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Lidia Salvador, bottom right, and Megan Sipos, left, participate in Gravity, a pulled-based mixed-level class.
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Gym rat: Time to revisit the neighbourhood YMCA

Paola Loriggio January 5, 2012

The popular Gravity class at the West End YMCA in Toronto is “as hard as you want to make it.”

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