Greater Beverly YMCA – Sterling Center

I love the fitness room!!! The staff in always cleaning and reracking weights. The babysitting staff rocks. I do wish you could put your child in the actual babysitting room yourself for an easier good bye when the child is adjusting. Other YMCA’s allow this but Sterling does not.

Love it! I go mostly for the weight room and cardio equipment.
So this place has a gigantic gymnastics area, huge pool area, basketball courts, weight room, cardio equipment. All of which is in good shape and high quality. It’s really a great facility as far as gyms go and especially as a YMCA.
I’ve been to a lot of gyms and really love this place.

I recently became a member here. I LOVE this gym and I LOVE their pool. I swim early in the morning so i really am reviewing the pool. The pool is perfectly heated for swimmers, there are always lap lanes opened and the staff is sweet. Also, after my 5:30am workouts they serve FREE COFFEE! And its good. Also, before i walk in I smell the trees and hear the crickets. So peacful. Oh and the bathrooms are clean and you get free locks! Great Y!

I use the YMCA everyday! My kids use the pool, childcare, open gym and basketball while I use the fitness area. We can’t say enough good things about the YMCA in Beverly!
It’s always clean, the staff know my kids by name, they’re super friendly! The machines are fixed in a timely manner. The kids look forward to going as much as I do and that makes me a happy mama! My daughter has food allergies, the childcare room is cautious of this and I have never had to worry when I leave her there.
I have even sent them to summer programs and they were fantastic!
I cannot say enough good things about sterling YMCA

As far as the showers go, we have since learned that if you turn the showers on 3 or 4 times, the water does warm up! Fantastic!

Best Y I’ve been to. it has everything you could need or want. Open gym for the kids is awesome. The gym area is just a huge jungle gym and it’s even fun for the adults. Great way to get their energy out and have fun together.
They also offer a huge pool and physical therapy.

Very happy with this gym. The price is right. Quality classes, great staff.

Dirty place… maintenance never in a rush to fix anything such as steam room/​sauna scum mildew in showers way over priced I joined BAC much nicer facility cleaner better equipment and cheaper

I’ve given this 5-​stars because it really is the perfect place for MOST people. Granted, there are times during the day when there’s a LOT of young kids running around to various programs and parking can fill up so you have to use the upper lot, but it’s still a great place to pick for getting in shape and let me tell you some of the reasons why:
* Sliding Scale — if you can show your income is limited, they’ll cut you a break on the admission.
* Membership to the Sterling YMCA is actually a membership to the Greater Beverly YMCAs which includes, I believe, four (4) other YMCAs in the area including Salem and Marblehead (new, huge facility)
* This Y has 2 huge pools and a water aerobics program. I can’t speak about all water programs but water aerobics in the a.m. is more like older lady hour. Its ok but kind of toned down a bit. I hear the pm classes are a bit more diverse and demanding.
* The Y has a little snack area where you can get an assortment of healthy options such as fruit, yogurt and health bars.
* There’s a sweet-​looking basketball program which I know little about but they also have a gymnastics type gym where they have gymnastics for young’ns and I saw AIKIDO for adults going on in there one night.
* The weight-​training, aerobics area is stocked with everything you need to get in shape and ample aerobics machines for prime time. Several TVs keep you from getting bored.
* The Y offers personal training and the staff, who are all friendly, have their bios, including mission statements, typed out in plain view on a bulltein board for everyone to see.
* The men’s locker room is stinky, like foot odor mixed with odor remover, but it’s tolerable. The lockers are key-​based with a key you get when you show up. The men’s locker room also had a good-​sized shower area, with a door to the pool area and, best of all, a DRY SAUNA, which is REALLY hot and a great post-​workout experience.
* They’ll rent you a towel for like 50 cents if you need one after
* I constantly see offbeat programs available on the bulletin boards such as the Y willing to take your old sporting equip on consignment and try to sell it for you for a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ split, etc.
Sterling is, for me anyways, a pretty convenient place to many different areas. Parking is huge and best during off-​peak hours.
Check this place ut, in person! See you there?!

I used to work in the aquatics department and i must say there was a fine crowd of people working there. I really enjoyed interacting with the members as well as other employees. They offer multiple programs for children and adults to exercise, learn or even just goof off. I highly recommend the YMCA at the Sterling Center in Beverly for some quality pool time.

Talk about an improvement — North Shore YMCA really put a lot into the re-​do of the Sterling Center, and let me tell you, it paid off. It is huge, fully equipped — the gymnastics center is great. They now have an olympic sized indoor pool as well as an outdoor — hiking trails, weights, machines, cardio stuff — and what has been helpful to me — cheap, competent babysitting that my 2 year old loves.
My main experience is with private use of the gymnastics center, so I can’t say a whole lot about their programs — but as with most Y’s, they offer a ton and a great variety, for both adults and kids, and do some great community service. They employ the developmentally disabled, who are actually some of their kindest and most competent customer service reps in my experience.
If you are a Beverly resident and haven’t seen the new Sterling Center yet — take a look! Or actually if you live North Shore — and especially if you have a membership to any other North Shore Y, as the memberships transfer, of course. Sterling Center: Facilities that are top notch, and a real asset to the community.