YMCA Healthy Lifestyles

YMCAs have led community-based health and fitness for more than a century. Research continues to support the approach to health that YMCAs have taken since 1891 when Luther Gulick proposed the red YMCA triangle as a symbol of a person's "essential unity -- spirit, mind and body" each being a necessary and eternal part of man. Participation in Y health and fitness programs offer opportunities for friendship and community, a sense of well-being, self-confidence, and improved mental abilities and cognition -- not to mention the obvious benefits of healthy hearts, lungs, bones and muscles.

Ys believe exercise and health education are important for people of all ages, incomes and abilities. The government agrees that all people can benefit from good health and wellness programs.

Adult programs include strength training, personal fitness, exercise for beginners, yoga, weight management, and group exercise including aerobics, martial arts exercise, classes for seniors and much more. The list of YMCA programs and services goes on and on.

Youth programs include preschool movement, youth fitness, teen fitness and kids' gyms. YMCA Academic Enrichment programs incorporate health and fitness, too. YMCA Healthy Kids Day -- the Ys' annual, nationwide celebration of kids' health in spirit, mind and body -- brings family members together to learn how to live healthier lives.

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For more information, please email Phil Foy or call the YMCA at (562) 425-7431.

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