The Wellness Center at Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Healthcare Center provides many opportunities for individual and group exercise. All are designed to help you maintain and/or become injury free while improving your overall fitness. Our approach is not, “no pain, no gain” but rather, TRAIN WITHOUT PAIN for LASTING GAINS!

For more information, or to reserve your spot in any of our classes, please contact Gayle E. Olson, Wellness Coordinator, at golson1@partners.org or (508) 718-4630.

Weight Loss Program

Make a commitment to yourself to eat healthy, exercise regularly and lose weight in 2012! Grab a few friends or family members and work on this together! Studies show that working on weight loss with others is much more effective than going it alone! Minimum group size is six. Maximum is ten. Name the best day and time for you to meet and we will arrange this class for you! In addition to one meeting per week you will be able to attend two other fitness classes per week of your choice or just workout on our equipment independently two other days. There will be weekly weigh-ins. There will be lectures and discussions regarding the best strategies to lose weight and keep it off. There will be a consult with a nutritionist. So plan now to make your New Years Resolution a success this year! COST: $360 for ten weeks

Pilates

This class will help you improve posture and develop core control, which is the ability to move effectively and efficiently by transmitting force from the body's center through the torso and limbs. Pilates-evolved mat exercises coordinate diaphragmatic breathing with properly sequenced co-contractions of the deep abdominal, pelvic floor, and spinal musculature. There are countless different movement phrases, which are performed seated, standing, on all fours, or lying on your back, side, or front.

Meets once a week, starting January 10, 2012 at 5:15 pm. Cost: $80 for ten sessions

Aqua Fitness

This class if for those that would benefit from the decreased stress on joints afforded by the buoyancy of water. You will develop core strength, flexibility and endurance for total body conditioning. This class is ongoing and meets for 45 minutes.

• Mondays and Thursdays: 7:00-7:45 am,
• Monday thru Friday: 9:30-10:15 am
• Mondays and Wednesdays: 4:30-5:15 pm
• Tuesdays and Thursdays: 5:15-6:00 pm

Cardio-Sculpt

Want to sculpt your shape into something fabulous in 2012? Then this class is for you! Utilizing many formats, from dumbbells to bands to balls to some dance inspired moves, Nichole will give you a heart pumping workout that hits all the major muscles in 50 minutes!

Mondays and Wednesdays: 5:30-6:20 pm. Cost: $80 for ten sessions

Big Ball Workout

This class will challenge your core strength, balance and agility with a total body workout utilizing stability balls as well as dumb bells and bands. Intensity will be adjusted to each individual. Come ready to work hard and have fun!

Mondays and Wednesdays: 6:30-7:20 pm. Cost: $80 for ten sessions

Golf Fitness

Plan to make 2012 your best year ever on the links! The Wellness team has partnered with our colleagues from the Mass General Orthopaedics Sports Performance Center to offer an assessment which includes a Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) assessment, Proprio 5000 Balance Assessment, Functional Movement Screen and a measure of your drive distance, followed by ten weeks of class to correct any muscle imbalances or weaknesses as well as to improve your overall level of fitness in advance of the golf season.

Small group classes will be held Tuesdays 9:30-10:30 am or Thursdays 7:00-8:00 pm, February 7th thru April 12th. Call to schedule your individualized assessment prior to the start of the program! Cost: $450

Classes not for you?

Our staff is ready to assist you individually as you begin your fitness journey or if you desire a change for the new year.

Getting Started Package

Not sure what to do at the gym once you are there? Bored with what you are doing at the gym? Afraid of being injured while working out at the gym? Then our Getting Started Package is for you! We begin with a complete fitness assessment which includes: height, weight, BMI, balance, strength, flexibility and endurance. Based on those findings and a discussion of your goals, an individualized workout will be developed. Then you will return for four (4) additional half hour workouts to develop proper form on all exercises and to progress you as you are ready. You will receive a hard copy of the exercises so you may do them at home or at your local gym. The four workouts will be spaced as far apart as you desire: weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or quarterly! Cost: $175

Personal Training Packages

We offer personal training packages for all ages, from youth to teens to adults to seniors. We are ready to challenge you to address muscle imbalances before they become injuries as well as to improve your overall fitness. All of our instructors are college graduates with either degrees in Sports Medicine/Athletic Training, Exercise Science and/or Motor Development so they will guide you to a better body safely!

• Four 30 minute sessions: $110 Four 60 minute sessions: $300
• Eight 30 minute sessions: $315 Eight 60 minute sessions: $590