Navigating the New Year at our leisure centres

With the busy post-Christmas period on the horizon, we've put together a handy Navigating the New Year guide to help you get the most out of your membership in 2025.

Three ladies dancing.

You will work up a sweat to the latest dance hits, or Latin beats while making new friends.

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 Blitz

A fun high energy cardio dance workout followed by sculpt and conditioning with light hand weights and finishing with abs and core.

Bodyjam

Bodyjam™ is a dance-based workout designed to get you moving fast and working your body. Taking inspiration from dancers all over the world, and mixing it up with house, hip-hop, drum 'n' bass, trap and all styles of electronic dance music, bodyjam brings a dose of soul to your studio.

Clubvibe Dance

A fun high energy dance aerobics class with easy to follow choreography to single tracks from old school anthems through to new club hits. Suitable for all fitness levels who want to have fun keeping fit.

Dance aerobics

Freestyle easy to follow, low impact choreography using traditional aerobics moves which are developed into a fun routine finale.

Dance Fever

Come and join in with a freestyle dance workout to begin your week the right way! Sassy and fun, sweating never seemed so effortless.

Les Mills Dance

Les Mills Dance is a 45-minute high-energy workout that will challenge and move you. Each class includes 10 stand-alone tracks, with each introducing new choreography. The workout is anchored in three cardio peaks, a warm-up, and a cool-down. It combines innovative dance movements with the latest music to drive energy and motivation in every move.

Sh’Bam

A fun-loving, insanely addictive dance workout. Sh’Bam is an ego-free zone, with no dance experience required. All you need is a playful attitude and a cheeky smile. Set to a modern soundtrack, you’ll leave this class sweating and smiling.

Zumba

Zumba® is an interval-style dance fitness party that combines low-intensity and high-intensity moves. You'll burn lots of calories as you move to the rhythm with Latin-inspired dance moves. The best part of it all is that it doesn't even feel like exercise!

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:  

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.

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