With a women's only gym, dedictated women only fitness classes, swimming sessions and social activities, show up and claim your space to get active, find your flow and feel your most confident. Whatever your age or ability, you can join in with sessions run by women, for women and girls only - so you can feel comfortable and empowered to move, breathe and unwind.
Women's Only Gym Sessions
Our Programmable Gym is the perfect space for our Women-Only gym sessions. Designed to offer privacy, you can work out in an environment comfortable to you.
The gym is filled with Technogym equipmet. Get your cardio workout on treadmills, cross trainers, rowers and stairclimbers!
We have you covered for weight training too, with selectorised machines covering different exercise options and a free weight offering of dual adjustable pulley, half rack and 1kg-20kg dumbells & kettlebells.
Our women's only gym can be used throughout the week at the following times:
- Monday: 05:30 - 22:00
- Tuesday: 05:30- 22:00
- Wednesday: 05:30- 22:00
- Thursday: 05:30- 22:00
- Friday: 05:30- 22:00
- Saturday: 06:00-18:00
- Sunday: 09:00 - 18:00
Not used a gym before? You receive an induction for free as part of your membership.
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Swim For Women
We run our Women-Only swim sessions each week, all supervised by fully qualified female lifeguards to ensure you can swim in an environment comfortable to you and, based on your feedback.
The current days and times are as followed:
- Wednesdays: 20:30-21:30
- Thursdays: 20:30-21:30
- Fridays: 18:30-19:30, 20:00-21:00
Womens Only Swimming Lessons
Learn to swim in an environment comfortable to you. Our Adult Swimming Lessons are taught by friendly, fully qualified swimming teachers following the learn2swim pathway.
Lessons are taught by female instructors and changing rooms allocated for the lessons will be women-only spaces.
For more information, or to book, use the link below:
Wednesdays:
- 20:30-21:15 Womens Only Beginner Lesson
- 21:15-22:00 Womens Only Beginner Lesson
Adult and Junior Gym - Women Only
Our Adult and Junior Gym sessions are the perfect opportunity for you and your junior to train together, and allow a junior member to attend outside of traditional junior gym hours, provided they are accompanied by an adult.
Our female only adult and junior gym sessions take place in our Programmable Gym and are as follows:
- Saturdays: 12:00-18:00
- Sundays: 12:00-18:00
You are also able to train together as part of the standard junior gym hours, which ensures there are more options than ever to work out together.
Women Only Sauna and Steam Room Sessions
Our health suite is located within its own area of the centre and due to user-led design, the space can be accessed independantly of the swimming pool, meaning our Women-Only sauna and steam sessions can be served by Women-Only changing spaces.
The changing room allocated to your booking is included within the booking made either via the website or the app, if you are not sure, just ask a member of the team at the centre who will happily point you in the right direction.
- Mondays: 14:00, 15:00, 16:00
- Wednesdays: 14:00, 15:00, 16:00
- Fridays: 10:00, 11:00, 12:00
Women Only Fitness Classes
Here at Manchester Aquatics Centre, we’re excited to announce that we’ll soon be launching more Women’s Only Fitness Classes, providing a welcoming, comfortable and supportive environment for you to work towards your fitness goals!
Our female-led classes will take place in our Dance Studio, which is now equipped with fully fitted privacy blinds, creating a more private and comfortable space for everyone.
Keep an eye out for more information coming soon! 💪✨
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You can simply pay as you go or we have a whole range of memberships for you to choose from which you can pay by a rolling monthly Direct Debit without a long-term contract, or annually.
Our single centre membership includes swimming, gym, fitness classes and health suite access, plus inclusive access to Live Better - online workouts, healthy habit plans and everyday wellbeing support in the Better UK app.
Better is also part of a social enterprise, and so are our members. Your membership fees are reinvested into programmes and services for the whole community to stay healthy and active.
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