Portland Anti-Gravity Center

Overview

Created with the support of the Portland area track and field community, the Portland Anti-Gravity Center is centrally located in the Hollywood district. It officially opened in September 2009. It is designed to provide year-round indoor training opportunities for athletes of all ages. This facility, with heat in the winter and cooling in the summer, will help athletes avoid rain, snow, wind and extreme temperatures.

Football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse and track and field athletes will use the facility to improve their vertical jump, agility, quickness, and sport specific techniques. Injury prevention classes will be available as well as conditioning classes and Boot Camps. At the Portland Anti-Gravity Center you will find a community of like-minded athletes and coaches working hard to improve and achieve personal success.

The center is located at 1606 NE 37th. NE 37th is one way south between Broadway and Sandy. You can only gain access to 37th from Broadway. Hollywood has strange traffic partterns; we recommend you look at Google Maps if you are unfamilar with the area.

Activities will include:

• Event Specific Coaches Clinics
• Young Athlete Injury Prevention Classes (all sports)
• Quickness, Agility, and Speed Classes, Clinics and Training
• Vertical Jump Training
• High Jump
• Long and Triple Jump
• Hurdles and Starts
• Low Height Pole Vault Training (up to 10 feet)
• Weight and Plyo Training
• Fitness Testing
• SPARQ
• Strength Training
• Track and Field Camps and Clinics
• Zumba Classes
• Boot Camps
• Youth Health Fitness Classes
• And More

Current Clinic and Class Offerings

How to Register for Class or Clinic

Call Alameda Fitness Center at 503-548-4011 and provide the name, instructor, date and time of the event for which you would like to register. Or email the same information to .

Payment is by check or cash and is payable on day of the event. Please make checks payable to Alameda Fitness Center. No debit, credit card, or prepayment. Please arrive 15 minutes early to sign waiver and meet and greet.

Scheduling Pit Time

Contact to obtain Google Calender authorization. After you have authorization, go to Google Calender and avoid scheduled classes, clinics, and boot camps which will use most of the space. If someone signs up for the high jump pit, you can proceed to schedule weights, hurdles/plyos, or long/triple jump training as these elements are separate. Obviously, if someone has reserved the high jump pit, you need to avoid their time.

Sponsors and Partners

Legally there is no relationship between the center and other businesses, but several parties were involved from the beginning and continue to be supportive. First, it is noted that the Portland Anti-Gravity Center is a DBA within Alameda Fitness Center, LLC which is providing administrative support, and will use the facility as an overflow classroom and training facility. Foot Traffic is a running and walking shoe retailer that will manage a small pro shop on site. Brent Mueller, PT, DPT, of Broadway Physical Therapy is an important player as he will staff the Injury Prevention classes along with other clinicians from BPT. And of great importance, coaches and personal trainers will create a supportive community and promote athletic excellence. Thanks to everyone who helped create this center.

To Use the Track and Field Equipment

You cannot use the track and field equipment without having a coach or trainer present. So, coaches bring your athletes, athletes bring your coaches and trainers.

Important Information About Coaches

If you do not have a personal trainer or coach, consider hiring a coach from our preferred provider list below. Remember you can not use this facility without a trainer or coach being present. If you are a high school student, ask your coach to join you or schedule a practice for your team. If you are a member of a USATF team, ask your coach to join you or to schedule a practice for your team. If you are not a member of a team, anyone from the following list of trainers and coaches would be pleased to assist you for a fee.

Athlete Fee Structure/Waiver

$7.50 per athlete per hour—includes one hour of pit time plus extended use of fitness equipment

COACHES ARE ALWAYS FREE.
Some team members are prepaid, ask your coach.
Upon your first visit, you must sign a waiver before exercising.

Training Equipment

• Plyo Boxes
• Training Hurdles of Multiple Heights
• Balance Balls
• Cones
• Vertimax
• Leg Curl and Extension Machine
• Bench Press
• Treadmills
• Medicine Balls
• Olympic Weight Station
• KOR Trainer
• And more

Resource Center—Please help us build a library

Library of donated videos and DVDs.
Library of donated books.
View / read on location.
Check out at no cost and return within 3 days.

Please also visit these sites for information:
Foot Traffic
Triple Jump Central
KOR Fitness
USATF-OREGON
Hood Outdoor
Broadway Physical Therapy
Mountain Shop
Alameda Fitness Center
Terrapin Events
ActiveNW.com
Concordia University
Rip City Skate
Willamette Striders Track Club

Video Equipment

Camcorder is available free of charge to coaches. The camcorder and screen are permanently mounted on a rolling stand. Instructions are on the rolling stand. This is a valuable training tool. This equipment is expensive so please use with care. A CD player is mounted on a second rolling stand for instructors.

Parking

The property does not have a parking lot. Do not park in the NECC parking lot immediately north of the building.

There is usually parking on the east side of 37th between Broadway and Sandy. The next alternative is the Banfield Motel parking lot which you enter from 37th across the street from the building. The next alternative is the MBank parking lot entered from Broadway or 37th, with the MBank parking only available before 8:30 AM or after 5:30.

Contact Information and Questions

All question, concerns and scheduling, please contact David Pietka via or by calling 503-206-1071.

Rules of Conduct

• Always warm up.
• Safety is number one, two and three in the list of importance.
• Listen, learn, and work.
• Be supportive of all athletes' efforts.
• Show respect at all times.
• Use appropriate language at all times; loud voices are not allowed.
• Be focused on your activity at all times.
• Have fun.
• No horseplay—ever.
• Be a model of sportsmanship at all times (that goes for observers too).
• Be drug and alcohol free at all times.
• Coaches, place the well-being and safety of your athlete first at all times.
• Coaches, teach respect, fair play and citizenship.
• Coaches, teach that honest effort is more important than victory.
• Violation of rules will result in immediate warning on the first offense; and immediate termination of rights to use facility on the second offense. We reserve the right to deny services to anyone at any time.