Pop & Power

Turn up the nostalgia and sweat it out to your favourite pop hits from the 90s, 2000s, and beyond! Pop & Power is a high-energy dance fitness class designed to get your heart pumping and your mood soaring. Expect upbeat choreography, playful throwback moves, and optional light weights to level up your burn.

The playlist is doing a lot of the work here. When a song you have known since you were fourteen comes on, you push harder without deciding to — the chorus arrives and suddenly you are going full out. That is the entire design of the class, and it is why the hour goes faster than any hour on a cardio machine ever has.

Choreography is playful rather than technical. Expect the moves that go with the songs — the ones half the room already knows — mixed with combinations that are quick to pick up and repeat often enough to lock in. If you have never taken a dance class, this is one of the easiest rooms to walk into.

The power half is optional. Light dumbbells come out for certain tracks, turning the chorus into something closer to a conditioning set for shoulders and arms while your legs keep going underneath. Take them or leave them — the class works either way, and plenty of people pick them up one week and skip them the next depending on how they feel.

It is one of the easiest classes to bring a friend to, which is worth knowing if you have been putting off starting. Nothing about it is intimidating, the songs do most of the work, and an hour disappears without either of you having to be good at anything.

Bring water, a towel and shoes you can move sideways in. Weights are available at the studio if you don’t have your own, and anything in the two-to-five pound range is plenty. Come ready to sing; most people do by the second song whether they meant to or not.