As much as I love my gym (and love endeavoring to make it better and better), I’m still a bit sheepish when it comes to self-promotion. It just doesn’t come as naturally to me as it does for some. That said, thank god for people like Karen Hery and her wonderful organization, The Sunnyside Sway Shop. I’m a long-time and proud sponsor, as you may know. Here’s another glowing write-up she recently submitted to her members. Karen’s a gym member, neighborhood resident and tireless community advocate. She knows and loves this neighborhood like no other, so to get her continued endorsement means everything. Thanks again, Karen.
DC
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The rain brings happy families into the swap shop, our middle schoolers even more happily into The Roost and many of us back into the work out gym too.
If all you need is a reminder that the
Green Micro Gym exists (a mere block from the Swap Shop) then I have done my duty as a promoter of our fine local micro business scene.
If you need a reminder of what personal time even looks like . . .
The Green Micro Gym just might be a place to get some of it back.
When Dan Caplan picked out the equipment and opened up a green minded work out spot last fall, he wasn’t setting up a work out room for the guy who spends hours and hours in the gym “pumping iron.” He was thinking of the rest of us who have a precious bit of time to exercise and want to spend it well.
When you get a tour of the Green Micro Gym it won’t be from the most recently hired employee making just a bit above minimum wage. Dan is a simple, straight forward, one-man show. He knows you are going to stay where you feel welcome and use the machines you really understand so he takes the time to tailor your tour to what you most need to know.
If you know you’d do better, especially at the start, with a personal trainer, Dan, or a few other great people who have gotten involved in the last year, can be that important force of inspiration for a reasonable fee. If all you really need is to be well trained on the equipment (as a first timer or lapsed gym goer), Dan does that very well on an ongoing basis for free.
I appreciated the tour he gave me when I joined last fall. I’m my own one woman flash mob when I work out . . . . in and out before anyone even realizes I’m there (or my muscles get a chance to protest). When I joined Dan helped me find several major muscle group ways to hit all the important spots without a lot of repetition.
This week I asked him to show me one more thing to do that wasn’t already in my routine. He listened to what I was doing and added another arm and shoulder exercise.
Even if you can’t imagine adding one more thing into your life, Dan has a way of making working out almost painless. Pandora is waiting for you to type in your favorite artist on the sound system. You have a four digit code to the front door (just like we do at the swap shop) and you can come in 5am to 11pm any day of the week.
The two three month memberships that Dan generously donated to the Autumfest have been scooped up already so you will have to pay the $100 joining fee (good for two people if you are taking the road to better health with a loved one) and $36 for one person, $66 for a couple. All for the privilege of working out in an easy place to care about the environment since the cardio machines feed back into the grid and the lights only get flipped on in the areas someone is really using.
Taking some personal time to work out needs to be easy or we won’t do it with so many other things asking for our attention. So glad Dan is running a great gym in Sunnyside. Hope you are too.
The Green Microgym
Daniel Caplan
828 SE 34th Avenue, Suite B (just off Belmont across the street from the Hobnob Grill)
(503) 313-6216
