Sledge Athletic Solutions

This is where you want to be if you want access to the best nutrition food plans and most knowledgeable trainer for form and function.
The gym itself is garage style, bad ass… It produces the best muscles and bodies around.

Not a 24 hour fitness for sure, Sledge is a gym for dedicate people who want to work hard and see results. The place is filled with amateur and pro body builders as well as a handful of MMA fighters. I never saw a single person there just walking on a treadmill or staring in the mirror hoping to make contact with a date prospect.
It’s pretty raw, no frills sort of place. Truck tires, sledge hammers, and ropes replace high tech machines; and boxing ring is great, kind of beat up look makes you wish an 80yr old man was cussing at you to push harder and keep your hands up.
Definitely my favorite gym in the Portland area outside of a few of our famous fight clubs (ala Team Quest, Alive, etc.)

This is a bare metal gym full of serious athletes. You can tell from the clientele that this place gets results. The atmosphere is focused, intense, and approachable.

This garage gym is an oasis in a desert of silly commercial «fitness centers.» The floor is covered in rubber mats instead of carpet. Multiple squat racks instead of just one. Heavy metal instead of Lady Gaga. Cardio machines are present (they have 3 or 4) but they have sleds/​prowlers, battle ropes, heavy bags, jump ropes, and other implements which are better for conditioning anyway. Deadlifting is encouraged rather than shunned. Chalk is provided rather than banned outright like it is in 99% of other gyms. If you’re into MMA and boxing, they have a boxing ring with mitts and thai pads to beat on. Then there are the eponymous sledgehammers ranging from 5 to 60 lbs for you to hit big tires with (which I love to do). They also have trainers who are actually interested in helping you attain your fitness goals rather than just selling you a membership and walking you thru a series of fashionable exercises.
The membership is diverse as well. They fitness levels of its members range from complete novice to elite. Also, despite the intensity of the training going on, it is far from the hostile environment that Planet Fitness would have you believe.
What it doesn’t have: locker rooms, showers, tanning beds, smoothie bar, childcare, etc. However, none of that stuff is necessary for successful training and I don’t miss it even in the slightest. All the tools you need without any of the fluff. Great gym!

Sledge only improves as it matures. If you want to be motivated to be in the best shape of your life there is only one place to be in PDX. Sledge. Nowhere else will you find this many supportive athletes and trainers who are really dedicated to fitness.

Best and only real hardcore gym left in Portland.

This is the best gym in Tigard for bodybuilding and fitness training. I also see a lot of sport specific people, football players and MMA guys training. There are no frills here, just weights and machines and other dedicated people.