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Join Atlanta’s Largest Free Fitness Program!

The Atlanta BeltLine Partnership has developed a comprehensive health and wellness program to promote active lifestyles and foster healthier outcomes for residents. We are committed to offering healthy, no-cost opportunities for the people in our communities.

  • Classes are fun, free, and easy to join
  • All ages and fitness levels are welcome — Free Fitness is for everybody!
  • We offer a spectrum of activities including yoga and aerobics, HIIT workouts, bootcamps, groovy Zumba, barre, educational walking and biking tours, sunrise and sunset hiking, pickup soccer, nutrition workshops, how to skate and bike classes, and even a monthly run club
  • Visit our events calendar (or see below) regularly to find out the latest healthy opportunities

Mark Your Calendar — Upcoming Events

  • 10 AGAIN!

    The fitness class consists of aerobic with weights calisthenics and stretching in ten languages with energetic music.   Mr. Leslie Magnum Fitness Expert and owner of YHW.LLC. and Program Partner … Continue Reading →

    June 1 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • God and Flow Yoga

    Led by certified yoga teacher (RYT-200) Jessica Mitchell, this mat-based workout is an athletically powered, dynamic movement flow, challenging all levels, set to your favorite Christian contemporary, Christian Hip Hop … Continue Reading →

    June 1 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • God & Flow Yoga

    Led by certified yoga teacher (RYT-200) Jessica Mitchell, this mat-based workout is an athletically powered, dynamic movement flow, challenging all levels, set to your favorite Christian contemporary, Christian Hip Hop … Continue Reading →

    June 2 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
  • 2023 Atlanta BeltLine Bike Tours – Westside Trail (Spring/Summer Season)

    June 3 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Gabby to the Core

    Mat Pilates is a strengthening and lengthening form of exercise that focuses on your core (trunk) muscles while also training your arms and legs. Mat Pilates includes over 500 exercises … Continue Reading →

    June 3 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Toddler Fitness (Ages 2-5)

    Toddler Fitness: Sponsored by the Atlanta Beltline, all participants of Toddler Fitness will learn a new sport and creative activities that help promote physical development, cardio strength, and social skills. … Continue Reading →

    June 3 @ 10:00 am - 10:30 am
  • Beginner Fun fitness (Ages 6-12)

    Beginner Fun Fitness: Sponsored by the Atlanta Beltline, all participants of Beginner Fun Fitness will learn different sports and the importance of nutrition, all while burning lots of energy and … Continue Reading →

    June 3 @ 10:40 am - 11:25 am
  • Self-ies (Self-Ease) on the BeltLine (Pittsburgh Yards)

    Nasirah Denisse is a certified yoga instructor focused on the union of mental, emotional, and physical health, who teaches yoga throughout the Atlanta area. After discovering yoga as a no-impact way … Continue Reading →

    June 3 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Beat Move workout

    STRONG Nation® combines body weight, muscle conditioning, cardio and plyometric training moves synced to original music that has been specifically designed to match every single move. Every squat, every lunge, every burpee is driven by the … Continue Reading →

    June 3 @ 11:00 am - 11:30 am
  • BeltLine Skate Series

    Are you ready to roll? Join us for an epic series of roller skate events this summer. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a newbie just learning to skate, this … Continue Reading →

    June 3 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
  • Dance with Dawn

    Zumba-Easy to follow fun routines to latin, island, and afrobeats. And MixxedFit® is a people-inspired dance fitness program that is a mix of explosive dancing and boot camp toning.

    June 4 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Trap Yoga in the Park

    Trap Yoga in the park – a beginner-friendly, stretch class that will leave you feeling rested and ready for the week! Music by DJ S1k.

    June 4 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Core-ography

    Core-ography is led by NCSF certified personal trainer, Deborah Chambers. This mat-based class explores what is at the innermost part of ourselves, at our core. Not solely our abs, but … Continue Reading →

    June 5 @ 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
  • Pound on the BeltLine

    POUND® is a full-body drumming workout that uniquely combines cardio, conditioning, and strength training with yoga and pilates-inspired movements using lightly weighted exercise drumsticks (Ripstix®) and the music is straight … Continue Reading →

    June 5 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Hip-Hop Dance Class

    Hip-hop Dance Fitness is led by NCSF certified personal trainer, Deborah Chambers. This dance-based class is a retreat where mind, body, soul and spirit are the focus. Explore cardio, fitness, … Continue Reading →

    June 5 @ 6:45 pm - 7:30 pm

Free Fitness Virtually!

Looking for a great way to exercise from home? The Atlanta BeltLine Partnership is bringing Atlanta’s largest free fitness program to you virtually — check out these videos and articles to get started!

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Virtual Fitness Videos

Get a serious workout even when you’re not on the trail.  Check out #BeltLineOnline!

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How to Teach A Child to Ride A Bike by REI

Discover helpful tips to teach kids, or anyone, how to ride a bike.

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Fitness Videos by REI

Your go-to source for expert outdoor knowledge you can trust. All the information you need to learn new skills, choose and maintain gear, prep for your trips and have amazing adventures.

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Benefits of Outdoor Time

Learn why being outside is beneficial.

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How to Play Bug Bingo by REI

You don’t have to go farther than your front stoop or backyard to discover a thriving world of nature. Print out the Bug Bingo cards and take the whole family along the BeltLine to play.

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Teach a Fitness Class

Help Your Community Be Healthy and Get Fit

We are actively recruiting new instructors to join our program. If you or someone you know is a fitness instructor and wants to offer a BeltLine Free Fitness class, we’d love to hear from you!

The Free Fitness Program is only possible with our instructor partners who volunteer their time and talent to offer classes around the Atlanta BeltLine. We are actively recruiting instructors for the 2023 season.

If you or someone you know is a fitness instructor and wants to offer a BeltLine Free Fitness class, we’d love to hear from you.

Email the free fitness team to get started at fitness@atlblp.org. You can also fill out the form found here.

Fitness classes would not be possible without our dedicated instructors.

Benefits of Being a Free Fitness Volunteer

Want to help improve the quality of life and health outcomes within our community? Join us in the mission of improving the well-being of adults, youth, and seniors in the neighborhoods surrounding the Atlanta BeltLine.

As a volunteer instructor, you will receive

  • Recognition on the BeltLine website
  • Class promotions to our BeltLine audience
  • Sharing your classes on social media

Email Kellie to get started at fitness@atlblp.org!

Fitness Instructor Collective

The Instructors of Free Fitness

Browse below to learn more about the expert instructors who make the BeltLine's free fitness program happen.

Audrey Cash

Deaundra Audrey Cash is changing how we think of hip-hop culture and spirituality. She is the founder of Level3 Yoga, a yoga studio that promotes physical, spiritual, and emotional healing while combating the stigmas around mental health within BIPOC communities. Audrey is a yoga instructor, meditation guide, health and wellness speaker, mental health activist, and sound healer, leading sound baths throughout the metro Atlanta area. In addition to teaching at Level3, Audrey has led international retreats and continues to provide yoga, meditation, and wellness services to corporate clients like Spelman College and Microsoft.

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Coach Lucas

Datavious Lucas is a certified NASM Youth Exercise Specialist and founder of Faith First Fitness, a customized wellness program for educators and parents that teaches children ages 2-12 the importance of nutrition, exercise, and mindfulness activities. After being involved in a head on car collision that ended his dreams of pursuing professional sports, he decided to make it his mission to encourage the spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being of children by teaching them to be active and healthy in fun ways. Using sports, obstacle courses, yoga, and learning about healthy fruits and veggies, his focus is to encourage the least active child to adopt a healthy lifestyle that can transcend into adulthood. His motto: Start Children Healthy! Grow Them Strong!

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Dawn Peck

Dawn Peck has been a Certified Group Fitness Instructor and Choreographer for 11 years. She specializes in Zumba, Zumba toning, Aqua Zumba, hip hop and MixxedFit. While currently a North Atlanta resident, she is from Nashville, Tennessee and grew up living in Connecticut. Her class Dance with Dawn is an outdoor family fun fitness class that serves the community and inspires people to move to the beat of the music while making connections with others. Dawn’s favorite genre to teach is afrobeats and hip hop, and when not instructing fitness classes, she is a Certified Professional Medical Auditor and spends time with her life partner and friends exploring the beautiful city of Atlanta.

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Deborah Chambers

Deborah is a nationally certified personal training coach. She holds national certification through the National Council on Strength & Fitness and Kettlebell Certification through Kettlebell Athletics. Deborah’s specialties include Dance, Barre, Mobility, Flexibility, Corrective Exercise, and Strength & Hypertrophy Training. She is an Atlanta native who relocated back to Atlanta during the pandemic, after living in New York City for 7 years. Her fitness journey began as a professional dancer, choreographer, and instructor. Deborah received professional dance training at the New World School of the Arts, as well as the Ailey School. She currently teaches, trains, and choreographs in Atlanta. Deborah is thrilled to continue uniting the community together through fitness, wellness, and movement through Free Fitness classes with the Atlanta BeltLine!

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Gabby Mann

After 30 years of lifestyle fitness, Gabby decided to further her education by studying and training Pilates. Gabby uses Pilates to promote overall health, improve muscle tone and strength, and achieve better posture through a safe, yet creative experience. Gabby teaches groups or individuals in fitness programs proper form and safe methods on a variety of equipment such as Reformer, Springboard, Exo-Chair, hand weights, etc. She continues to attend educational conferences and takes additional training for Pilates as it relates to dancers, golfers, tennis players, scoliosis and other forms of rehabilitation. Gabby also demonstrates modifications to fit the needs of particular students. When asked why Pilates she stated, “it is going to keep me moving into my nineties, pain free.

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Jenn Pichardo

My mission is to create, empower and spread kindness down paths to which I am only a guide. Fitness and food are my passion, believing that meditational movement of the body and what we fuel our body with are of equal importance. I am a Hungarian-Colombian soul born in Miami, FL but raised up north in Connecticut. I am a certified and experienced Yoga Teacher from the Alanna Kaivalya Yoga Academy, backed by Yoga Alliance. I am also a previous restaurant owner and Chef and alum of Johnson & Wales University. Currently residing in Atlanta with my partner and two children, striving every day to spread balanced energy.

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Jessica Mitchell

Led by certified yoga teacher (RYT-200) Jessica Mitchell,  this mat-based workout is an athletically powered, dynamic movement flow, challenging all levels, set to your favorite Christian contemporary, Christian Hip Hop and Gospel music. Each experience incorporates prayer, meditation, and corporate belonging within the Kingdom of God. You don’t have to believe in Christ to join us on your mat. Love and respect will be extended to you regardless of your belief system. Since most classes are in unconventional spaces, come prepared to sweat as you stretch and power through a series of postures to lengthen, strengthen and tone muscles. I invite you to have fun, show up as you are, bring a friend, build community, and flow as you know!

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Katoya Sumner

KaToya has a big smile and is a big personality Pound Master Trainer. She stays ready to bring the fire and energy, to unite all in movement and rhythm. She’s also always ready to have a good time! KaToya teaches classes all around the city of Atlanta to rockstars of all ages and stages. She enjoys staying active and exploring new activities. She’s a jump rope enthusiast, avid road cyclist, and an energetic POUND ICON. You’ll want to come and soak up all the good times in her engaging Pound classes!

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Leslie Mangum

Mr. Leslie Magnum Fitness Expert and owner of YHW.LLC. and Program Partner with the Atlanta Beltline, Fitness Director of Quality Living Service Centers, Mr. Magnum instructs his class “10-AGAIN” in ten different languages: Korean, German, Hindi, Swahili, Mandarin (Chinese), Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian and English. Mr. Magnum believes fitness is desired by all and making that connection with people creates a healthy and life living community.

Motto: Your HEALTH is not your AGE! 

Goal: To keep the world’s young and older aging communities healthy through movement. 

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Liberty Rudo

Liberty Rudo is a certified yoga instructor and your neighbor on the westside Beltline trail. He believes that health and wellness are the foundation to freedom and living a life of purpose, and has called westside Atlanta home since attending the AUC. His fitness journey has taken him to studios in Midtown and Buckhead, and he looks forward to practicing with you closer to home at Washington Park. 

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Nancy Smith

I’m Nancy Smith, the owner of Bfit Athletic Club. I am a certified personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist, certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). I have over 10 years of experience in training of all ages, fitness levels and groups. Fitness is my passion and helping others live a better life by taking control of their health is my mission. I started Bfit Athletic Club to show others how being fit and taking care of your overall health can transform your life. I can show you how to make the right choices for YOU so that it becomes a lifestyle that you ENJOY. Join me and make a commitment to Bfit!

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Nasirah Gaines

Nasirah Denisse is a certified yoga instructor focused on the union of mental, emotional, and physical health, who teaches yoga throughout the Atlanta area. After discovering yoga as a no-impact way to stay fit and alleviate the pain of her inflamed joints, she created Yoga Infinitum, a virtual yoga studio. Her business offers one-on-one and group sessions, yoga events, and retreats. She teaches a variety of yoga styles that are participant centered, encouraging yogis of all levels to give themselves permission to make time, tune in, and find ease.

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Tina Rasheed

Sifu Rasheed is a certified Tai Chi instructor in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her training in Tai Chi in 1977. Following certification in Yang Family form (1982), Ms. Rasheed studied Tibetan Qigong and Kung Fu while instructing both locally and nationally. In addition to Tai Chi, she studied Tibetan Qigong and Kung Fu.Throughout her career spanning 30 years as a public health researcher in Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Ms. Rasheed applied her mission as a martial artist by integrating self-applied health enhancement techniques, such as Qigong and Tai Chi, as a strategy to promote health and prevent disease within many of the community interventions she developed. She also serves as a physical education/athletics instructor at respective colleges in the Atlanta area.