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Hardcore Gyms

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MD(Muscular Developement) has asked its readers to help provide a list of Hardcore Gyms, a registry. I'd like to start one here on MuscleMecca!!!
 
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MD(Muscular Developement) has asked its readers to help provide a list of Hardcore Gyms, a registry. I'd like to start one here on MuscleMecca!!!

Here is the gym I most frequently use!!!!

Think Harcore, Metroflex/Temple Gym, The Barbellclub in Butler, PA 109 N Ridge Ln 16001, even has a web page http://www.myspace.com/barbellclub Notable mention; 10-150lb dumbells, over 3800lbs in olympic plates, 12/45lb barbells, 11 Hammerstrength machines, Icarian weight stack machines, Bodymaster and Cybex benches/machines. 24/7, never closed, no key required, play your music as loud as you want, mirrors all around, photos of all the great bodybuilders, figure, and fitness pros. Lowest membership fee ever!!
 

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no such things here in Victoria (a state of Australia) as far as i know. the gym's i have seen are more like fitness clubs and such. the gym i go to is mearly an extension of a swimming pool facility. they just added the gym to attract a larger crowd of fitness enthusiasts.

however im in the midst of creating my own. its comming along VERY VERY slowly, but im getting there. i just need a place to put everything, membership deals, staff, ect. i have some weights, barbells and dumbbells tho.
 
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Out here in eastern mass, there are a good deal of nice gyms. The one I like the most is called the Powerfit Gym in Peabody, MA. I've been there before and its pretty hardcore. There's a lot of powerlifting equipment there, with special squat racks, buckets of chalk for everyone to use, and there are even a pair of 165's there. A lot of huge powerlifters go there and some bodybuilders, its a very serious place and I love it. Can't wat to join when hockey is over.
 
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Obviously the MetroPlex in TX is notorious. Bev's PowerHouse in NY also is hard-core! Westside Barbell in Columbus, OH and Worlds Gym Worthington, OH good ones as well.
 
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Westside Barbell Club can't be matched...

EDIT: Bodybuilders Inc. in Akron, Ohio is a good one, too.
 
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Well it certainly isn't the gym I go to.

We don't have any decent gyms anywhere near me.
 
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Kneets gym in holland is hardcore
 
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DIE HARD
91st ave and peoria
phoenix or maybe glendale
 
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I dont know of any hardcore gyms in australia.... the gym i go to isnt really hardcore, but the serious lifters there are pretty hardcore.... so in someways its a hardcore gym
 

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Westside Barbell Club can't be matched...

EDIT: Bodybuilders Inc. in Akron, Ohio is a good one, too.

Shit i live in akron gotta check that out :hsughr:
 
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Well, thanks for the responses!!! How about some addresses or photos of some Hardcore Gyms.....this way when you're out of town you have somewhere to workout!!!
 
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2223 SW adams street peoria illinois!

Central illinois weightlifting gym

My gym, and i LOVE it!

HARDCORE BABY IN YO FAZZZZZZE!

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no that really is an old schol powerlifting gym it awesome, it use to bea a car garage, they threw mats down and put free weights, squat racks, benchs and you got my gym.


God Bless
Ben
 
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2223 SW adams street peoria illinois!

Central illinois weightlifting gym

My gym, and i LOVE it!

HARDCORE BABY IN YO FAZZZZZZE!

:49:

no that really is an old schol powerlifting gym it awesome, it use to bea a car garage, they threw mats down and put free weights, squat racks, benchs and you got my gym.


God Bless
Ben

nice, i'd love to train in a gym like that.. my gym is more a rich people gym lol a/c everywhere and stuff like that.. all new benches, new bars, new dumbells and stuff like that...
 
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Reds gym here i think
never been in there
but lot of senior hardcore BBers here
say its hardcore,
 
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Just bringing this subject back up from its obscurity!!!:food-snacking:
 

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