YMCA Wood Buffalo - Child & Youth Recreation

Health & Fitness / Child & Youth Recreation

The YMCA offers health seekers resources for active, well-balanced lifestyles; provides community leadership to help reduce barriers and increase support for healthy living; develops community partnerships to advance health and well being for all. At the YMCA you can examine nutrition, weight management, stress reduction, the role of community support and more. Our certified coaches and instructors can help you identify what's most important to you and how to achieve success.

Family Gym & Swim
Parents have an important role to play in modeling and supporting physical activity in children. Join us Saturday evenings for organized sports in the gymnasium, open family swim time and make and take craft activities.

Active Kids
Active Kids is a lifestyle program for children, youth and families incorporating fun, physical activity and nutrition and led by one of our certified fitness professionals. The focus is on building healthy habits within the family and can benefit youth dealing with challenges of weight and inactivity. Parent or guardian participation is expected.

Family Sport Combo
Learn the fundamentals of the game. Drills and scrimmages focus on fair play and sportmanship. Have fun learning the basics of ball hockey, basketball and badminton just to name a few.

Youth Night
A YMCA tradition designed for youth. Jump in the pool and make waves swimming. Try a variety of indoor sports in the gym, or show off your moves in the studio challenging your friends to DDR or Wii games. All activities are supervised and led by our superstar staff.