YMCA Adds New Program:
New Year! New Goal! New You!

STAFF REPORT

BELLFLOWER— Start your year off healthy by signing up in the Los Cerritos YMCA’s Healthy Lifestyle, a program designed for health buffs to learn, plan, and take action to improve one’s health and quality of life. This new and modern workout facility, named Paramount Petroleum Healthy Lifestyle Center, dedicated and launched on October 2007, offers a host of health and wellness services catering to each individual’s needs. The Center includes treadmills, stair-steppers, recumbent bikes, assisted weight machines, free weights, other related gadgets, and a stretching area; all intended to achieve the goal towards a healthy mind, spirit and body.

Photos by Zion Publishing

YMCA’s certified physical fitness specialist and personal fitness trainer, George, personally attending to Triana, a YMCA Healthy Lifestyle enthusiast enjoying a workout using a modern fitness machine.

“The YMCA understands that being healthy and feeling good is not only derived from a healthy physical state, but is also directly related to the strength of one’s social interactions. Since it’s inception in 1955, the Los Cerritos YMCA has offered programs to meet the needs of the community. Today, it continues to adapt to the changing world to find ways to carry forward its mission and continue to strengthen the lives of individuals in this community. I hope you will take the time to call or stop by to find out more about programs that may benefit you and your family,” Jeremy Echnoz, Executive Director, Los Cerritos YMCA, points out.

Healthy Lifestyle classes are also offered at the YMCA and are included in facility memberships. Aerobics, Body Sculpt, Salsa Dance Aerobics, Water Aerobics and Spinning classes, all held through the YMCA and Kid’s Club, are available for young kids needing child care while their parents are working out or attending a class. Personal fitness support is also offered with a membership. A personal fitness trainer is available to customize a workout plan that fits a client’s need and is available on a one-on-one basis.

THE FITNESS ROOM: Paramount Petroleum Healthy Lifestyle Center in its new and modern facility showing state of-the-art workout machines: stair-steppers, treadmills, recumbent bikes, assisted weight machines, full range of free weights, spinning bikes, and more – all designed to cater to individual client’s need.

TParticipating in a YMCA Health and Fitness Program also provides an opportunity to meet new friends, socialize, and gives a sense of well-being, improved mental ability and cognition of new things – not to mention the development of a well-structured physique, healthy lungs, heart, bones, and muscles. YMCA believes that exercise and healthy lifestyle are important for all ages, irrespective of status, income, and physical ability.

“We are looking forward to seeing many of you here at our fitness center. We have a new exercise equipment room with weight machines as well as aerobic fitness machines. We wish you a healthy New Year. Thank you for your support of YMCA,” says George Mehale, YMCA personal trainer.

For more information about the Paramount Petroleum Healthy Lifestyle Center, visit Los Cerritos YMCA at 15530 Woodruff Ave., Bellflower or call (562) 925-1292.