
Build your skills with courses designed to provide you with a foundation in wellness, specific sports, training styles, and more! From learning the basics of boxing to deepening your knowledge and practice of yoga, our instructors will create an experience for you to grow and connect with yourself and the world in new ways.
Getting Started
- Princeton University students and Dillon Gym members must register through our online portal.
- Some programs may require you to provide your own equipment - review the descriptions below.
Spring 2025
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Instructor: Jared Jones
Time:
A:Wednesdays, 7:15pm OR B: Fridays at 5pm
Dates: March 17th - April 14th
Location: Studio A, Class of 1986 FWCCost: $50
Learn the skills and movements of the science of boxing from head movement, footwork, and mental strategy that forms self-defense.
*Participants must bring their own gloves.
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Instructor: Figure Skating Club
Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:00 - 10:40am
Dates: January 28th - February 28th
Location: Baker RinkCost: $55
Focusing on the fundamentals such as stroking, stopping, and basic turns, this class will be an introduction to figure skating for anyone who is completely new to the sport or has little experience.
No Dillon Gym membership is required for this class as it is held at Baker Rink.
Skaters from this level will have the opportunity to participate in the annual Princeton University Figure Skating Team's Winter and Spring shows where they can show off their new skills to family and friends around the Princeton Community alongside experienced Princeton skaters!
Please note: for Spring 2025 this is a 5-week program.
*Participants must bring their own skates.
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Instructor: Figure Skating Club
Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:00 - 10:40am
Dates: January 28th - February 28th
Location: Baker RinkCost: $55
Building off of the basic foundational skills, this class challenges skaters to enhance their basic skills while also taking on new challenges such as more complex turns, spins, basic choreography, and beginning jumps. This class is very tailored to the needs and goals of each individual skater - therefore, whatever skills you would like to work on, we are here to support you! No Dillon Gym membership is required as it is held at Baker Rink.
Skaters from this level will have the opportunity to participate in the annual Princeton University Figure Skating Team's Winter and Spring shows where they can show off their new skills to family and friends around the Princeton Community alongside experienced Princeton skaters!
Please note: for Spring 2025 this is a 5-week program.
*Participants must bring their own skates.
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Instructor: Jewel Merriman, Sophia Miller, Zoha Khan
Time: TBD
Dates: February 3rd - March 7th
Location: Studio A, 1986 FWC/Dillon GymCost: $50 (free for students)
This 5-week program is perfect for beginner and intermediate lifters seeking guidance and a consistent workout schedule. Join us twice a week for full-body classes focused on mastering foundational movements like squats, Romanian deadlifts, chest presses, rows, and more. Using dumbbells, we'll progressively build strength and improve form, ensuring safe and effective workouts that can be practiced outside of class to support your fitness journey.
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Instructor: Yevgen Kashchenko
Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 - 7:30pm
Dates: February 11th - April 8th
Location: Studio A, Class of 1986 FWCCost: $40
Discover the ancient art of Tai Chi, uniting martial arts and meditation. It's an awareness training that helps you discover comfort and inner peace and the true power you could use to improve anywhere—be it self-defense or problem-solving.
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Instructor: Daniel Choi
Time: Mondays, 8:15pm - 9:15pm
Dates: February 3rd - March 3rd
Location: Studio C Class of 1986 FWC/Dillon GymCost: $45
Wind Beneath My (Gymnastics) Rings
Learn to fly with rings instead of wings!
In this five-week intensive, we cover the basics of gymnastics rings through the lenses of gymnastics, aerial arts, and functional fitness. Gymnastics rings training is a versatile discipline that works push and pull strength, core stability, proprioception, and active mobility.
You will learn how to stabilize your joints, a complete system of floor-based core training, the mechanics of overhead pulling, and straight arm push strength. Each exercise will have multiple progressions and modifications offered to ensure safe execution of the movement.
This foundational program will teach you to build up to pull-ups, dips, and L-sits on the rings, preparing you for future skills such as rings dips, inversions, and skin the cats.
No prior gymnastics or calisthenics experience required. Students with shoulder injuries must receive clearance from sports medicine professionals to participate.
Self Defense: Spring 2025
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Instructors: David Kahn ’94
Dates: Sundays - 3/23, 3/30, 4/6, 4/13
Time: 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location: Class of 1986 FWC - Studio A
Cost: Free
Krav Maga is a no-nonsense, world-renowned danger detection and self-defense system. The course focuses on identifying potential dangers, escaping danger, and, if necessary, a few highly effective, adaptable self-defense tactics applicable to myriad situations. David Kahn '94 and Molly Seltzer will teach the course.
David has taught these tactics to the FBI, US Marshals, Secret Service, DEA, Federal Air Marshals, Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, Marine and Air Force Special Operations among others along with star NFL players. Course topics include:
· How to fall down safely (kinetic and non-kinetic situations)
· Awareness and recognizing pre-violence kinesic indicators
· Defending grabs
· Defending pushes
· Defending chokes
· Defending takedowns
· Defending the most typical punch attacks
The subject matter we cover will is featured in the book, Krav Maga Defense, by David Kahn (St. Martin's Press 2016).
Registration is open.
Group Fitness Instructor Development Program
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The Gx Instructor Development Program is designed to teach the foundations of human body mechanics, teaching/coaching, and create a mentorship relationship between veteran instructors and new instructors.
The program itself is not a certification course: it is meant to provide foundational knowledge to supplement the certification process for new instructors – all instructors will have to complete certifications in addition to this, and by completing the program, Campus Rec will fund their certification. The program is application-based, and the general timeline is:
- September: Applications due/interviews/offers sent out
- October: Program starts, likely first week of the month
- December: Formal program ends with a capstone demo teaching class – each participant will prepare and teach a 20-minute class for evaluation
- Winter break: Instructors will complete certification for their field
- Spring 2026: Instructors will be added to the Gx schedule and teach
Email Erika if you have any questions or would like more information!
Register for an Instructional Program
If you are a non-student, you must have a Rec Facility Membership in order to participate.
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Build your skills with courses designed to provide you with a foundation in Figure Skating, Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates, Kung Fu, Boxing and more. Registration closes soon!