Mesa Community College

Lifetime Fitness

Fitness Centers at Southern & Dobson and Red Mountain

It's never been easier.

The Fitness Center offers students total conditioning that features both resistance and cardiovascular exercise equipment, including:

  • Cybex Exercise Machines
  • Dumbbells and core equipment
  • Precore Cycles
  • Precor Elliptical Runners
  • Recumbent cycles
  • Stairmasters
  • Stepmills
  • Treadmills

All Lifetime Fitness faculty have degrees and are Personal Training or Strength and COnditioning Certified through the accredited organizations of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), or National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and are trained and ready to assist you with your fitness goals.

This program is designed to tone the entire body and improve cardiovascular efficiency. Individualized exercise programs are developed for you by one of our certified instructors always on duty. A total body workout can be completed in 30 minutes. Optimal fitness assessments are free and take 5-30 minutes depending on how many you choose to discuss. Choose from a variety of assessment options:

  • Blood Pressure
  • Body Composition
  • Body Measurements
  • Cardio-respiratory fitness
  • Flexibility
  • Muscular Strength/Endurance
  • Waist-to-Hip Ratio

What we offer

PED 115: "Lifetime Fitness" - is a two credit hour class providing students flexible access to three fitness facilities at Southern and Dobson: 1) Fitness Center 2) Group Activity Center 3) Health Improvement Center and two fitness facilities at Red Mountain: 1) Fitness Center 2) Group Activity Center.

PED 101FL: "Fitness for Life" - is a one credit hour class that provides students access to the Fitness Center and Group Activity Center only at Southern and Dobson.

PED 101WT: "Weight Training" - is a one credit hour class that provides students access to the Fitness Center only at Red Mountain and Health Improvement Center only at Southern and Dobson.

See MCC Class Schedule for times

Fitness Center Hours

Fall & Spring

Southern and Dobson
Monday - Thursday: 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday: 7:00 am to 6:30 pm
Saturday: 8:00 am - noon
Closed Sundays

Red Mountain
Monday - Thursday: 7:00 am - 8:30 pm
Friday: 7:00 am to 3:30 pm
Saturday: 8:00 am - noon
Closed Sundays

Fitness Facility Contacts

Southern & Dobson

Fitness Center/Health Improvement Center
Jim Haggerty
(480) 461-7556
haggerty@mesacc.edu

Group Activity Center
Gail Herndon
(480) 461-7578

Red Mountain

Fitness Center
Devi Strong
(480) 654-7726
devi.strong@mcmail.maricopa.edu

Please contact Anita Dusek for advisement, comments, or corrections email phone: 480-461-7551