Our Facilities

Warm Water Swimming Pool: The SYC pool has 85°F water and is perfect for aqua aerobics, comfortable swimming, water valleyball, relaxing muscles or just enjoying the water.

Aquatic Classes: You can enjoy the benefits of gentle 'resistance exercise' without stress on joints or previous injuries. Great for people who are deconditioned or have issues with knee or hip surgery.

Finnish Sauna: The dry, hot heat of the Finnish sauna has been treasured for centuries. End your exercise routine with alternate trips to the sauna and showers in the pool area. Nothing will make you feel better than this stimulating experience.

Hot Water Spa: The spa water is about 104 °F and is perfect for relaxing after a workout. Soothe your joints, loosen your muscles, buoy your spirits, treat yourself every time you come to The South Yuba Strength & Wellness Club.

Oversized Lockers: Do you remember how frustrating it is to try to stuff your clothing into small, cramped lockers? At the South Yuba Club you will find large lockers which fit "all your stuff". Also we have cubbies out on the main floor so you have a place to leave your workout bag in a handy place.

Locker room expansions coming in August!

Superior Cardio-vascular Training Equipment: No other club offers the type and quality of equipment offered at The South Yuba Club. Superior equipment means more effective, safer workouts and less potential for injury to joints or ligaments. These computerized machines can give you a fitness test, hill climb, random workouts, or let you control the entire workout … all with feedback on your heart rates, distance traveled, calories burned et cetera... easier, more fun and more effective.

Precor and LifeFitness Treadmills have, spring-loaded decks to minimize impact on your joints. You can also use heart rate training and customize your workouts to track progress.

Precor and LifeFitness Cross Training Equipment give you an upper body workout to match the benefits you get from the lower body, elliptical workout. No joint stress, yet a great muscular benefit for your body.

Precor Elliptical Trainers: These machines give you a smooth, non-jarring workout so you can spend your time without the worry of impact to joints or connective tissues. Exercise those 'big' muscles for 5 minutes or 50 minutes without any joint stress.

Heart Rate Training: Most of our cardio-vascular equipment has the ability to monitor your heart rate. You benefit from the heart rate feedback provided by these machines. You can guide your workouts and get greater improvement faster by understanding the principles of heart rate training. Learn more about heart rate training from an SYC Fitness Specialist or attend one of Mike Carville's Heart Rate Training Classes.

Stair Masters: These are the best available steppers: the slow rotating staircase is a great workout and the design has stood the test of time.

Upright and Recumbent Bicycles: These heart-rate monitoring bikes allow you to work as hard or easy as you like, to get the benefits of large muscle workouts while enjoying your favorite magazine or television show. SYC staff member, Nathan Hutson (right), often uses the recumbent bikes in his workouts.

Free Checkout of Heart Rate Monitors: Your heart is a major indicator of your overall fitness and general health. One of the best ways to improve your health and longevity is to exercise with feedback from your heart. We have a supply of Polar Heart Rate Monitors at the Front Desk where you can check them out free of charge. It is the ultimate mind body connection.

Wireless Television Rebroadcasts: At SYC, we rebroadcast TV stations so you can pickup the programs on your wireless walkman type FM radio. You're not tied to a cord like other clubs. You can listen during any workout anywhere in the Club.

Color-coded by Body Part: Our machines are coded by body part so you easily know how the machines are used. For example: Yellow = shoulders, Red = Legs, Blue = Chest etc. There is a chart on the wall in case you forget the colors. You are more likely to use machines when their use is easily identified.

LifeFitness Strength Equipment: The smooth action, fluid movement, ergonomic design means better workouts, greater gain for investment of time and more safety for joints and ligaments.

Hammer Strength: No other club in Nevada City has these 'plate loaded' machines. The Hammer Strength equipment has smooth actions and simulates the correct movement of joints and limbs. This equipment is costly but it has proven its worth. Every NFL and NBA football team trains on Hammer Strength equipment because of its proven superiority. You have the best at your disposal.

Keiser Equipment: This is a unique line of resistance equipment because it is more medically based equipment and is driven pneumatically. You can increase or decrease weight by one pound increments. Therefore you can tailor the resistance to your exact needs and minimize overloading.

Spinning: Spinning is instructor-led, group exercise set to music on specialized bicycles. It is a wonderful cardio-vascular workout and lots of fun. Check out our new Spinning Studio with 20 bikes and sound system.

BodyPump: This is instructor-led, group exercise to music with free weights. It is weight lifting with fun. You will gain strength, have fun, learn new moves, tighten arms, tone thighs and add vitality;and strength to your entire body. We pay a license fee each month to bring you new programming and we send our instructors to training seminars, but you have the benefits from this experience. Body Pump is unique to SYC in Nevada County.

Personal Trainers-on-Staff: Most clubs do not have trainers on staff. They just allow trainers to hang out their cards and pay rent if they train someone. This is not good for customers. There are few checks on the quality of trainers and sessions. We interview, qualify and investigate our trainers to ensure they meet the standards we expect. When you hire a SYC trainer you are getting the best advise on how to improve your health and body. More about Personal Training...

Trainers-on-Duty: We have trainers on the floor to answer questions and give you guidance. Just check the Group Exercise Schedule or ask the Front Desk for times. This is another SYC service free of charge to members.
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Core Strength & Stretching Area: You probably know that stretching is an important part of your fitness program. At SYC we have dedicated a special area of the mezzanine for individual stretching. You have a quiet area, special stretching equipment, exercise balls, pads and your private space. Only SYC has this service.

Group Exercise Classes: The SYC has more classes per week and more classes per member than any other club in Nevada County. The benefits are greater convenience, more flexibility and greater class availability for all our members.
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Specialized Exercise Classes: We have many specialized classes in addition to BodyPump and Spinning. Check out the Group Exercise schedule and you will find other unique classes found no where else in Nevada County.

Health Lectures and Seminars: No other club has invested in the special educational classes and seminars like SYC. We have clinics and lectures on Hypertension, Cardiac Health, Nutrition, Successful Weight Loss, Heart Rate Training, Osteoporosis, Diabetes, Sport Conditioning and many other subjects. We have your total health in mind so we invest in you and your health.
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Effective Exercise: To be effective you must have an exercise program that really works. If you do exercises incorrectly you will not get results. Let's say a mid-aged woman wants to tone her hips or arms. She can do it … but only if she is doing the right exercises and understands how the body burns fat. We can help you achieve almost any objective. Our staff is here to help.

Strength Gains at Any Age: Numerous studies have shown that "weight training can make a tremendous difference in people's strength and overall ability to function regardless of age. Strength or "resistance" training increases the size and strength of muscles …Everybody will respond well to resistance training. Their muscles grow in size and strength much as younger people's do.

Shown is B. J. Jackson who at age 71 can load 900 pounds (the maximum for this machine) on the Cybex leg press during his workouts. How grand to know that you can do just about anything regardless of your age!

Your membership in The South Yuba Club may be the most important investment that you can make in your health and quality of life. It is an investment in "preventative medicine" that absolutely works. There is no doubt that exercise is critical to maintaining your health and quality of life. Thousands of medical studies have shown exercise to be a critical component in the prevention and/or treatment of such afflictions such as coronary heart disease, certain types of cancer, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, low back pain, asthma, infection of the immune system, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, sleep disorders, obesity, stress and depression.