Fitness | Topnotch Stowe Resort

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Cutting-Edge Equipment

Enjoy the latest Peloton and Matrix equipment, including treadmills with 22" interactive screens, elipticals, upright and recumbent bicycles with 16" displays featuring TV, social media, and immersive environments.

Strength and Conditioning Studios

Separate studios for weight training and cardio provide a wide range of tools, from kettlebells to half-rack, deadlift platform, captain's chair, TRX straps, battle ropes, and a cable row machine.

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Aerobic & Movement Studio

Designed to inspire focus and flow, the aerobics studio features a suspended wooden floor, cathedral ceiling, wall-to-wall mirrors, and sweeping views of Vermont's mountains.

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Classes & Personal Training

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced athlete, our fitness programs invite you to challenge yourself or find balance. Join group or personalized yoga and pilates instruction, or elevate your goals with one-on-one sessions led by our expert personal trainers.

11:00 - 11:50 AM: Aqua Fusion with Molly

This mindful movement water class engages the entire body through a variety of exercises that may include cardio, breathwork, stretching, strengthening, and more. Keeps one young in heart and in body.

12:00 - 12:50 PM: Restorative Yoga with Heather

A calming and deeply relaxing practice designed to help you restore balance, reduce stress, and promote healing in both the body and mind. Utilizes props such as blocks, bolsters, and blankets to enable the body to release tension and restore energy fully.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Power Tabata with Tammy

A high-energy interval class combining powerful strength moves with cardio bursts to boost endurance, build total-body strength, and elevate heart health. Expect fast-paced circuits, short recovery periods, and an empowering full-body burn.

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM: Total Body Strength with Tammy

A strength-training class designed to build power from the ground up. The first half focuses on lower-body strength, balance, and glute activation, while the second half targets the upper body with controlled movements to strengthen the arms, shoulders, chest, and back.

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM: Core & Restore with Tammy

A little burn, a little stretch, and a lot of “Wow, I needed this.” Strengthen your core, improve posture and balance, and finish with feel-good stretching to help your body move better and recover faster. Perfect for all fitness levels.

12:00-12:50 PM: Aqua Fusion with Tammy

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM: Gentle Flow Vinyasa Yoga with Heather

Gentle flow yoga class with lots of movement and some balancing poses. Use mindful movement combined with breath work to help you release tension, improve flexibility, and cultivate inner calm. Perfect for all levels.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Interval Core with Donna

A fast-paced, full-body cardio interval style class using weights, bands, balance, and body weight exercises.

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM: Mobility & Lengthen with Donna

Move better, feel better. Mobility & Lengthen blends Pilates-inspired stretching with targeted joint mobility work to improve flexibility, posture, and overall movement quality. Through controlled, low-impact sequences, you'll increase range of motion in the hips, shoulders, and spine while gently activating deep stabilizing muscles. Ideal for recovery days, post-strength training, or for anyone looking to release tension and move with greater ease.

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM: Non-Impact Aerobics (Nia) Dance Fitness Fusion with Sake

Step into a fun class designed for improving balance, strength, and flexibility. With uplifting and easy instruction, you will learn to move with confidence.

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM: Aqua Fusion with Tristan

A gentle yet effective full-body water workout that blends cardio, strength, stretching, and breath work. This mindful movement class helps improve mobility, strength, and boost energy. Designed to leave you feeling refreshed, energized, and young at heart.

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM: Restorative Yoga with Heather

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM: Everyday Strength with Tristan

Build strength, balance, and confidence in a supportive small-group setting. Through progressive, pattern-based training tailored to your needs, you'll improve mobility, stability, and functional strength for everyday life. Perfect for beginners or anyone looking to move better, feel stronger, and stay active. (Limited to 5 people)

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Core & Glute Ignite with Tammy

Mini bands, stability balls, and muscles you forgot you had. This low-impact class focuses on core strength, glute activation, balance, and full-body stability through controlled movement that delivers a serious burn.

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM: Head to Toe Training with Tammy

This workout is composed of two parts that will sculpt your upper and lower body.

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM: Aqua Fusion with Tammy

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM: Full Body Stretch with Tammy

A relaxing, full-body stretch session designed to improve flexibility, mobility, posture, and recovery while reducing tension and promoting overall wellness.

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM: Move Better with Tammy

A feel-good functional fitness class focused on improving balance, mobility, strength, and core stability to support everyday movement and healthy aging. This supportive, low-impact class helps make daily activities feel easier.

8:00 AM - 8:50 AM: Butts & Guts with Abby

Get ready to sculpt, tone, and strengthen your core and glutes in this high energy, lower-body focused workout! This class targets your abs, glutes, hips, and thighs through a mix of bodyweight exercises, resistance training, as well as light weights to enhance the burn.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Interval Core with Donna

A fast-paced, full-body cardio interval style class using weights, bands, balance, and body weight exercises.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Functional Training with Abby

Train your body for real-life movement in this dynamic, full-body class. Functional Training focuses on exercises that improve strength, balance, coordination, and mobility, targeting the muscles you use every day. Through a mix of bodyweight movements, resistance exercises, and functional equipment, you’ll enhance your posture, prevent injuries, and boost overall athletic performance. Ideal for all fitness levels, this class helps you move stronger, feel more capable, and perform your best, both in the gym and in everyday life.

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM: Arm Tone & Cardio with Abby

Tone your arms, boost your heart rate, and have fun doing it! This upbeat class combines light to moderate weights with bodyweight exercises and cardio intervals for a full-body burn. Modifications are offered, making it a great workout for all fitness levels.

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM: Aqua Fusion with Abby

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM: Reformer Pilates with Donna

Semi Private. Students will be learning the essentials of the Reformer machine. This class will strengthen abdominals, back, legs, and arms, all while stretching the muscles and spine. Limited to 5 people.

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM: Vinyasa Flow: Hips & Heart with Cloe

This is a feel-good vinyasa flow designed to create space in the body and ease in the mind. Expect a playful, heart-opening postures, and fluid movement that builds warmth while encouraging release. Suitable for all levels with options throughout.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Stowe Scenic Stroll with Donna

Breathe in the fresh mountain air and soak up the charm of Stowe on this relaxed, social walk on the Stowe Rec Path. Perfect for all fitness levels, this class is less about breaking a sweat and more about connecting with nature, neighbors, and yourself.

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM: Pilates for Tennis & Golf with Donna

A dynamic Mat Pilates class designed for athletes who play tennis and golf. This session focuses on improving rotational strength, core stability, mobility, and flexibility to support powerful swings and injury prevention. Flowing, targeted exercises work the entire body to lengthen, strengthen, and enhance overall performance on the court or course.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Mobility & Lengthen with Donna

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM: Reformer Pilates with Donna

Semi-Private. Students will be learning the essentials of the Reformer machine. This class will strengthen abdominals, back, legs, and arms all while stretching the muscles and spine. Limited to 5 people.

Donna DeVittori

Donna DeVittori is an AFAA certified fitness instructor who began her fitness career 27 years ago as a step-aerobics instructor. She now teaches Pilates Mat and Machine, Interval Core, Stretch, and Walk in the Woods at Topnotch Resort. As a certified personal trainer with a BA in psychology from Quinnipiac College, she loves to work with people who need a little encouragement, knowledge, and confidence to achieve their goals. She believes fitness should be simple, fun, and fit into your lifestyle – which she fully embraces by being an avid skier, fair weather windsurfer, walker, and swimmer. She does not believe in diets but rather eating a variety of real food in moderation and loves planning meals and enjoys family style cooking with her husband – often with produce from her own garden!
Heather Newman

Heather has a 600-hour Medical Massage Certification through the National Personal Training Institute in Altamonte, Florida. She trained 500 hours in Body Awareness, which corrects somatic patterning to help alleviate poor posture, along with aches and pains, through the Community College of Vermont. Throughout the years she gained certifications in Thai Massage, from the Wellness Institute in Vermont. Reiki 1 and 2 from the Usui Sensei technique, taught by Anne Cameron at the Ayurvedic Center in Vermont, and has completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training through Laughing River Yoga, Vermont. She has attained a Prenatal Yoga certification with knowledge in pre and postnatal yoga as well through the Women’s Room, Vermont. I am also trained as an EMT at the University of Vermont along with CPR and First Aid.
Cloe Gayton

Cloe’s journey with yoga began in Hawaii after a physical injury where she explored Iyengar, Yin, Dharma and Vinyasa as healing and rehabilitation therapies. She quickly fell in love with the practice and decided to explore it further. When she left Hawaii to pursue graduate studies in Washington, DC and become a licensed massage therapy, she began taking Yin restorative classes with Yoga District DC for self care and ended up completing her yoga teacher training as well.

She gets immense joy and gratification sharing the gift of yoga with others, giving them a sense of self empowerment, self healing, release and balance. Ultimately she would love to create a holistic practice which combines clinical work with yoga therapy.
Sake Erwin

It was in NYC in the 1980s when Sake first experienced a dance-fitness fusion class, and has been in love ever since. Here at Topnotch, Sake leads the NIA class, a type of holistic aerobics that welcomes all ages and fitness levels.

As a professionally licensed bodywork therapist for over 35 years, as well as a yoga and movement instructor, Sake is passionate about teaching people how to live freely in their bodies and how to use movement as medicine. Embracing the concept of “no pain, all gain,” Sake’s classes are filled with cues for releasing stress, finding balance, and regaining strength & flexibility in body & mind.
Tristan Murphy

Tristan has always been interested in strength training, fitness, and combat arts but his training really picked up when he moved to Australia. There, he was mentored by top tier striking and physical preparation coaches and first competed in knockdown tournaments, a type of kicking boxing style fights. After returning to America, he continued his training in Kyokushin Karate in Waterbury. Tristan's early foundation has given a lifelong unique approach to weight training that supports the goals of the athlete by building strength, speed, endurance and flexibility while protecting against injury. Whether your goal is high athletic performance or feeling and looking great, Tristan can help find a fitness-based approach for your goals.
Tammy Deeb

Tammy Deeb is a health and fitness trainer with more than twenty years of experience. Before joining Topnotch Resort, Tammy owned two businesses: one specializing in health and fitness training and the other in both domestic and international outdoor adventure travel. She combines the professionalism and expertise to provide effective group training in a gym setting, as well as the flexibility and ability to adapt to a client’s personal needs to provide private, in-home training. In addition to developing
programs designed to reach and maintain optimal health and fitness goals, Tammy instructs clients on proper equipment use to minimize accidents and injuries.

Tammy combined her fitness training expertise with her planning and organizational skills to manage outdoor adventure tours for groups ranging from 15-50 clients, including coordinating locations, reservations, transportation, lodging, finance, and daily events. To secure proper equipment in advance such as bicycles, ice climbing and rock-climbing gear, Tammy analyzed client’s individual needs based on body type, height, weight, and experience.

Tammy is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Certified ACE Personal Trainer, Certified ACE Group Fitness Instructor, as well as a Wilderness First Responder and Public Speaker. She has trained clients in Tabata, Circuit Training, Strength Training, TRX, Cardio and Flexibility.

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Spa Day

For a more private retreat, step into our men’s and women’s lounges. Each features:

A peaceful relaxation area
Secure lockers
Showers and restrooms
Individual steam room, sauna, and hot tub

These spaces are ideal before or after a treatment, a workout, or simply as part of your day of self-care at Topnotch Resort.

For services less than $100.00, access to all spa facilities is available for an additional fee. Please speak with a Spa Receptionist for details on pricing.

Cutting-Edge Equipment

Strength and Conditioning Studios

Aerobic & Movement Studio

Classes & Personal Training

Instructor Bios

Spa Day