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The Bangor Region YMCA offers special group fitness classes that are carefully designed to reduce pain and increase range of motion through all the joints in the body in an effort to improve overall wellness. Programs include both land and water fitness classes customized to help people living with arthritis, fibromyalgia or other neuro-muscular complications in a variety of exercises. These classes are designed to improve balance and fall prevention.
Free with Y Membership!
Financial assistance is available for those who qualify.
Our team of caring professionals will help you focus on three major areas to improve your health:
- Enhance Your Life is a program geared towards older adults, and those with a chronic condition, such as arthritis. Sessions are carefully designed to improve all components of health-related physical fitness, increase mobility, and reduce pain.
- 5 minutes of warm up, 20 minutes of aerobic exercise, 25 minutes of strength and balance, and 10 minutes of cool-down and flexibility exercise.
- Strong Connections at the Y using group activities, education, and mindfulness to increase social connections.
- Classes are in group settings offered multiple times a week to encourage social support and build relationships among participants.
- Healthcare professionals are brought in two times a year to talk about areas of interest related to bone health.
- Healthy Habit Sessions to teach participants what to do to improve their overall wellness.