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Learn all the skills necessary to boulder and improve as a boulderer at any indoor climbing gym. Instruction will include fundamental technique, safety procedures, socio-environmental contexts for climbing, route analysis and dissection, strength and conditioning, boulder projecting, and other relevant topics.

There is an equipment rental fee of $40 required to borrow shoes and a chalk bag. Any student who pays the rental fee will receive a “semester pass” for climbing gear to use throughout the semester, including at open rec. You can purchase your semester gear pass here.

Learn all the skills necessary to top rope, belay, and improve as a climber at any indoor climbing gym. Instruction will include fundamental technique, safety procedures, socio-environmental contexts for climbing, route analysis and dissection, strength and conditioning, projecting, and other relevant topics.
There is an equipment rental fee of $40 to borrow shoes, harness, belay device, and chalk bag. Any student who pays the rental fee will receive a “semester pass” for climbing gear to use throughout the semester, including at open rec. You can purchase your semester gear pass here.

Course prerequisite: must be able to consistently climb V3+

This advanced bouldering class is designed to elevate intermediate climbers to the next level. Through targeted drills, movement analysis, and mental training, participants will refine technique, improve body awareness, and gain tools to project higher-grade problems. Each session builds upon the previous, emphasizing intentional progression and personal accountability in climbing growth.

There is an equipment rental fee of $40 required to borrow shoes and a chalk bag. Any student who pays the rental fee will receive a “semester pass” for climbing gear to use throughout the semester, including at open rec. You can purchase your semester gear pass here.

Lead climbing is an advanced style of climbing that involves pulling the rope from beneath you and clipping into fixed or placed gear as you climb up a rock wall. In this course you will learn how to lead climb and learn advanced belay techniques for giving slack to a lead climber.

Minimum qualifications: Ability to climb 5.9 comfortably and top rope belay certified.

There is an equipment rental fee of $40 to borrow shoes, harness, belay device, and chalk bag. Any student who pays the rental fee will receive a “semester pass” for climbing gear to use throughout the semester, including at open rec. You can purchase your semester gear pass here.

Please note the dates and time of this course. This course will be a total of 3 sessions on Fridays and will leave campus for the day. The first class date will be 2 hours consisting of a skills check and program run through. The last class date listed is a rain date, if needed.

Ready to transition from the climbing gym to real rock? This comprehensive Gym to Crag introduction course teaches you the essential safety, anchor construction and cleaning, and outdoor movement skills required to climb outdoors with confidence. Course topics include outdoor climbing safety and etiquette, anchor systems and cleaning, and basic movement techniques to adapt your gym climbing skills to natural rock features, including crack climbing basics and footwork.

Transportation will be provided as you travel from FitRec to a different local crag each class. Locations will be TBD based on weather and other factors.


Minimum qualifications: Ability to climb 5.9 comfortably and top rope belay certified prior to first class meeting.

There is an equipment rental fee of $40 to borrow shoes, harness, belay device, chalk bag, and helmet. Any student who pays the rental fee will receive a “semester pass” for climbing gear to use throughout the semester, including at open rec. You can purchase your semester gear pass here.

Please note the dates and time of this course. This course will be a total of 3 sessions on Fridays and will leave campus for the day. The first class date will be 2 hours consisting of a skills check and program run through. The last class date listed is a rain date, if needed.

Ready to take your climbing off the bolts and into the cracks? This comprehensive Intro to Trad Climbing course teaches you the foundational skills needed to safely place your own protection and build gear anchors. Course topics include proper gear placement and selection, principles of equalization, redundancy, and extension using natural and artificial protection, identifying natural crack systems when selecting a route, and crag etiquette.

Transportation will be provided as you travel from FitRec to a different local crag each class. Locations will be TBD based on weather and other factors.


Minimum qualifications: Ability to climb 5.9 comfortably on lead and lead belay certified. You will need to pass a lead test on an ATC during your first class in order to continue on with the course. If you do not pass, you will be dropped from the course.

To ensure this course is the right fit for your current experience level, you must answer a brief series of screening questions before your registration is finalized. Please note that if your technical background does not meet our safety prerequisites, we will remove you from the course roster.

There is an equipment rental fee of $40 to borrow shoes, harness, belay device, chalk bag, and helmet. Any student who pays the rental fee will receive a “semester pass” for climbing gear to use throughout the semester, including at open rec. You can purchase your semester gear pass here.

This course is designed for beginners who have either no experience to only a few years of limited experience. Learn and practice techniques used in power volleyball: bump passing, setting, spiking, digging, and serving. Various drills will be used to encourage skill improvement.

Introduction to the rules and fundamental practices of tennis including basic strokes, techniques, and playing in game situations. Tennis is played on the indoor courts at the Track and Tennis Center.

The course is designed to teach badminton fundamentals and basic techniques. The fundamentals will be footwork and motion of swinging the racket. Rules will be explained; however, the course will not be exploring strategies. Required Equipment: Must have running shoes or badminton shoes. Having your own badminton racket is recommended.

This course will cover the intermediate skills of tennis. Students will build on fundamental strokes and techniques and lessons on topspin, slicing and utilizing them in interactive play and match situations.

Prerequisite: Volleyball, Beginning and ability to pass, set, hit and serve. Class time will be divided between drills to refine basics and implementing skills during scrimmages. Various offenses and defensive rotations will be introduced and incorporated into class scrimmages.

Prerequisite: Volleyball, Low Intermediate, or competitive volleyball experience. Students should be able to serve, pass, set consistently, hit roll shots, and be familiar with the 4-2 and 5-1 rotation. Basic skills are briefly reviewed and practiced, and complex offenses and defenses are introduced and incorporated into class scrimmage. Class time will be primarily spent on implementing skills during scrimmages.

Prerequisite: Volleyball, High Intermediate, or significant competitive volleyball experience. Students should be able to serve, pass, set, hit consistently and be familiar with 5-1 and 6-2 rotations. Intermediate skills are reviewed and practiced. Complex offenses and defenses are incorporated into class scrimmages. Class time will be primarily spent on practicing skills during scrimmages (Doubles, 3 on 3, 4 on 4, or 6 on 6).

This course builds on foundations of traditional and contemporary elements of West African and Caribbean dance. Students will engage in full bodied physical movement, learn progressions across the floor, and choreography that challenges them to fully express themselves while developing confidence and subtle intricacies in a variety of styles. Some previous dance/movement training is helpful but not essential.

No class 10/12, 11/25, 11/27.

This class is performance-based and includes an opportunity to perform at ChoreoLab on 12/6. Participation in the performance is optional.

This class is for those with no dance experience as well as those with some dance experience looking for a refresher course on basics. Classes include a warm-up, skills moving across the floor, and different choreographed combinations that allow students to develop their own self-expression and style. It will cover different styles of jazz from blues-based to musical theater to contemporary.

No class 11/27.

This class is performance-based and includes an opportunity to perform at ChoreoLab on 12/6. Participation in the performance is optional.

This class is for those with several years of recent technical dance training in jazz, contemporary, or ballet. Classes include a fast-paced warm-up, traveling patterns, with a focus on learning choreography exploring different styles of jazz from blues-based to musical theater to contemporary. Additional emphasis will be on students developing their own self-expression and aesthetic style.

No class 10/13, 11/26.

This class is performance-based and includes an opportunity to perform at ChoreoLab on 12/6. Participation in the performance is optional.

A funky combination of low-impact aerobics, hip-hop, and jazz dance. Designed to improve muscle tone and cardiovascular strength while learning the fundamentals of jazz dance and the latest dance club moves. No prior dance experience is necessary.

No class 10/12 and 11/25.

This class is performance-based and includes an opportunity to perform at ChoreoLab on 12/6. Participation in the performance is optional.

This class is designed for first time students of ballet or for students returning after several years without practice. The students are guided in movement exercises accompanied by live music. Students begin with exercises at the ballet barre designed to teach basic ballet technique and to build student’s strength, flexibility, control and alignment. As each class develops, the movement progresses to center practice and then to larger phrases across the floor.

No Class 10/12

This course is for students who have had some ballet training or who are returning to ballet. Students will learn the ballet stance along with combinations at the barre and in the center that focus on developing alignment, strength, endurance, flexibility, control, coordination, and musicality, accompanied by live music. The structure of each class, split between barre and center, will give the student a full body work-out.

No class 10/12 and 11/25.

This class is designed for those who have several years of classical ballet. Students will increase strength and flexibility, and progress to center work with particular attention to aligning the body safely within each student’s anatomical ability. The classroom combinations will build upon each other from week to week and are designed to improve musicality, coordination, and balance -- all in a supportive and fun environment with live music.

No class 10/12 and 11/25.

This course is designed for the student who has had an extensive ballet background and continued to train recently. Students will continue to refine their alignment and placement and to increase their strength, endurance, flexibility, control, coordination, breath, and musicality at the barre and in the center. Students who are advanced may, with permission, take the class en pointe. Live accompaniment.

No class 10/12, 11/25

This is an advanced-level class, as Pointe work is an extension of having developed a solid base of ballet technique. For the last half hour, following 1.5 hours of a full class (with High Intermediate Ballet), emphasis will be placed on developing ankle strength and leg and pelvis alignment. As a student progresses, and with the instructor's permission, more of the class can be taken on pointe. Live accompaniment.

No class 10/28.

This course is designed as an introduction to the American Style Rhythm & Smooth forms of partner dancing. It is also in depth enough for students with previous experience for the purpose of building confidence and gaining additional dance experience with a partner. Typically, there are 2-3 dances introduced per semester on a rotating basis. American Smooth includes: Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango and Viennese Waltz. American Rhythm includes: Cha-cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero.

No class 10/14.

Dance Syllabi

This course is designed as an introduction to the American Style East Coast Swing combined with elements of Lindy and also provide depth enough for continuing students. An introduction to the Foxtrot will expand the student’s experience of the music and the dance. The focus is to learn and laugh while developing enough skills to dance with a partner (as either follower or leader) when the time comes!

This course is designed as an introduction to the Latin Style of Ballroom dancing and is also in depth enough for students who may have taken previous Latin Style Ballroom classes for the purpose of building confidence and gaining additional dance experience with a partner. Typically, two dances per semester are introduced on a rotating basis: Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cha Cha, Rhumba and/or Argentine Tango. The focus is to learn and laugh while developing enough skills to dance with a partner (as either follower or leader).

This course is designed as an introduction to the American Style Tango for beginners. It is also in depth enough for students who may have taken previous Tango classes for the purpose of building confidence and gaining additional dance experience with a partner.

No class 10/13.

This class is for those who have never studied modern before, or those returning to dance after a hiatus. The basic concepts, theories, and vocabulary of four modern dance techniques: Limon, Horton, Graham and Release, are explored in a fun and supportive environment. Class starts with technique exercises focused on new vocabulary, strength, flexibility, and coordination then builds longer sequences, interspersed with historical and anatomical information.

No class 10/12

This class is for those with intermediate dance training be it in modern, contemporary, or another traditional style of dance. The course is an overview of concepts, theories, and vocabulary of Modern and Contemporary techniques, including Graham, Limon, Cunningham, release technique, contemporary floorwork, as well as Laban/Bartenieff movement analysis and somatic/improvisational approaches. We will work to create a fun and supportive environment to enhance learning.

No class 10/13.

This is a fast-paced, exciting class that will push intermediate level students to the next level. The focus is on learning choreography - the full range of the dancer’s artistry by exploring musicality, timing, performance skills, and concepts of stage presence. Students will build strength and endurance, explore the opposing forces of stability/mobility, exertion/recuperation, and internal connectivity/external expressivity, and develope musicality and artistry.

No class 10/13.

This course is designed as an introduction to Salsa & Merengue for beginners. The course is also in depth enough for students who may have taken previous Salsa & Merengue classes for the purpose of building confidence and gaining additional dance experience with a partner. This class focuses on Salsa, Cha-Cha, Merengue and Bachata, night club style. Character, balance, poise, styling and music of each dance will be discussed and taught.

No class 10/12.

This is a course students for students with some dance experience. Students will engage in full bodied physical movement, while developing confidence and learning the subtle intricacies of different hip hop styles. This class will challenge dancers to learn increasingly lengthier combinations, fully express themselves, and grow over the course of the semester.

No class 11/27.

This class is performance-based and includes an opportunity to perform at ChoreoLab on 12/6. Participation in the performance is optional.

This is a course students for students with some dance experience. Students will engage in full bodied physical movement, while developing confidence and learning the subtle intricacies of different hip hop styles. This class will challenge dancers to learn increasingly lengthier combinations, fully express themselves, and grow over the course of the semester.

No class 10/13 and 11/26.

This class is performance-based and includes an opportunity to perform at ChoreoLab on 12/6. Participation in the performance is optional.

This course will give students the knowledge and physical foundation to practice long-distance running. The content will cover distance running nutrition guidelines, injury prevention, and creating and evaluating a training plan. You will also learn how to maintain and monitor a training log and planning of group runs. The course will meet once a week for an hour and a half. You will need appropriate running attire, weather-appropriate clothes, and running shoes.

Get a great aerobic workout as you learn boxing basics, starting with stance and hand placement and proceeding to the jab, the straight right, hooks, and uppercuts. Learn how to slip, duck, and parry a jab; practice counter-punches and footwork.

This comprehensive course includes calisthenics, weight training, stretching, running and medicine ball drills, and stand-up self-defense. Students work on muscular endurance, core and functional strength, cardiovascular fitness, and flexibility. Students will learn basic self-defense moves, punches, and kicks. All equipment will be provided. Please wear comfortable attire and sneakers.

This class covers basic kickboxing skills. The techniques covered originate from Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, and American Combat Karate. Basic punches, kicks, elbow strikes, and knee strikes are taught. All of the conditioning pertaining to kickboxing is covered as follows: bodyweight exercises for the upper and lower body, extensive pad work drills for hand, knee, elbow, and kicking technique, as well as offensive and defensive drills, are practiced and combined in a challenging and fun workout. All equipment will be provided. Please wear comfortable attire and sneakers.

This is a course in the principles and methods of strength training using free weights, machines, and strength units. It aims to improve muscle endurance, hypertrophy, and strength with sensible, safe weight training.

This class offers knowledge and skills to keep fit for life. It teaches safe movement and exercise performance in a progressive approach and provides an opportunity to improve or maintain a high fitness level by applying conditioning principles. This class offers a basic understanding of the concepts of alignment, centering, breathing, stabilization, mobilization, and balance. Non-impact, whole body conditioning mat exercises based on the work of fitness pioneer Joseph Pilates are designed to develop body awareness, improve posture, and enhance muscle recruitment. The mat work increases core strength, builds muscle tone, and improves coordination, balance, and flexibility. The mat can be modified to various fitness levels so that each student will work at the appropriate level.

The Boston University Police Department offers the “Rape Aggression Defense” program (RAD) specifically for women who wish to physically protect themselves against rape and other forms of violence. The RAD system is not a martial arts class; the RAD system educates women about defensive strategies using simple and effective tactics and a unique teaching methodology.

This course will cover the rules of fencing, basic footwork, techniques, and physical training. Classes will include warm-ups and footwork, followed by fencing with electrical equipment related to that week’s concepts. By the end of this course students will have a fundamental understanding of fencing and the discipline and sportsmanship that the sport requires. Required Equipment: Long, loose pants (sweatpants) and sneakers (preferably low to the ground to avoid ankle related injuries).

Students will gain a basic understanding of gymnastics movements and skills, building into the fundamentals of tumbling, as well as further advanced tumbling skills.
Students will gain greater strength, flexibility, body control, spatial orientation and become comfortable with inversion, quick movement, and the connection of skills in a tumbling pass. Close-fitting athletic wear is required. Students with long hair will be required to have it worn up and away from their face and shoulders.

This course will allow students to understand the basic skills and concepts of table tennis in singles and doubles. Instruction will be focused on the elements of the modern offensive style of play, combining Chinese and American models. Students will be introduced to the two basic grips then learn forehands, backhands, service and receive, followed by advanced looping. Emphasis on psychology and strategies will be incorporated into the course.

An ancient Korean art of self-defense. In Beginners Tae Kwon Do, we emphasize whole body and mental fitness through training in strength and conditioning, flexibility, endurance, basic upper body and lower body techniques, which include forms, stances, punches, blocks, kicks, and strikes; basic sparring skills, forms, and self-defense techniques. The practice of Tae Kwon Do develops character through courtesy, self-control, discipline, self-confidence, patience, physical fitness, attention, mental alertness, leadership, humility, perseverance, and respect.

This slow, fluid, graceful exercise helps develop muscle tone, flexibility, coordination, balance, slow deep breathing, and deep relaxation.

Meditation is a technique for making the mind more stable, peaceful and clear and for developing insight and good qualities. Learn and practice a variety of guided meditations from the yoga tradition including meditation on the breath, visualization, mantra meditation and mindfulness meditation. Class will also include gentle yoga postures that help prepare the body for seated meditation.

Yoga/Pilates Fusion combines the slow, fluid movements of traditional Vinyasa Yoga with the core stabilization and muscular control of Pilates for a perfect blend of exercises that builds flexibility, balance and strength. This flowing format is fun and easy to follow and will boost your metabolism, burn fat and raise your energy levels. Every class finishes with a few minutes of deep relaxation.

This is a hatha/kripalu style class with the focus on breathing, long periods of holding postures, and variations of posture flows that are gentler on the neck, wrists, knees, and back. Each class will focus on posture options to protect students that have chronic pain or are working through an injury and using breathing techniques to ease into a meditative mindset. The end of class concludes with a 10 minute savasana.

Includes sitting, breathing exercises and interactive exercise to gain insight into ourselves and be more relaxed and awake for our day-to-day life.

Often called "Flow" yoga, Vinyasa Yoga links breath and movement while "flowing" through a series of poses. These classes will move through poses more quickly than Hatha Yoga, but are less strenuous than Power Yoga. Classes will work to improve strength, flexibility and balance while promoting relaxation and stress release.

This class is designed to blend slow flowing yoga movement with extended holds in deep postures. The flow movement warms and stretches the muscles and helps students tone breath and body together. The Yin Yoga portion of this practice works on improving flexibility and joint mobility, increasing circulation, and reducing stress and anxiety. Holding postures promotes calmness and clarity of mind. It teaches us stillness in a fast-paced world.

A classical system of martial arts and exercise developed in China 700 years ago. It is characterized by fluid and slow movements designed to cultivate internal energy, balance yin and yang, develop body flexibility, and promote efficient and healthful body movement.

If healthy eating were simple, affordable, and delicious, everyone would do it! How do you plan balanced meals and snacks without breaking the bank? Step 1: Understand your unique nutrition needs and the health-promoting foods that will help you meet them. Step 2: Perfect the skills and strategies for stocking a healthy kitchen, modifying favorite recipes, and basic cooking by participating in a series of interactive sessions. The result: You will be well on your way to a lifetime of true “value meals.”

Basic forward and backward skating, balance and control, all stops, turning forward to backward, and crossovers. Must have your own skates.

Prerequisite of Basic Skating, or good skating skills. Includes stroking, edges, forward crossovers and turns. Must have your own skates.

Coaching and practice on single and double rotation jumps, spins (including combination and change of foot), and moves in the field.  Figure skating experience required. Must have your own skates.

Must have taken Intermediate Skating.

Develop turns and edge sequences and learn half rotation jumps, one and two foot spins, forward crossovers, and pivots. Gain control, balance, and power. Must have your own skates.

This course is designed to teach the basics of Sailing. The course will meet on at the Boston University Sailing Pavilion on the Charles River. Participants must complete a boating swim test through the PERD Aquatics Department.