Oregon College Road Trip

Last Friday I had the opportunity to tour the University of Oregon and Oregon State athletic facilities with Jarod. These are the facilities that only the student athletes have access to so it's really the best of what this type of training has to offer. We are doing research in this area because we want to bring these advanced training principles to our properties. We have a great oppportunity to do this at the Oregon and Pleasanton clubs with some of the space realocation we are planning on doing.

Here are a few of the pictures I took. The top one is the Oregon State weight room from above. Note the lack of machines - 90% of their work is "ground based", that's where the athlete is standing and not sitting on a machine. Keep in mind this is for all 650 or so athletes from all sports, not just football.

The second picture is a shot from Oregon State's facility. They had about 24 of these racks with a Free Motion cable cross for every two racks.

We liked how they did the logos on the platform, it really added to the look.

The third picture is from Oregon, it's a large stretching space above the weight room. The unique thing was the wall of wood rungs, a little like what some of us had in our old school PE rooms. They had a variety of strength and stretch exercises posted on the wall. We thought that was a good idea. I told Jarod to get out of the way of the picture but he was being a little difficult.

Jarod made a nice block on 66, a little too much gut on that guy- not Jarod, 66. The last picture is an example of how Oregon took a cool catch phrase "Win The Day" and pulled it through from the athletes' locker room to the inside of the football stadium. I took this picture outside the stadium at the players entrance. If you watched the Oregon-Stanford game on TV Saturday night you may have seen the WTD logo.