The Young Men'S Christian Association Of The Capital District

I use this YMCA for exercise only. The pool and locker rooms are closed for renovation and have been for months. The weight and cardio area were closed for a while in 2025. These reasons alone should have made management consider not raising rates, but they did anyway. The stalls in the family locker room are fine. The staff is very friendly and welcoming. I never wait for cardio equipment and rarely wait for free weights. Some issues though: 1. There are no scales anywhere in this place unless you want to create an egym account and use some smart scale that requires you to log in with a wristband or code every time. Get physicians scales somewhere 2. There are no fans anywhere in the weight or cardio area!! - it gets very hot. 3. There are no TVs anywhere in the cardio area or on the treadmills. There are a couple in the weight area but they are small and not easily viewable. **Fans, scales, and TV's are basics for a fitness center** 4. About half the treadmills start to get all out of sync when you push them faster than 7:30min/mi pace. 5. The weight room, which is very poorly laid out, is lacking some very basic equipment like a lat pulldown machine or cable crossover machine. There is a room for single person eschelon that's never used and half the free weight side is a cage of racks that is also never used. If you don't want to swim laps, there are other nearby places for a cheaper, better fitness experience.

If you plan on going to playing basketball here in one of their 2 main basketball gyms trust me do not. Pickle ball is played on the courts every day during the week. I must add that they have a back gym that is a terrible basketball court but would be perfect for a pickle ball court. I’m also going to add that they have a pickle ball court outside that is not in use. This upsets me because it is a waste of my subscription to the ymca and time out of my day.

Realistically if your in to body building this place trumps planet fitness 100%. Sauna/steam room shaving cream on tap. olympic size swimming pool and hot tub #wouldntgointhatthingifitwasthecuretocancer Full track court and massive weight room with every machine available you could think of (besides a lat pull machine). 50 bucks a month is def worth it. They gave me a free week to try it out. Planet fitness is far from this place and for 30 dollars more well worth. Great parking and trail access.

Signed my 4 year old up for basketball and i must have not read the description correctly along with a few other people who were also baffled that the kids basketball lessons were only a total of THREE 30 minute lessons for $80 (non member) $40 (member) which i think is insane for kids to throw a ball back and forth to eachother for 30 minutes. Please make sure you read the description before signing your son for basketball here!!!!

E-gym, sauna, and additional facilities are all great. I’m not sure why somebody on here is complaining about making space for the e-gym, get with the times, it’s been a motivator for me. I also see people complaining about pickleball availability but that’s because of popular demand, if anything the youth teenagers suffer more from pickleball taking away from the basketball courts compared to other ymca I’ve seen. Can’t please everybody, this ymca does a pretty good job trying though! Updated from 4 to 5 star!