Apply your $100 or $150 enrollment fee toward Personal Training, Small Group Personal Training, or Trainer Assisted Independent Workout Programs

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We’re all about Sustainability at The Green Microgym.  Sustainability for you, and sustainability for us.

For you, we want you to successfully achieve the vision you have when you join a gym.  If you succeed, so do we.  But the harsh reality is that 80% of the people who join a gym quit or stop coming regularly within 3 months.  We don’t want that, and neither do you.

That’s why we give you $100 or $150 toward personal training, small group, or trainer assisted independent workouts with your enrollment, because we know that 90% of people who are successful at the gym have worked with a trainer.

Sustainability for us means we have happy, committed, consistent, long term members and training clients.  We are committed to paying a competitive wage to our employees, keeping the facilities up to date and clean, and continually innovating and experimenting with new ideas, programs, and technology.

We feel it’s our job to continually encourage you to try out new things, work with our Eco Fitness Personal Trainers to achieve your goals and aspirations, and be one of the 1% of gym members who are really happy about how they look and feel!

We know this will happen if you feel like we are genuinely trying our best to get to know you, so we can help you, while also making sure that we are running a successful, profitable, and sustainable business.

It’s Not About Fitness Models, It’s About Role Models.  Everything we do, from our electricity generating exercise equipment, to our energy saving culture, to our Eco-Fitness Personal Training, to our Supportland supported workout rewards has been carefully designed to make your world, and ours, a better place.

One of the main complaints we hear about gyms is that you feel like we are always trying to sell you something you don’t want. Will we try to sell you on our products and services?  Absolutely we will. We have to in order to succeed.  But we will strive to do this in a way that makes you feel like we’re offering you options that will truly help you achieve your goals.  We know this is the best way to do business.

See you soon!

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Apply your $100 or $150 enrollment fee toward Personal Training, Small Group Personal Training, or Trainer Assisted Independent Workout Programs

More info on memberships…

We love all gyms – and we know you can use any facility to get a great workout.  We might not love the employment practices, selling pressure, intimidation factor, and energy usage and carbon footprints of the huge (and many smaller) gyms, but they certainly do offer a wide variety of options at prices smaller gyms just can’t compete with.

After working with thousands of people over the years, the one aspect of our gym that always stands out is the non-intimidating, member-controlled atmosphere.

Sellwood Stretching Area

At The Green Microgym, you don’t have to put up as many invisible walls as you might at a more traditional gym to get through your workout.  Quite the contrary. In fact, you are able to:

• Choose the amount of lighting you want while you workout, instead of living with an “All ON” atmosphere as in most gyms
• Choose the type and volume of music playing in the background, if any, instead of having loud pop music going all the time
• Watch the shows you want, when you want, with our Ipad enabled ellipticals and member controlled TV sets, instead of the standard ESPN/CNN fare at most gyms
• Take advantage of our expert Eco Fitness Personal Trainers who are ready and willing to help you get fit and healthy in a sustainable way, stressing movements over muscles (and they won’t try to upsell you costly supplements and diet pills)

Great Colors

We’re not the cheapest (it’s impossible to be the cheapest and the best), and we’re not the biggest gyms out there, but we believe we have created an atmosphere for working out that provides most people with exactly what they need to keep coming back, over and over again, which is of course, the very best way to get the most value from a gym membership.

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No Other Gym:

Helps you change YOUR world and THE world

Rewards you for exercising with SUPPORTLAND

Has IPADS on ellipticals

Generates Electricity

Offers no-long-term-contract monthly memberships

Has Eco Fitness Personal Training

Has free member led classes

Has an energy saving culture

Lets you control the TVs, Fans, Lights, and Music

Has its own line of Natural Fruit Smoothies

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CONVENIENCE:

• we’re close to home
• open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with key-code access

UNIQUE, COMFORTABLE ATMOSPHERE:

• Make your workout space your own with member controlled music, TV, climate, lighting, etc.
• Watch whatever you want, whenever you want on our Ipad enabled ellipticals
• 5 Star Rated by our members

ECO FRIENDLY, COMMUNITY SUPPORTING, COMMON SENSE, SIMPLE, SUSTAINABLE VALUES:

• Earn rewards for your effort and support local businesses with your Supportland Card and our Burn and Earn program
• Participate in, or even teach our member led classes (teachers get free membership)
• Create a sustainable fitness lifestyle with our Eco Fitness Training

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Even though data shows 90% of the people getting results in the gym are working with a personal trainer, we know that not everyone can commit to personal training for financial or time restrictions. But we want to make sure you get the most out of your membership.  Our self-directed programs still give you the opportunity to be “coached” through your workout.

Read on to find out about our basic and Micoach assisted self-directed programs, starting at $99.

Curious how we develop our exercise routines?  We use the adidas MiCoach system to enhance our programming with exercises and training philosophies created by Core Performance.   Core Performance is an industry leader in fitness and athletic performance.  Adam had the opportunity to meet the founders a couple years ago at their headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where they fit him in between preparing NFL prospects for the draft and meeting with a delegation from the Chinese government!

“MiCoach is pretty cool, and I love not having a stupid notebook to fuss with”, says Doug from The Green Microgym Alberta, who has been using the equipment for 3 weeks.

We believe in these systems so much that our training staff uses them to have their own “coached” sessions.  Ask us about it next time you see us working out!

The BASIC Program:

If you are comfortable with the gym equipment and familiar with exercises, our 3-week Basic Program would be perfect for you.  After an initial assessment, we will email you 3 customized functional training workouts each week. You will also have the ability to schedule an exercise tutorial with one of our trainers in case an exercise or two looks unfamiliar.  Additionally, we will check in with you weekly to see how you are progressing.

ADD the Micoach Trainer:

We offer a more extensive program using the MiCoach Trainer. The equipment includes a heart rate monitor, stride sensor, and pacer to keep you on track during your workouts.  We will help you get set up and check in with you weekly for equipment and exercise support.

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CHECK OUT OUR IPAD ENABLED ELLIPTICALS

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I didn’t know this, but it turns out once they get into your site, it’s pretty hard to get completely rid of them, so I made the decision to completely wipe the site out, switch to a new host provider, and start from scratch.

It’s disappointing to think about all the content we’ve lost, but encouraging to know I have a clean slate to work with, where I can re-imagine what I want our site to look like.

And an obvious parallel can be drawn between your fitness and starting from scratch.  You might have been injured, got really sick,  or just haven’t exercised for years.  Or, you might just be bored out of your mind with your current fitness situation.

You can always throw out everything you know and have done before, and start from scratch!

Take up a new activity, get one of the many new digital devices that will track your heart rate, track your data, and coach you (I recommend micoach from adidas), or get some personal training.

In life, we always have a choice to see challenges as a huge hassle or as an opportunity for growth, and you never know what the future brings.

So goodbye old website and hello new one!

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