• Aquatics
  • Indoor Learn-to-Swim
  • Youth Swimming
  • Aquatic Fitness
  • Private Swimming Lessons
  • Lifeguard Course
  • Carl Junction Summer Swim Lessons
  • Cunningham Park Summer Swim Lessons
• Active Older Adults
  • Fun Friday
  • Senior Social Hour
• Health & Fitness
  • Fitness Classes
  • Youth Classes
  • Personal Training
  • Tween Fitness Class
• Sports
• Youth & Family
  • KidTime
  • YSpace
  • School Plus
  • Ultimate Adventure Daycamp
  • Parties
  • Schools Out Camp (S.O.C.)
• Heritage Youth Development Center
  • Full Day Child Care
  • After School Child Care
  • Ultimate Summer Program

Health & Fitness

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, injury rehabilitation, walking, personal fitness, exercise for beginners, yoga, tai chi, healthy back, weight management, and group exercise including aerobics, martial arts exercise, studio cycling, and much more. Many Ys offer stop-smoking programs and stress management classes. Hundreds of YMCAs collaborate with hospitals to provide these programs. The list of YMCA programs and services goes on and on.

Youth programs include preschool movement, youth fitness, teen fitness and kids' gyms. Many Y child care 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.

Did you Know...
That your Joplin Family Y has a registered dietician? Learn more about nutrition and weight loss! Schedule your appointment now by calling Jessica Houdyshell at (417)540-6729.