Long Shot But Worth a Try
Will be in Seattle, Portland and San Fran over the course of 10 days in the near future. I’m looking for a gym that has day passes and a squat rack/allows deadlifts in each or any of those cities. I will have access to a car. Long shot, but can anyone recommend a gym? Thank you for your time.
LA Fitness up and down the west coast. Very comfortable for a chain gym, and reasonable for short term.
Elite Performance Center is a powerlifting gym in Portland, and there are many crossfit gyms out here, but I don’t know about day passes with those places.
[quote]TrainForPain wrote:
LA Fitness up and down the west coast. Very comfortable for a chain gym, and reasonable for short term.
Elite Performance Center is a powerlifting gym in Portland, and there are many crossfit gyms out here, but I don’t know about day passes with those places. [/quote]
Thanks for responding. LA fitness seems to be the most viable option in Seattle and SF so far. I found a gym called Loprinzi’s in Portland with a good daily rate. Place seems legit. But I’ll definitely check out Elite. Thanks again.
This is a powerlifting gym ran by a gentleman named Chris Duffin. He is a beast and a hell of a nice guy. The atmoshpere is great and everyone is very knowledgeable and helpful and I believe they do day passes.
24 hour fitness in Portland is legit. They have several locations throughout the city (I’m southwest, aka downtown). $10 for a day-pass.
Lived in Portland for a bit, and liked the 24’s in the Pearl District and in mall 205. Not sure where you’re staying, but I recommend either of those.
I can only help you with Seattle:
University of Washington: 7-10 squat racks with platforms, bumpers, 4 story building of heaven.
Seattle University: Similar to UW, but here they actually let you do Olympic Lifting. I mean, you can actually drop the weight, unlike UW where they stopped it my last year in 2009.
Puyallup, WA YMCA: Best Gym I have trained at. On the way to Seattle from Portland. Racks, Bumpers, Chains, Bands, lots of machines, great atmosphere and some knowledgeable people. Plus Stan Efferding came in a couple times there before hah.
Hope that helps.
I forgot about the Puyallup Y. I was there years ago, and it was awesome.
Can anyone go to the university gyms?
[quote]TrainForPain wrote:
I forgot about the Puyallup Y. I was there years ago, and it was awesome.
Can anyone go to the university gyms?[/quote]
Yup, UW used to be $7 per entry, and Seattle U was somewhere around the same.
World Gym in SF if you don’t want to leave the City. I’ve done plenty of squats and deadlifts there over the years.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Lived in Portland for a bit, and liked the 24’s in the Pearl District and in mall 205. Not sure where you’re staying, but I recommend either of those. [/quote]
The Mall 205 one is my gym.
Thank you all for your replies. I’m investigating all the suggestions right now.
[quote]bassip21 wrote:
I can only help you with Seattle:
University of Washington: 7-10 squat racks with platforms, bumpers, 4 story building of heaven.
Seattle University: Similar to UW, but here they actually let you do Olympic Lifting. I mean, you can actually drop the weight, unlike UW where they stopped it my last year in 2009.
Puyallup, WA YMCA: Best Gym I have trained at. On the way to Seattle from Portland. Racks, Bumpers, Chains, Bands, lots of machines, great atmosphere and some knowledgeable people. Plus Stan Efferding came in a couple times there before hah.
Hope that helps. [/quote]
If you’re considering coming all the way down to Puyallup just drive another ten minutes and come to the gym Stan actually opened himself, Flex Fitness. It’ll have everything you need.
I grew up in Seattle and have tried just about every gym in the area. I’m not a fan of LA fitness or 24 for a number of reasons. In my opinion the best true weightlifter’s gym in Seattle is Gold’s on Aurora Avenue.
For San Francisco:
World Gym was already suggested
Fitness SF in the SOMA would be okay if you don’t plan to use chalk or mind getting hit on by guys
Valencia Street Muscle: it’s a bit of a hole but they don’t care what you do. Big Space. They use those octagon weights like 24 Hour Fitness if that bugs you when deadlifting.
Sunset Gym: I personally train here and can do whatever I want. Chalk, grunt, whatever. Super cool. Day fee is $10 but if you PM me I can hook you up with $5 day fee. It isn’t the most fancy or modern but it gets the job done
Studio Mix: Huge facility. Kind of like a Crossfit gym mixed with the EliteFTS store catalog. In other words, lots of toys.
[quote]Claudan wrote:
24 hour fitness in Portland is legit. They have several locations throughout the city (I’m southwest, aka downtown). $10 for a day-pass. [/quote]
This one. Last time I went there, I pretended that I was interested in joining and they gave me a free day pass.