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Gyms in the SF Bay area
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 1:17 pm
by chi
I have a friend moving to San Francisco soon who is looking for somewhere to train. Calstrength and Catalyst are both weighlifting oriented but is there anywhere more PL friendly that is recommended?
TIA
Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 1:51 pm
by T200
chi wrote:I have a friend moving to San Fransisco soon who is looking for somewhere to train. Calstrength and Catalyst are both weighlifting oriented but is there anywhere more PL friendly that is recommended?
TIA
Jim Schmitz at Sports Palace (if it's still there) is more WL.
Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:06 pm
by Gary John
Diablo Barbell in Concord.
though, I was just checking and they have something to do with X-fit, now?
Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:02 pm
by Yes I Have Balls
World Gym has all the essentials. Tho, it shares some space with an @fit affiliate.
Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:26 pm
by baffled
Gary John wrote:Diablo Barbell in Concord.
though, I was just checking and they have something to do with X-fit, now?
Diablo has been somehow linked to x-fit for quite a while, I think.
Cal Strength is probably ~1 hour from San Francisco, IIRC. I would hazard a guess Catalyst is about the same, maybe a little less depending on when he'd be heading down there.
Diablo has to be a solid half hour to an hour.
Is your friend actually going to be in San Francisco, or a suburb?
Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 9:47 pm
by Bud Charniga's grape ape
I was at Diablo for a while, I guess before they got hooked up with xfit. Pros, they're good people, and knowledgeable, and they have pretty much any toy you could want to play with.
Cons, they are very much a WESTSYDE FOR LYFE!!!! gym, with everything that entails, and membership is very expensive (I had a friend who joked that membership should have come with a Diablowjob).
Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:31 am
by Holland Oates
chi wrote:I have a friend moving to San Francisco soon who is looking for somewhere to train. Calstrength and Catalyst are both weighlifting oriented but is there anywhere more PL friendly that is recommended?
TIA
Ralph Gracie San Francisco.
Train with Ralph Gracie and Kurt Osiander.
Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:08 am
by msr2112
CSA gym in Dublin. It's about 35 minutes outside of SF in the east bay. Jesse Burdick runs the powerlifting there. Really nice gym and everything you need.