5 /5 calvin: This is the best gym in the bay area.
A family run gym by the multiple world record powerlifter Dan Green and his wife Sparkle, this place is your cure to corporate fitness. Eleiko barbells, Ivanko plates, Rogue bumpers, EliteFTS machines, racks, and monolifts, SBD wraps-- this gym has the highest quality of equipment you can get and all of it is available for everyone.
Close to Stanford and Palo Alto and the general Silicon Valley area this gym is not oversubscribed like way too many businesses in the area. Going in the mornings or early afternoons I have never once waited for any equipment. Evenings are more busy; the Google "how busy is it" estimator has a good representation of daily variation in my experience. This is not only a place for elite powerlifters either; you will find every type of lifter across every skill level and personal background, from olympic lifters, to older people seeking general fitness, to athletes looking for accommodation for their own sports specialties.
You have access to everything from piles of resistance bands, grip chalk, olympic weightlifting bars, gymnastics rings, scores of weightlifting belts, wrist wraps, lifting straps, chains, climbing ropes, wheels, rollers, knee wrap tighteners, piles of supplements, cardio machines, plate loaded bodybuilding machines, dozens upon dozens of top of the line barbells and barbell variants, squat yoke bars, kabuki bench bars, trap bars, piles of dumbbells going up to weights that are almost puzzlingly high, heaps of bench bar variations, and hundreds upon hundreds of other things I have absolutely no idea how to use but that Dan will happily explain to you with a sly smile on his face if he is around. Oh, and he will be around. Dan who has a lifetime of high performance lifting experience and many other accomplished lifters are regulars and you will see them and you will learn from seeing how they work on themselves. I have learned more about keeping myself fit in my months at Boss Barbell than maybe all of my time before I started.
All of that is to say: Boss Barbell quite literally has everything you need to become the strongest person in the world. That isnt just true for men either. Many of the strongest lifters and current record holders at Boss are women. This is a place that isnt just the best in the area, its a place I feel lucky exists and that I am fortunate to belong to. Before I signed up to Boss I spent a little more than a month driving around to all sorts of different gyms in the peninsula and I can say there just isnt one that even comes as close to being as good as this. Sparkle keeps the entire facility from the weight room to the kitchen and lounge in excellent running condition and its simply a quite nice pleasant place to spend your time. My workouts have started taking longer and longer because I just like spending time here.
