• Join the Albert Sherman Center gym for FREE as a student and take a group fitness class for free!
  
  • Total Body Barre with Caitlin is popular with med students, Group Cycle with Nili is taught by a med student, and Total Body Burn is a great mid-day class on Friday if you can make it!
  • Try a Specialty Clinic @ the ASC gym such as: bootcamp, rowing clinic, defense skills clinic, and moving more in your work day! (cost: free - $65)
    
    
• November Project is a FREE FITNESS group that meets at Holy Cross to take on the stadium steps on Wednesday mornings and is full of UMass Chan Students!
  
  
• Find a pick-up soccer game with the UMass community!
  
  
• Sneakerama has a weekly evening fun run steps from the UMass campus (and the first time you get a FREE t-shirt!).
  
  
• Join the UMass running club and work up a sweat with other awesome UMass students!
  
  
• Walk or run down to Lake Park for some beautiful scenery of Lake Quinsig and a taste of fresh air. Bring a tennis racket and practice your backhand!
  
  
• Practice with WooTown Volleyball and their many pick-up games (though these cost $)  or join fellow UMass-ers for free on the beautiful sand courts behind the medical school!
  
  
• Take a bike ride -- the Nashua Rail trail offers 12 straight miles of nearly traffic-free biking with beautiful opportunities for fall foliage.
  
  
• Moore State Park in Paxton is a 730 acre area with easy trails, rivers, and a beautiful waterfall to check out only 20 min or so from Worcester.
  
  
• Join a hiking group or email Jerry Durbin (william.durbin@umassmed.edu) to get on his list! He is a pediatrician at UMass who loves organizing weekend hikes, some far away and some right here around Worcester! Residents, students, and attendings alike love to join Jerry for some true UMass quality time in the outdoors.
  
  
• Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences students have organized a hiking group with everything from trips to Mt. Greylock and winter hiking workshops! Email Claudine (Claudine.Mapa@umassmed.edu) to get on the list.
  
  
• Try rock climbing at the Central Rock Gym which also offers free yoga classes with a membership! UMass students find this to be a great way to relax!
  
  
• Paddle, row, or try stand up paddle board yoga at Regatta Point on Lake Quinsig!
  
  
• Take a yoga class from one of the many yoga studios in Worcester! MetroWest Yoga offers a 30 day membership for students for $30. They have tons of HOT yoga classes, and a few without the heat.
  
  
• Check out Crossfit of Centermass for some awesome workouts.
  
  
• Check out Tower Hill Botanical Garden for a fun place to walk around and see beautiful gardens!
  
  
• Wachusett Mountain - try a student season pass for skiing/snowboarding in the winter for $199 or hike around in the warmer weather.