YMCAs Across City Allow Teens to Chart Their Workout Progress

The more than 100-year-old Park Slope Armory was converted into a gym in 2010. As part of our continuing Fit Kids February coverage, NY1's Jose Martinez reports on how kids can get an old-fashioned workout there while keeping tabs on their progress through technology.

You can sprint, stretch and shoot hoops, all inside a historic National Guard armory turned YMCA.

"For 160 years, the YMCA has been a cornerstone of getting kids and families healthy, getting them moving," said Erika Rautenstrauch, executive director at the Prospect Park YMCA. "But there really is something for everybody here, so find out what your kids are interested in. Is it ballet? Is it karate? Is it basketball?"

Khaled Hassan said he was talked into joining the Y's program for teens after being a couch potato.

"I usually just stayed home and played Xbox, watched TV right after school," Hassan said. "Now, I'm just here almost every day."

He's one of more than 10,000 kids in YMCAs across the city in programs like Y-MVP, where they can chart their progress online.

"It's all about increasing daily physical activity, using fun fitness activities, a real dynamic digital badge system, tracking their activities in a cool app with a trained coach to get really healthy habits going," said Lori Rose Benson, vice president of YMCA of Greater New York.

"Make it fun and join 'em," Rautenstrauch said. "You can run together, you can play basketball together. We're warm in the wintertime and cool in the summer, so 12 months out of the year, there's something to do."

"I'm trying to do breakdancing, B-boy stuff, so I need upper-body strength," said Suma Atker, a member of the Y-MVP Teen Fitness Challenge. "My coaches, they ask me, 'What do you want to work on?' So I told them, and now they're helping me out, and I'm really feeling kind of better now."

Annual membership fees vary at 24 locations in the five boroughs, with financial aid also available.

For more information about programs available citywide at the Y, visit

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/bronx/fit-kids/2015/02/16/ymcas-across-city-allow-teens-to-chart-their-workout-progress.html

ttps://homeworkouttraining.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/fit-fabulous/
https://fullbodyworkoutrountinesforweightloss.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/do-treadmill-desks-really-work-not-as-well-as-we-hoped-they-do-unfortunately/
https://kettlebellmusclebuildingworkoutroutines.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/fitness-blog-getting-back-into-your-routine/
https://celebrityandbowflexworkoutroutines.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/inspirational-story-of-the-day-how-a-woman-overcame-her-exercise-addiction/

homeworkouttraining.wordpress.com/ https://fullbodyworkoutrountinesforweightloss.wordpress.com/ https://kettlebellmusclebuildingworkoutroutines.wordpress.com/ https://celebrityandbowflexworkoutroutines.wordpress.com/


Workout Routines for building Muscle Fast
MI40 workout program
Mass Workout Routines
Mi40 Final Results