without equipment - returning to our origins, the animal ones, to reach the best of human evolution.

ANIMAL FLOW: creating synergy with the body. Within the body.

A freestyle activity working across multiple training planes, allowing the body to move as it was originally designed to move, while building skills and improving fitness.

Offered exclusively as personal training or personal fitness (mini-group).

CARDIO PUMP is a mix of Power Pump and HIIT. It alternates barbell toning exercises for the upper body (chest, back, shoulders, and arms) with high-intensity interval training for the lower body (thighs, glutes) and bodyweight cardiovascular work.

DANCE FIT is performed to music and blends dance with aerobic fitness. Choreography often mixes hip-hop, samba, salsa, merengue, and mambo. Sometimes fundamental gym exercises such as squats and lunges are also included.

Functional training involves bodyweight exercises that activate the entire body. Exercises of this kind, unlike traditional training with isotonic equipment, helps to improve the body’s ability to interact with the surrounding environment by focusing on all aspects of athleticism such as strength, power, speed, coordination, agility and balance.

Want to develop a stunning physique? GAG - for legs, abs and glutes - is a musical workout that includes cardiovascular and toning exercises focusing on the waist, thighs and hips. It's based on bodyweight exercises, making use of small weights, elastic bands, anklets, steppers and other equipment.

HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training. It alternates short bursts of maximal or near-maximal effort with active or passive recovery intervals. Known for its calorie-burning efficiency and its ability to improve cardiovascular endurance in a relatively short time.

JUMP & TONE combines aerobic jumping on a mini-trampoline with muscle-toning exercises such as the use of small weights. It merges high-intensity cardio with strengthening work, promoting lymphatic drainage, calorie burn, and improving coordination and balance.

A 30-minute class focused on strengthening and toning the lower body. Exercises are performed using bodyweight, ankle weights, and/or barbell to improve strength and endurance of quadriceps, hamstrings, calves, and glutes.

A class designed to strengthen the entire core: abdominals, lower back, and glutes. POWER CORE can be performed using bodyweight or small equipment and may be structured to music and/or interval formats.

The weight-room program transformed into a group class. POWER PUMP is a dynamic resistance and muscle-toning workout performed to music using barbells with adjustable loads suited to each participant.

Spinning is a group training activity that is part of the indoor cycling category. Spinning is performed on fixed bikes equipped with a special type of resistance on the flywheel.

The main aim of spinning is to improve overall endurance, but as it involves variations and repetitions that require considerable energy expenditure, it also has a positive effect on the optimization of lactic acid metabolism.

The TABATA protocol is a form of high-intensity interval training aimed at improving both aerobic and anaerobic capacity. It consists of twenty seconds of maximum-intensity work performed for eight sets of the same exercise, alternated with ten seconds of passive recovery (20s work / 10s rest × 8).

TABATA protocol (20s work / 10s rest × 8) focused on strengthening the body’s central area. Exercises may be performed using bodyweight or small equipment.

Also from Navy military training, this bodyweight workout uses Suspension Training. A complete training workout that uses gravity and your body weight to simultaneously develop strength, balance, flexibility and stability for the central part of the body. Suitable for all fitness levels, providing optimum performance and highly effective results.

A 30-minute class dedicated to strengthening and toning the upper body. UPPER BODY includes exercises with dumbbells and barbells to enhance strength and endurance of chest, back, shoulders, biceps, and triceps — all performed to music.

This training is designed for seniors. GYM FIT is based on combined sessions of low-intensity cardiovascular work and muscular strengthening. It includes the use of small equipment and bodyweight exercises, performed both standing and on the floor.

“Ageing in great shape.”

This is the yoga of effort or yoga of strength, depending on the translation. YOGA combines physical exercises, breathing techniques, and meditation practices that require a certain level of difficulty in maintaining the poses. It promotes calmness and relaxation even in objectively challenging positions.

The goal of MYOFASCIAL RELEASE is to rebalance and lengthen the myofascia, reducing tension and dissolving fibrous adhesions that form within it, thus improving post-exercise recovery.

Dynamic compression or self-massage: the individual uses their own body weight on a foam roller, performing gentle back-and-forth movements to massage the myofascial tissues in contact with it.

Static compression: this technique also uses body weight, but involves maintaining static pressure on a particularly painful contracture or nodule (trigger point) to create a local ischemic effect.

Pancafit is a postural rebalancing technique that helps to restore the health of the back and all bone and muscular structures through particular exercises performed while maintaining the correct posture. It is the only tool able to rebalance posture simply and rapidly by acting on all muscular chains. Pancafit is able to restore freedom and wellness to the entire body through decompensated global muscular stretching, in other words, muscular stretching performed while maintaining the correct posture.

PILATES is a specific exercise method performed on a mat using bodyweight. It focuses on postural muscles to promote better overall body alignment and increase muscular support for the spine.

Postural and antalgic gymnastics is a gentle practice using slow and harmonious movements aimed at relieving, preventing, and reducing muscular and joint pain, lower-back pain, and disc-related conditions, while improving posture through awareness of one’s body structure.

POSTURAL-MOBILITY is suitable for those suffering from lumbar, dorsal, or cervical issues, or age-related pain, and is also recommended as preventive gentle gymnastics under professional supervision. It can be practiced at any age, as it significantly improves mobility and helps reduce locomotor discomfort caused by sedentary lifestyle, poor posture, muscular stiffness, incorrect movements, strain, or trauma.

STRETCHING consists of elongating muscles to improve flexibility and elasticity, reduce tension, and promote recovery. It supports overall physical and mental wellbeing and helps prevent injuries.

Traditional Acquagym offers a range of aerobic activities, both free body and using equipment, transferred in the water, making it easier on the joints. Constant effort, combined simultaneously with the massaging effect of water, provides clear benefits to the whole body, which is soon firmed up and toned.

If your main goal is to lose weight and tone your body, Hydrobike is one of the most effective disciplines, especially in view of the warm summer season. Nothing more than a simply spinning workout performed in the pool with a special water bike. Hydrobike provides the beneficial effects of traditional spinning, boosted by being performed in the water.

It is an individual Personal Training service in which the instructor focuses on improving the client's physical and mental well-being by tailoring and organizing the training sessions based on their experience and personal goals.

The service includes access to all fitness areas, including the dedicated room equipped with Kinesis Gold and additional functional training equipment.

It is the service that includes all the classes offered by the Wellness Club Sassa, carried out in a mini-group and outside the official class schedule.

This way, you will always have the opportunity to be guided by a professional during every activity.

It is the Personal Training service dedicated to swimming and pool activities.

The instructor is qualified to teach swimming to young guests and beginners, as well as to help adults improve their technique and style.