REGISTRATION FOR SPRING 2023 NOW OPEN!
Virtual Classes Available
Every Monday & Wednesday | April 17 – June 21, 2023
Register for virtual FFB classes according to the class that suits your schedule
Waitlist
If the class is full, please still register and input your information to get on our waitlist. Please contact patientsupport@lunghealth.ca for support in registration or any other inquiries regarding virtual FFB.
If you would like to stay active while on the waitlist, please scroll down and view our pre-recorded at-home workout videos to do at your own pace.
Interested in advocating with us? Please visit: https://lunghealth.ca/lung-health-advocate/ to learn more.
What is Fitness for Breath?
Fitness for Breath is an exercise maintenance program and support group for people living with chronic lung conditions.
- You’ll learn the importance of staying active for life
- Designed for patients living with chronic lung disease
- Goal is to increase knowledge of fundamental movement skills
- Show health-related benefits of suitable exercise

The Goals of Fitness for Breath
- Encourage an inactive population to become active for life
- Improve participants’ activity and daily function
- Improve physical literacy and fundamental movement skills
- Provide an accessible and safe exercise environment, and
- Strengthen the community recreation sector.
Fitness for Breath engages older adults and seniors with chronic lung disease in regular physical activity to motivate them to maintain an active lifestyle, help to manage their lung disease and to continue the gains received from their participation in pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programs. For people with chronic lung disease like COPD, regular exercise results in fewer flare-ups and hospitalizations and a better overall quality of life.

At Home Workouts
Follow along with our Fitness for Breath workout videos at home. We are continually adding to our resource library, so please subscribe to our YouTube channel for more!
Are you a fitness trainer? Get involved!
These e-modules will help you bring Fitness for Breath to your community. For additional information and help getting started, please email us.
Lung Health 101 Basic Training
Fitness Trainer Program
This course assists fitness trainers in planning and implementing their Fitness for Breath exercise maintenance program for participants living with a chronic lung disease. It is intended for trainers who have completed a “Lung Health 101” training through the Lung Health Foundation, Heart Wise or another certified training program.
Find a Fitness for Breath location
Classes are supervised by qualified and trained fitness staff at each Fitness for Breath program location. They are designed to work with people at any fitness level and ability. Classes are offered a minimum of twice a week and are at least 60 minutes in length. The class components may include the following:
- Aerobic exercises
- Resistance / strength training
- Flexibility exercises.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Leisure Centre
471 West Park Ave., Bradford, ON
L3Z 0J3
Phone: (905) 775-7529
YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka (Barrie Location)
22 Grove Street, West Barrie, ON
L4N 1M7
Phone: (705) 726-6421
YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka (Innisfil Location)
1-7315 Yonge Street, Innisfil, Ontario
L4N 4V7
Phone: (705) 431-9622
YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka (Gravenhurst Location)
1-101 Centennial Drive, Gravenhurst, ON
P1P 1B7
Phone: (705) 687-9899
Abilities Centre
55 Gordon St. Whitby, ON
L1N 0J2
Phone: (905) 665-8500
Town of Newmarket – Magna Centre
800 Mulock Drive Newmarket, Ontario
L3Y 9C1
Phone: (905) 895-5193
Town of Bracebridge
110 Clearbrook Trail
Bracebridge, ON P1L 0A3
Phone: 705-645-1921
Collingwood YMCA
200 Hume Street
Collingwood ON L9Y 4E8
Phone: 705-445-5705
Wasaga Beach YMCA
1724 Mosley St.
Wasaga Beach ON L9Z 1Z7
Phone: 705-429-9622
Sault College
443 Northern Avenue
Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6B 4J3
Phone: 705-759-2554
Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay
Recreation & Culture Division
Canada Games Complex
420 Winnipeg Ave
Thunder Bay, ON P7B 6B7
Phone: 807-684-3338
YMCA of Central East Ontario (Belleville Branch)
433 Victoria Ave., Belleville, ON
K8N 2G1
Phone: (613) 966-9622
YMCA of Central East Ontario (Peterborough Branch)
123 Aylmer Street South, Peterborough, Ontario
K9J 3H8
Phone: (705) 748-9622
YMCA Northumberland, Cobourg
339 Elgin St West
Cobourg, ON K9A 5T4
Phone: (905) 372-0161
Erin Fitness
6 Thompson Crescent, Erin, ON N0B 1T0
Phone: 519-833-0606
Six Nations
White Pines Wellness Centre
1745 Chiefswood Rd, 1st Floor
Ohsweken, ON N0A 1M0
Phone: 519-445-4779
Chatham-Kent YMCA
101 Courthouse Lane, Chatham, ON
N7L 0B5
Phone: (519) 360-9622
YMCAs of Cambridge and Kitchener-Waterloo
(Kitchener Branch)
A.R. Kaufman Family YMCA
333 Carwood Ave.
Kitchener, Ontario
N2G 3C5
Phone: (519) 743-5201
YMCAs of Cambridge and Kitchener-Waterloo
(Cambridge Branch)
Chaplin Family YMCA
250 Hespeler Rd.
Cambridge, Ontario
N1R 3H3
Phone: (519) 623-9622
Stratford-Perth Family YMCA
204 Downie St, Stratford, ON
N5A 1X4
Phone: (519) 271-0480
S.I.M GYM
St. Joseph’s Villa
56 Governor’s Road, Dundas, ON
L9H 5G7
Phone: (905) 627-3541, ext. 2109