Cardio classes at Riverside leisure centre

You will work hard and improve your health and fitness levels with exercises such as squats and burpees.

The minimum age for classes is 14 year old, but classes marked with a * are for over 16s only.

If you want to view our timetable more than seven days in advance, you can download the Chelmsford City Sports app.

Body combat

This is a high-energy martial arts-inspired workout that is totally non-contact. Learn moves from Karate, Taekwondo, Boxing, Muay Thai, Capoeira and Kung Fu. It's our ultimate warrior workout to develop co-ordination and release stress. Destroy calories as you learn to punch, kick, block, and strike. Get a whole-body workout that targets every muscle group. No experience needed.

Bounce

Bounce is a trampoline fitness class, with moves designed to burn calories, all choreographed to motivating music. The class is structured to include cardio, toning with weights and core exercises to finish.

Box Fit

Using disciplines from different martial arts, Box Fit uses pads and gloves to give you a full body workout.

Konga

KONGA® is an easy-to-follow, mood-elevating, high intensity fusion of Boxing, Cardio, Dance and Sculpting set to the hottest beats. It's the all-in-one workout that will torch calories, tone up your bod, make your soul smile and inject your body with an endorphin overload.

Legs Bums and Tums (LBT)

Legs Bums and Tums is a class targeted at working the lower body and core, utilising cardio and strength movements to keep the body working hard. The class includes a mixture of weighted and body weight exercises along with high energy moves to increase your heart rate, all to the best music.

Standard prices

30 minutes: £8.10
45 minutes: £8.90
60 minutes: £10.20

Discounted

30 minutes: £7.60
45 minutes: £8.40
60 minutes: £9.40

Save money by upgrading to an ourChelmsford Plus or monthly Premium membership.

Standard prices

30 minutes: £6.80
45 minutes: £7.90
60 minutes: £8.90

Discounted

30 minutes: £6.30
45 minutes: £7.10
60 minutes: £8.10

Save money by upgrading to a monthly Premium membership

Our exercise classes are very popular, we advise booking in advance.

You can:

book online or via the app with an ourChelmsford card
book by calling 01245 615050
book when you visit Riverside

You can book onto classes:

ten days in advance if you have a monthly membership
seven days in advance if you have an ourChelmsford Plus card
two days in advance if you have an ourChelmsford Lite card

You will need to book a session in advance to guarantee your space.
If you do not check-in, we will charge you the full amount for the session.
Please make sure that you have registered your email address with us in order to book online.

If you can't attend a class that you have booked onto, you must cancel at least two hours before it starts.
You can cancel online or via the app, by calling 01245 615050 or in person.
We will charge you the full amount for the class if you do not cancel in time, or if you do not attend.

You will need to collect a ticket from reception when you arrive for your class.
Monthly members can swipe through the barrier and register their attendance.
You will not be allowed entrance to any class if it has already started.
To allow time for changeovers, classes will finish five minutes before the advertised time.

If you want to use a locker on poolside, you will need a £1 coin to release the key. You will get the £1 back when you return the key.
There is a male group changing area and a female group changing area located on poolside.
Accessible changing facilities are located on poolside.
The pools complex, including the changing area is a shoe-free zone, this includes the removal of flip flops.