Health & Fitness

Some group and water exercise classes require a reservation.

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• Virtual fitness offerings for Active Older Adults
• Senior Socials dates & times

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Move Strong Conditioning: A combination class designed to keep members moving and active. This class offers beginning level cardio, flexibility, balance, strength, and toning. While this class is perfect for our young at heart members, anyone will find it fun and challenging.

Beginner Line Dancing: Line dancing is a fun way to exercise. The movements are great for increasing brain memory, heart health, coordination, and balance. The class will start by learning very basic steps to a variety of different music genres. No partner is needed for this exercise.

Move Strong Classic: Low impact exercises designed to increase muscular strength, range of movement, and ease in activities of daily living. Hand weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance.

Water Exercise: Take the pressure off joints and get in a great workout. Classes fit a variety of age groups and fitness levels.

Zumba Gold: Active older adults who are looking for a modified Zumba® class that recreates the original moves you love at a lower-intensity. The design of the class introduces easy-to-follow Zumba® choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion and coordination. Come ready to sweat, and prepare to leave empowered and feeling strong Class focuses on all elements of fitness: cardiovascular, muscular conditioning, flexibility and balance!

• • Class offerings vary by branch and season
  • Classes are fee based and require registration

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Adult Tap: Learn the basics of tap dancing in a friendly group setting. Whether you wish to revisit tap dancing, or have always wanted the experience – come join the fun! No previous experience necessary.

Ballroom Dance: Learn the Cha Cha, Waltz, Tango and more. No partner needed.

Boxing Fitness: An invigorating class that will sharpen your mental focus and allow you to release some aggression in a safe environment. You will learn punches, mitt work, footwork, stances and more. This is a no contact class. 

Living Healthy Where You Work

Explore Your Way to Wellness

Tailored Fee Selections. On-site Wellness Program Menu:

• Group Exercise Classes – Yoga, Pilates, Boot Camp, and more
• Success with Coaching – Small Group/Personal Training
• Programs Designed for Your Success – Personal Fitness Assessments

Lunch & Learn Topics

Food & Nutrition:

• Keys to Healthy Dining Out
• Basic Nutrition Recommendations (myplate) and Action Steps
• Shopping/Eating on a Budget
• Nutrition and Disease Prevention
• Cooking Together at Home
• Mindful Eating

Physical Activity:

• Exercise and Disease Prevention
• Making Exercise Work for You
• Healthy at Any Size – Starting an Exercise Program
• Move It (and Lose It!) All Day Long
• Exercise at Your Desk

Healthy Lifestyle Balance:

• Healthy Lifestyle Together at Home
• Making Small Changes for Big Outcomes
• SMART Goals and Action Plans for Lifestyle Change
• Breaking Barriers for Healthy Eating and Active Living
• Silence Your Inner Critic
• Stay Motivated, Stay Focused
• Take an Active Role in Your Health

For more information and questions contact Carrie Clanton , Corporate Relations Director, 509 777 9622 x 4440.

Some group and water exercise classes require a reservation.

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• Class offerings vary by branch

Advanced Tai Chi: This class emphasizes a calm and peaceful mind and is designed for those who would like to improve their overall health, fitness level, ability to focus, balance, flexibility, power, coordination, stamina, strength, body posture, and endurance.

Barre: This class uses a combination of postures inspired by ballet, yoga, and Pilates. The barre (chair in some classes) is used during exercises that focus on isometric strength training combined with high reps of a small range of motion movements. Lightweights are incorporated for strength and mat work targets the core.

Body Conditioning: A full-body workout using integrated strength exercises which may include the use of dumbbells, bands, and more to keep your muscles guessing.

Cardio Dance: A variety of dance formats with high-energy music and fun dance moves.

Cardio Express: A 30-minute full body cardio class, with a moderate intensity level, designed to have both low and high impact options. All fitness levels are welcome.

Cardio Kickboxing: A cardio workout based on various forms of martial arts to challenge your stamina with high-intensity combination rounds. This class will also teach you the basics of kicking and punching while incorporating athletic-based drills and core strengthening exercises.

Cardio Strength Intervals: This class offers a variety of cardio and strength formats in different lengths and intensities.

Core & More: This is not just an abs class. The core is everything from your shoulders to your hips. You will work your abdominal muscles as well as hip/pelvic, spinal muscles, and much more.

Cycling/Cycling Basics/Cycle Express: From beginner to advanced, anyone can enjoy the non-impact cardio workout this class gives. *Space is limited for this class. Reservation required. 

Fall Prevention: With a focus on balance and core strength, this class will also incorporate strength training. Chairs will be used during balance work.

Fit Kids: Introducing kids to the fun of fitness through drills, games and dance. This class is for ages 6-11 years.

Gentle Tai Chi: This class incorporates elements of Tai Chi, yoga, breathwork, brain stimulation, balance, and positive thinking. The simple, but powerful movements can be done standing up or sitting down and are suitable for all ages and abilities.

High Fitness: A cardio class that mixes high intensity with moderate intensity active recovery. No equipment is used.

Line Dancing/Intro to Line Dancing: Learn fun line dances or just come for fun exercise, it is especially great for enhancing memory, balance, coordination.

Move Strong Cardio: Low impact cardio for all abilities.

Move Strong Circuit: Exercises designed to increase muscular strength, range of movement, and activity for daily living skills. Hand weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance and chairs are used for seated and/or standing support.

Move Strong Classic: Exercises designed to increase muscular strength, range of movement, and activity for daily living skills. Hand weights, elastic tubing with handles, and a ball are offered for resistance and chairs are used for seated and/or standing support.

Move Strong Conditioning: This class offers low impact cardio, flexibility, balance and strength. This class offers
many variations on the movements to allow you to be successful.

Pilates/Intro to Pilates: A mat-based class consists of exercises to highlight core, strength, joint mobility, range of motion, and consistent flow of movement. Props may be used to intensify the workout while focusing on the mind/body connection.

PiYo®: PiYo combines the muscle-sculpting, core-firming benefits of Pilates with the strength and flexibility advantages of yoga.

REFIT: An energizing dance experience that rocks your body, heart, and soul with powerful moves and positive music to inspire you from the inside out.

Roll, Stretch and Restore: Learn the basics of foam rolling, stretch your muscles and focus on your breathing in this rejuvenating class.

Stay Strong: This class in appropriate for active older adults, as well as those that want a lower intensity strength training option. Low impact strength-based moves focus on building/maintaining muscle, balance, alignment, and core.

Step Cardio: Improve your cardiovascular and muscle endurance, coordination, and agility while stepping up and down using a rectangular platform.

STRONG Nation®: A high-intensity interval training workout driven by the music. Using your body weight as resistance, work your whole body, gain endurance, strength, and power all while using the music as your motivator!

Tai Chi: This class emphasizes a calm and peaceful mind and is designed for those who would like to improve their overall health, fitness level, ability to focus, balance, flexibility, power, coordination, stamina, strength, body posture, and endurance.

TRX/TRX Basics (Total Body Resistance Exercise): A body weight based, functional program using the Navy Seal designed TRX suspension training system that develops strength, balance, flexibility and core stability simultaneously. Options given for all fitness levels. Must be at least 13 years to attend.

TRX/Barre: A combination of the body weight based functional training of TRX suspension training, and the yoga, Pilates and ballet inspired barre class. Must be at least 13 years to attend.

Walking Fitness: This class can help you develop and maintain your cardiovascular fitness.

Water Exercise: Can’t decide between swimming or exercising with a class? Now you can do both! Water Exercise classes fit a variety of age groups and skillsets. Schedules.

Weight Room-Cardio Circuit: Endurance focused, full body class that utilizes a variety of cardio equipment on the wellness floor.

Weight Room Circuit: Strength focused, full body workout that utilizes Precor exercise machines.

Yoga: Improve your flexibility, balance, strength, and relaxation skills using various postures and breathing techniques. A great calming but energizing workout!

• Gentle Yoga: This class focuses on restorative yoga poses, balance, breathing, and relaxation techniques. A chair is available for support if needed.
• Move Strong Bench/Chair Yoga: This class focuses on restorative yoga poses, balance, breathing, and relaxation techniques. A chair/bench will be used to sit in and as support for standing poses.
• Move Strong Yoga: This class focuses on restorative yoga poses, balance, breathing, and relaxation techniques. A chair can be used for support if needed.
• Power Yoga: A fast-paced style of yoga that focuses on building strength and endurance.
• Restorative Yoga: Restorative yoga is a gentle, slow, still style of yoga that involves long, passive holds in a series of 4-6 restful poses. Yogis are often supported by props to enhance or deepen their experience and achieve a state of total relaxation and release.
• Somatic Yoga: Somatic Yoga is a kind, gentle and therapeutic approach to calming our nervous system and re-educating persistent tension-based patterns in our body and mind. We incorporate conscious breath with slow gentle movements lying or sitting down with a focus on our internal felt sensation to enhance sensory motor efficiency and organization.
• Yin Yoga: Yin Yoga focuses on improving your flexibility, balance, strength, and relaxation skills using various postures and breathing techniques. Focusing on soft tissue and fascia rather than muscle.
• Yoga and Meditation: Improve your flexibility, balance, strength, and relaxation skills using various postures and breathing techniques. This class will end with a longer meditation portion to help achieve focus and calm.
• Yoga Flow: A practice where yoga postures or asanas are connected through the breath. Classes build heat, endurance, flexibility, and strength. The creative sequencing found in a flow class is often built around sun salutations.

**Yoga Mats are limited. You are welcome to bring your own personal mat. 

Zumba®: A Latin-inspired dance-fitness class that combines fast and slow rhythms to tone and sculpt the body in an aerobic/fitness fashion to achieve a unique blended balance of cardio and muscle-toning benefits.

Zumba® Gold: Perfect for active older adults who are looking for a modified Zumba class that recreates the original moves you love at a lower intensity. The design of the class introduces easy-to-follow choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion, and coordination.

The YMCA Personal Training service, whether virtual or in-person, brings together expert advice on wellbeing and exercise, backed with the latest strength conditioning techniques, along with years of professional personal training experience. Our programming includes a combination of personalized assessments, a progressive exercise program, and sustained support for you to build your toolbox and achieve your goals.

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YMCA Member Support Services

Wellness Welcome: New members can schedule a session with one of our wellness coaches who are certified personal trainers, to learn about the different programs and wellness opportunities at the Y. If needed during this session, the wellness coaches can show you a piece of cardio equipment to get you started on your wellness journey. This is not a workout session.

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Intro to Personal Training: If, in your Wellness Welcome appointment, you discover that you’d like support with a tailored exercise program, we offer a highly discounted option to get you started. This is a one-time opportunity for new members. The member will receive an individualized plan based on their needs, with one of our certified personal trainers. Members who have received a complementary wellness session or those that have received an intro to personal training in the past and rejoin, do not qualify for an intro to personal training session.

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Small Group Personal Training: Workouts tailored specifically to each group based on personal goals and fitness levels. Every group is led by a Nationally Certified Personal Trainer who will keep you focused and motivated.

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• • Class offerings vary by branch and season
  • Classes are fee based and require registration

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Martial Arts

Karate: Build physical fitness, confidence, and respect for self and others. Learn basics while having fun in an interactive class. Ages 8+

Taekwondo: Build self-confidence and learn new skills with an emphasis on self-defense. Ages 6+

Youth Martial Arts: Building physical fitness, confidence and respect for self and others are only a few of the benefits of martial arts.  Learn basics while having a fun interactive experience. Ages 6+

Tumbling

Baby Bugs: Parent & child ages 1.5 – 3 yrs. This class focuses on balance, coordination, and skill development for parents and their tots.

Music & Play: A welcoming introduction for children to music through play, stories, dance and musical instrument exploration. Using songs, dance, musical instruments and stories, children can nurture musical exploration, while developing their motor and social skills, problem solving, and spatial awareness in a safe environment. Parent & child ages 1 – 3 yrs.

Tumble Bugs: Ages 3 – 5. Introduction to the art of tumbling in a fun, active, learning environment.

Youth Tumbling: Introduction to the art of tumbling in a fun, active learning environment. Ages 5-8

Dance

Fairy Tale Ballet: This class will introduce your child to ballet technique and positions through fun games, songs and creative movement. Crowns, wands and tutus provided. Ages 3 – 6.

Ballet: In this monthly class your child will gain body awareness, strength, grace and poise along with basic ballet techniques. Ages 7+

Ballet & Tumble: A blend of fundamentals within ballet and tumbling in a fun, active learning environment. Ages 3-5

Homeschool PE

Physical Education for Homeschool Students: Ages 6 – 14. Let the YMCA be your child’s partner in physical activities. The YMCA Physical Education for Homeschool Students Program is a great way for students to get the most out of homeschooling by combining physical activity, healthy living, socialization, and play into their home school curriculum.

Youth Wellness Center Trainings

Is your tween/teen ready to workout in our Wellness Center? Sign them up for Cardio, Strength or Free-Weight trainings, or all of them, to learn the skills they need to have a safe and fun workout at the Y. All youth 10-15 years are required to attend appropriate trainings prior to their first workouts in our Wellness Center. The first two trainings are free and required for youth wishing to access the Wellness Center for activities. Appropriate wristbands will be provided every time they check-in. A parent must also be present at trainings.

Cardio Training

• Ages 10 – 15
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In this complimentary one-hour training with a Wellness Coach, they will learn the proper use of cardio equipment along with the rules and responsibilities of the Wellness Center. Once completed, they will receive a red wristband and access to the cardio equipment. Youth ages 10-11 must have parent/adult present anytime they are in the Wellness Center.

Strength Training

• Ages 12 – 15
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Prerequisite: Completion of cardio training
This complimentary one-hour training with a Wellness Coach will focus on safe and proper form to use strength training equipment. It does not include free-weights. Upon completion, youth may use the Wellness Center without adult supervision and will receive a blue wristband and access to the cardio and strength equipment.

Free-Weight Training

• Ages 12 – 15
• Fee based program. Registration required
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Prerequisite: Completion of cardio and strength trainings
In this session the Wellness Coach will emphasize and teach proper safety and form when using free-weights. Once completed, they will have full access to the Wellness Center designated by a checkered wristband. Up to three sessions.