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?
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Gyms in the SF Bay area
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Gyms in the SF Bay area
Last edited by chi on Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Jim Schmitz at Sports Palace (if it's still there) is more WL.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?
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Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Diablo Barbell in Concord.
though, I was just checking and they have something to do with X-fit, now?
though, I was just checking and they have something to do with X-fit, now?
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Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
World Gym has all the essentials. Tho, it shares some space with an @fit affiliate.
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Diablo has been somehow linked to x-fit for quite a while, I think.Gary John wrote:Diablo Barbell in Concord.
though, I was just checking and they have something to do with X-fit, now?
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?
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Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
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).
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).
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Re: Gyms in the SF Bay area
Ralph Gracie San Francisco.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?
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Train with Ralph Gracie and Kurt Osiander.
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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.
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