Boot Camp

The Mesquite Recreation and Parks Department is offering a Boot Camp class starting Tuesday, October 7, 2008.  Ginger Slack, professional fitness instructor is now recruiting individuals who want to shape up their bodies through this class that is held on Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:20 a.m.

This class is a fun, high-energy fitness routine designed to firm up and tone your body and enhance cardiovascular health.  Enjoy a refreshing blend of aerobics exercise including kickboxing, step aerobics, dance aerobics and body toning as you develop life fitness skills that you can adapt to your own pace.  These classes are for individuals ages 16 and older.  All fitness levels welcome!

Gentle Yoga

The Mesquite Recreation Center is offering a Gentle Yoga class starting Tuesday, October 7 at 4 p.m.  Professional Instructor, Sharon Dodd will teach you the basic stances and poses making you familiar with the names of each as she continuously flow from one posture to the next.  If you have never taken a yoga class before, then this is the class for you to try! 

Additionally, yoga exercise is the best way to boost the body's energy by releasing tension in the muscles as well as improving the blood circulation and lymphatic drainages. Deep breathing combined with stretching increases the oxygen in the system and rejuvenates all of the body's cells, giving you more energy. Yoga increases stamina and strength!  Yoga is appropriate for all ages and can be modified according to your age, physique, and health profile.  This class will be held twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday at the Mesquite Deuce 150 N. Yucca St.

New Recreational Gymnastics Program

The Mesquite Recreation and Parks Department is proud to announce the launch of the new Mesquite Gymnastics Program starting October 7, 2008.   This recreational gymnastics program meets twice per week on Tuesday and Thursday for 45-60 minutes.

Our recreational gymnastics program is geared towards having fun, developing fitness, and acquiring fundamental skills. Gymnastics provides a solid foundation of important skills that relate to almost all other athletic activities. 

This is a great way to introduce your child to the fun of gymnastics.  Or, if your child has already been in the program, this is the way to become more advanced and become a "Team" member.  This program is open to all children from the age of 2 and up. 

Our recreational gymnastics program offers your child an opportunity to develop a healthy way of staying physically fit, self disciplined, and enjoy a happier, well balanced life.  Come help build your child's athletic future while enhancing their self confidence, self esteem, and a strong healthy body. 

The Mesquite Recreation and Parks Department is having an open registration night at the Mesquite Deuce Gymnasium 150 N. Yucca St. on Friday, October 3 from 4:30-6 p.m.  Registrations will be taken on a cash or check basis only.  For credit card registration visit us on-line at www.mesquitenv.gov or stop by the recreation center.

Power Tumbling

The Mesquite Recreation and Parks Department is now offering a Power Tumbling class beginning October 6, 2008.  This class will be held every Monday from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Power Tumbling is a fun and growing sport for boys and girls!  Instructor Tracy Mulliner will focus her class on handsprings, cartwheels, basic floor gymnastics and proper tumbling techniques. 

Power tumbling is offered for those who are interested in improving tumbling, or floor exercise skills. Cheerleaders, dancers and other athletes often use this program to give them that something special that sets them apart from the crowd.   Power tumbling starts from the very beginner tumbler to the advanced.

Students are put through a variety of drills and progressions that allow them to learn safely and effectively. Careful attention is paid to the basics as this is the base upon which all other skills will be built.

Safety and security are stressed to the students.  Confidence in ones self is perhaps the greatest pay-off in our tumbling program. Constant challenges allow for more accomplishments, with each new success adding to a more secure, confident individual.