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CHILD CARE

Your child is discovering all kinds of new worlds. That's why at YMCA Child Care we carefully design every activity to expand your kid's imagination and encourage lifelong positive values. Their newfound confidence naturally strengthens the relationship they have with you, and that progression is at the heart of our philosophy -- good child care is good family care. We offer: field trips, nutritious snacks, age-appropriate curriculum, winter and spring break camps, experienced professional staff, half-day and holiday special events, fun-filled activities, sports and fitness activities, enrichment activities, supervised homework time, and swimming classes.

Full- and part-time YMCA Child Care is divided into specific, age-appropriate programs that provide your kids with high-quality and enjoyable experiences. For infants and toddlers, personal attention, rich sensory experiences, and a generous supply of giggles are a big part of their day. Preschoolers learn the importance of making choices, taking turns, developing language skills, and working in a group while they play games and create to the limits of their imagination. School-aged kids join in a variety of experiences including: service-learning, science, reading, and developing and practicing social skills. They gather in a safe environment that focuses on making friends, building relationships, staying active, and exercising leadership skills.

Before- and After-School Program (grades K-5)

Our Before- and After-School program provides young people in Arlington an opportunity to participate in an extended-learning experience that supports the out-of-school educational, recreational, social, and emotional needs of youth. Our program creates an excitement for learning and an outlet for creative expression through an innovative, hands-on approach in a variety of out-of-school settings based on the building blocks of every YMCA program: honesty, respect, responsibility, and caring. We provide daily experiences in eight core content areas that are consistent with the YMCA mission to build strong kids. These areas include:

Arts and humanities

Character development

Health, wellness, and fitness

Homework support

Literacy

Science and technology

Service-learning

Social competence and conflict resolution

School Closure Camps (grades K-5)

During the school year when school is out and you are rushing around trying desperately to find a babysitter, remember that the YMCA is open. We hold day and week-long camps so the holidays don't have to be stressful for you. Enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing where your child is and that he or she is having a memorable day making new friends, learning a new craft, experimenting with science, taking field trips, or just playing a fun sport or game. Because we have a mix of children from almost every elementary school in Arlington, your child will make friends with new kids from other areas. For more information about our camps, please call the YMCA Arlington.

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YMCA BIRTHDAY PARTIES

Celebrate your birthday at the YMCA Arlington sites. Birthday parties are offered on Saturdays and Sundays, all year long.

"Do It Yourself" Party Package (ages 4-12)

Includes use of a private room for two hours, a YMCA T-shirt for the child, party invitation template, and a staff person to help you set up and take down your party.

"Leave It to Us" Party Package (ages 4-12)

Includes use of a private room for one-and-a-half hours; a YMCA T-shirt for the child, party invitation template, staff person to lead a themed activity, cake, ice cream, juice, basic paper products, and a staff person to help you set up and clean up your party. Choose from the popular birthday party themes below.

Arts and Crafts Party

Does your child bubble over with creativity? When you choose your theme, our party leader will direct the children in creating a colorful keepsake to remember your child's special day.

Sports Mix Party

This party is chock full of action, movement, and fun!

Martial Arts for Kids

Children will be given a martial arts demonstration and will then learn some drills and skills.

Ooey Gooey Science

If your child is into science, then this is the party for him or her! Our party leader will direct your young scientist in some "ooey gooey" experiments.

Dance Party

Music and movement make this party perfect for dancers or those kids who just want to have fun.

Swim Bash Party

Plan your summer birthday using the YMCA pool! Parties held on weekend evenings only.

Gymnastics Birthday Party at Woodmont (ages 2 and older)

The YMCA Arlington Gymnastics Center offers 90 minutes of gymnastics fun -- the first hour being devoted to gymnastics games and equipment skills and the last half hour for the celebration. We provide instructors, the room (equipped with tables and chairs), and a refrigerator with a small freezer. You provide the food and decorations.

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YOUTH SPORTS AND FITNESS

With health and obesity a major issue in our community, and gaining national attention, the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington is pleased to offer of the YMCA "PHD" Program -- Physical, Healthy, and Driven program especially designed for children, ages 6-13 years old. The goal of this program is to encourage kids to become more physically active and motivated while increasing their overall health: mind, spirit, and body. Studies have shown that children who are active perform better in school.

For three days a week, children have the opportunity to engage in moderate to vigorous activities and exercise for 30-45 minutes a day. As part of the program, each child receives a health and fitness analysis. The entire family gets involved as well when participants take home information on healthy nutrition and fun ways to get the family actively involved in activities together. If you have any questions, please contact your local YMCA branch.

The YMCA Youth Sports philosophy encourages all participants to realize that sports participation is about goal-setting and teamwork. We encourage family involvement and values such as fair play and sportsmanship in addition to learning about the fundamentals of the sport.

Sports Mix and Group Games (ages 3-6)

Lace up those sneakers as young players get ready to explore a variety of sports and group games. Each class will highlight a different sport or game, with basic instruction and activities geared toward learning introductory concepts of the sport and team play. Even if children don't know much about the sport when they begin, they will when they finish with our hands-on instruction. Each sport or game will be age appropriate and may include basketball, soccer, T-Ball, track and field, tag, and parachute games.

Youth Soccer League (ages 3-6)

Young players will progress through the fundamentals of soccer and refine old skills. This program, led by volunteer coaches, will emphasize individual skill development, teamwork. and having fun. Instructors focus on enhancing dribbling, passing, kicking, and defense. There are a variety of classes for all ages and abilities in which participants work indoors and outdoors depending on the season. Youth soccer players will have a chance to practice their skills in league-inspired games. Uniforms are provided. Soccer games will be played on Saturday mornings.

Rookies Soccer (ages 3-4)

Youth Basketball (ages 4-8)

Young players will practice old tricks, learn new skills, discover the joys of teamwork, and more. Emphasis is on skill development, team play, and having fun. Our instructors will teach young players the fundamentals of basketball including dribbling, passing, shooting, and defense.

Champions Flag Football (ages 8-12)

Learn the basics and improve your game while having a great time. This non-competitive league focuses on skills, drills, energy, and stamina.

Extreme Cheerleading (ages 5-12)

A high energy class for aspiring cheerleaders or kids who would just like to have fun! Learn fun, fast-paced routines and cheers while gaining increased self-confidence and self-esteem. Teaches cheerleading moves, jumps, stunts, and pyramids along with the latest sideline routines!

T-Ball (ages 4-5)

T-Ball is a game for young boys and girls that is a fun way to learn the game of baseball. The ball is not pitched, but is hit off a batting tee. Every player bats and plays in the field. The emphasis in YMCA T-Ball is teamwork, fair play, and having fun.

Floor Hockey (ages 5-7)

Volleyball (ages 8-12)

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YOUTH ENRICHMENT

Preschool Enrichment (ages 3-5)

The Preschool Enrichment program offers a variety of classes that include music, science, art, stories, and group games to enhance children's preschool experience. Basic skills such as color, letter and number recognition, cutting, pasting, sharing, and more will be the focus for classes. The results will be an exciting and fun experience for the children.

Home School Enrichment -- Games Galore (ages 5-12)

The YMCA Home School Specialty Program offers games and sports classes for children to learn new things, play new games, and enrich and enhance the home school experience.

Friday Night Kid's Club (Grades K-5)

This program offers an exciting alternative for your child while you take the evening off! Kid's Club meets twice a month with counselors and friends. Once a month, kids will have a blast playing games, creating art projects, watching movies, and having a pizza party! The second time each month, Kid's Club will participate in an exciting field trip planned by Kid's Club counselors and participants.

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MARTIAL ARTS

Karate and Ju-Jitsu for Kids and Families (ages 8 and older)

Karate and Ju-Jitsu are unarmed styles of self-defense originating in Okinawa and Japan. This class includes conditioning and stretching, forms practice, drills, technical instruction, and self-defense training. The school provides a supportive, non-competitive (and no sparring) environment in which anyone can grow. Participation does not require great strength or flexibility. Continued participation will lead to increased flexibility and strength, along with improved balance, coordination, control, discipline, and confidence. Adults are welcome when accompanied by a child. Click here for more information.

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YOUTH DANCE

Ballet and Tap Combo (ages 3-13)

Enhance your child's dance experience with our expert staff in our large, professionally equipped studio featuring full-length mirrors and barres.

Teeny Taps and Pre-Ballet (age 3)

Tiny dancers learn beginning skills including positions, basic stretching, and simple dance moves.

Tiny Taps and Ballet (ages 3-4)

Dancers progress through intermediate skills including positions, stretching, dance steps, and combinations.

Tap and Ballet I (ages 5-7)

For more developed dancers, this class introduces advanced skills including additional steps, combinations, and choreography.

Street Jam (ages 8 and older)

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GYMNASTICS AT THE YMCA WOODMONT PROGRAM CENTER

The YMCA Arlington Branch offers a gradual and comprehensive gymnastics program under the guidance of a trained professional staff. Gymnastics is intellectually stimulating, aesthetically pleasing to perform and watch, and a colorful Olympic sport. Our program provides a sound base that will lead to advanced gymnastics and a lifetime of athletic activity.

Mom or Dad and Me! (ages 1-3)

Do you and your child need some playtime together? The YMCA Arlington Gymnastics Program at Woodmont is offering a 45-minute class for both of you to develop strength and motor skills. Parents and students use parachute games, playful exercises, and equipment to develop motor skills, coordination, and physical strength. Group circle time and finger play songs use repetitive concepts to develop verbal and social skills. Objectives of this class are to instill pride in physical achievement, develop a positive attitude toward exercise, and establish confidence in the parent about the child's ability as well as in the child about his or her own ability.

Rollers (ages 3-4)

Children learn basic tumbling skills and gain confidence while using special preschool and standard gym apparatus. The class focuses on enhancing basic body movement, coordination, and muscle development through physical activities such as hopping, skipping, jumping, and stretching.

Swingers (ages 5-6)

Children learn basic tumbling skills and gain confidence while using special preschool and standard gym apparatus. The class focuses on independent movement, muscle control, and body awareness adding more use of the high beam and bars to develop form and concentration.

Rollers/Swingers Combined (ages 3-6)

Beginners (Movin' and Groovin') (ages 6 and older)

At this point, kids are moving fast and ready to fly. This class continues with basic tumbling and movement skills, including rolls, cartwheels, and handstands and increases the use of the high beam and bars.

Intermediate (ages 6 and older with completion of Beginners)

Students learn more challenging skills on all equipment, increase their flexibility and strength training, and work to develop major balance skills and harder strength moves.

Advanced (ages 6 and older with completion of Intermediate class or coach's approval)

This class offers early preparation for competitive levels, focusing on advanced strength and flexibility, faster tumbling, and bigger movements.

Adult Co-ed Open Gymnastics

Offered through the YMCA Arlington Gymnastics Center at Woodmont, adult gymnastics will help you develop self confidence, strength, coordination, and social interaction. Group and individual instruction is available.

YMCA Angels Gymnastics Team (ages 6 and older)

The YMCA Gymnastics Team starts at Level 4 and goes through optional levels. We follow the USAG curriculum and guidelines. To be a part of the team, you must be evaluated by the head coach and then be invited to participate. Regular attendance is expected of all team members.

Rhythmic Gymnastics (girls ages 6 and older)

This class will provide your child with a remarkable gymnastic experience, not just through tumbling and dance but through movement with colorful ribbons, balls, clubs, hoops, and ropes set to music. This class will improve strength, coordination, and flexibility.

Gymnastics Day Camps -- Winter Holiday and Spring Break (ages 6 and older)

YMCA Arlington's Winter Holiday and Spring Break Gymnastics Day Camps are exciting programs designed for all abilities (including beginners) with a sincere desire to learn and/or improve gymnastics skills. Our staff is experienced in both performance and teaching techniques to provide a safe and well-designed program. Gymnasts will receive group and individual instruction tailored to their personal goals. Our Woodmont Program Center is equipped with the best in apparatus: five balance beams, full spring floor, uneven parallel bars, vaulting table, mini-tramp, rings, and high bar. Additional activities include lectures and demonstrations and a party.

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YOUTH PROGRAMS

Kids' PACE (Positive Attitude Creates Excitement!)
(ages 5-12)

YMCA, the leader in building spirit, mind, and body, is proud to offer Kids' PACE, a supervised, non-competitive program designed by experts in the field of children's fitness. The program guides each child through an optimal workout at his or her own fitness level. All equipment for the Kids' PACE circuit has been designed for children and is proven to build a child's strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular capacity, and self-esteem. This unique program gives children the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of physical wellbeing. YMCA Kids' PACE is a safe and fun way for kids to promote physical and mental growth, increase self confidence, maintain a healthy lifestyle, enhance social relationships, and prevent sports injuries. The program combines music with resistance training and aerobic exercise to develop children's physical activities. Kids' PACE encourages children to make a lifelong commitment to physical activity and wellness.

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TEEN PROGRAMS

Y Teens Club (ages 13-18)

The Y Teens Club (YTC) provides a great opportunity to have fun while developing leadership skills through service learning. YTC is a positive group that promotes personal development through leadership training, interesting volunteer opportunities, and social activities.

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ADULT PROGRAMS

Martial Arts

Ju-Jitsu Self Defense (ages 13 and older, co-ed)

These classes are designed to provide training in practical self-defense. Ju-Jitsu, "the gentle art," is the parent of Aikido, Judo, and some forms of Karate. This school provides a supportive, non-competitive environment in which anyone can grow. Your participation does not require great strength or flexibility. Continued participation will lead to increased flexibility and strength, along with improved balance, coordination, and confidence. Click here for more information.

Ju-Jitsu Seminar (ages 13 and older, co-ed)

Each year Professor George Kirby visits the YMCA Arlington for a day of training. Prof. Kirby is a professional teacher, head of the Budoshin style of Ju-Jitsu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Ju-Jitsu Association, and advisor to the Los Angeles Police Department. He is the author of four books on Ju-Jitsu along with many articles in publications such as Black Belt Magazine and the AJA Newsletter. Click here for more information.

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Our Health and Wellness Program encompasses a wide variety of classes and individualized training sessions. All programs are designed for healthy individuals.

Wellness Equipment Orientation

A fitness professional will help you get started on your individualized wellness program. Learn how to use the strength and cardio equipment with proper form and technique.

Personal Training

You provide the goal, we provide a professional, nationally certified trainer who will help you plan a program specific to your fitness needs, work out at your side, provide motivation, encourage correct form, give continuing re-evaluation, and get you the results you want.

Wellness Services

The YMCA Arlington is committed to help our members achieve optimal health and wellness. Our services include screenings to identify your level of wellness as well as educational programs to help you maintain your health.

Body Composition

Body Composition is a health-related physical fitness component that relates to the percentage of body fat to lean body mass. Knowing your body fat ratio can help you plan your diet and exercise in order to reach your health goals. Evaluation also determines your Body Mass Index (BMI -- a health risk indicator). Look for these screenings throughout the year.

Fitness Assessment

The Fitness Assessment tests your body composition, BMI, cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular endurance, and flexibility to determine your overall level of fitness.

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GROUP HEALTH AND WELLNESS

The YMCA Arlington offers a variety of fitness classes on a weekly basis. All classes begin with a warm-up and end with stretch and relaxation techniques. Click here for more information.

Absolute Abs

Ready to tone and firm up those abs? This class focuses on core training, including a variety of both abdominal and lower back exercises.

Cardio Boxing

This class provides cardiovascular and muscular conditioning by incorporating boxing techniques with traditional aerobic dance.

Controlled Impact

Controlled Impact combines the best of high- and low-impact aerobics to reduce the constant stress on the joints. Instructor provides impact and intensity variations appropriate for all fitness levels

"Happy Hour"

You decide whether to do cardiovascular or strength training -- or both. Instructor will provide a variety of options to offer muscular and cardiovascular conditioning on and off the step.

Muscle Fitness

Muscular strength and endurance exercises for total body conditioning. Non-aerobic. Great for all fitness levels!

Muscle Fitness Express

Short on time? Challenge yourself with all the benefits of a muscle toning class in an abbreviated version. You will target each major muscle group and get a good workout!

Pilates (mat-based)

Join the hottest trend in mind-body fitness sweeping the nation. Pilates is a system of strengthening and stretching exercises designed to develop the body's core (abdominals, low back, hips, and gluteals).

Spin

You control the intensity of your workout in this group cycling class. A workout your body won't forget!

Sports Conditioning

Take your workout up a notch. This class incorporates intervals of cardio and strength training to keep the heart rate and energy levels up and the body toned.

Step

Suitable for novice and experienced steppers. Instructor emphasizes proper form and stepping technique. Abdominal, lower back, and flexibility training included.

Step Express

An abbreviated version of the Step class (45 minutes). Recommended for all fitness levels for cardiovascular training. Emphasizes intensity and variation.

Tone and Stretch

This class includes a variety of gentle muscle strengthening and stretching exercises to both tone and relax.

Yoga

Learn a complementary series of physical postures, breathing, deep relaxation, and meditation derived from an ancient system of holistic health.

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SPECIALIZED HEALTH AND WELLNESS

In addition to the weekly schedule of fitness classes, the YMCA Arlington offers specialty classes and master classes.

"Good Morning Fitness"

This boot camp-style class will challenge your body and soul. Our instructor will lead you through this intense workout, and when you're finished you'll feel a real sense of accomplishment. Start your day bright and early at the YMCA with this motivating class.

YMCA Arlington and D.C. Roadrunner 10K Training Group

Don't just do it. Do it better! In February, the YMCA Arlington brings you a 12-week 10K training program to help you prepare for the Mother's Day 10K. This training group will help you maximize your training so that you can run at your best. Come out and train with friends, have fun, and learn to run fast. All participants in the 10K program are registered for the YMCA Mother's Day 10K and receive a T-shirt.

Sports Athletic Training (SAT)

Develop the skills and attributes necessary to perform at a competitive level and to prevent injury in this one-on-one intense fitness training. While geared toward teens preparing for a sport, adult athletes who want that competitive edge will benefit as well.

The Century Plan

Strive for 100 and feel great about it! The Century Plan will bring fun and energy to the vital set of activities that are needed to be healthy in your body, mind, and spirit. For those who are just beginning a wellness program and want to learn what it really takes, the Century Plan puts it all together. Included in this comprehensive program is cardiovascular work in walking groups and movement sessions, strength training using rubber resistance tubes and light weights, stretching, relaxation, and balance activities.

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VOLUNTEER

YMCAs are among the nation's leading volunteer organizations. Our volunteers are the backbone of our organization. Their time and talent go a long way. Every hour spent as a YMCA volunteer translates into the caring attention a child or teen needs to grow up healthy, happy, strong, and successful.

If you are interested in volunteering at the YMCA Arlington, please fill out the volunteer opportunities described in more detail to ensure the best match within the YMCA. No matter how you choose to volunteer, you make a big difference as you work with others to create a feeling of connected community. If interested or to learn more about volunteer opportunities, click here or call (703) 525-5420.

For further information on these and other programs
offered at the YMCA Arlington, please download our
Program Guide or call (703) 525-5420.

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If you have any questions or would like more information please call
the YMCA Arlington at (703) 525-5420.

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YMCA Arlington
3422 North 13th Street, Arlington, VA 22201
Telephone: (703) 525-5420 Fax: (703) 525-2148

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