Anytime Fitness Programme

Below is an email from Jim Yoder about the new Anytime Fitness program for JP students based at WHOI.

WHOI's Academic Programs Office is offering JP students subsidized access to Anytime Fitness (AF) on Main Street in Falmouth. The AF program is only for JP students who are based at WHOI, i.e. JP students who are based at MIT are ineligible since you have regular access to the MIT facility.

The program at Anytime Fitness will start on 3 June, 2013. We are offering 2 options.

1. Option 1 is for a full year membership. Those interested in this option will pay our office $150, and our office will pay the full annual fee directly to AF. It may be possible to eventually reduce the student (and WHOI) share should MIT agree to contribute, but that is unlikely in the near future. If you are interested in Option 1, please bring a check for $150 made out to WHOI to Christine Charette in WHOI's Academic Programs Office by 30 May. WHOI will then pay for your annual membership (and the initiation fee for JP students who have not previously used AF) for those who have their check to Christine by 30 May.
2. The second option is for a 3-month membership starting on 3 June, 2013,for students who are based at WHOI, including those who will only be based at WHOI for the summer. For this option, students will pay $50, and our office will pay the full 3-month fee. If you are interested in this 3-month option, please bring a check for $50 made out to WHOI to Christine Charette by 30 May. WHOI will then pay for your 3-month membership (and the initiation fee for JP students who have not previously used AF) who have their check to Christine by 30 May.

These are the only 2 AF options we are offering at this time. Our office will not reimburse for any other fitness or related program or for memberships at AF currently in effect. Should you sign up under one of the offers described above, AF may reimburse you on a pro-rated basis for an existing AF membership that extends beyond June 3, 2013. That's between AF and you. We are planning, however, to make the same offers available again in early September, and then again around the first of next year. So for $50 you can try out the AF facility for 3 months starting on 3 June, and if you like it, you will have the option to purchase an annual membership for $150 again in September. Note that we will try to accommodate new JP students coming in this summer as best we can, since most will not arrive before 3 June.

A nice feature of an AF membership is that they will "freeze" your membership, and then add the time onto your membership, if you need to be away from Falmouth for an extended period of time, e.g. for field work. You need to work this out on your own with AF. I'm told that there are 2100 AF sites around the country, and that your membership is valid at any of them.

Another feature of AF is that a member can access the facility 24/7, although staff members are not on duty in the evening. AF has some security precautions on site, but one obviously has to be careful and use common sense, e.g. attend with a partner, if using the AF facility late at night.

Health Clubs and Pools

Falmouth Sports Center

33 Highfield Dr., Falmouth; 508-548-7433. Hours: Mon-Fri 6:00–21:00, Sat/Sun 8:00–17:00. The FSC
houses tennis courts, racquetball courts and a sizable health club with exercise equipment, Nautilus
machines, universal gym equipment and free weights. The locker rooms have saunas, steam rooms, and
showers, but the waiting list for the lockers themselves is long. Tennis and gym memberships are separate.
Tennis league play and instruction is available. Racquetball courts run $6 per hour per person for gym
members and $12 per hour per person for non- members. Checks or cash only, no credit cards accepted.
Memberships can be started at any time. They offer discounted rates for WHOI employees.

Sandwich High School

365 Quaker Meeting House Rd., East Sandwich; 508-888-5300, www.scslearn.org/swim.htm. The
Sandwich High School has a community lap pool and it’s about a half-hour drive from Woods Hole. There
are lap swim times every day except Sunday in the early morning, midday, and in the evening. Individual
and family memberships are available, or pay $5 per visit. Complete rates are posted on the website. To get
there, take Rt. 28 to the Bourne Rotary, take Rt. 6A to Sandwich, get on Rt. 6 towards Provincetown, take
Exit 3 (Quaker Meetinghouse Rd.), turn left, and the high school is the first building on the left. The pool is
at the end of the hall to the left of the main doors.

Atria

336 Gifford St., Falmouth; 508-540-1600. Located at Atria senior center. $5 a pop. It’s not full length, but
it’s better than a kidney bean and not as far as Sandwich High School.

Shoreway Acres

59 Shore St., Falmouth; 508-540-3000. Swimming in the winter when they have no guests. In and outdoor
kidney shaped pools not suitable for laps.

Balanced Health and Fitness

634 N Falmouth Hwy., Falmouth; 508-563- 1100.
• Website: www.balancedhealthfitness.com

Gym Club

133 E. Falmouth Hwy, 508-540-8896; This is the old Balanced Health and Fitness on Rte. 28, it is a branch
of the one in Centerville. www.gymexpressfalmouth.com

Cape Cod Swim Club

14 Ellis Ln., Pocasset; 508-564-5690. Competitive training and learn to swim lessons from age 6. Full
length pool. If you’re just interested in swimming laps, take the master swim class, or look elsewhere.

Holiday Inn

291 Jones Rd, Falmouth; 508-540-2000. $8 per visit; You need to go to the front desk and check in and pay
and then turn in your key card when you’re done with the pool.