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Category: Spartan
Launch Week: In Review
We had a great Launch Week. We enjoyed the energy. We enjoyed the togetherness, the joy, the goofiness, the prizes, the smiles, the sweat. We asked some our Instructors about their favorite part or moment from this Launch Week and Blackout Week. Justen Maron: My favorite part of blackout week was seeing the unity in the…
Launch Week: Day Five “The Courthouse Experience”
I’ve spent years in weight rooms in gyms, starting back in high school. For the longest time, I didn’t really like being in those rooms. They represented hard work, harder than I sometimes thought I could manage. Sometimes, they got the better of me, physically and mentally. Instead of being a growing experience, it was…
Launch Week: Day Three
We keep having fun. Exercise continues to be enjoyable. We keep becoming more and more free to pursue fitness, to be kids, to let loose and do what comes most natural. We talk often about being meant for movement. That exercise is natural…we have to learn how to stop moving…we slowly, as we get older,…
Launch Week: Day One
Fitness is better together. And during Launch Week, we plan to prove that fact. This week is Blackout Week. That means we are getting together and wearing all black, all Launch Week. Because it is fun to do stuff together. It is fun to workout together and dress up together. It is fun to move…
The Best Exercise Experience
We are proud of our people. We are proud of our Fitness Coaches and the work they do to encourage and help our members pursue fitness. Our Fitness Coaches have a love for helping and watching others succeed. It is our Coach’s greatest joy to see a member imagine a goal, train to reach it,…
Imagine, Train, Do: Sophie Hawley
Talk about your starting point. In the summer of 2011, I went to visit my sister in New York. Walking all over the city exhausted me, and I could barely handle the many stairs out of the subways. Just like at home; I was always winded at the top of our staircase. I was tired all…
In Review: Worst Day For Spartan
96 people are packed into the lobby of the West Salem Courthouse. Some wear gloves and hats and years-old sweatshirts, pre-stained and ready for anything. The sun is beginning to break through dark clouds. The wind has died down and the rain is slowed to a sputter. The weather is decent, but this is the…
The Worst Day For Spartan
What can you expect at the first-ever Worst Day For Spartan? Expect everything and anything. Expect to be cold and expect yourself to rise above the wind and the rain and the unmistakable chill coming off the water of the slow-moving Willamette River. Expect to get a great workout with all of your friends. Expect…
Better Together
We believe that fitness is better together. We think that more gets done when more people are around. When we go after our goals together, we usually have a better chance of reaching those goals. This truth shouldn’t be any surprise. We make families, form communities, find friends, get together, do good. At the Courthouse,…