Powerhouse Gym

[sgrizzle]

+1 on TCC Gym. The elevated track around the basketball court is pretty awesome.

From my understanding, Gold's is going to build multiple metro locations, 71st and Memorial is just the first. Maybe a bunch of people should call and ask them about building downtown.

[JoeMommaBlake]

Or maybe we should petition sgrizzle to open a private gym...

I can see it now.

By the way....there's nothing wrong with serving pizzas at a gym. It's brilliant, actually.

[dayzella]

quote:Originally posted by CoffeeBean

TCC has a gym, it's relatively new and you do not need to be a student.  You can join through the "Alumni & Friends" program and you don't need to be a student or an alumni - just a friend.  But the best part is the price.  The full summer costs $25.    

The facility has a full locker room with showers, a basketball court, spin room, exercise room, weight machines and free weights.  Downsides - there is no pool and no raquetball court and the equipment, while plently for most, may not satisfy the hardcore, e.g. I cannot find an incline bench.

But its a steal IMO.

I didn't know that about TCC.  Thanks for posting about it.  I belong to the HZ downtown.  It is dinky, but it does have an incline bench.  The whole "we'll make you a sandwich while you exercise thing" is cuter than the dickens.

I've been considering the First Methodist recreation facility.  The weights sound fine, but the classes are ministry based, and that is just not for me.

Powerhouse turned me off when they called me over 7 times after a guest visit.  I finally told the shiller that even if they were the last gym left downtown, I wouldn't join because they had gone past the point of selling into harrassment.

[PonderInc]

Several months ago, I heard that the YMCA will be building two new locations downtown.  The first will be in the lower floors of the Mayo Building (not the Mayo Hotel).  I thought it was supposed to be a  temporary facility until they can build a totally new facility over on the west side of downtown (in conjunction with the OSU Medical Center).  Then I heard that they were going to keep the Mayo Building location as a "businessmen's gym" that would be convenient for lunchtime workouts. (It's supposed to be "state of the art" whatever that means.)

Not sure how much of this is still true.  The Y has a habit of making promises about downtown, and then "back-burnering" the project, while they go off and build another new facility somewhere else.  In the meantime, they don't want to pay for desperately needed maintenance/upgrades downtown b/c they're perpetually expecting a big capital investment in a new facility.  This has been going on for years.

I have seen some construction going on in the Mayo Building...but I don't know if it's related to the Y or not.

[TulsaPride]

I believe the construction going on in the Mayo Building (not hotel)is associated with the lofts being put in.

[deinstein]

The TCC gym is by far the best deal in the area.

[tulsa1603]

I heard Sky is looking for a midtown location.  Suggestions?  They're having a hard time finding a large enough building that will fit them.  A friend of mine suggested the old Homeland on Denver, but apparently it's too small for what they want.

[TulsaPride]

Several good locations. Old Mays Drug store on 21st and Harvard, Old Mervyns at Promenade, old Downtown Safeway.

[patric]

Two other midtown gyms not mentioned are the health center at St Johns, and the Y at 22nd and Lewis.

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

I heard Sky is looking for a midtown location.  Suggestions?  They're having a hard time finding a large enough building that will fit them.  A friend of mine suggested the old Homeland on Denver, but apparently it's too small for what they want.

If homeland is too small (they are in an IGA now) then I would suggest doing the Gold's thing and moving into Mervyns.

[Radio]

The large windowless AT&T/SBC buidling, one
of them, is available, with a small leaseback. East Fifth and Elgin.

[swake]

quote:Originally posted by Radio

The large windowless AT&T/SBC buidling, one
of them, is available, with a small leaseback. East Fifth and Elgin.

I thought it was the brick gothic/deco AT&T building with windows and the transmission tower on top that was available, at least the floors below the transmission facility.

[sgrizzle]

The green building on the NW corner of 6th and cincinatti would also make good gym space.

[TulsaPride]

What about the vacated Med x on Harvard or old delta cafe on brookside?

[downtowndweller]

What are the operating hours of the TCC gym?