Lloyd Athletic Club

I work out here 6 – 7 days a week and will break it down simply:
+ staff is great (Especially Bill and Michael in the mornings)
+ never packed when I go in
+ Towels, shampoo, soap, q-​tips, tissues, hair dryers available at no charge
+ Fairly inexpensive to join
+ Always a free cardio machine or space in the weight room
+ Courts seem good, though I don’t personally use them
+ Beer on tap
+ Retro in a cute way
+ Always a locker & vanity space available
+ Sauna and Steam room in the locker rooms
+ Older, friendly crowd; no bros here
+ Relaxed vibe
+ Basketball court
— Old machines (buttons on treadmills are tough to get responses from)
— Basic selection of equipment to use
— Parking is a pain in the butt anytime after 7 am and people will just idle in the parking lot without management doing anything about it.
— Most of the trainers are oddly out of shape
— couple bucks more than LA Fitness down the road, which offers a wider selection of equipment
— Music in locker rooms is out of place for being a gym (think Nora Jones and other slow, depressing tunes). I’ve asked staff about this and they say that many people complain, but management wont change.
— Showers are a bit gross (think wadded up hair in the drain for weeks, and fruit flies)
LAC serves my purposes, but as always, with the good comes the bad. I’m happy enough with this gym, but if you’re looking for big, shiny and new, this won’t be what you’re looking for. Otherwise, I’m sure it will work for you just fine. :)

If you’re not a gym person, then this is the gym for you. The facilities aren’t huge but there are always cardio and weight machines open/​soon to be open. It’s basic in a no frills, lived-​in kind of way. I signed up with my partner and we pay 30 dollars each/​month. Can’t beat that.

This place is super old-​school in the best ways possible. The squash courts are nice and well maintained. The locker rooms are dated but more than serviceable. The hot tub, sauna, and other facilities are a nice bonus. The cardio machines are super new and nice and the free weights are fine. It’s a good deal for the price and everyone that works there seems to work really hard to keep it in good shape. The clientele trends slightly older but that’s okay. No gym bros grunting away.
Also, they have beer on tap should your post-​work-​out require it!

I signed up for a membership two weeks ago and so far I really enjoy it. The club is clean, a good amount of equipment and classes, and a friendly staff.
I love that the locker rooms have shampoo, soap, q-​tips, aftershave, tissues, etc. Plus towel service. The steam room is great.
Overall, cheaper than the corporate guys and had everything I needed.

I enjoy the LAC because it’s got more character than a lot of other cookie-​cutter chain gyms. The members skew older and so it makes for a very relaxed and non-​intimidating environment.
I was just there for fitness (not the courts) and it suited my needs well. The free weight area is well-​appointed but small. Same for the cardio area, but suprisingly there was always an available cardio machine when I needed it.
It also has lots of nice amenities, from big stuff like the locker room hot tub and sauna (which were never ever crowded when I used them — usually I had them all to myself) to small stuff like complementary shampoo, body wash, and q-​tips. Really convenient for hitting the gym before work.
Some of the drawbacks — the towels are very thin and scratchy, and only available at the front desk, so if you want one for working out and one for drying off after showering, you must remember to grab 2 on the way in. A stack in the locker room would be great. Also I found matted hair in the showers more than once. But overall these are small gripes that you would find at almost any gym.
I recently cancelled my membership for financial reasons, and this process was pretty painless as well. I appreciate that they don’t use high pressure tactics to gain/​keep your membership.
If I do join a gym again I will be back!

Words can not adequately express my feeling about Lloyd Athletic Club. I became a member 3 years ago and through help and inspiration, I have attained most all of my personal goals over these last few years. I have a personal trainer that is second to best and he is Rigo Ramirez. Rigo has worked with me for over a year and through his motivating and my determination, we have succeeded on many fronts. Rigo has inspired me to enter the Shamrock Walk this year, something that I have never done and in May I am biking in a 25 mile ride to raise money for Doernbecher Childrens Hospital. Rigo helped make this happen by helping to get me into the best shape possible to accomplish my goals. I couldn’t have done this without Rigo and I recommend him to anyone that asks about a personal trainer. I find the whole staff to be so supportive of my goals and my accomplishments. You couldn’t ask for a better staff of folks to work with at LAC. I can’t say enough about LAC so it best that I just stop and say, check it out… you will be greeted with genuine friendliness and concern for your goals.

This is a great gym! It is definitely a club atmosphere with the bistro, lobby lounge, and all the great amenities including towel service. I really enjoy having the hot tub and dry sauna in the locker rooms for a it of privacy.
The weight room has most everything you could need or want in order to hit your total body and has a lot of racquetball ball courts. My favorite part is the multi functional area where you can go all out with plyos and cardio! Great gym!

I gave LAC a shot recently and I wasn’t terribly impressed. Overall, this is probably a great gym for a lot of people and I am grateful that they offered a trial pass to allow me to see if we’d be compatible.
My biggest gripe is with the website representation of their «Max Conditioning Studio». The photos on this section of their page are not of their facility. To me, this was incredibly misleading as I had based my decision to try them out on the equipment I had seen in those photos.
A couple of smaller issues I had was the floor under the single squat rack is uneven! There’s a fairly large ridge running straight through the middle of the platform. You can stand further forward or backward to avoid this ridge… but it’s really unacceptable in my opinion. Also, they don’t offer full sized plates (or at least that I saw). This makes any lift off of the ground to be awkward if you’re pulling over 135# and used to a full sized plate.
The LAC does offer a lot of nice amenities. If you’re looking for something beyond weightlifting and conditioning, it may be a good idea to check this place out.

Definitely a hidden gem of Portland. Awesome place to work out and reasonable prices at the bar (4 beers on tap!). Super fun to work out, have a beer, and watch a game in the main lobby as long as you don’t mind sitting with some sweaty people. I started going here over two years ago and asked one of the other members one day about squash and have been playing 2 – 3 times per week ever since. There is a really positive and welcoming community of squash players there. Racquetball and handball too. The pricing is outrageously reasonable. The locker rooms are clean (I don’t know what people are complaining about in the comments – the staff is constantly cleaning them all day long). The hot tub can get a little gnarly, but probably just due to the high volume of people using it all day. The wet and dry saunas are nice and the showers do what they’re supposed to. Complimentary Q-​tips are sweet. Some people bring their kids, and I think that’s totally cool as long as you don’t let them run all over the place. The place has personality (unlike a big box gym) and the staff are courteous. I’d give it 6 stars if I could, LAC is sick.

This place is SO awesome!
Suchhhhh friendly, fresh warm towel service out of the dryer… Lots of new equipment, good quality. The facility is an older one, but they have kept it super clean and well maintained. I will definitely be getting a membership once my move to Portland is Ok’d (fingers crossed!)
Only took off 1 star because the building has NO windows whatsoever to the outside world… that usually is too intense for me, but its nice enough in there that it wasn’t a deal breaker.
xox Love you LAC! ;)

LAC is a great gym. Regular Gyms where anyone can feel comfortable are getting rare. There’s a ton of classes, racquetball, squash, a good weight area, saunas, steam rooms, hot tubs, free towels, and even a lounge with beers on tap. I highly recommend them

Great gym. Unpretentious, super friendly. Parking can be tough, but you can always park at the mall and walk over (I mean… it is 2 blocks… you ARE going to the gym, right?). Free weights, machines, classes, cardio equip, tvs, sauna, steam room, hot tub, racquetball, bar… It’s got it all. I love it!

This place is pure perfection if you are looking for a good workout. It friendly and completely unpretentious. The facility is so 80’s that is actually coming back into style. Love this joint.

So far, so good. I’ve been a member for about a week now and I’ve really enjoyed it. I wanted a douche-​free gym, and I found it. There are a considerable amount of seniors here, and a handful of young folks who are super down to earth and just trying to stay healthy.
There are treadmills, ellipticals, rowing machines, bikes, tons of weight machines, free weights, racquetball courts, studios, an in-​ground hot tub in each locker room, beers on tap, a sunken living room with a fireplace… plus, the staff is super friendly.
I look forward to working out now, and that says something about the place! Try a week long trial asap, if you’re looking for a new gym!

I love this place. It friendly and completely unpretentious. It has everything you need for a fitness club and is affordable. If you’re looking to meet single hot men or women it probably isn’t the scene you are looking for as the average age seems to be around 60+. But there’s a bar and sunken fireplace area… its very Ron Burgundy. I think its great.

I recently became a member here and I dig it. You can usually reserve a racquetball court last minute, the classes are killer (Regina is awesome), and the hot tub and steam room are great facilities to be able to use. The cardio and weights areas are stocked and provide lots of variation for a good workout.
My only peeves are that:
1) The locker rooms are kind of gross. Not for lack of trying, but there’s a million people in there at all times, which causes lots of wear and tear on an already old building.
2) The majority of workout classes are for «Silver Sneakers» (Elderly people) during the day. I have a weird schedule so I don’t have the ability to do early morning or evening classes like 9−5ers, so my class options are limited in that way.
Other than that, a reasonable rate for a lot of fitness!

I’m going to make this simple.
+ Towel service
+ Bar, even with fresh smoothies
+ Great, private showers
+ Sauna and hot tub INSIDE women’s shower room
+ Shampoo, body wash, lotion, spray deodorant, hair dryers, Qtips provided
+ Regina & other instructors
+ Not paying a bunch of money to join
+ Always a machine open
+ Better clientele than a lot of gyms (but also older)
+ Location
— A lot of the employees
— The cleaning
— The size of the rooms for classes
— The times for classes
— Not enough of a variety of classes (ie. Zumba is at 5:30 on Wednesdays)
— Not a lot of bench space in the locker rooms
— Parking
Other than that, I don’t have much to say.
They should get more Zumba classes. Heidi at LA Fitness on 82^nd and NW Women’s Fitness is probably the best Zumba instructor in the area. If it weren’t for the negatives at those gyms, I would’ve joined one of them just to take her classes.
That obviously says something about the facilities at LAC.

…a great local gym that is shockingly happy to help out the traveler/​tourist in need of a one week guest pass without gouging for extra cash there really is not enough I can say about the staff at Lloyd Athletic Club and the fact that they gave me full access to their wide range of cardio and weight lifting equipment for a full 9 days at a cost of only $ 25.
Clean and well lit, cardio equipment plentiful, and 5:00am opening hours throughout the week (7am on weekends) plus a totally convenient location and pleasant employees make this place the best «guest gym» I’ve been lucky enough to visit in all of my travels and although jogging outdoors in Portland is excellent I’d head back to Lloyd with any future visit to PDX.

I like this place. I like the old school feel, I like the old school equipment, I like the old school classes, I like the old school towel service… I don’t need new fancy exercise shenanigans. I don’t need shiny equipment and annoying sales people. I don’t need a fancy grandiose ‘pool’.
I’ll tell you what I do need though: I need a gym close to my house. I need a gym that always has a spot open on the treadmill or the elliptical. I need a gym that offers an array of classes that always have room for me. I need a gym that has nice employees, that is affordable, and that isn’t teeming with super hot super athletic super models (I get intimidated, geesh!). I need a gym that has a bar with snacks and beer on tap for those times you just need a beer post-​workout. Now, that time hasn’t happened – YET – but I am looking forward to the day it does.
This isn’t the fanciest most modern gym, and I LIKE that. I feel part of a family here. Granted, I’m like the distant aunt that comes to visit only once a year, but I don’t feel like just another number here like I have at other, more corporate gyms I’ve become a member of.
LAC feels trustworthy, and that’s important to me in something I choose to pay membership fees for every month.

I love this gym! The amount of classes that are included in your standard membership are AWESOME and I love the free towel service and all the amenities in the ladies locker room. I’ve never partaken, but I also like that they serve beer/​wine in the snack area. The equipment is older, but simple to use. And I’ll take older equipment any day if it means not being surrounded by constant beeping while working out.
I’ve only belonged to LAC since moving to Portland, so I can’t compare it to the others in town. But I travel a lot and drop in on gyms in a lot of different places. Most of them charge for towel service and have a industrial/​modernist vibe that just feels kind of sad or boring to me. People are happy at LAC. I like that the staff always seem to be in a good mood.
The lack of pool is a bummer. The reciprocity agreement with 10 Ave Y is a nice perk, but that place is GROSS.
I wish LAC was open later, but that’s really the only improvement I could suggest.