Fitness Resources

Resources The following links are provided for your information and use. While we believe they provide useful opportunities and facilities they are not associated with Lifelong Fitness Alliance and we are not responsible for their programs, instructors, or activities.

Links to Fitness resources

Bicycling
Bowling
City Classes and Activities
Dancing
Health Improvement Program
Local Community Recreation
Other Resource Information
Rowing
Stanford Outing Club
Swimming Pools
Trail Maps and Hikes
YMCA's
Yoga

Bicycling

Los Altos Bike Map
Mid-Penisula (East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Stanford) Map
Mountain View Trails
Northern California Road Biking (Trail maps)
Santa Cruz County Cycling Club
Skyline Cycling Club
Western Wheelers Bicycling Club

NOTE: Printed maps are often available at your city public works departments.

Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club
Palo Alto Bowl

City Classes and Activities

Belmont
Burlingame
East Palo Alto
Foster City
Los Altos
Los Altos Senior Center
Menlo Park
Mountain View
Palo Alto
Redwood City
San Carlos
San Mateo
Santa Clara County Library
Sunnyvale Senior Center

Dancing

Alberto's - Mountain View, Salsa and other Latin dances nightly with Swing on Wednesdays.
Beardsley's/Italian-American Social Center - B Street, San Mateo. West Coast Swing lessons every Wednesday night
Friday Night Dancers - Cubberly Pavilion, Tuesday through Saturday nights, Check calendar for times and dance type. No partner necessary.
Mariani's - 2500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. Dancing to live music Friday and Saturday evening, 8pm. Mostly older crowd.
Santa Clara Senior Center - 1303 Fremont St at Monroe, Santa Clara. Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7:30 pm.
Starlite Dance Club - 1160 N. Fair Oaks Ave at Tasman, Sunnyvale. Lessons followed by general dancing Thursday through Sunday nights. Mixers and a wide selection of music from Fox trots and Waltzes to salsa, nightclub two step and swing. No partner necessary.

Other Resource Information

Bay Area Summit, A Quarterly Newsletter for Midlife and Older Adults
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
Save the Bay Events

Kayaking and Rowing

California Canoe & Kayak
Monterey Bay Kayaks
Santa Cruz Rowing Club
Venture Quest Sea Kayaking
Western Sea Kayakers

Swimming Pools

Belle Haven Pool
Burgess Pool
Eagle Pool
Gunn High School Pool
Herbert Hoover Pool
Herkner Memorial Pool
Los Altos Masters
Mountain View Masters Swim Club
Rengstorff Pool
Rinconada Pool

Trail Maps and Hikes

 Hike For Discovery is an adventure fundraising program based on Team in Training (TNT), the world’s largest endurance sports training program which has trained over 320,000 participants. Like TNT, whether you are an amateur or experienced hiker, Hike For Discovery’s expert certified coaches will prepare you with months of training for a hike experience like no other. In return, you will raise funds for research to cure blood cancers. Call 408-271-8337 to sign up for an information meeting or email tifin.kutch@lls.org for more information. Visit www.hikefordiscovery.org to learn more about Hike For Discovery!

Trail Center provides information and links for many city, county, regional, and state parks in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are also provide Maps and Publications.
The City of Mountain View provides hiking, boating, golfing, and other options at Shoreline at Mountain View. Another excellent location for walking and hiking is Sunnyvale Baylands Park.

The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District offers numerous hikes for you to enjoy the outdoors.  All activities are led by trained volunteer docents.  Activities are free, but some do require a reservation. For a calendar of activities for the days desired and to learn the levels of difficulty, easy to strenuous, for each activity, Please see www.openspace.org and enter the calendar page under "Great Activities"  or  contact the District at 330 Distel Circle, Los Altos, CA 94022-1404, 650-691-1200, email: info@openspace.org

YMCA's

Mid-Penisula YMCA (covers Northern Santa Clara and Southern San Mateo Counties)
San Francisco YMCA (covers San Francisco, Northern San Mateo, and Southern Marin Counties)
YMCA of Santa Clara Valley

Yoga

California Yoga Center
Center of Balance
California Yoga Center
Yoga of Los Altos