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Why Choose Swimming?

Reduced stress, improved endurance, and better mobility: Swimming is a beneficial activity at any age. 

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Earn the certifications required to work in the aquatic sector and develop in-demand skills. 

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Private training, group fitness or aquafit: choose your specialty and turn your passion into a career!

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This summer, the Y is all about youth.

Strength-training

Gentle Toning

  • Westmount YMCA
  • Saint-Roch YMCA (Québec)
  • Cartierville YMCA

Gentle toning exercises performed with or without equipment to work out the main…

12 years old and over From Jun 15 to Sep 6 2026
Cardio and endurance
Strength-training

HIIT

  • Notre-Dame-de-Grâce YMCA
  • Westmount YMCA
  • Cartierville YMCA
  • Du Parc YMCA

High-intensity interval workout interspersed with recovery periods. This type of…

12 years old and over From Jun 15 to Sep 6 2026
Flexibility, mobility, and posture
Strength-training
Yoga and pilates

Pilates-Stretching

  • Saint-Roch YMCA (Québec)

A combination of floor exercises performed with or without light weights to…

12 years old and over From Jun 15 to Sep 6 2026
Cardio and endurance
Strength-training

Gentle Fitness

  • Du Parc YMCA
  • Saint-Roch YMCA (Québec)

A series of gentle cardio and strength-training exercises performed with or…

12 years old and over; Parents and children From Jun 15 to Sep 6 2026
Cardio and endurance
Strength-training

Interval Training

  • Notre-Dame-de-Grâce YMCA
  • Westmount YMCA
  • Du Parc YMCA

A sequence of exercises interspersed with recovery periods to improve…

12 years old and over From Jun 15 to Sep 6 2026
Soft martial arts

Capoeira

  • Saint-Roch YMCA (Québec)

A Brazilian martial art practised to music. Thanks to a clever mix of dance,…

12 years old and over From Jun 15 to Sep 6 2026
Flexibility, mobility, and posture
Strength-training
Yoga and pilates

Vinyasa Yoga

  • Westmount YMCA
  • Notre-Dame-de-Grâce YMCA

A series of dynamic flowing poses (asanas), synchronizing each pose with a…

12 years old and over From Jun 15 to Sep 6 2026

The Y is…

29,960

participants in physical and aquatic activities.

25,200

young people supported by programs that foster youth success.

7,400

people received support through programs that prevent exclusion.

Learn more about the YMCA

Inspire and engage everyone to grow, thrive and contribute to their community

  • I went to Camp Kanawana in the late 60s […]. My daughter went to Camp Kanawana in the late 90s and I am proud to say that my grandson just spent his first summer […] at Camp Kanawana. I think this has to be one of (if not) the best summer camps in Quebec. The children are so well supervised but also have the chance to spread their wings […]. The stories and memories that they come home with are amazing.

    Dee

  • Before I didn’t talk much to others, but by the end of the year, I was able to develop projects with other young people and maintain a positive attitude. I learned how to plan well and I still use some of the things I learned from C-Vert at university

    Alexandre

    a university student and C-Vert youth worker

  • Isabel was really at the heart of mynrehabilitation. She’s at the heart of my entire support network since I got out of prison.

    Martin

    on his journey and the help he received from his caseworker

  • I got really lucky with Geneviève, because we started off slowly. She told me all I had to do was show up and she would handle the rest.

    Anne-Laurence

    Mother and Member of the Y