Gainesville Barbell

Want to get into competitive powerlifting? Or do you want to get your squat, bench, and deadlift done up right? Come on out to our beginner’s intro to powerlifting class on Sat, 9/14, 9-11. Register on our website gainesvillebarbell.com under upcoming events. We cap at 10 people.

Gym’s always open.

Here’s a photo from the day took lifters through conjugate training—before the PRs, before the tacos. 😀

And a reminder here to give Gainesville Barbell a lil’ votee vote for the best gym in Gainesville.

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Hey you guys, thanks for coming out to our Beginner Powerlifting Class. It’s always fun. It’s always welcoming. Even if you’ve never lifted with a barbell before, come check it out. Or if you lift all the time and just want to see if your lifts would hit comp standards, join us!

Next class
Sep 14
9-11 am
Register online at Gainesvillebarbell.com

This Saturday, 9-11, we’re hosting our free Beginners Powerlifting Class. Register on our website under upcoming events.

Today was so much fun. Thank you for leading today’s seminar, and thank you to everyone who came out! May all your cues become automated, your thorax extended, your lats ever tight.

Last call! seminar tomorrow at Gainesville Barbell from 9-3. Register at Gainesvillebarbell.com under upcoming events.

Please use street parking.

Members who are not registered, please work out around this class time. We’ll be taking over the gym. Thank you!

So many good things today! We lifted. We learned. We ate donuts. We PRd. We shouted. We lifted among friends. We made some new friends. As always, we’re so grateful for the support of the crew. Thank you for coming up to pass along conjugate training methods.

You know, as a kid, I wore a lot of clothes that were bought at thrift stores or were passed down to me from my older sister. Some of the furniture in my house my dad had built from scraps he’d found. He made beautiful things. One Christmas we watched my mom open a series of wrapped boxes, smaller in size than the last, that ended with an old, wooden box—a tea caddy, that he had refinished into a deep cherry color for her. He lined the inside of it in green velvet. Later, my grandma came to live with us, and I remember she made us biscuits the way she had learned to when she was a girl living in the Smoky Mountains, back when they reused the flour sacks for clothing if they needed it. My grandfather worked on to***co farms—he eventually pulled the family out of there—later serving in the Navy, then he was a union man, a Teamster. Eventually the family moved next door to people with money, doctors and such. All of that from what seemed like so little. My mother had Mensa reps coming for her, different colleges wanting her for her brilliance. She taught me how to make sausage gravy the old way like Mammow did, how to feed a family on a budget just as she’d learned. My family has showed me how to make something from nothing, how to build with what you have, how to tend, how to grow. I’m proud of coming from people like this.

I’m proud to find the use in something that is not new, and I’m proud of our gym. It is used, and it’s used hard. And I won’t be made to feel bad because what I have to give is not all brand new. We do this for free, no financial reward. We do it because we love it, plain and simple.

A year ago Gainesville Barbell had its grand opening and first seminar. Since then we’ve more than doubled in membership and moved locations. On June 22nd, we’re hosting another seminar with Trevor, the powerlifting coach who took me to a training international elite total at the wondrous age of 44. He’s coached nine athletes to several All Time World Records. He holds a few of those records himself. We have a few spots left for the seminar on 6/22. Sign up on our website under Gainesvillebarbell.com, upcoming events.

First of all, look at this awesome moment captured by . Second of all, these guys are coming up to host a conjugate training methods seminar with us at GB this Saturday from 11-2. Third, there are a few spots left—please register on the Gainesville Barbell website under upcoming events. Fourth, members—if you train between 11-2 we’re going to be taking over the gym. Feel free to work in with us. Better yet—sign up and join us! Lastly, if you arrive before 11 please use street parking. Right at 11? You can park in the lot.

See you Saturday, you big, beautiful meatheads.

We’re hosting the only seminar in Florida this year. We have a few spots left:. June 22nd, 9-3, register on our website.

Last call for this one! will be with us at Gainesville Barbell on June 15th from 11-2 leading a conjugate training methods seminar. Registration is free and can be found on our website under upcoming events. Do it. Sigh up. Come out. Lift. Have fun. Learn a thing or two.

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We don’t do the selling thing. I mean I don’t give pitches on gym tours, and I don’t make reels to entertain. I just love lifting, and we have a space for people who love lifting too.

If you’re into what we have, cool. If you’re not, also cool. Find your place. Get stronger.

The guys will be with us on June 15th, 11-2, for a seminar on the conjugate training method—the principles founded by Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell. Join us! Come to learn, stay to train.

Register on our website.

We’re running this one back, y’all! is coming to Gainesville Barbell to lead lifters through a seminar on mindset, programming, training, and form cues on June 22nd, 9-3.

Trevor is an ATWR holder who has taken many of his athletes to many ATWRs. This is his only Florida seminar for the year. Get in on it. Register at our website, link in story.

Added bonus: Gainesville Barbell is willing to sponsor two of our members. Send DM if you’re interested.

Ahhhh would you just look at it? We love our new space.

There are differences between benching for gen fitness and benching for competition. In competition you want to limit the range of motion as much as you can while still working within the leverages that are most advantageous for your body. For some people that is going to be a massive back arch. For others it might be a super wide grip. Some have better leg drive with heels up, others while flat-footed. Benching is a skill that can take a lot of time and patience to master.

If you’re trying to test the upper limits of your strength threshold but don’t know where to begin, swing on by.

working the bicepticons this morning, the technical name for biceps if you didn’t know. He and train around 9-11 most days if you’re looking for spotting, camaraderie, or a healthy dose of s**t talking.

Alex .boy.the.beta was putting in the work with today

Thank you for this!

For the first 30 years of my life I was a runner, and I thought I only needed to lift upper body. I thought cardio alone would give me the power I needed to get faster, to be more explosive. Turns out adding squats to my routine cut my fastest mile time from 6:45 to 6:25 two decades later.

Get to squattin’.

So happy to have the guys from coming up to lead us in a Conjugate Training Methods seminar. They’ll cover basic principles and guide lifters through the big three.

Saturday, June 15th 11-2
Free and open to all
Register online at Gainesvillebarbell.com

Here it is y’all! For current members wanting to upgrade membership, send an email to the gym. For new folks out there, the link to sign up for this membership is on the website. Capped at six per class.

Next Beginner Powerlifter Classes Saturday, April 13, 9-11. Free to members and nonmembers.

If you’d like to train powerlifting regularly with us, we have that option now too! We offer classes MWF at 6, noon, and 6.

Check out the website for sign-up info.

Passing it along

Thank you for hosting some of us Gainesville Barbell members for a beginner Oly lifting workshop. It was challenging, humbling, and so much fun. My traps are sore.

Thank you to for taking these awesome shots.

I don’t miss much from my time in the Marines—I don’t miss being fu**ed with, the dumb s**t like raking sand in lines in common areas around the barracks in the Mojave Desert. I don’t miss the egos from people who advanced in rank through time but not competence. I don’t miss being a world apart from people I love.

But you know, I do miss my military friends. I miss all those mother fu***rs. I miss the closeness bound up with training together. And, I think a lot of other veterans might miss that type of connection too. To that end, on the first Saturday of each month we welcome veterans to train at Gainesville Barbell for free.