Missouri Valley Family YMCA

The Life Center is the most popular area of the YMCA for exercise. The Life Center is your complete fitness solution featuring all the latest state of the art exercise equipment and Life Center coaches to guide you and help you reach your goals.

Advantages of exercising in the Life Center:

• Work with a personal trainer (Healthy Life Style Coordinator) to reach maximum effectiveness and workouts, achieving your fitness goals in the shortest time possible.
• Create a work-out specialized to your needs, sport, or injury
• Work with Life Center Coaches to guide you in your workouts and provide assistance and service whenever needed.
• Exercise on your own time to fit your busy schedule.
• Exercise together with a loved one, friend or family member.
• Complete your workouts in 30-40 minutes!
• Improve strength, tone, flexibility and cardio fitness with one workout.
• Exercise three times per week and meet you exercise goals.
• Workouts are all provided for you on easy to read workout cards so you can track your progress and eliminate guesswork.

Staying fit is a way of life. If you want to slim down, tone up, increase energy for daily routines, or look and feel better, we’re here to help. It is important for us to provide our members with a safe, well maintained and equipped center with guidance, supervision and instruction. We want you to see progress and feel successful!

What to expect from regular use of the Life Center:

1. Improved cardio vascular and respiratory system.
2. Strengthen and tone your muscles.
3. Manage your weight.
4. Increase bone density.
5. Increase your energy.
6. Lower high blood pressure.
7. Reduced stress.
8. Improved body concept and confidence.

Life Center Features:

• Life Fitness Signature, Cybex strength equipment, and Paramount circuits with 40 selectorized strength machines designed for all muscle groups.
• The largest number of free-weight stations in the Midwest featuring the new HAMMER strength equipment.  Equipment including all types of free weight machines and barbell and dumbell benches, 2 full sets of Hampton dumbbells, fixed barbell sets with camber and straight bars. New Cybex pulldowns, low rows, assist dip/chin, high pulley and tricep stations.
• 45 Cardiovascular stations featuring Life Fitness and Cybex equipment (Treadmills, Bikes, Cross Trainers, Arc Trainers and Stair Climbers) with built in heart rate monitors. Separate stretching room with abdominal and plyometric equipment and women’s area.
• Specialty “ladies only” fitness room.
• The largest square-footage of fitness equipment in the state.
• Free towel service

Staff Service Pledge

• We will monitor and make sure all guidelines are being followed.
• We will learn and use your name and make you feel welcome.
• We will check on your progress and care about your well-being.
• Our coaches will move throughout the Life Center to see if you need assistance.