An indoor swimming pool with lane markers, starting blocks, and seating area. The wall has red and blue pennant flags, and safety equipment is visible. "Eliminating racism, empowering women, ywca" is on the wall

At our gender-inclusive gym near downtown Asheville, you’ll not only find everything you’d expect from a top-notch fitness facility and aquatics center, but you’ll also find acceptance and community. When you become a YWCA Fitness Center member, you become part of our mission! The YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, nurturing children, and promoting health.

  • Gender-inclusive gym facilities and classes

  • Comfortable, accepting community atmosphere

  • Group Classes: Strength, Core, Yoga, Dance, Pilates, Stability and Balance, Myofascial Release, and Senior Stretch, H2O Cardio.

  • Indoor heated pool with lap lanes and Water Exercise Classes

  • On-site childcare while you work out

  • Swim lessons for all ages with special member prices

  • Personal Training and small group classes are available

  • Weekly free classes open to the community, so bring a non-member friend!

Smiling older woman engaging in exercise on a stationary bike at a gym with a woman in the background on a different exercise bike. The gym has a large orange wall with white text.
Empty gym with various exercise machines including treadmills and ellipticals, a red wall with large white text reading 'YWCA IS ON A MISSION,' and a high ceiling with fans and lighting.
Three women in a gym lifting small dumbbells, smiling, and exercising with fitness balls and weights in the background.
Empty indoor swimming pool with a life-saving chair, lane markings, and a digital clock on the wall displaying 09:33:45. Red and blue triangular banners are hanging from the ceiling. The wall has red text that reads 'eliminating racism, empowering wo
Indoor swimming pool with starting blocks and lane lines, with benches and equipment along the walls
A smiling man, woman, and a young child with curly hair in a swimming pool, holding the child between them.
An indoor swimming pool with adults participating in a water exercise class. The pool area has blue and orange bunting, swimming equipment along the edge, and a motivational sign on the wall that reads 'eliminating racism empowering women yoga'.
Three women exercising on yoga mats in a fitness studio, doing core exercises with their arms and legs raised. Fitness equipment and exercise balls are visible in the background.
Three women practicing yoga in a fitness studio. They are on black mats, performing side plank poses with one arm extended upward. The room has light wood floors, wall-mounted exercise balls, and large glass block windows.
Two women practicing yoga in a fitness studio with a large red wall behind them that reads 'YWCA IS ON A MISSION.'
Two women exercising with dumbbells in a fitness studio, smiling, wearing comfortable workout clothes, standing on exercise mats.
Two women participating in a yoga or meditation class, with their eyes closed and hands in prayer position at their chests, standing in a room with exercise balls on the wall behind them.
Group of seniors participating in yoga class, stretching on yoga mats in a room with wooden floors and beige walls.
A female fitness trainer encouraging a man lifting weights in a gym.
Two women sitting on the floor in a gym, high-fiving each other, with medicine balls and gym equipment in the background.