A Toast to Tahoe
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When Lake Tahoe gets crazy storms and the mountains shut down due to dangerous conditions (as was the case in the last few days with more than 5 feet of fresh snow arriving overnight), it's a great time to try out one of our amazing indoor gyms.
With many options, Lake Tahoe serves it up when it comes to superb, top-of-the-line indoor places to work out. From weight-lifting to Pilates, CrossFit to trampoline work, there is a gym for pretty much any type of workout that you prefer to do. Continue reading to learn about 16 different indoor gym options to help you stay fit and fabulous when it's too cold and snowy to go outside.
Photo: Blue Granite Climbing Gym lets you get lofty when the weather is frightful. Photo courtesy of Blue Granite
PeloDogs Pilates + Indoor Cycling
South Lake Tahoe
PeloDog is one of those places that makes you feel welcome the moment you walk in the door. Catering to the health benefits of Pilates and indoor cycling, their motto is that all are invited. With an exercise mentality that builds upon a foundation of creating layers of difficulty, PeloDogs empowers the individual to advance their personal workout as desired, helping to build confidence in one's own strength. Their workouts focus on lunge and balance work, magnifying a person's strength and mobility. Not to mention, this type of exercise is monumental for having the endurance needed for skiing or snowboarding. Be ready for fun, motivating, uplifting and intense workouts that are driven by results.
High Altitude Fitness
Incline Village and Truckee
High Altitude Fitness is such a favorite in the community that they needed to open two locations. With nearly two decades of serving up workouts, High Altitude has succeeded in their mission to "provide a facility and an empowered staff that helps individuals and the community on their journey to health and wellness." Both state-of-the-art gyms are impressive in the indoor playground that they offer, yet each has its own specialty. The Incline Village gym is a 3,000-square-foot facility that offers a large group fitness studio, a separate spin and TRX studio, a dedicated yoga studio, dry saunas and impressively renovated locker rooms. The space also offers various cardio machines such as treadmills, ellipticals and Life Fitness cardio machines as well as lifecycle bikes, tension boards and PreCore AMT trainers. A favorite part of this club, though, is The Yard, where you can find oversized tractor tires, battle ropes, ply bags and a Rogue Monkey Rig. The Truckee location is considered the largest indoor gym in the township with 27,000 square feet of exercise space split into a 12,000-square-foot climbing gym, more than 50 cardio machines, 10 Olympic weight lifting stations, a free weights room, kilter boards and three different group fitness studios. For those who are in the area often, High Altitude offers a fantastic membership that gives you full access to both locations for one price. You can't get much better than that.
High Altitude Fitness allows for gathering with friends while enjoying a good sweat. Photo courtesy of High Altitude Fitness
Woodward Tahoe
Boreal
A world-renowned location for pro skiers and riders, this is the place to come and train for dropping cliffs, riding park and succeeding at aerial maneuvers. This one-of-a-kind facility offers a sports playground that is complete with 11 outdoor parks, eight lifts to access the goods and huge skateparks. There is also a giant indoor foam-jumping play zone that comes with coaches to help you fine tune your skills.
Blue Granite Climbing Gym
South Lake Tahoe
Blue Granite Climbing Gym is the epicenter for all indoor climbing. This impressive arena is a full-scale rock-climbing gym that offers everything that you desire. From rope climbs to bouldering, the chance to refine technique is abundant here. They also offer fitness equipment, yoga and climbing classes as well as the ability to rent the center for parties and get togethers.
Gym Love
South Lake Tahoe
It's all in the name at Gym Love. With a mission to "house a gym culture of love, motivation, inspiration and fun," this is a beautiful place of inclusion all in the name of health. All members are considered a part of the love tribe at Gym Love, which translates to a place of support on your fitness journey. Know that Gym Love has your back when it comes to giving you access to the best in tools, coaching and innovative training.
Elevated Tahoe
South Lake Tahoe
With 30 years as an active gym and eight years voted Best Gym in Tahoe, Elevated Tahoe is one to put on your hit list. Why? It has a lot to do with their facility, which comes with top-rated equipment. Their staff is the other aspect that keeps this place a favorite. Their coaching is centered on offering a personalized approach, knowing that each person has their own strengths and struggles. Beyond offering a motivating, fun, results-proven atmosphere, Elevated Tahoe also is part of the green program, in which they convert human energy into usable energy. Using their power-generating exercise equipment, the patrons working out enables them to produce more electricity than they consume. This gives them the unique title as the only carbon-neutral gym in the entire United States!
Club 100
South Lake Tahoe
Considered both a private gym and a fitness studio, Club 100 is considered a place of camaraderie in an exercise community. Their private gym memberships gives you the ability to gain access to their impressive gym 24 hours a day as well as other exclusive rights. Their studio memberships are the access point for anything group related, including Spin classes, TRX, Boot Camp, yoga and strength conditioning. There are also special memberships that allow both access to the classes as well as the private gym where you can experience one-on-one personal training with highly skilled Club 100 trainers.
CrossFit Avalanche
Kings Beach
The Kings Beach CrossFit is superbly located for anyone situated on the north shore of Lake Tahoe or Truckee. Built by locals, CrossFit Avalanche is a gym that is obviously filled with a love for what they do. Stepping into the space, it is immediately evident that there is passion, camaraderie and connection shared by all. Their classes are continually shifting and changing, creating the ability to train the entire body. But there's always a foundation of accuracy, agility, balance, coordination, endurance, flexibility, power, speed, stamina and strength as the rule.
If strength and endurance are what you are looking for, then look no further than CrossFit. Photo courtesy of Kelly Edelman of CrossFit Avalanche
South Tahoe CrossFit
South Lake Tahoe
When it comes to fitness, CrossFit is known internationally as a major player. With the importance that staying fit plays in Lake Tahoe, it is no wonder that this impressive organization has made a name for itself. Known for routines that are safe and highly effective, CrossFit's reputation for implementation of an exercise system that is paired with sound nutrition has incredible results. The South Shore branch is dedicated to helping those who are just beginning the CrossFit path as well as those who have years under their belt.
Anytime Fitness
Zephyr Cove
Anytime Fitness is aptly named. With plentiful hours, the gym is easily accessible no matter when the urge to exercise arises. Known for their supportive atmosphere, the name of the game at Anytime Fitness is to meet you where you are. All of the trained coaches create a unique plan that is specific to you, depending on your abilities, strength level and goals. As described by the gym, their plan has a 360-degree approach to your health, making it a certainty that nothing is skipped in the process, giving you the best chance at success.
Inversion Gym
South Lake Tahoe
The Inversion Gym is a place to get upside down and topsy turvy. Created by esteemed coaches Amy Thompson and Tris Cochrane, Inversion Gym is a 6,400-square-foot space dedicated to gymnastics. Open year-round and known for creating an atmosphere that is fun, Inversion Gym focuses on recreational gymnastics. This includes trampoline work, tumbling and aerial arts. They offer a girls' gymnastics team as well as Kindergym for ages 3 and older, a Parent & Me class for kiddos from 18 months and open gym time for those who would like to keep it more personalized. The equipment at their disposal is impressive, with side-by-side Olympic trampolines with padded walls, a 40' TumblTrak, a spring floor, women's uneven bars, high and low beams, a vault and a mini-trampoline.
Ensync Spin Studio
South Lake Tahoe
Ensync Spin Studio is all about cycling. Offering high-intensity, full-body spin classes, all of their workouts offer music, special lighting and highly trained instructors who know how to get you to your best. The space is considered a "no judgement" facility and the most important aspect is that you are enjoying yourself and getting a good sweat on. As they like to say, "Be you, and for those 45 minutes be the best you you want to be."
Tahoe Flow Arts & Fitness
Tahoe Vista
Tahoe Flow Arts is not just a yoga studio. This a welcoming place for energized focus, honoring one's natural beauty and finding motivation to be the person you have always dreamed of becoming. They offer fitness classes, yoga sessions and performing arts exhibits. As a place of acceptance and compassion, it is the goal of Tahoe Flow Arts to bring the community together through the mantra "Play, Train, Perform."
Strength, honor, compassion and respect are all aspects of the training at Escobar Training Grounds. Photo courtesy of Escobar Training Grounds
Escobar Training Grounds
South Lake Tahoe
Kickboxing is one of those activities that is not only fun, but also gets you in shape quick. Escobar Training Grounds is the place to go for this fantastic exercise as well as for karate and mixed martial arts. Housed in a spacious 5,000-square-foot gym, Escobar's classes are, on average, an hour long and burn around 500 calories. This is known to not only enhance physical health, but also brain power because of the stimulation to the cerebral cortex when learning something new. There are classes for children and adults, with every age and ability accounted for. The facility also offers a full boxing ring and more than 15 heavy bags for punching practice.
The Bar - Fitness Studio
Truckee
If you are looking for group classes that will make you feel the burn, you need to try The Bar. Known for their cardio classes that get results, they offer a variety of choices. From high impact to low impact, the spectrum of possibilities includes Barre, Pilates, cardio kickboxing, bootcamp, yoga and TRX. Each class is sculpted to the particular attendance, making sure to keep all attendees safe and motivated. Instructors are known for their superb modifications that fit each person's own physical needs.
A Sante Fitness
Tahoe City
A Sante is the only gym in Tahoe City that is nestled on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Superbly located for enjoying Lake Tahoe's beautiful scenery before or after your workout, A Sante provides everything you need to stay in shape. They have a free-weight section as well as Nautilus weights, weight machines, plyo boxes and a space for group classes. For rainy days, their cardio zone is wonderful for watching the storms roll over Big Blue.
After getting a good sweat on, enjoy one of the entertaining events happening around the lake. Learn more on either the Daytime or Nightlife section.
About the Author Shanie Matthews
A longtime Lake Tahoe local, Shanie is a freelance writer, Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher and positivity warrior. A true lover of the the gorgeous Tahoe region, she connects with the serenity of the mountains via skiing, biking and backpacking. She also believes in the gift of yoga and its way of allowing one to become his or her true best self, a passion she shares with the world with her online yoga studio.
