YMCA Bootcamp!

YMCA Bootcamp is all about changing your lifestyle to become the best you "now"!  Join others in life-changing workouts that are designed to provide weight loss, muscle endurance, and overall health enrichment while developing a feeling of confidence that comes from your own hard work. If you are trying to lose weight or just want to stay in incredible shape, YMCA Bootcamp has the right workouts for you. Fitness bootcamp is designed to provide a balance mixture of aerobic, circuit training, Kickboxing, Yoga, Pilates, and plyometric exercises that will keep your body responding to each workout that is completed. We will take your measurements and weight at the beginning, middle, and end of the session so you can see your results! The classes run in 3 month (12 week) sessions and will be 3 days a week. You can register for the morning classes: Mon/Wed/Fri 6:00 – 7:00am or evening classes: Mon/Tue/Thurs 6:00-7:00pm. The cost for YMCA members is $50 and $150 for non-members. For further information please contact Ryan Wilson @ 372-2403, ext. 4.

Session Dates:  Sept. 27- Dec. 12, & Jan. 3 – Mar. 25

Personal Training

     We now have two personal trainers on staff. Stacey Alvarez is a certified personal trainer and has also been certified since 2008 with the Aquatic & Fitness Professional Association International (A-PAI) to teach land and aquatic aerobics. She has taught basic aqua fitness, tai-chi, total sculpting, hip-hop aerobics, Zumba, step interval, cardio sculpt, and circuit training. Along with that she has been a dance and cheerleading coach for 15 years. Stacey would love to work with you and help you reach your fitness goals!

                Marco Alvarez is a certified personal trainer at the YMCA. Marco received his Iowa coaching certification in 2007. He has coached youth league tee-ball and flag football for 10 years. He has coached high school basketball and football for 2 years. He referees youth football here in Ft. Madison and is pursuing his IAHSAA refereeing certificate for high school sports.

     Personal trainers provide one-on-one fitness instruction to people desiring a program tailored to their specific needs. Trainers evaluate their clients' physical fitness and keep track of their progress. Trainers develop programs and choose exercises that provide the optimum results and take into account the activities their clients enjoy. They act as motivators who push clients to their physical limits. If a client has suffered an athletic injury, the trainer may create a special rehabilitation program.

Zumba® (NEW)

The Zumba® program fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in 45 minutes of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!

When: Tuesday & Thursday 6:00-6:45 am

Instructor:  Stacey Alvarez (Zumba Certified)

When: Wednesday 7-7:45pm & Friday 5:30-6:15pm

Instructor Kym Auge & Melanie Harness (Zumba Certified)

When: Monday-Wednesday-Friday 8:45-9:45am

***Child Care Provided ($1.75 per child)****

Instructor: Melanie Harness

Fee: $10 member    $40 non-member

New session begins Oct. 25

Aerobic combo

This class includes a variety of different workouts using Pilates, yoga, yoga ball, medicine ball, stretch bands, and step up boards that will have you work up a sweat and have fun at the same time.

When: Monday/Wednesday Evenings 5:15-6:00pm

Instructor: Heather Wellman

Fee:    Member: FREE   Non-member: $40

New session begins Oct. 25

Spinning

This program is an intense bicycling class that you will work up a sweat doing a variety of different cycling exercises. When: Tuesday/Thursday Evenings 5:00pm-5:45pm

Fee:     Member: FREE   Non-member: $40

New session begins Oct. 25

Cardio Circuit

Come join Keith Rusher, a retired physical therapist, in our state of the art wellness center as he’s been teaching this fast paced aerobic class for 20 years!! This is an aerobics class that uses the nautilus machines along with doing free exercise to the sound of music. It includes 38 stations that last only 30 seconds that concentrate on high repetitions and low weight. There is pulse monitoring that takes place halfway through as well as at the end of the class. When: Mon-Fri 5:15-5:45PM FREE FOR Y-MEMBERS

No session dates –class is ongoing

Step Aerobics

This is an intense aerobics class using the Step. Step aerobics burns 30 - 60 % more calories than traditional aerobics with particular emphasis on hips, thighs, abdominals, and buttocks.

When: Monday/Wednesday Evenings 4:15 - 5:00

Instructor: Patti Martin

Fee:         Member: $10   Non-member: $40

New session begins Oct. 25