Power Station Hood River — Local services in Hood River

The Power Station is the best gym in Hood River, which isn't saying much. The ambiance is nice enough it's slowly being renovated and every week looks a bit nicer. The quotes on the walls are funny and encouraging and Cheno is the best part of the entire gym. There are no areas to stretch out or do plyometrics outside of a tiny space under the stairs where there is a boxing bag in the middle of the space. There is half a rock wall and the free weight area of the gym is connected to a cross fit gym. The cross fitters are the most important clientele at this gym and get clear better treatment than the rest of us. My biggest issue with this gym is who I assume to be the owner/manager. Though I appreciate her zeal to maintain the glory of her hard work, my boyfriend and I have had quite a few run ins with her and have watched her argue with other gym members when they do not treat her weights in her desired manner. I understand that this is a local small business and generally that is something I would love to support but often she is more irritated with us gym rats than motivating. She is often curt and demanding opposed to open and welcoming. I clearly will still go there but it is mainly because there is nowhere else in Hood River...

Old school gym with old school charm, best in Hood River. I love the community here. They have everything you’d want and are open late which is awesome.

None of this justifies the $70/mo price tag however. After three years coming here, I can’t point to any significant improvement aside from basic repairs and a small portable sauna installed (which takes 90 min to heat up…)

Everything else has gone down in quality. Sweat rags which used to be free are now $3 for purchase. Key fobs were phased out in place of a clunky mobile app that doesn’t always work. Staff is hardly present, even during staffed hours, communicating only in cheaply printed all-caps notices taped about the gym. One has to wonder where, if anywhere, their...

Gym playground; Old school gym with personality! PSHR is a great gym for most. What I imagine the gym Arnold and co would train at in the 70s. It's not your soulless corpo gym with 20 treadmills to every one squat rack blasting top 40s hits. At first look it appears to be very weight lifting/cross fit ish focused. But my favorite thing about this gym is the free-form nature of it; want to do duck walks up and down the gym, no problem. Need a space to do military type calisthenics, they got you. Need a group class to get you going, well they got that too. Want to do stair master and then hit a few machines you can do that too. It's a gym playground! sad I moved away and am back at a...