Get Your Family Moving at the YMCA

Through America on the Move Week with the YMCA, the YMCA of Greater New York hopes to show anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle how making just small changes can get them on their way to wellness.

Research by the America on the Move Foundation has shown that making two small daily changes – taking 2,000 more steps and eating 100 fewer calories – can prevent the average annual weight gain of one to two pounds.

America On the Move Week with the YMCA builds upon a national partnership between the YMCA and the America On the Move Foundation and aims to motivate and mobilize thousands of Americans to take small steps towards a healthier lifestyle.

But most importantly, it's an opportunity for us to welcome more New Yorkers to the YMCA to see us as a resource for their own personal health goals, as well as a catalyst for improvement of our community's health as a whole. It's a chance for New Yorkers to make a commitment to making changes in their own lives that can lead to a healthier lifestyle.

So bring your family to our YMCA and celebrate making small changes to get on the path to a healthier lifestyle. Click here to download a FREE Guest Pass, good for any NYC YMCA for America On the Move Week -- September 20-27, 2009.

Contact your local YMCA to see what's in store for a weeklong celebration of free events, open to the public!

America On the Move Week with the YMCA is part of the YMCA’s national initiative known as YMCA Activate America®.  Activate America is the YMCA’s bold approach to directly address our nation’s lifestyle health crisis.  Activate America shifts how we are working inside and outside the YMCA to engage all children, youth, adults and families whose successful pursuit of health and well being in spirit, mind and body requires continuous supportive relationships and environments.