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York Barbell York Barbell is the location of our US corporate offices, distribution center, retail store and Weightlifting Hall of Fame & Museum.
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This week in 1955, in Munich, Paul Anderson became world champion.At the World Weightlifting Championships he set world ...
10/16/2026

This week in 1955, in Munich, Paul Anderson became world champion.

At the World Weightlifting Championships he set world records in the press and the total and won his class with room to spare. A few months earlier, in Moscow, he had pressed 402.5 lb overhead in front of a crowd that did not expect it to go up.

He built his first training weights in the backyard, from concrete his father poured into a wooden form.

Strength history like this is why the Weightlifting Hall of Fame sits inside our building in York, PA.

Fifteen minutes. Five tools. A full session.A wall ball, a kettlebell, a medicine ball, a sand bag and a plyo box take u...
10/15/2026

Fifteen minutes. Five tools. A full session.

A wall ball, a kettlebell, a medicine ball, a sand bag and a plyo box take up one corner of a room and cover throws, curls, rotation, carries and jumps.

- No machine to set up
- No waiting on equipment
- Every piece earns its floor space

A short session done every day beats a long one that keeps getting pushed to tomorrow.

Build your gym.

09/29/2026

Last movement of the month. Change gears and grab a pair of dumbbells.

The Dumbbell Push Press is the other explosive strength movement in the set. Lower body drive into an overhead press, which can increase overhead pressing strength more than a standard press can on its own.

That is six movements this month: barbell squat, dumbbell squat, deadlift, Romanian deadlift, clean and press, dumbbell push press.

Now the part that matters. All of this comes down to identifying who and what you stay strong for, then doing something about it.

So tell us. What are you maximizing this fall? A kid who wants to be carried, a season, a job, a mountain, a birthday with a number you do not like. Put it in the comments. We read them.

Two miles north of York, Pennsylvania, on the first floor of our corporate headquarters, there are roughly 8,000 square ...
09/28/2026

Two miles north of York, Pennsylvania, on the first floor of our corporate headquarters, there are roughly 8,000 square feet of strength history.

The Weightlifting Hall of Fame traces strength sports from mythology to the early Olympic Games, through the 19th and 20th century strongmen, to modern Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting and bodybuilding.

In the two story lobby you will find our 185 kg Elite certified set, the only set manufactured in the United States and approved by the IWF for use at all international and national weightlifting events. A 7.5 foot bronze statue of Bob Hoffman stands outside the entrance.

The tour is self guided. Admission to the building where the bar you train with came from is free.

The lift is twenty minutes. The hour around it decides whether the lift counts.Fuel: protein matters for building muscle...
09/27/2026

The lift is twenty minutes. The hour around it decides whether the lift counts.

Fuel: protein matters for building muscle. Best practice is a large meal 2 to 3 hours beforehand, or a light snack or protein shake 30 to 60 minutes before you train.

Warmup: 5 to 10 minutes of warm up. Mimic the movements you are about to perform. Jumping jacks, lunges, push ups. You are not trying to get tired, you are trying to get available.

Lift: twenty minutes. Focus on the movements you came to do. Keep the work intentional rather than trying to cram in as much as possible.

Cool down: a light walk or some time with a foam roller. The cooldown is useful for gradually bringing your heart rate down and transitioning out of exercise, but it is the part almost everybody skips.

Add up the skipped minutes over a month and that is your missing progress.

09/24/2026

If you are pulling and pressing in a garage, bumper plates are the difference between training and negotiating with the people upstairs.

York Rubber Training Bumper Plates are solid rubber with a 2 inch reinforced center steel sleeve for easy loading and unloading. They reduce noise and help protect your equipment and your flooring, which matters when the floor is also your house.

They come in 10, 15, 25, 35 and 45 lb. The 10 and 15 measure 17 7/16 inches across, the 25, 35 and 45 measure 17 3/4 inches. All bumpers are sold individually.

Versatile enough for a full range of exercises, including Olympic lifts.

Progress in strength training is boring on purpose.Our blog cites a 2023 summary from the National Strength and Conditio...
09/22/2026

Progress in strength training is boring on purpose.

Our blog cites a 2023 summary from the National Strength and Conditioning Association: trained lifters can generally expect strength increases of one to two percent per week when progressive overload is applied. Not per session. Per week, and only if you keep adding.

That is the whole argument for owning plates in small increments. Squats, deadlifts, bench presses, rows, lunges and overhead presses all scale the same way, a little at a time, for years.

The Clean and Press is the bridge between explosive movement and strength training.It is a compound lift that demands th...
09/21/2026

The Clean and Press is the bridge between explosive movement and strength training.

It is a compound lift that demands the upper and lower body at once, it cleans up your lifting form, and across multi ple reps it quietly turns into cardio. It also asks more of the bar than any other lift this month, because the sleeve has to spin.

Two York bars handle it, both 28 mm and both made with North American steel:

- The Men's Elite Olympic Training Bar has a minimum tensile strength of 190,000 PSI after heat treating, ferrous bushings for smooth consistent rotation, and is calibrated to Olympic specifications.
- The Men's North American Chrome Olympic Training Weight Bar has a minimum tensile strength of 170,000 PSI after heat treating and uses needle bearings for rotation.

Both weigh 44 lbs with sleeves machined to a precise 1.975 inch diameter. Pick the rotation you prefer and stop thinking about the bar.

The hex bar is the friendliest way into heavy pulling.You stand inside the frame instead of behind the bar, which change...
09/20/2026

The hex bar is the friendliest way into heavy pulling.

You stand inside the frame instead of behind the bar, which changes where the load sits and makes the first heavy deadlift a lot less intimidating.

The YORK Olympic Hex Weight Bar measures 56 inches in total length and 22.5 inches in total width, with 20.5 inches inside to inside so there is room to stand and pull. The handles sit 3 inches apart from upper to lower, so you can pick your height. Loadable sleeve is 9 7/8 inches. Bar diameter is 25 mm.

Same posterior chain, different door in.

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3300 Board Road
York, PA
17406

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Monday 9am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Saturday 9am - 4:30pm

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