It’s only a matter of weeks now before students, staff and faculty have their own wellness center.

UConn Health is dedicating more than 3,600 square feet to an around-the-clock, badge-access facility that will offer 13 cardio machines, 9 resistance machines, free weights, locker rooms with showers, and a healthy vending machine. It also will have two rooms for fitness classes such as yoga, pilates, Zumba, behavioral counseling, and stress management.

The location is the main floor on the academic side of the main building, in what formerly was known as the Friends Lecture Room (LM 034).

Scheduled to open by late October, the wellness center will also will be available to graduate students and residents. Details on the enrollment process and membership fees are to be announced shortly.

“This is something the UConn Health community has been asking us about for a very long time,” says UConn Health Chief Adminstrative Officer Carolle Andrews. “The facility is part of a larger vision of student and employee wellness we are offering on campus as we strive to become an even greater example of health and well being, given our mission of public health and public service.”

The wellness center will have a coordinator whose duties will include managing the membership, overseeing the fitness programs, and communications.

The fitness equipment is on order and will include:

• 4 commercial treadmills
• 4 adaptive motion trainers
• 2 step machine
• 3 stationary bicycles
• 1 leg extension/ curl
• 1 chest press
• 1 bicep curl
• 1 abdominal machine
• 1 glute extension
• 1 back extension
• 1 lateral pulldown/row
• 2 benches/utility seats
• 1 dumbbell – weight stack
• 18 yoga pads
• 1 plyometric box
• 2 medicine balls
• 2 kettle bells

In the coming months, the wellness center will have a website that will include fitness class schedules and a form to register for them.

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