Peters has been a YMCA swim coach for more than 13 years and has recently coached the Clippard 13-14-year-old boys swim team to a first-place ranking in the Southwest Swim League AA championships.

Doug Hechler, executive director for the Clippard YMCA, says he anticipates adding programs and services, and expects the classes offered at the Colerain senior center to continue.

It’s probably unfair to compare Equinox to the YMCA, but when an L.A. transplant was wondering which gym to sign up for, she weighed the pros and cons of both.