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Fitness is key to mobility, but for those reaching their senior years extra attention should be placed on avoiding injury from falls.

How much weight can you lift in two minutes? Try our monthly member challenge.

The YMCA Auckland and Waikato network has taken a proactive step to reaffirm its commitment to child safety by becoming New Zealand’s first accredited Safeguarding Children organisation through the internationally-renowned Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF).

Summer. It’s the season of fun in the sun and holidays at the beach. But for working families, summer can also be a long slog spent juggling work and looking after the kids. Community recently caught up with Celeste and Emma, two mothers who work full-time, to discuss the challenges, and how YMCA holiday programmes and camps are helping them survive the summer

For the third year running YMCA has won the Community Excellence Award at the annual NZ Exercise Industry Awards.

Work. Finances. Chores. School routines. With the pressures of daily life it’s little wonder so many Kiwi families struggle to spend quality time together, and the numbers prove it.

For eight years, Niloufer Sultana has faced a number of health challenges, including being diagnosed as pre-diabetic, and suffering from a stroke and three heart attacks. By 2016 Niloufer knew it was time for a lifestyle change. Upon joining the YMCA, she felt she had finally found a place where she was welcome and comfortable enough to work on her health.

Four YMCA trainers and facilities have been named finalists in the upcoming New Zealand Exercise Industry Awards.

YMCA Auckland swim teacher Liam Blain-Caunce has received national recognition for his contributions to aquatic education and water safety by taking out the 2017 AUSTSWIM Teacher of Infant and Preschool Aquatics Award on 15 July.

A spa pool at the Auckland Council-owned Onehunga War Memorial Pool and Leisure Centre is closed.

Ask Lisa Tuara, mother of three children, why she decided to send her family to swimming lessons and she can trace the decision back to one definitive moment last summer. 

Meet Emman Rahimi one of our Swim Teachers/Lifeguards here at Onehunga War Memorial Pools.

Click here to get to know Emman a little better!