East Ave. Barbell

Fantastic experience: Great specialty equipment for powerlifting, strongman and crossfit. The owners are very knowledgeable and passionate about what they do. Best strength facility in Rochester!

Fantastic experience: Rochester's destination for strength sports, including Powerlifting, Strongman, and Weightlifting. The equipment is top notch, and there is always a coach on staff to help with technique or programming questions!

Fantastic experience: Last year I signed up for a powerlifting meet for the first time. The meet was a few months out and, although I have been training on my own for years, I was overwhelmed at the idea of competition. I reached out to Chuck at East Ave Barbell and I am so glad I did! He worked with me to set goals, create a hybrid online / in person program for me, and handled all the details the day of the meet! I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. I have continued to train with Chuck since then. Not only does he work with my incredibly unpredictable schedule; he took the time to get to know me as an athlete. Most importantly, the huge gains I’ve seen are proof that his system works!

Fantastic experience: Great

Fantastic experience: Having recently moved up from Philly, I was incredibly excited to discover this gym - and one of the few in the area that caters to all facets of fitness including powerlifting, CrossFit, strongman, bodybuilding, Olympic lifting, you name it. Everyone that I have met here, both staff and members, have been incredibly kind and supportive of one another. I would highly recommend this gym to anyone in the Rochester area, and I am incredibly thankful for all that this gym does to support its athletes!

Fantastic experience: Big gym lots of equipment great place to go no matter what kind of workout you are doing

Fantastic experience: Excellent experience competing at the Rochester rumble IV. The gym was clean, the meet was well organized. Keep up the good work!

Fantastic experience: A beautiful and clean facility. Very supportive staff.

Fantastic experience: Chris and his team have one hell of a venue for powering meets and strongman shows and do a great job running them.

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym! Pretty much everything that you could want equipment wise and a great community. They hold great powerlifting meets too!

Fantastic experience: East Ave Barbell is the best gym I’ve been to. They have a great and supportive community. Many coaching options to help you get towards your goals.

Fantastic experience: If you want to get Strong, this is the place.

Fantastic experience: The Rochester Rumble was a great event. Very nice space for a meet. Great staff!

Fantastic experience: Competed in my first power lifting meet here and I can't say enough good things about this place. The set up was great, everyone running the event was very helpful, and the competition was run very professionally. I wish I still lived in the Rochester area so I could make this place my home gym.

Fantastic experience: Participated in two strongman events at East Ave Barbell, and both were run really smoothly. There were plenty of staff on hand to make sure equipment was ready for the competitors. Communication was excellent! They did a wonderful job.

Fantastic experience: They ran an amazing strongman competition. Really great people at a really great facility. Can’t wait to go again soon.

Fantastic experience: Rituals of strength 5 strongman competition was great. It was well organized and all the staff/volunteers did an awesome job.

Fantastic experience: I have been to gyms around the United States and around the world. East Ave Barbell is easily the best. They have the most useful and diverse sets of equipment you can find, and an outstanding and welcoming community that feels more like a family as you spend more time there. The coaches are incredibly experienced and knowledgeable! It is a great place to workout, intern, or even talk about health and fitness. They constantly have lifting meets and classes in the works. This is a growing gym that you definitely want to be a part of. I wouldn’t trade my time with them for anything. I wish I could bring the gym with me wherever I go.

Fantastic experience: East Ave is a great space for training for powerlifting, strength training, strongman, and Olympic lifting. All the owners/coaches are very knowledgeable and friendly. All the members are welcoming to newcomers and make you feel like part of the family. I am an intern here at east ave and chris is very helpful as well as an awesome teacher. Highly recommended!

Fantastic experience: I have tried numerous gyms and fitness programs throughout the years. I have never before come close to the gains I’ve made in less than a year of working with Chris Harris and the other coaches at East Ave Barbell. I feel great. The atmosphere is friendly and everybody around you is working hard (and succeeding). Very inspiring. So glad I joined.

Fantastic experience: Yeah it's a cool place. Sturdy equipment and qualified coaches for any strength sport discipline.

Fantastic experience: I have been a member at EAB since February of 2018 and it has been the best thing that ever happened to me. Whether you're looking for olympic lifting, strongman, powerlifting, or simply just want to get stronger and be in a positive and uplifting community, this is the place for you. All levels and all abilities are part of this community and the coaches at EAB are next level. Some of the best I've ever worked with in my 10+ years in the fitness and strength arena. Come by for a visit, join a class, become a member...we'd love to have you join our growing community!

Fantastic experience: If you're looking for Olympic Weightlifting, Strongman, Powerlifting, general strength training, CrossFit. It's all here. There's a coach available for every avenue of strength, for every skill level and experience level. There are annual shows for all four strength sports. Every member is in the same boat, we all just want to get stronger and better at our sport. Everyone is supportive and encouraging

Positive experience: My gym. I'm there five days a week

Fantastic experience: East Ave Barbell is a specialized gym that has Strongman, Powerlifting, Crossfit and Olympic Weightlifting equipment. There is always a coach on site to help you if you have questions. A day pass for this specialized gym is $20 a day. Membership runs at about $60 a month. If you have the East Ave membership you can also utilize any of the Worlds Gym equipment on the opposite side of the building. The coaches at East Ave are top notch and the gym has a wide variety of equipment to use if you are preparing for a competition or just training. East Ave Barbell has a large training space that is located inside of World Gym on East Ave. I would highly recommend this gym. I used their facility for a previous Strongman competition prep and I felt very prepared because they had all the implements I needed to train appropriately. Coach Chris Harris is one of the best coaches I’ve found locally and nationally. He is extremely knowledgeable and also cares about the individual goals of his clients. Coach Chris would get 10 stars if I could give them. He’s awesome!

Fantastic experience: This is the best gym in Rochester to get strong. Chris Harris is a great coach who is still an active competitor in multiple strength sports - hard to come by. Love the atmosphere, excellent equipment. It’s the only black iron gym in the city and fortunately for us it’s a good one.

Fantastic experience: Facility has a good amount of strongman training and powerlifting equipment. Training coaches are knowledgeable and have a great amount of experience to coach any level athlete. Gym has a very positive energy and seems to be growing rapidly.

Fantastic experience: EastAveBarbell is one of the only gyms in Rochester NY that provides a true facility for powerlifting/strongman training, along with the great equipment they also provide amazing training/programming that directly correlates to competition preparedness for your strength discipline. Check them out!

Fantastic experience: The staff and facility are fantastic. Just attended a competition there and the crew was amazing.

Fantastic experience: This gym is phenomenal! Best Strongman gym in Rochester!

Fantastic experience: At first, I was apprehensive of joining East Ave. Barbell because of the limited hours, but it actually ended up being a good thing, and they are expanding the hours. Because everyone is there around the same time, the community tends to get to know each other, and that's one of the best things about East Ave Barbell. Everyone is very supportive of each other, there are more experienced people there to coach or just provide some feedback on your lifts. There's a good variety of equipment available outside of the standard gym stuff, like safety squat bars, chains, bumper plates, blocks, GHR machines, etc. to fit everyone's training needs, and they invest a lot of the revenue towards more and better equipment, so it's only improving. Highly recommended for people to join our awesome community.

Fantastic experience: Great strength training knowledge, coaching, and attitudes. Athletes of all levels can benefit from focusing on and improving upon the basics of safe and effective barbell lifts. Any lifting discipline - strongman, powerlifting, oly, bodybuilding - East Ave Barbell has got you covered. Their coaches walk The Walk, and can outlift any of you - guaranteed. ☠️

Fantastic experience: A few months back I was traveling and spent the weekend in Rochester. I reached out to the owner of this gym asking if I could drop-in, and for a small fee he was happy to have me come in and workout -- he even spotted me on my squats. The space is huge and has plenty of equipment. Thanks for letting me lift there!

Positive experience: Great gym with a wide range of strength equipment for powerlifting and strongman!

Fantastic experience: East Ave held their first powerlifting meet this past Sunday which was also my first meet. I had a ton of fun, there was a great atmosphere and everything was run well. I couldn’t have pictured anything being done better for what they have. In addition, East ave is a gym I would certainly train at if I lived in the Rochester area. I certainly hope they run another meet next year!

Fantastic experience: An amazing gym whose trainers have an extremely well rounded knowledge base including powerlifting,strongman and olympic weightlifting.The environment is positive and inclusive with access to a wide range of equipment that is hard to find all in one place in Rochester.

Fantastic experience: Shot out to Chris, all the wonderful trainers, and people (Robyn and Steve included) at East Ave Barbell. If your looking for a community to lift with and become more proficient in your lifts look no further. There truly are no strangers here. I meet Chris through Robyn who introduced me as her friend after only meeting here a minute prior. Over the next 12 weeks, and with a lot of encouragement, I’d do my first rope climb, deadlift just shy of 315, and Silver Medal in my first Powerlifting Comp. Soooo… stop reading reviews and come check ‘em out.

Fantastic experience: I competed in the Rochester Rumble Powerlifting meet on 9/15 at East Ave Barbell and had an amazing experience. Not only is it a great powerlifting and strongman gym but the people are what makes it so special, the owner, Chris Harris and his wife Lauren, really bent over backwards to help all the athletes and made sure everyone had a great experience. I'll be dropping in soon to try some strongman stuff cuz it looks hella fun!!!