Alabama

• Agoge Fitness

  / (205) 706-3295 “I run a 1,200 2q ft warehouse gym in the back of a personal training gym.I’m a level II Underground Strength Coach with a passion for weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman and all things strong. We’ve got tires, farmer’s handles, squat racks, bumper plates, sand bags, climbing ropes and stones.”

• YMCA Tuscaloosa Central Branch

  (205) 345-9622 “Bumpers, platforms, power rack, squat stands, chalk allowed, very old school, lots of Powerliftinng and Weightlifting Champs from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s trained there or still train there.”

Alaska

• Southside Strength & Fitness

  (907) 771-9881 “2 deadlift platforms, 1 hardwood/rubber oly platform, working on a set of jerk boxes, PL competition rack, traditional power cage ‘monolift’ style (non-hydraulic) cage, ~1 ton of kettlebells 13lb – 106lb”

Arizona

• Anvil Athletics

  (623) 640-2238

• Bare Bones Barbell Club (Crossfit Works)

  (520) 344-7358 “Our gym houses numerous competitive athletes over many disciplines. We full elieko competition sets for both men and women along with numerous platforms. A mono lift and 2 power racks, 1,000+ lbs in metal plate, DBs up to 120 lbs, 3 texas power bars, and a texas deadlift bar for the power lifters. We also have a large strongman contingence. We have 2 yokes, 2 circus dumbbells (both loadable), a husafell (loadable), tires up to 1,600lb, plus a 400+ lb boat chain!”

• Crossfit GTO

  (480) 361-8177 “We have 6 lifting platforms, and a bunch of Hi-temp bumper plates, loads of kettlebells, and wall-to wall 3/4″ rubber flooring.”

• Crossfit Leiftime Fitness

  (480) 269-3481 “Owners are fulltime firefighters.”

• CrossFit Mesa

  (480) 559-XFIT “I like it because it is very welcoming and supporting of my goals.”

• East Valley Crossfit

  (480) 734-3951

• Performance One Advanced Sports Training

  (480) 813-5477 “Joe Micela (owner) is the only coach in the state of Arizona to have been a USAW head coach for athletes at the Nationals, Worlds, Pan American’s, and 2012 Olympics for USA Weightlifting. We offer training in Olympic Weightlifting, Power lifting, seminars and clinics, personal training, sports performance, weight loss, etc.”

Arkansas

• Ross Strength & Speed

  (501) 940-5560 “Four homemade platforms. Plenty of weights. Sean Ross the owner is great to work with any visitors looking for a place to lift.”

California

• Boss Barbell Club

  (650) 293-7477 “Dan Green ( raw) runs the place; will probably have Olympic lifting platforms and a monolift soon.”

• Capitol City Strength and Conditioning

  916.432.3348 “This Strength and Conditioning facility has an emphasis on Olympic Weightlifting. The gym has several platforms laid out with Pendlay bars and plates dedicated to the athletes focusing on Olympic lifting specifically.“

• CrossFit CenCal

  (209) 986-1426 “We lift big things! Or at least we try! I am usaw level 2, hold a bachelors in sports med and masters in ex phys. My entire staff is degree certified and usaw certified. “

• CrossFit Combat Fitness

  (559) 228-3278 “I train and coach at Crossfit Combat Fitness/SPEED, Inc. We have four platforms, with dedicated bumpers (three of which are even competition bumpers), good Ueseka Bars and a side room with another set of bumpers. We have an open gym program that allows people to use this equipment for fairly cheap ($50 month/$120 for three months, discounts for fire fighters/students/police officers/military). Admittedly, classes will have preference for equipment but there are long stretches of the day where everything is open and we try to be as accommodating as possible. Additionally, my mentors, who coach as well, are USAW 1 certified and very knowledgeable regarding weightlifting. We even have our own USAW weightlifting club, Central California Weightlifting, which I would love to grow outside of me and a few others.”

• Crossfit Fortius

  (858) 255-8378 “The facility is outfitted for both CrossFit and for weightlifting.  We have some people here training also for powerlifting and strongman, but most of what we do is weightlifting. There are currently four training platforms, a squat rack, a pullup/squat stand rig, plenty of bars (Eleiko, York, Rogue) and bumpers.  The biggest selling point in my opinion is getting coached by Dave Miller, who has been in the sport for over 20 years as an athlete, coach, referee, club owner, etc.”

• Crossfit Monterey

  831-920-3522 “Crossfit gym where Monterey Bay Barbell club trains. Olympic lifting friendly.”

• Crossfit Sun

  (858) 215-1093 “Crossfit Sun in San Diego California. I like it because we get to lift heavy, chalk up and do work. No one complains if you slam a bar, constant fun challenge between members and some friendly smack talkin’ goes around. It’s a standard CrossFit gym but ours definitely has a bias towards weightlifting and some powerlifting. We have just currently expanded and the owners have been getting a bunch of new gear so it’s been awesome to be in. There is a subset of us that specifically focus on weightlifting and some have started entering competitions.”

• Deadweight Strength

  (619) 933-0603 / (858) 999-7064 “Deadweight Strength is the only gym in San Diego that is dedicated exclusively to powerlifting, strongman, weightlifting, and highland games. Fully stocked with competition quality equipment and staffed by knowledgeable coaches with years of competitive experience in strength sports.”

• Delta Crossfit

  (925) 783-6997 “They have a full line of rogue and a nice eleiko barbell set for weightlifting and crossfit.”

• Fueled Sports Performance

  (805) 845-3272 “This is a gym largely in favor of bodybuilding, however, it has three platforms, a little over a thousand pounds worth of bumper plates, and bearing weightlifting bars.”

• Metroflex Long Beach

  (562) 531-7040 “Caters especially to Strongman clientele, having tons of equipment and space for tires, yokes, stones, etc. Although I’m not a member there, I would recommend it to anyone interested specifically in strongman training.”

• Powerhouse Gym

  (424) 206-1596 “Dave Fisher, owner and former IFBB competitor truly takes care of the athletes at his gym. The gym is the only one in the area that has a small, old-school, private gym feel, but for a reasonable price. Several powerlifters, bodybuilders, fitness/figure competitors and strongmen train at Powerhouse, and I feel lucky to be a member.”

• Rhino Elite Training Center and Gym

  (951) 496-9511 “This is a gym you can REALLY get a great workout in. You can grunt and lift heavy weights!”

• Santa Rosa Strength and Conditioning

  (707) 542-7725 “We are a Registered USAW club, Have platforms, Strength classes, Weightlifting classes, Open Gym, Are a CrossFit Gym as well (CrossFit Santa Rosa).”

• Signal Hill Crossfit

  (562) 673-4453 “Two platforms and kilo plates. Their weightlifting coach is Nghiep Dihn. He was a national lifter that lifted under Bob Takano. Awesome guys there.”

• StrongFit

  (310) 733 – 8373 “Strongman,Powerlifting; Power Racks,Bands,Chains,York and Ivanko bars,SSB bar,Cambered bar, Logs,Atlas Stones,Axles,Monster Dumbbells(loadable),Farmer’s Walk handles,Sleds and Prowlers,Sandbags (70#-380#),Yoke.”

• Tamalpais Crossfit

  (415) 256-9400 San Rafael Barbell located here.

• ThirdSpace Fitness Weightlifting

  (408) 645-6705 ThirdSpace, a fitness and wellness center in the heart of downtown San Jose offering a wide range of services to improve your quality of the life in our community with a concentration on longevity and total health (mental, physical, and spiritual). We are specialists in Yoga, CrossFit, TRX and other unique fitness modalities, and our 12,000 square foot urban space supports the vast array of our offerings. “Goal setting” is the backbone of our company achievement as well as our method of supporting and educating our members.

• Velocity Sports Performance – Santa Clarita

  (661) 294-4000 “I own three Pendlay Sets, 2 20kg Nexgen Bearing Bars and 2 15kg Nexgen Bushing Bars.  In addition on premises we have plenty of bars, bumpers, racks, KBs, boxes, med balls, pull up bars, etc.  Heavy Metal Barbell Club trains in the afternoon and evening for anyone interested in weightlifting.  In between we do athlete training, and have some CrossFit type classes available as well.  My foremost love and concern is developing lifters with the teaching methods I was fortunate enough to experience. Coach is Pendlay and USAW Level 1 Certified.”

• Waxman’s Gym

  (323) 546-8815 Our gym is different from any other in Southern California. We provide world-class coaching in an old-school environment featuring Olympic weightlifting and barbell training. We get you moving through proper ranges of motion and help you develop efficient lifting technique. Then we get you strong as hell!

Colorado

• Commit and Conquer Fitness

  (719) 647-6301 “Commit and Conquer in Pueblo West, CO is where our weightlifting club- Chaos Weightlifting Club- trains out of. We are almost finished with a 2,000 sq. ft. session room with rubber flooring where we will hold all of our “olympic” lifting sessions and weightlifiting club sessions. We also have a seperate platform with bumper plates in the front area of the gym.  Contact Joe Leal or Myself Dustin Holman, CSCS, USAW We have both mens (20 kg) and womens(15kg) york barbells with plenty of bumper plates.”

• DevilDogg Crossfit

  (719) 468-0694 “It’s a CrossFit Gym with a strenght problem. We have normal classes and open gyms that deal with olympic lifting power lifting strongman. If you come thur the doors you will move weight around.”

• Flat Irons Strength & Conditioning | Flat Irons Crossfit

  (303) 517-7114 “We are the largest and oldest crossfit gym in Boulder County and surrounding area. Flatirons CrossFit was started in 2007 with the goal to deliver a world class strength and conditioning program to Boulder. We have developed coaching and programming that delivers exceptional fitness to our athletes. We started in a 500 sqf room. After outgrowing two more spaces we are now in our state of the art 7000 sqf training facility. This space features a 4000 sqf CrossFit gym stocked with enough equipment to train over 25 athletes at a time. Our 3000 sqf weight room has 7 lifting stations, jerk boxes, squat stands and is fully stocked with kilo plates. The facility, the coaching, and the people here combine to make FCSC a one of a kind strength and conditioning gym.”

Connecticut

• Crossfit Milford

  (203) 283-7751 “Olympic Weightlifitng Facility Has: Pendlay/Elieko Bars, Werksan/Pendlay kg bumper sets, platforms, blocks, and jerk boxes…anything a weightlifter needs.”

• Old School Iron

  (860) 599-2171 “A members only gym. The late Joe Mugovero’s “Breakfast Club” (Power-lifting, Strongman and grip training since 1993) train here every Sunday. Dedicated to providing a facility for those training for Strength Sports: Strongman, Power-lifting, Olympic lifting, Arm-wrestling, Highland Games as well as Grip, Bending, etc.”

Florida

• (954) 323-6794 “Check out our reviews on Facebook to see what our members like about us. We are primarily an olympic lifting, power lifting and gymnastics facility. We do have some obstacle course equipment and big tires. Just figured we should be on your list since we’re big fans of picking up heavy shit and slamming it back down.”

• Broward Crossfit

  954.846.8666 “We offer Power lifting, Olympic Weightlifting, Strongman, CrossFit, Endurance Training all under one roof. Building incredible athletes at every level Kids classes ages 6-12 also.”

• CrossFit 813

  (813) 917-0929 “The barbell moves every day. Training includes the following: Clean & Jerk, Snatch, Back-Front-OH Squats, Deads, Bench variations, press, and accessory lifts. Two max efforts and two dynamic efforts weekly. 813 barbell club meets twice a week. -Bands and chains available, -10 available platforms & 8K sf, -Multiple stones to use, up to 200#, -Airdyne bikes for pain, Lift heavy and you will be hazed for poor effort/intensity.”

• Crossfit Fenrir

  (863) 398-3527 “This gym is home to 5 CrossFit Level 1 certified coaches, 4 USA Weightlifting Level 1 Coaches and 1 USAW Level 2 certified Coach.“

• Akshay Kumar who is a fan of Martial Arts and has been in the industry for nearly 25 years and tells us how special this film is to him. After being in the film industry this long – Brothers is one film which is special to him. See what Akshay Kumar had to say about Martial Arts and more!

  Q: Why is this film important to you?

  Akshay Kumar: This movie is very close to my heart, it means a lot to me, especially because it is a movie about Martial Arts, which makes it even more important for me. The movie is releasing in August this year, which also coincides with me completing 25 years in the film industry and it means so much to me that this happens to be a movie about Martial Arts commemorating the accomplishment of my 25 years, when it’s because of my martial arts background that got me into the film industry in the first place. We’re mliterally going full circles.

  Q: Could you please tell me more about the character you’re playing in “Brothers”?

  Akshay Kumar: My character is a school teacher who teaches Physics and Chemistry. He used to be Mixed Martial Artist who would fight on the streets for money. Mixed Martial Arts is a very dangerous profession and due to issues monetary issues, my character faces he has no choice but to go back to the streets to flight in a professional tournament.

  Q: What all was involved in the training for the role?

  Akshay Kumar: The main part of the training was a 6 month intense and gruelling work-out followed by practicing different fighting styles like Judo, Karate, Kyudo, Aikido and other Mixed Martial Arts.

  Q: Mixed Martial Arts sounds dangerous!

  Akshay Kumar: Yes, Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life. Even during filming we would end up with abdominal injuries and smacks on our face but overall it was important for the role to look realistic and conditioning for us actors to make the movie as real as possible.

  Desipte being a professional martial artists, I underwent vigorous training for six months to be fit for the role. But besides all the fighting, there’s also a poignant love story at the heart of the film which we find out later is the main reason why my character goes on to become a street MMA fighter.

  Q: Do you have some MMA tips or warnings for your fans out there?

  Akshay Kumar: Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that. Watch and enjoy MMA, and if some people are thinking about doing it, they must be very careful and think about enrolling in training first, they must make a thoughtful decision before actually doing it.

  Q: What was the most challenging part of your role?

  Akshay Kumar: The most challenging part was fighting like a professional MMA fighter, learning from the best and then trying to catch up with their fighting techniques! But I thoroughly enjoyed it as my teachers are from everywhere around the world – from Brazil, LA, Bangkok and Japan – they are true MMA fighters. It was an honour to learn from the best.

  As part of our training programme I had to lose up to 16 Kg’s and Sidharth Malhotra had to gain 13 Kg’s in weight! Whilst fighting was a major physical challenge, we also had to face a lot of mental challenge. A very high level of mental attention is required to remember your punches and every move.

  Q: Wow that sounds like a real challenge! Do you ever take a break?

  Akshay Kumar: Hah, its been 25 years and I haven’t had a break J Jokes a part my international filming schedule becomes a break for me. It’s the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I’m always on break.

  Q: How was it working with Sidharth Malhotra?

  Akshay Kumar: Sidharth is a very talented young man; he is professional when it comes to work. Although he had no experience with MMA he did really well. He also went through 8 months of training. Sidharth has a great future ahead of him. In Brothers he plays the character of a “man” unlike his ealier movies, where he’s mostly played young characters.

  We had a great time on set. He’s a Punjabi, I am Punjabi and even our director Karan Malhotra is Punjabi! We spoke in Punjabi all the time to the degree the film should have been called Prah (Brothers in Punjabi). Haha.

  Q: I recently found out that the movie is a remake of the movie “Warrior” by Gavin ‘O Connor and Cliff Dorfman. There is already a lot of positive talk surrounding your performance, I believe you will put forward an amazing performance, maybe better than the original?

  Akshay Kumar: Well that’s news to me but very humbling to hear. We have tried our level best to give the best performance we can. I wouldn’t really compare the two movies to be honest as we probably can’t make it better than the original but we gave it all we could. Let’s see what the audience says.

  Q: The movie has a wonderful cast, there is also have an “item-number” performance by Kareena Kapoor. Sidarth Malhotra and Jackie Shroff also play lead roles. Is there a love story somewhere in the story line?

  Akshay Kumar: Absolutely, there is a love story in the movie. I mean the movie is about street fighting, but there’s a reason to why the fighting happens in the first place which emanates from love. You will get to know that there’s a love story between Jacqueline Fernandez and I, there’s also a family related love story between Jackie Shroff and Sidharth and also between Shefali and I. The fighting comes later on in the movie, the film’s main emphasis is on it’s relationships.

  Q: So the movie is releasing on the 14th of August this year, which is just one day prior to the Indian independence day, does the movie have a hidden message of patriotism or any message relating independence of India?

  Akshay Kumar: No, no, there’s no patriotic messages, the movie is not related to the independence day and it does not end with me waving a flag.

  Q: What is your hope for Brothers?

  Akshay Kumar: I hope it brings in the mullah and gets the box office ringing whilst also gaining critical acclaim.

  Q: How was your experience working with Karan Johar?

  Akshay Kumar: Karan is mainly in the production side for this movie so I don’t really get to work with him much. But he really knows how to make big and brilliant movies; he knows how to do it right and I’m just here to make him happy :)

  Q: The director is Karan Malhotra and Karan Johar is producing the movie, is there more Karan’s you’ll work with in the future?

  Akshay Kumar: Ha, no that’s just a co-incidence, it was not planned to be like that.

  Q: Akshay, what’s your favourite genre of movies? I mean you’ve done many different types of roles in different movies, which one is your favourite? Is it comedy, drama or action?

  Akshay Kumar:I like comedy when its mixed with action, it’s just so much fun to do comedy with a bit of action, its fun to watch and also so much fun to do.

  Q: What are your next projects?

  Akshay Kumar: My focus is on the release of Brothers. After that I have Singh is Blinng coming out on the 2nd October and then Airlift in January 2016. In Singh is Blinng I play a larger than life character, something I haven’t done in a couple of years since Rowdy Rathore. My films have been pretty serious with Gabbar, Baby, Special 24. I’m really excited about Airlift as it is a story about Saddam Hussein’s attack on Kuwait.

  Q: Your final message to your fans please!

  Akshay Kumar: I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like. I really hope all my fans like Brothers. I would also like to tell them that the movie took about one whole year to make, we literally put our blood, sweat and tears into the making. The climax of the movie took about 52 days to shoot, just to get it perfect for the audience. All the fans across the globe should watch this movie on the big screen, watch it with your family and loved ones, do not watch pirated versions of it, we poured out our sweat and blood into this movie.

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