Kalihi YMCA

Love this place. no crowds and lots of friendly people. Mahalo! :)

Worst YMCA on oahu! DO NOT SIGN UP OR WORKOUT HERE. The staff are not friendly or seem to know what they are doing. The staff try to rush you out of shower and workout spaces 45min before closing to close early so if your schedule for workout ends later you will be rushed to finish on account of their laziness and lack of work ethic. IF you want to take a break while workin out the staff will tell you that you are loittering on the property and ask you to leave. The finnancial department will try to trick you and over charge you if they make a mistake. Every other YMCA on the island i have had a great experience with great people excluding the kalihi branch!

Your physical health is a priority that no one else can maintain, but you. Can’t pay someone to run for you and you reap the benefits. Oh how I wish it was like that. The Y is a good place to go to or around your block.
The YMCA offers so many different classes you can try for your physical health; Yoga, Zumba, swimming, Tai Chi, Cardio Kickboxing, many more for a monthly fee less than other fitness centers.
I especially love kickboxing class at the Kalihi YMCA. It’s not a UFC, MMA, How to become the next Ronda Rousey kind of class but you kick your stress away in cardio kickboxing with Mimi. Sweat out all the toxins and you leave class feeling tired yet energized at the same time knowing you did good for your heart health and got your blood flowing. I have the best sleep afterwards.
My friend and I were complete beginners with no background knowledge of kickboxing but just wanting to do good for our health and also try something new. We saw the many classes that the Kalihi Y offered and we decided to try cardio kickboxing out, as well as Zumba and yoga during the summer and haven’t regretted it since!

Very good summer program for my little sister, but every time I pick her up they would always use their walkie talkie to bring her out knowing that she is getting picked up. Usually I’d have to wait in the front or wait on the side for her to come out.
Nearly half an hour later she didn’t come out & I was worried. The workers in the front weren’t considerate about asking me who I am picking up, they would just stare. I had to get out of my car to ask where is my little sister, & come to find out they didn’t call her name until I got out of the car.
I was already asked once by a girl when I first entered in the parking lot, but she stated I was going to pick her up, but I guess no one else, especially the people in the front didn’t do their job. This happened nearly everyday.
They should really work on communication & they should pay attention to the kids there. They seem to not enjoy their job.

Being Y members, on our visits to different states or countries, we like to visit other Y’s and see what they have to offer in terms of programs and what they do to help the community! Plus we love to acquire Y gear from that city. On this particular trip, I emailed the Y and the director Steve Krantz responded telling us to come on by and they also sell local Y gear! We were greeted by Molly, at the front desk and given a tour by Jon, a personal trainer and boot camp instructor. We were impressed by the warm welcome and got to work out in their cardio room and I even took a zumba class by Cana which was energetic and fun! I was able to purchase a Honolulu Y tote bag and tee shirt and Steve gave us a Y work-​out towel, juicer and backpack. Only downside is that there is no locker room and two bathrooms which have a shower so only one person at a time can shower and use the bathroom. I guess you can have a private bathing area but it wasn’t crowded when we went in the late afternoon. They do have lockers in the hallways. The exercise rooms are modern and air-​conditioned. Well, according to Steve, this Y used to be an office building. But it works as it is also where they have a drug and alcohol program for residents and a teen program as well as an after school program.

This location is perfect for us… we live just up the valley so if we wanted to do some last minute workout or weight lifts my boyfriend would come here. If I didn’t want to go through traffic or drive far for Zumba I’d come here. Even for summer fun session we would come here.
The staffs are very friendly and welcoming. We especially like seeing Director Steve. Even though he’s busy when we see him he always greets us with and smile and a hug and makes sure that we were doing good.
The facility is always kept clean. They leave supplies needed in different areas that members could use to help keep machines and equipments clean after use.
Price range also isn’t bad at all. It ranges depends on our income and depends if you was signing up as single or family.
We attended the summer fun finale program and it combined with the children performing and a mini carnival. It was very well planned out and organized. Families and the children enjoyed themselves!

It’s always a clean and friendly environment. The workers are nice and helpful. I love walking into the weight room and getting hit with nice cool air. Unlike the Nu’uanu YMCA, this place always smells good, especially the cardio room. There is always music playing in the weight room to help keep the vibe lively. It’s not very crowded, so you will have no problems with waiting for a machine. It’s a very nice and small place. There are private bathrooms/​showers, so after your workout, you can enjoy a shower in privacy. You will always see the nanas over there working hard – cleaning non-​stop – and I thank them for that. The only thing that would be inconvenient is the closing hours and limited parking space. Overall a great place!

There are wonderful classes at this location. Chaz is a great trainer. I drive all the way from Waimanalo for her class! Kickboxing with Mimi is not to be missed :)

I’ve been going here for the past 5 years now and I’m always greeted with a friendly front desk person, always surrounded by good people, and always leave knowing I got a good workout with all the equipment I need. It’s not large like a 24Hour fitness but do you really need all that equipment? Decent knowledge and free weights is good enough, but only if you have the first thing I mentioned. The Kalihi YMCA and every other YMCA generally has all one needs for a good workout including fun and effective classes for all ages.

I usually lift at the nu’uanu branch, but I got off work late today so I came here because its closer to home. This was my first time working out here. The weight room is very small and there are mostly machine weights. On the upside they have a good set of dumbells. But if I had to chose I prefer the nu’uanu branch because its bigger and they have more variety of stuff.

The only reason I am registered is because I live close by the Central YMCA. I love love love the swimming pool!

Perhaps it is because care little for weight machines, cardio contraptions, or swimming pools, but I am fond of this YMCA. It is clean, the air conditioners work, the staff is friendly and helpful, and it’s not crowded. Do they have a Blonde haired cutie with an accent offering you two towels when you walk in? No, but I am more than capable of bringing my own towel to the Y. I would describe the overall atmosphere as «extra relaxed».
The cardio room is teeny, but my husband had no complaints about the weight room, and the child care room, though small, was chock full of toys and tucked away in a location I deemed «safe».
Is it a place where you’ll be able to show off your rippling muscles and cut bod? No, unless you’re a guy into being oogled by senior citizen women waiting for their pilates class. Is this a place where you can take your 200 pound self and not feel horribly self-​conscious about your lack of abs and proper tan? Yes it is.
As far as zumba (the whole reason why I go to the Y), Maile teaches here on Saturdays and the class is well attended but not crowded like her Nuuanu classes can be. And, like I mentioned, the ac works, which is fabulous as hot yoga may be sexy in a sweaty puddle-​y way, but hot zumba not so much.
I like it. Perhaps when I’m toned and HOT and extra-​milfy, which is going to happen ANY MOMENT (just have to procure $ 20,000 and schedule the appointment), I’ll go prancing about 24 hour fitness in short shorts. For now the Y suits me just fine.

This is a review of the workout room at Kalihi YMCA.
I went there today for my first workout after joining the YMCA. I didn’t see any pictures at all of the place before hand, but what I can tell you is its SMALL. Granted, I only looked into the windows, but all I could see was a few handfulls of workout machines, no dumbells, no bench… nothing. I should have gone in, but I didn’t. So I left and went to Windward… but that’s another review all together.

My review is based only on the Fitness Center portion of the Y…
I went there last week Tuesday and would not go back… There is no towel service, and the fitness center was an ‘afterthought’ — even the female at the downstairs desk said so… the (small) weight room is on the 2^nd floor, while the cardio machines (all 12 of them, 3 each of 4 types) are in a small room on the 3^rd floor!!!
One is cramped into this small room, but yes, the machines all were newer and clean… but because of this separation from the 2^nd floor weight room (there are two shower rooms next to the weight room)…I’d go find some other Y…
Btw, they are closed on Sundays…

This is by far my favorite YMCA in town. It is very clean, modern, and uncrowded. I usually only see 1 or 2 other people in the cardio room and the weight room. There is easy parking with no validation necessary. The machines are very new and clean.
Kalihi YMCA = 4.5 stars
Nu’uanu YMCA = 4.0 stars
Central YMCA = 4.0 stars
Atherton YMCA = 2.0 stars