Fitness Guide 2024
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 the Kennebunks to Exeter—that will keep us moving, grooving, and in tip top shape all year long!
INDOOR CYCLING
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!
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Some would say: ‘Come for the cardio, stay for the community!’ Studio One Cycle offers 45 minutes of FUN on a stationary bike 7 days a week. This Dover, New Hampshire studio’s classes are for anyone & everyone, whether you have no fitness experience or are always ready for a good sweat, you’ll find it in the Sweat Sanctuary. Upbeat cardio paired with superstar instructors, great music, & a community like no other to be a part of, come see what Studio One Cycle is all about! Studio One Cycle is taking it big into 2024 with a BRAND NEW location & space that they are so excited to share with all of us! See you on a bike soon!
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YOGA + PILATES
The community at align welcomes you as you are. Whether it’s your first class or one thousandth, the team has created a space where you’ll move together, grow together and empower yourself through your practice. Join the align team at their Lee, New Hampshire studio to experience the impactful barre, yoga & movement classes. In addition to in person classes, events and retreats, there’s an extensive on demand library waiting for you. Try your first month for just $49.
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Dover Pilates is our local full apparatus Pilates studio that utilizes the Pilates method and apparatus to reach our movement goals. When you train with Dover Pilates, you crosstrain for your passion, sport, and life. Dover Pilates offers a variety of ways to train; from private sessions for the intentional athlete to small group classes for the social movers, the team meets us where we’re are at. Not sure where to start? Take advantage of Dover Pilates’ intro offer for Private or Group training!
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3 Bridges Yoga is an accessible yoga studio for every body. This welcoming studio is located conveniently near the Hill in Portsmouth, and has been serving the Seacoast community since 2011. Whether you do vinyasas in your sleep or have never stepped onto a yoga mat in your life, 3 Bridges Yoga offers a teacher and a class for you. The studio’s mission has been to create a space for every individual to feel at home in our bodies, and at peace in our minds. 3 Bridges Yoga prides themselves on being an open-minded community of yogis who are welcoming, warm, and kind. Come see for yourself how good you can feel in your body!
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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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Symmetry Yoga Studio is a yoga studio located in the historic downtown Mill building in Newmarket, New Hampshire. Committed to and known for its welcoming community, Symmetry is the perfect place for practitioners new and experienced! This local studio offers Hatha & Vinyasa style yoga classes as well as Yin, Restorative, Buti Yoga, and monthly workshops. Symmetry’s classes are rooted in the integration of traditional teachings and philosophies with our modern day lives, striving to impart time honored practices that help you cultivate your own unique, authentic and transformation journey.
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At Prasada Yoga all of the studio’s 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.
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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 Pilates-based 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, and want to see if Pilates can help, 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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Looking for that lean sculpt?? Searching for a workout you’ll really enjoy?? Look no further. Welcome to FORM Fitness in Portsmouth’s West End!! With 10 Pilates Reformers and a Personal Training Studio, FORM can deliver your dream workout. Your personal goals will be embraced by FORM’S team of expert trainers that will work with each member to create a safe, supportive, and motivating environment to get you in your fitness zone, and feel like your best self.
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Come for the workout, stay for the yoga. Welcome to Humble Warrior—Southern New Hampshire’s hottest yoga community. Across the studio’s 3 locations, the team has created a space rooted in authenticity and inclusivity where you’re encouraged to be unapologetically you.
Whether you’re a seasoned yogi or a first-time student, Humble Warrior invites you to step out of your comfort zone and into one of our hot yoga or fitness classes—where therapeutic infrared heat will help you sweat away the small stuff.
You’ll experience a type of healing that can only come from a total mind and body transformation. For $59, you can enjoy unlimited yoga and fitness at all locations for 3 weeks. When you fall in love, and become a monthly member within the 3 weeks, you’ll be credited with your first month by $59!!
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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, Somatic Flow, Yin Yoga, and exciting monthly workshops! Steam House offers a two week introductory special for $25!
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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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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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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, artist, host and producer of the national PBS series YNDI Yoga, invites us to tend to our physical and mental health through on-demand classes and specially curated in-person events and yoga series. YNDI is honored to have been in the official selection of the Reykjavík International Film Festival in 2020 and has two seasons out on PBS and the Create channel with the third season being released in February 2024, which is a testament to the overall quality of the experience. YNDI members on the Seacoast have access to special events and hot yoga classes at the boutique studio in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, which has therapeutic, infrared heating. Online membership is $29/month and includes unlimited access to the diverse video library, livestream classes, soundscapes, and special access and discounts to in-person events.
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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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Curious Movement is part yoga, part dance, pure joy! Each class is a moving celebration of your body, mind, and spirit. There is music and breath work, dance, noise, smiling, sweating, maybe an intention, and definitely shaking loose the stress and freeing up the joy! What if you moved your body and loved it?! Julie Lulu Morris is a RYT and has been teaching for over 20 years and is so excited to bring this program to you. Check out the website and socials for where you can find a Curious Session or reach out to host your own!
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STRENGTH & FITNESS
F45 Portsmouth is a community-based and results-driven studio that caters to all fitness levels. The main goal at F45 Portsmouth is to create a safe and fun environment for the people of New Hampshire’s Seacoast to come get a challenging and effective workout in just 45 minutes!! Functional is in the studio’s name for a reason! F45’s workouts are centered around movements that appear in everyday life to help members tackle their daily routines with confidence and ease. If you are looking for 1 on 1 training in a group fitness atmosphere look no further, F45 Portsmouth has exactly what you are looking for! This Portsmouth West End Yards gym offers a 7 Day Trial for just $7 to all local residents, and the team hopes to see you on the blue track soon!
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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 9 years, and 8 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 in person, she also 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 within themselves.
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GAIN Strength and Conditioning uses individualized coaching to help members feel confident in and out of the gym. This Portsmouth, New Hampshire gym’s coaching style and movement philosophy helps people in their 50’s, 60’s and 70’s build strength and improve their balance, mobility and endurance. Other members have performance driven goals, like getting their first pull up, running ultramarathons, staying active through pregnancy, or wanting to beat their previous PRs. GAIN Strength and Conditioning’s unique, group-like, but not-a- group, classes provide each member with professional, personalized coaching, and a welcoming gym community!
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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!
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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, 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 weight loss to better performance. 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—Group Classes, Personal Training, and Specialty Programs, such as Port Sweat, Legends (55+), Port Barbell Club, and Port Endurance for triathletes! Schedule a free consultation with The Port, and let their team show you what’s so special about their workouts, the lifestyle they encourage, and the community within.
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The Suite Studio is downtown Dover, New Hampshire’s women-owned, women-led fitness studio, featuring classes that are fully inclusive and truly welcoming to ALL abilities, ages, and genders ♡. The Suite Studio offers group exercise classes in barre, yoga, cardio, strength training, mat Pilates, and more. And in its second studio, the team leads personal training and small group circuit sessions. Come for the fitness, stay for the community, and make friends here!!
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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. AG celebrated 15 years in business last year and they’re keeping the party vibes going!
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Being the only strength-based group fitness facility on the Seacoast, Seacoast Athletics‘ mission is to make strength training inclusive and accessible to everyone. This core belief has molded the product the gym produces and the different avenues in which the team provides them. Whether it’s small group, semi-private or personal training, Seacoast Athletics aims to deliver an individual, tailored, and educated program for all members based on their goals, experience, and exercise history. The professional coaching staff, along with in-house nutritionists and a strength-based physical therapist, are on your side and work together to ensure a fully comprehensive plan to help you feel better, get stronger, and keep you active both inside and outside the gym. They’ve created a totally different experience. Learn more about what makes this fitness destination so special!
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Located in Rye, New Hampshire, Flight House Gym emphasizes a community-centric approach to fitness, offering a state-of-the-art facility for private training, an elite open gym, group fitness classes, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Nutrition Coaching. Flight House Gym is committed to creating a welcoming atmosphere that fosters growth, health, and connection among members. With their comprehensive equipment and knowledgeable staff, the gym aims to be the fitness destination the Seacoast deserves, inviting individuals to join a supportive environment focused on achieving personal fitness goals.
