Barbell Brigade Gym

Fantastic experience: Literally best facility for people with real strength goals. Went in for a day pass and everyone was cool and a wealth of information.

Negative experience: I’m actually very disappointed to rate it 1 star. I’ve been a fan of Barbell Brigade, JK News and Bart and Geo but they definitely need to improve with their customer support team. I’m not even a Karen but come on…

Fantastic experience: Never crowded, decent gym

Fantastic experience: Chill place with good hours with all the equipment I need. The hours are super flexible for when I’m in the area for work.

Fantastic experience: Excellent place for strongman and weightlifting , if someone looking for cardio there isn’t too much equipment for that . I like how this gym stays open late til 12am , $25 is a bit much for a 1day pass but it covered all I needed , there is also a 5 day pass and monthly membership

Fantastic experience: I must go for anyone passing through. I'd you leave near it this is THE place to lift if you are serious about gains!

Fantastic experience: Great gym! They have awesome equipment, it’s a great vibe, outdoor section is great for barbell work or hitting the bag. Will be back when visiting LA

Fantastic experience: THEY HAVE AN ASSAULT RUNNER!!! +awesome gym for any kind of Olympic or Powerlifting, with quality plates and rubber bumpers. Never seen a real weightroom like this anywhere else in LA.

Negative experience: Is there a way to get ahold of the owner, the online support is difficult to say the least? Order a supplement with 1 day shipping, 5 days later no real response, eta or delivery...

Fantastic experience: Always come here when Im in town for a couple of days with their 5 day passes. Nice environment, and really nice people. Really dig the powerlifting and old school gym vibes with majority metal weights. There are also bumper plates available for those who prefer as well for olympic lifting.

Fantastic experience: Love it. Get set up of bench presses and squat racks. Definitely a lifters dream. The rap music lyrics are pretty funny and entertaining. Thanks for the gym.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely loved this gym. I wish it was located on the west side. 6 squat racks - 4 olympic lifting platforms 4 benches - no machines except the assault bike, rower, and a cable machine. Best pure strength focused gym i’ve been to in LA

Fantastic experience: Great amount of equipment for the space, plenty of accessories if needed, AND you can shoot some hoops.

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym with the old school feeling. It has the perfect mix of strongman and bodybuilding.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town

Fantastic experience: If you're thinking of getting some high quality gym apparel, Barbell Brigade offers some of the best quality material items out there. I decided to get one of their mystery boxes and I was pleasantly surprised with all the items that were included. Everything in it was something I would get myself. Sizes do run a bit on the larger side, but that's just additional motivation to fit in them. Also special shoutout to the customer support team for addressing my shipping issue in such a timely and receptive manner. Incredibly professional all throughout.

Fantastic experience: Cool gym for the serious powerlifter. Very well kept with friendly and knowledgeable staff. No AC, but the fans keep the air circulation going and you don't notice it much when you start lifting. Worth checking out if you get the chance.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in LA. Period.

Fantastic experience: Great gym and friendly staff!

Fantastic experience: Фантастика

Fantastic experience: The best place I have ever been for strength training, powerlifting or wieghtlifting, with all the possible accessories, a really respectful and welcoming atmosphere from the customers and from the personnel. Everything was clean and tidy. Trained there for 5 days as we were visiting LA, and was one of the best things from LA. I wish we had something similar in Barcelona. Thank you so much!

Fantastic experience: Friendly and polite staff and gym goers. Clean and organized equipment. Thank you to Jose for providing me a tour and accommodating me on my visit to barbell brigade

Fantastic experience: - $100/month, but no contract which is a plus. - Friendly gym staff. - Some street parking. - Great gym for powerlifting and Olympics, but I wouldn’t body build here. - Chalk is provided. - Best to come in the morning. - Like many reviews mentioned, the music is really loud You can ask them to lower the volume, but I don’t bother because I listen to my own music through my AirPods anyways.

Fantastic experience: Comn you know this is the place the be.

Positive experience: If you workout with weights, this place is for you. Many racks and barbells available. Can always do the exercise I want. Highly recommend.

Positive experience: helpful / friendly staff, lots of deadlift platforms, squat racks, and benches, expensive @ $100 / mo minus 1 star for the music. it’s so loud that, even with noise canceling headphones it’s not possible to listen to your own music, which is extra frustrating because the music they play is usually cringe. it’s also loud enough to trigger apple watch noise level notifications, indicating that it’s at 80+ dB, which is high enough to contribute to long-term hearing damage

Positive experience: Hay maquinaria diversidad de entrenadores algo espacioso en lo personal Ami no me gustó pero cada quien vayan y visite lo a ver qué les parece

Fantastic experience: Heaven is a place on earth and it is called Barbell Brigade. The staff is amazing. As soon as I walked in the door, everyone in the front desk area was talking to me as though we had known each other for awhile. Super friendly. The gym has everything you need to get strong as an ox. Specialty bars, oly platforms, deadlift platforms, multiple power racks and EliteFTS competition benches. You've also got a bunch of strong man and bodybuilding equipment in there too. You can put on any music you want and pretty much go ape. I was in Hawthorne for two days and caught an Uber out to BB twice. It rules. Best gym I've ever been to.

Fantastic experience: Never really write review's but I had to on this gym! banging atmosphere, A+

Fantastic experience: Their website was very informative.

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere! Quality equipment.

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Fantastic experience: Their website was very informative.

Positive experience: Can we just please update/replace the broken equipment!!!! Last week another bench went "out of service", two benches are also broken that won't allow them to be repositioned, one is missing the little lever head to adjust the position. The yoga mats!! The rower has been broken since we joined almost 3 months ago. The air bike, went MIA last week as well so now it's just the treadmill that works and even that one is asking for maintenance.

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Fantastic experience: Awesome gym. Instructors are attentive, accommodating, and uplifting. Gym is clean and well equipped. Everyone is friendly and super motivating with no egos and no pressure. Great for beginners and more advanced athletes alike.

Fantastic experience: A well equipped gym that remains clean. Everyone was very friendly which made it easy to feel comfortable, they also provided a tour, offered assistance or to rotate music should it help with your lift. I look forward to being back in the LA area again as this gym is a MUST. Couldn't resist the nice apparel they have up front as well. I have nothing but good things to say and encourage all to check it out.

Fantastic experience: really awesome gym

Negative experience: Loved the initial bb. Left the gym when it became a youtuber wannabe fest who don’t care for others exercising and their privacy

Fantastic experience: I’m in the area for my birthday (originally from Florida) and wanted to get in a good workout. Mike was awesome and gave me a tour of the facility and made sure I knew what was what. Had a great workout and everyone was super cool. Next time I’m in town I’m 100% coming back.

Fantastic experience: Great gym and very friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: It was great the guy at the front desk was so nice. He showed me and.my girlfriend around and tok a picture for us.

Fantastic experience: Great and amazing atmosphere! A lot of patrons are photo ready but they also have the barbaric people like me who don't mind getting their clothes dirty. The machines are well kept and the outside section is one of my favorites. Also you don't have to wait for a squat rack because there are so many there!! By far one of my favorite gyms

Fantastic experience: Versatile gym for all levels. I will always hit Barbell Brigade when I visit LA! A morning workout sets the mood for the day. Get the $50 pass

Positive experience: Awesome atmosphere but relatively subpar everything else. After having visited South Bay, exceed, and now going to Mission Fitness Center, I have to say what you get at BB for $100 is pretty overpriced.I get it’s the closest to down town but it’s still not in an amazing location to justify the cost. Only 2 dedicated deadlifting platforms, and 3 benches is ridiculous for a gym this expensive. Very limited amount of kilos as well. There really isn’t that many free standing benches either to move around and use in the cages, and almost all the benches (including the actual powerlifting benches) and machines have super ripped, taped up fabric/leather. Very limited selection of machines for a powerlifting gym. And I get the “we’re a powerlifting gym we don’t have cardio machines” but having some to warm up on (like most powerlifting gyms) before squats or deadlifts would be nice. Especially given the lack of any temperature control in the building and how the garage door in the back remains fully open on cold nights. Love BB as a company, love the owners since watching the YouTube is what got me into lifting years ago but was pretty underwhelmed with this gym. It has not kept up with the rest of the powerlifting gyms in the area.

Fantastic experience: Amazing place to train!

Fantastic experience: Love this gym!

Negative experience: Wish I give negative stars because of who is the owner

Fantastic experience: Tight little place to workout on and practice juicy blocks. Highly recommend if visiting

Fantastic experience: Love this place, lots of serious people working out, staff is awesome, LOTS of bench presses & squat racks!

Fantastic experience: Great Gym. Tailored to serious lifters. Clean, great staff and top equipment.

Fantastic experience: Best workout I've had during corona. This place is great for lifting, they have everything you need. The ambience is relaxed and enough space for social distancing and they have and outer space. Even though I might only do 3 or 4 times a month due to corona it still a great place for workout for a great price.

Fantastic experience: Location is a little difficult to get to if you don't drive, but a plethora of equipment and a relatively quiet Sunday afternoon crowd make for a great place to go get a pump. Lots of nice people and a really enjoyable environment to master the barbell.

Fantastic experience: Love this gym wouldn't change it for the world

Fantastic experience: My hubby was working out! This gym was introduced to me by a friend who was also a frequent client. Indeed, I was not disappointed because the service here was excellent.

Fantastic experience: The Mecca of Powerlifting definitely lives up to the hype! Great Coaching, diverse peaces of equipment and friendly staff!

Negative experience: very rude front desk / phone people. for such a pricey gym I would expect better

Positive experience: Awesome good to exercise, friendly environmen.

Negative experience: Terrible experience, customer service and ownership is very subpar.

Negative experience: Unprofessional staff, just like their owners.

Fantastic experience: Bart was cool

Fantastic experience: Loved the vibes. Real work outs

Fantastic experience: Fue excelente. Y excitante

Fantastic experience: This place is the business! Amazing staff, excellent gear, and gains gains gains!

Positive experience: $100 a month is way too pricey I hate to hurt your feelings gym owner no gym is cost more than $25 a month basic memberships.

Negative experience: Terribly rude staff.

Positive experience: When you are here, you are family. Great staff, great community, great environment. Equipment could be improved slightly but 10/10 recommend to everyone i meet. Stanley, get a new rower please. :)

Fantastic experience: Every weekend I had a fitness session at this gym. I always got satisfied with the training headed by a professional coach. I am now close to my body goal. Thank you so much!

Fantastic experience: Best gym in LA!!!

Fantastic experience: Great place. Friendly staff, professional, and allows you to get in and out. No one bothers you and everyone pretty much does their own thing. I'm in town visiting and was able to go online and reserve a space. I purchased a five day guest pass. Whenever I am in town again, I would definitely go back here. Opens at 5 a.m. and closes at 12 a.m. whatever your schedule it can accommodate. Only thing to know is that it is currently reservation only. So you must go online and book a time slot. They book up fast so you would want to be proactive for the days and times you want.

Fantastic experience: Positive: Communication , Professionalism , Quality Rather sophisticated place with nice atmosphere. Just wondering how to do an exercise I saw done by a bearded man (Video in review). I was slightly perplexed and was only given the following information; "WARNING: THIS WORKOUT WILL GET YOU BUFF IN 30 DAYS!" Please teach me.

Negative experience: Went to ask for gym membership price ($$$EXTREMELY OVER PRICED$$$). They took me on a tour of the gym. It was basic and Olympic standard equipment set up you can find anywhere else in the country. Spacious enough to move comfortably, but looked like an out dated storage room or some old warehouse. They were asking to pay New York elite gym style membership you find in uptown, SOHO, Manhattan, etc. These fools are crazy .

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym

Fantastic experience: I was in town for a couple weeks on leave and was looking for a gym to go to in order to keep up with training. Found out about Barbell Brigade from a quick Google search, discovered that they offered a 5-session stamp card for $50 (so $10 per session), and I gave it a go. Definitely one of the better decisions I've made during my time back home; few, if any, other gyms offer day passes like this and I was always greeted by very friendly staff whether I went in at 5 a.m., 9 p.m. or any time in between. They also have and encourage chalk use which is a huge plus for me since many gyms don't allow it because of the mess it makes. Still, the facility was kept clean and I was overall very impressed and enjoyed my time there. Barbell Brigade will most likely be my go-to gym any time I'm back in LA! They also have a sweet apparel line for anyone who's into that kind of stuff.

Fantastic experience: S/o to BART & GEO of JK NEWS

Fantastic experience: Freaking awesome

Fantastic experience: This gym gets me pumped.

Fantastic experience: Cool gym

Fantastic experience: One of the best Gym in the LA District

Fantastic experience: The equipment are very good quality and the people are very nice there too

Fantastic experience: the atmosphere gets me so hyped. awesome staff too tbh

Fantastic experience: The best gym in the world

Positive experience: Really pricey day passes, but over all great gym

Fantastic experience: Came down from Toronto, thought i would check this place out.... and damn! Very positive vibe, great music and loud. Also staff are super friendly. They even have an awesome line of clothing well worth checking out!!!!

Fantastic experience: Dope place, Awesome music Awesomer staff. Elijah and Jeannie were very friendly and professional. You need to come here!

Fantastic experience: I really love this Gym. Great people, great employes. The atmosphere, how people treat eachother...its somethings u dont find very often! Thanks!

Fantastic experience: Love the staff, the atmosphere, and the music is super loud all around an amazing gym!!!

Fantastic experience: Amazing people, atmosphere and incredible lifters. Has the best equipments but if youre looking for machines like the ones in the commercial gyms, this place aint for you.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Los Angeles!! Bart and Geo are the best owners ever! If you didn't already know, they are also YouTubers they have many channels including JKNews, JKParty, and their vlog channel

Fantastic experience: Great spacious gym with tons of equipment for functional training, weightlifting and powerlifting. For the weightlifting crowd, this gym has dedicated platforms with bars and plates in kilos which is really nice and rare in most US gyms in this genre. They have some of the really cool accessory machines like a belt squat and a reverse hyper. During mid-day it was not too crowded either. I was there on one of the hotter days of summer and it was pretty hot inside the gym but they have a couple of big fans that you can walk over too between sets.

Fantastic experience: Always an amazing trip to this gym!! Great atmosphere

Negative experience: This gym has completely changed. It when from being a cool place to train and chill with the old staff to a gym where everyone, including the new staff, have a huge ego. I feel like the gym no longer has that homie vibe. Also I used to tolerate the prices because of the old staff but now it’s not worth it at all. Why would I pay triple the amount of a commercial gym when it doesn’t have nearly the same amount of equipment and has the same feel as a commercial gym.

Fantastic experience: Awesome staff, vibe and equipment!

Positive experience: Hardcore lifthouse. Missing luxurious amenities (pool, shower), but plenty of bars and space to get real work done. If you don't live in the area, they offer a five-time guest pass for $50 or one for $20.

Fantastic experience: supporting bart n geo <3

Negative experience: Way too pricey. Honestly you could go to a gym with more advanced equipment. The gym that I go to is usually way cheaper but I wanted to try this one out. I liked the equipment but I felt as if the price did not justify the equipment.

Fantastic experience: im doing this for bart and geo

Fantastic experience: I love jkparty

Fantastic experience: The environment they created help my work out go smoothly

Fantastic experience: Best gym