THE ONLY DEDICATED STRENGTH TRAINING GYM IN WATERTOWN, NY

Imagine living in the harshest environment known to man. Months of subzero temperatures, weather systems that create feet of snow, and wintertime conditions that can kill in minutes. There are only a few months of warm weather, and in those months it’s one of the most humid regions in the country with temperatures often approaching 100 degrees. This isn’t a description of Mars. This is Northern New York. In between one of the largest lakes, and one of the biggest mountain ranges in the World sits Watertown, the home for Jefferson Barbell Weightlifting Club. We’re minutes from Fort Drum, and the only fully dedicated black iron and barbell gym in the area. We’re not a commercial gym, we don’t have rows of treadmills, and we aren’t a CrossFit box. Our gym offers strength to anyone willing to work for it, through Powerlifting, Olympic Lifting, and Strength, Rehabilitative, and Corrective movement coaching. Jefferson Barbell is a Silver Certified USA Powerlifting Regional Training Center, and a Certified United States Powerlifting Association facility. We’re also affiliated with USA Weightlifting with a Level 1 certified coach on site.

The lifters at Jefferson Barbell are different. We don’t think we’re warriors, we don’t believe we have some level up Siyan power because we lift weights, and we don’t pretend to be some animal predator because we hit the gym. Instead, we keep our mouths shut, and put more weight on the bar. We do more sets and more reps, because it’s harder to kill strong people. While it may seem intimidating to enter the front door, our members are among the most welcoming and accepting people you’ll ever meet. Strong people work together to get stronger. Jefferson Barbell members are the strongest around!

THE NUMBER ONE RULE AT JEFFERSON BARBELL IS SIMPLE; DON’T DIE.

Jefferson Barbell specializes in powerlifting, strength training, personal training, Olympic weightlifting, athletic coaching, and bodybuilding. Our training methodology is based on individual needs, specificity, adaptation, and old-fashioned grit. The harder you work, the more you’ll get out of our programming. Most of our program design is based off tried and true methodologies passed down from the greats who envisioned a bigger, stronger, and tougher trainee. While we build our foundation in the past using what works, we put up the rest of the building using the most advanced adaptive training available. Our programming works with you, for you, because of you.

Jefferson Barbell is owned and operated by passionate people, who love the physical culture, the strength lifestyle, and who are driven by the desire to help others improve. In fact, our passion runs so deep that one of our coaches has (actually) died doing this, and he’d do it again. But we would rather teach you how not to.