Dean Anaya

Review of Ann Arbor YMCA

Been a member for a few years now and though I fin...

Been a member for a few years now and though I find the structure of the building nice and clean, there's some serious apathy from staff towards making the fitness floor better. My main concern is the lack of a squat rack. If the YMCA is all about "healthy living" and educating people on fitness, then why leave people ignorant to such an important exercise such as squats? There's a smith machine but those don't even compare to the benefits of doing REAL squats on a REAL squat rack. I see kids come in everyday to do a full bicep workout and never workout their legs. Maybe if there was the proper equipment to do so they would be more interested. You're leaving people uneducated and ignorant to fitness and it's disappointing that it's coming from the YMCA, an important establishment in our history. They've got a large amount of old, rusty, gross cable machines that barely work, maybe they could just get rid of them and get something that's actually useful? They need to teach people about all aspects of fitness.