 While New Year's Day has passed, it's not too late to start working towards those resolutions and the Brainerd YMCA can help with that with a new class they're offering. Our Taylor Archer has more in this week's Northwoods Adventure. No pain, no gain has lost its meaning at the gym now that you can strengthen your body at your own pace through various poses. You are building your flexibility and strength all in one. You're incorporating all your muscles and it's a very good mind-body exercise. The Center G program, also known as Balance and Flex Together, is a fitness program that combines yoga and Pilates. It is an awesome combination of Pilates and yoga, core workout for the front and the back, balance stretch, spirals, folds, you know, everything incorporating one and then you finish off with a fantastic restore and relaxation. So it really is the complete thing from your warm-up all the way through and it's all combined to awesome music that just feels really good with every every song that we play. And while the poses may look relaxing and easy, I took a Center G class over the weekend and needless to say I was very sore for the rest of the week. It can be very relaxing but you are using all of your muscles so it is a very good workout as well. Someone who really wants to sculpt and work their legs, you get your body weight down lower and you get them into those muscles and then you isolate the muscles so you don't necessarily have to be have super high intensity to work muscles. You can just say squeeze your muscles this way or lift this way and all of a sudden you're really working some muscles that you didn't even know you had and then you feel at the next day but what a great feeling. And don't be intimidated if you've never taken a yoga or Pilates class before. This program will use the same routine for a while so that members can become used to the poses before moving on to a new workout. I think this program really is good for anybody. I have found that even some of the high school girls that have come in and done it, they love music and movement together and they love yoga they love Pilates and it's everything mixed into one but then you have you know someone who's an active older adult and maybe as you age of course we all you know lose our strength and lose our flexibility and then you know we know core strength is so important in your day-to-day life and you do a class like this it it doesn't feel super intense because it really really flows and it really feels good and so the non-impact part I think is is really good for for older people as well as everybody. And with the cold winter season there really is no better way to keep your body stretched and loose than by taking a synergy class. In Brainerd for this week's Northwoods adventure Taylor Archer, Lakeland News. And you can learn more about those classes at the YMCA's website. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.