Michigan affords you plenty of opportunities to maintain a healthy lifestyle, including opportunities to exercise. You can choose from traditional fitness clubs with basic cardiovascular and strengthening exercise equipment or locations that focus on particular exercise techniques, such as karate, dance or aerobics. Most fitness facilities in Michigan are in the more heavily populated areas, such as Detroit and Grand Rapids, but many smaller communities also have neighborhood facilities where you to enjoy a workout.
24-Hour Fitness Clubs
You might need a fitness facility that works around your schedule and has extended hours, and in Michigan you will find fitness clubs open around the clock. Within a 40-mile radius of Detroit Snap Fitness has 26 facilities as of September 2010, and plans for additional club locations. As a member, you have access to a complimentary online wellness tool, with which you can build a wellness plan and take a free wellness assessment. You can also join a Fitness 24, which serves Utica, Auburn Hills, greater northern Detroit areas and Rochester. The coed facility offers a free children's play space, a women-only circuit and suspension training.
Just for Women
Michigan has 209 Curves locations as of September 2010. Curves is a fitness club especially for women. You can find a location in cities including Southfield, Troy, Utica, Three Rivers and Detroit. Hours vary by location, but a couple of days during the week Curves closes for two hours in the middle of the day. Curves boasts that you can burn 500 calories by following their 30-minute workout plan. In addition, your membership includes a complimentary weight-management course.
FitZone, another women-only club, has 16 facilities catering to the fitness needs of women in Michigan as of September 2010. You can find a FitZone in Troy, Livonia, Allen Park and Battle Creek. If you are short on time, FitZone recommends their "Nautilus for Women" circuit-training program, which takes just 20 minutes to complete. Group classes, which are free with membership, include body sculpting, "Ball Blast" and step aerobics.
Pilates
You can easily find a Pilates center in practically in every Michigan county. The Pilates and Barre Studio in Farmington Hills serves a number of cities, including Southfield, West Bloomfield, Livonia and Novi. Students can learn the classic Pilates floor techniques or learn to use the Pilates Reformer, a distinctive, multifunctional piece of stretching and torso strengthening equipment unique to Pilates. If you live near Rochester Hills, you can register for a Wunda Chair class--the Wunda Chair is another piece of exercise apparatus specific to Pilates--group Reformer class, mat class or a Pilates-for-pregnancy class at Core Control Pilates. Another place to take a Pilates class is the Core Sport Pilates Fitness Studio. The facility provides a basic Pilates class and the Yoga-Pilates-Fusion class, which combines ashtanga and hatha yoga styles with Pilates.
Martial Arts
Whether you want to learn the art of Brazilian jiujitsu, muay thai, karate, tae kwon do or kung fu, Michigan has a facility that offers classes. The School of Eastern Martial Arts serves the communities of Walled Lakes and nearby areas, including West Bloomfield, Wolverine Lake, Novi and Orchard Lake. You can learn the fundamental of kung fu and tai chi. Michigan Martial Arts teaches child and adult Brazilian jiujitsu, kickboxing and karate in Farmington and Farmington Hills, Michigan. You can enroll in a self-defense or kick aerobics, or place your preschool child in the Lil Dragons program at the Detroit Martial Arts Institute on West Seven Mile Road.
Gymnastics
Fitness is important for young, growing bodies, too. Gymnastics helps develop coordination, posture, balance, strength and flexibility. Warren Gymnastic Center in Warren, Michigan, offers tumbling and gymnastic classes for children and teenagers 18 months to 18 years old. Students learn to do handsprings, tucks, cartwheels and to use bars, vaults and beams. Troy Gymnastics, in Troy, Michigan, has a 26,000 square feet fitness facility with recreational, dance and exercise classes for ages 12 months and older. In addition, there are boys' and girls' junior varsity and varsity gymnastic teams.
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