The Booster Club of Estacada High School in 2001-2002 designed, developed, constructed and equipped a combination Weight&Wrestling room for the students and Estacada Community. The building is 42 feet wide and 160 feet long. You are looking at the front of the building in the picture below. Directly behind the camera in this picture are the lockerroom doors for the varsity boys and girls teams. Beyond those are the main and aux gyms. On either side of the main entry are men's and women's restrooms. To the left of the building you can see the fences for the tennis courts. Beyond that are the Frosh&JV football fields where the pop warner teams play in the fall; there are soccer fields, an all weather track and baseball fields as well. These restrooms are the only outside facilities for the public to use. Prior to this construction people had to use Port-A-Pots. This rates as a vast improvement, especially when you consider there are up to several hundred people using these facilities for practice, meets and games. The weightroom is located in the near part of the building. Its dimensions are 42X66 not counting the entry. Beyond the weightroom is a middle seciton which includes an office for the weightroom, storageroom and an office for the wrestlingroom. Beyond these rooms is the wrestlingroom itself which is a bit larger than the weightroom, approx 42X74.
As you enter the weightroom you come to an open/aerobic multi-use space that is used for a variety of purposes including team meetings. The building is equipped with a projection video system on the wall behind you to the left of where you are standing (a 36 inch TV is mounted on the wall behind you to the right); a complete sound system; video and DVD for aerobic classes. As you can see we have 6 BFS Power Racks on the outside walls of the facility, 5 clean/deadlift platforms running down he middle; two carryover squat racks at the far end; 2 dip bars. To the right just out of the pic along the wall we have a hipsled, a compound leg machine and 2 glut ham developers as well as an erg (rowing machine). To the left along the wall are located two racks of bumbells with weights ranging from 2.5 to 100 pounds. The entire floor is covered with BFS half inch rubber flooring. The platforms are an additional three quarter inch BFS rubberized flooring. Between the platforms and the racks are located tiers of weights, vertical bar racks, and a walkway.
Rightside of the room
Looking back toward the entry
The most used piece of equipment in the room is the Power Rack. It enables us to bench, incline (the bench is a multi-use/adjustable one on wheels), squat. box squat, power clean, power snatch, jerk press, push press, do chinups, and trap bar deadlift all a the same station. We have the group organize into lifting groups of 4. That way one guy lifts, two spot and one records all at the same station. Six stations X 4 in a group accommodates 24. We then have the 2 carryover squat racks, the 5 platforms, bumbell area, glutham developers, hip sled areas to accommodate aux lifting activities while those at the stations are completing their core lifts. We can easily handle a class of 50 athletes in this room with everyone staying on task.
Notice the windows. The windows open for ventilation in spring and summer. We also have a heat pump for each side of the building. There are 16 windows in the room which has a 12 foot high ceiling. These windows let in lots of natural light which provides for an open, airyness to the room with the 12 foot ceilings. I recommend to go no lower than 12 feet for heighth for a variety of good reasons.
Here we have students going through a BFS Plyo routine on the boxes which are stored along the side of the aerobic area. The athletes really like doing plyos and they are great for speed and explosion. Notice the bumbells along the wall in the background.
The room and equipment were completely donated to the district. We figure that we have a $500,000 facility that was constructed and equipped for less that $250,000. Consier this: the excavation was done by a contractor father; concrete work by a father of EHS athletes; roofing, electrical, communications, cable, alarm, interior walls, plumbing, painting, siding, framed by former EHS athletes, etc - the list goes on.
The facility is in constant use beginning with 'Zero hour lifting' before school at 6:06 AM. P.E. Classes use it during the day for instruction, the wrestlers and after school lifting continue the use after school with Junior wrestlers finishing things off in the evening. There is a community aerobics class that regularly uses the room now and we are working on a community use schedule as we work on the finishing touches. During the summer we conduct a BFS Strength And conditioning Program for all athletes of the school and community daily in these facilities.