Power Palace Gym

05/29/2025

Some humor to start your morning

01/04/2025

Happy New Year! In case anyone is looking for some workout songs, I have made public our Spotify playlist of recommendations. Over 24 hours of music, 537 songs to keep you motivated. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03BzNWzgRqTbJIDzZp8Ilu?si=wVpcv0G_SxiNlk8bcXAZPA

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07/11/2024

As a reminder to our members the guide rod safety handles on the vertical leg press is NOT to be used as a brace. Pushing on the handles as a support will knock the guide rod out of its sockets. You shpuld only touch the rod handle to TURN the safety rod into position. Do not try to push the rods forward, it is not a brace.

06/12/2024

Today is our two year anniversary of opening Power Palace Gym in Newberg, OR. Thank you to all our members for your patronage of our fitness club. You're part of making Power Palace a legendary gym!

04/27/2024

Thank you Power Palace Gym for having me over to do photo shoots! I had a great time talking with some of the gym goers and working in my favorite environment!

If you’re looking to book a lifestyle and fitness photo shoot with me then go ahead and click the link down below to book! Book your session now!

https://drakesphotography.pixieset.com/booking/lifestyle-session-package-ll

04/23/2024

Nearly 2-year anniversary tour of Power Palace Gym showing at new equipment and space renovations we've made

Let's do this one more time, as we have a few more things added to the gym floor since the last time I made a gym tour video. We have over 60 pieces of equip...

03/30/2024

Our Pit Shark Belt Squat is now on the floor and ready for use! https://www.instagram.com/p/C5HxjYxrlDh/

02/29/2024

The importance of using safety bars in the squat rack when lifting, especially if you're alone.

In this reaction video orthopedic surgeon Dr Chris Raynor reacts to some of the fitness influencer tragedies that have occurred (Xiao Hou and Justin Vicky) t...

02/10/2024

Quick tour of Power Palace Gym in Newberg, OR at 6 am on a Saturday. Music: Rock Until You Drop from The Monster Squad Movie Soundtrack

02/05/2024

Lately I have been noticing members doing unusual workouts they have learned from some social media influencer. I just want to remind people that just because an influencer is popular does not make their advice good to follow and you have to be careful about what is said online. Case in point, this video from a popular powerlifting channel Garage Strength.

Even though the video is bad, I think it's good for people to see bad information can be wrapped up in professional looking video editing so just because something is well edited doesn't mean the advice is necessarily good.

And the video is poor advice. I personally know several people who have damaged their backs, specifically their spines, doing as he suggests. The video is very misleading, suggesting conventional advice to deadlift with a straight back is "bad for you", when in reality what he means by bad is "not able to lift as much". His definition of good is only on what will let you lift the most amount of weight, and he doesn't care if you get injured in the process.
This advice is going to get people severely injured. Do some powerlifters and strong men lift with rounded backs? Yes. Do they injure themselves in the process? Very often, yes they do which is why these sports have high injury rates. Even Eddie Hall, who is used as an example in the video, damaged his back deadlifting like this. The reason people get injured deadlifting with a rounded back is because by using the lower back as a lever to lift you place tremendous strain on the discs of your spine, and those don't get stronger no matter what you do. I know someone, right now, who can barely move without constant pain because he too thought all that mattered is getting the weight up and his form didn't matter. Now he needs surgery to fuse his discs together and he'll never be able to deadlift again.

There are of course good channels out there but when you're inexperienced to a sport, you really need to be careful about who you listen to. We do have experienced and knowledgeable personal trainers at Power Palace who have a good track record of teaching correct form that will reduce the chance of injury when weightlifting. If you are interested in personal coaching to get a solid foundation, just let us know. Be careful about sources on the net, even guys like this who supposedly look professional and credible can give very bad advice.

Is the best technique to pull more weight on the deadlift actually bad for you and have people been coaching the deadlift wrong this whole time ...

01/15/2024

Yes we are open during the snow. Apparently Planet Fitness is not but we are! Reception hours 10 am to 8 pm. 24 hr access for members