Welcome to www.nevertoostrong.org the website for Jim Schmitz and The Sports Palace.  I may be the last one on the weightlifting block to have a website, so here it is. 

I’ve been weight training, weightlifting, power lifting, bodybuilding and training for sports, health, and fitness since June 27, 1960!  I’ve been teaching and coaching all of the above since 1968 when I got in the gym business with Alex’s Sports Palace at 24th and Mission Streets in San Francisco, California.  In 1972 I bought out my partners and moved the gym to 828 Valencia St and renamed it “The Sports Palace”, where I was located until August of 1998.  From 1998 until 2003 The Sports Palace was part of Valencia Street Muscle & Fitness at 333 Valencia Street.  Since January of 2003 The Sports Palace and myself have been located in the basement (dungeon) of the gym, Physique Magnifique at 387 Grand Ave. South San Francisco, CA., 94080. 

I also do personal training at Emerson Personal Training, 3354 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA., 94611, The Claremont Country Club, and Inside / Outside Fitness, 4444 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA, 94611.  I write weightlifting training articles for MILO Magazine, A Journal For Serious Strength Athletes, www.ironmind.com.  I do USA Weightlifting Coaching Certification Courses.   I sell my weightlifting  training manual and dvd, “Olympic Style Weightlifting For The Beginner & Intermediate Weightlifter” as well as video tapes of all the World Weightlifting Championships and Olympics since 1986.  That’s my story, now for the details.