TALENTED TEAM

A dedicated team of highly trained employees to help you achieve your fitness goals and make regular exercise part of your life!

• Over 160 people on staff to address your fitness needs.
• Fitness instructors always available, at no extra charge.
• Imagine being treated with sincere friendliness and warmth whenever you enter your fitness center. Imagine friendly and caring trainers who are always on the fitness floor to help you. Imagine a childcare center that your children love, where you’re confident and happy to leave them! This is the remarkable atmosphere that our dedicated staff has created!

PROGRAMMING

The most extensive specialty programming that includes

• The MedX strengthening circuits with trainers to assist you 100% of the time, at no additional charge!
• The Healthy Back and Neck Program, featuring the MedX Lumbar machine and Cervical machine for those suffering from chronic back or neck pain.
• Pool classes and lap swimming in our warm water pools for those who need reduced weight-bearing exercise.
• Interactive childcare is available in our clean and professionally run childcare centers.
• Group Exercise classes including all of the Body Training System classes! With Group Power, Group Step, Group Centergy, Group Groove, Group Kick, Group Ride and Group Active, along with our other specialty classes, you are sure to find a class you will love.
• Free 3 month “Cancer Wellfit Program” for those within one year of treatment.

FACILITIES

The best in equipment and facilities! We will always provide the best because we constantly reinvest in new equipment, facility improvements and staff training!

• Over 135 machines in our cardiovascular areas. Including treadmills, EFX machines, Lifecycles and the new Wave and AMT machines.
• Two strengthening areas in each center!
• MedX strengthening areas with 6 circuits between the two locations, including over 75 MedX machines. Plus we have trainer assistance at all times with no additional charge!!
• Personal viewing screens with over 50 channels to choose from on most of our equipment.
• Free Weight areas with the best in free weight equipment, including dumbbells up to 120 pounds, Bodymaster Cable Crossover Machines, Smith Machines, plus a broad array of benches, selectorized and plate loaded machines.
• Cardiovascular Theater with 8 music stations and 8 TV stations to listen to on each cardiovascular machine.
• Warm water pools with whirlpools, saunas, steam room (Poughkeepsie) opening roof (Ulster).
• Basketball court (Poughkeepsie)
• Racquetball courts (Poughkeepsie)
• Healthy Back and Neck Program (Poughkeepsie, coming to Highland 2007)
• Cycling studios
• Group exercise rooms with special low impact floors.
• Stretching areas which include the MedX stretch machines.
• Boxing Room featuring heavy bags, speed bags and double ended bag. We also have a Muay Thia bag for kicking. (Poughkeepsie only)
• Cardio Cinema Room in Poughkeepsie
• Healthy Back and Neck Program

CLEANLINESS

Keeping our facilities clean and in working order has and always will be a top priority for us! If you ever see equipment down it’s because it has just broken or a part isn’t immediately available and is on order!

REPUTATION

Mike Arteaga's Poughkeepsie and Ulster Health and Fitness Centers are the only fitness centers with 32 years of service to the community.

• Our reputation has been built on our clean and up to date facilities, our qualified outstanding and friendly staff and most importantly our professionally run programs!
• We have been recognized as one of the leading facilities within our industry! As a result owner, Mike Arteaga has been invited to speak at the industry’s international convention on a number of occasions and has served on the IHRSA board of directors.
• Because of our outstanding service we have grown from an 800 square foot fitness center in 1973 to over 75,000 square feet in our two fitness centers!
• Mike Arteaga's Poughkeepsie and Ulster Health and Fitness Centers are the only fitness centers with over 35 years of service to the community

SHORT ON TIME?

We have the best and most effective express circuit there is! With the MedX circuit you can do a complete body workout on the most advanced equipment in the world in as little as 15 minutes twice a week!

EQUIPMENT

We are one of a few top fitness organizations in the country that has chosen to invest in the MedX equipment, acknowledged as the best and most advanced strengthening equipment in the world!
In all areas of our centers from the free weight rooms to the cardiovascular machine areas, we are committed to the best and most effective equipment available.

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO?

The point of exercise is to do it regularly. Our mission is to help you create a lifelong exercise habit! Research has shown that the better the programs and the more pleasant the surroundings, the easier it is to stick with exercise for the long term. We are proud to have helped many members keep up their exercise programs for the last 30 years!

This is why we strive everyday to provide the best programming and create a fun, clean and attractive facility for you!