Red Beard Barbell Club

Get you someone that looks at you the way looks at his next bench attempt! 😍

✨🚨P A Y D A Y O F F E R🚨✨

Payday is finally here after muddling through the 67 days of January!

As a reward for getting this far, we’d like to offer every new joiner a 1-2-1 session with if you join before the 3rd February!

Link in bio for the website, and of course any questions at all, slide into our DM’s and we’ll be happy to help!

See you soon 💪🏻👊🏻

𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗘’𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧

Here are the events for Berkshire’s Strongest 2023 as promised and long awaited!!

10th June at Crowthorne Rugby Club

Entries will be live on Friday, don’t hang about, it’s gonna be a goodn!

Who’s in? 💪🏻

🥊🏋🏻‍♂️💪🏻𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 💪🏻🏋🏻‍♂️🥊
Do you remember Hot Wheels? 🚗
Remember those little booster blocks you could put on the track to make the cars keep going further and faster? 🚗💨
Let me be your Booster Block for 2023! Book in for a chat and let's get you boosted in your health and fitness goals for this year!

Happy Birthday to one of our amazing Coaches 🥳🥳

Caption contest, what’s been said here!? 😂 best answer wins a day pass and bragging rights!

Get some focus to your training and kick 2023 off with a bang!
Even if you’re not competing at ours on the 5th March, getting a structured programme to boot your training off for the year will help drive the rest of your years progress!

is an 8 week peaking programme tailored to individuals which we will put out before each competition we run! It’s designed to get you prepared for competition and training as a team to roll up on the day with fire and brimstone in your belly!

Weekly catch ups and team training on a Saturday help keep you accountable and motivated to get it done!

Message to get your spot and let’s start 2023 stronger than ever!

Attention all Lifters!

Are you ready to do your part and become a stronger, more capable member of our great nation? Then join Red Beard Barbell Club!

At Red Beard Barbell Club, we believe that a strong body leads to a strong mind. That's why we offer expert-led training in Powerlifting, Strongman and Olympic weightlifting, designed to help you reach your full potential.

But it's not just about getting stronger - it's about being part of a community. At Red Beard Barbell Club, you'll be surrounded by like-minded individuals who are all working towards the same goal: to be the best they can be.

So if you're ready to answer the call and do your part for your country, message us now to book your taster session at Red Beard Barbell Club. Together, we can build a stronger, healthier nation!

See you at the bar!

This little mob are our coaches. I love them all and they have my eternal gratitude for all they do to help our club.

Tonight was awesome to get out of the gym and party with them! Sadly we didn’t win, but getting to this point and being shortlisted for Strength Training Gym of the Year is an incredible reflection on the hard work they put in week in, week out!

“𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉?”

Since I first stepped into a gym with my uncle when I was 12 (22 years ago… 🤦🏻‍♂️) I’ve been obsessed with strength! Getting stronger, the process of getting stronger, the constant unchangeable that is a kilo. It fascinates me that we can train and condition our bodies to get stronger and to overcome objects and to add more of those little illusive kilos to bars, dumbbells, kettlebells, ourselves!

More so than having this ability is the process that fascinated me (and still does!) the quest for knowledge on how we get stronger and how do we get more powerful? What makes this work or that bigger? is bigger better/stronger? Why? All questions I’ve asked, been asked and continue to research and answer, with varying levels of frustration when I discover something I’ve been doing isn’t as effective as it could be… (the joys of continued education and research!)

In short, the answer I give when I’m asked “Why strength?” Is “Because this s**t makes my soul sing!” And it really does! I love it, it’s something that has provided a port in many storms personally and is something I am privileged to share with others and see the results! It’s more than a passion, it’s an obsession! It’s the reason I opened Red Beard Barbell and is the reason we will continue doing what we do and spreading the joy of strength training to as many men, women, kids and everyone in between as we can for as long as we can!

Get booked in for a trial session and see what the fuss is about, perhaps you’ll catch the same bug for strength, perhaps you’ll fall in love with the welcoming family of lunatics whom frequent the barn, or maybe you’ll welcome the challenge of finding those kilos!

A kilo will always be a kilo. There’s something quite comforting in that fact, the constant in a world of uncertainty.

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Grip is a vastly underestimated weapon in the arsenal of any strength athlete, and yet it is often the ignored accessory but at the end of a session…

Tips / exercises for improving grip that require literally no extra equipment than you’d find in a standard gym:

👊🏻 Only use straps for deadlifts, rows etc when you physically can’t grip the weight, stop using straps in warm up sets!
👊🏻 Hanging from a pull-up bar is great for working grip and is easy to superset with just about anything.
👊🏻 Pinch two plates together and hold them trying to avoid any ridges that may help (if you’ve access to steel plates, turn them face to face) and pick up for reps or time.
👊🏻 Wrap your thumb… your thumb makes up a vast portion of your grip strength and yet people are still wondering why they dump max efforts whilst using a su***de grip…
👊🏻 Pick up dumbells by the lump, not the handle!
👊🏻 Use chalk! Chalk aids your grip by eliminating moisture, which allows you to hang on for longer, thus working the muscles and such that are used in grip harder (time in tension)

There are a barrage of ways to work grip, but these are sone of the more simple and effective ways that I like!

What are your go to grip exercises? Let us know in the comments!

🏋🏻‍♂️💪🏻 𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙔!

New memberships available!
First session is on us, what do you have to lose!
Come and find out why we got shortlisted for the Strength Training Gym of the Year at this years National Fitness Awards. (Awards are in November so we might even win it!) Get in and join up so you can tell your mates you were in before we were cool! 😉

DM us to book in and I'll see you soon.

Gyms new poster girl! Not sure the dress is ideal performance apparel, but who am I to question!

Baby Red Beard out here causing problems for the rest of the toddlers in Berkshire! 💪🏻👊🏻

Hey! Wanna come lift weights and chat nonsense with us?

Yeah!? Knew you were a legend! Message us and book in for a trial session and come lift stuff, make new friends to ignore the world with and ya know, have sone fun too! 🙂

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💪🏻💪🏻 𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙆𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙍𝙀’𝙎 𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙊𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙎𝙏 💪🏻💪🏻
We’re back!
Thank you hosting us for 2023!
We’re working hard on the events and such for this comp, keep your eyes peeled for updates coming soon on events, categories and so on!

Sponsorship opportunities available, DM if you’re interested and let’s chat!

Still spaces on our Bench Press workshop!
💪🏻 Increase your bench numbers
💪🏻 Get a full technical breakdown of your lift
💪🏻 Ensure you’re IPF legal for the new laws in 2023!
💪🏻 Get to bench for 2 hours!

See ya there! Enter via website, link in bio 🤟🏻

with great friends = awesome weekend!

Never fail to be inspired by the folks walking around at these events! Back to the gym in the morning! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

SNACKS aka set and ready to do some damage at the log press championships and deadlift tomorrow!

Super proud of how far he’s come in such a short space of time, from joining the club having never touched a log and with a 130kg deadlift. To now going for 130kg log and 300kg deadlift!!!

Honoured to be a finalist for Strength Training Gym of the year at the

Feeling very grateful to everyone who has walked through the doors to our little barn to add to our story. And all the great lifters spreading us across the worlds of Weightlifting, Powerlifting and Strongman!

Now, where can I find a suit for the fancy dinner awards!!

“Eyes forward, be aggressive, go claim what’s yours, that is YOUR bar”

with laser focus heading onto the platform in a cloud of back slap chalk dust!

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coaching our Scamps through squats tonight!

Awesome to see these sessions filling up again after the holidays 💪🏻👊🏻

‘Take a nice picture of the Red Beard lot’
Beatrix (aka big boss) ‘absolutely fu***ng not!’

Bit of a soppy one, fair warning!

This picture right here pretty much sums up my life. My wife, my daughter and my club, in the carpark of the Jolly, a pub I hold very dear to me and my family for all they did to help my brother and my dad when they needed it, and for all they continue to do for me and my family now!

Charlotte, for putting up with me being a dick and stressing about running the comps and for running the scores (which is one of the most stressful jobs at a comp!) as well as everything else she does. The kid, currently a bit of a leech, but ya know, she’s cuts and all! (She’s also 2, give her another year and she’ll be down the mines to help pay for the heating bill!)
And my club, that I’ve grafted through 3 1/2 years of growth and incredible memories and have created more family than I ever knew I had!

I love everything about this picture, I look forward to seeing how it changes and moves forward over the years to when Beatrix is stood on a podium herself, or has tan miles away from such a daft idea entirely!! 💪🏻

This picture makes me happy!

One of my goals at Red Beard Barbell is to encourage more women to get into strength sports and enjoy the benefits of this incredible community!
Last year we ran the Jolly Comp as our first ever strongman competition, we had 26 competitors, 6 of those were women.
This year we had 44 competitors and 18 were women!!

We still have a long way to go, but this is an amazing thing not just for strength sports that I love so dearly, but for women in strength sports!

Get involved and next year, let’s get the categories filled up with strongwomen!

𝑹𝑬𝑫 𝑩𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑫 𝑱𝑶𝑳𝑳𝒀 𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑷 𝑰𝑰

Results and full tables from our second annual Jolly Comp!

Thank you again to the for hosting us again, and to for sponsoring the day!

Thanks also to our event sponsors and

Congratulations to all athletes that took part in what turned out to be a bit of a scorcher! To the spectators for creating such a great atmosphere, and of course to my crew who helped keep the whole thing on course!

Here’s planning next years!!

🚨🚨IT’S COMPETITION TIME! 🚨🚨

This Saturday, red Beard Barbell returns to the for the annual Jolly Comp!

50 local Strongmen and Strongwomen putting on a show for you and the family, food and drink available all day and free access for spectators!!

First event lift off by 10am, comp over by 2.30pm!

Come have sone fun and support your local sports 💪🏻👊🏻

Great picture from the warmup room! The goal was to get 9/9 lifts, PB the squat, take the British Bench record and the English Deadlift record.

All of those things happened after this photo was taken!! 💪🏻👊🏻

Still immensely proud of for his dedication and tenacity leading up to this comp, and his perfect performance on the platform! More to come for sure 💪🏻🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Awesome day at !
got back into the comp mojo, some bits to work on and new goals!
had a great comp and added 5kg to her deadlift with 105kg!
then stole the show with records across the board, English Deadlift record and Bench record in the sun junior -53kg class!!

Awesome day all round!

🚨RESULTS! 🚨
Tables and final standings from Saturdays competition!

Thank you again to all athletes for taking part and putting on a great show and of course to my crew who grind all day to keep it all moving smoothly!

Awesome day, thanks for having us 💪🏻👊🏻

It’s been said that the barn is a work of art (never been said!) and I feel this picture is as close to a renaissance style painting as we’re going to get!

Also the teamwork involved in getting Dave to do hip thrusts is tremendous! 😂💪🏻

Dinnie pick ups today, with an impressive 245kg (105/140) pick in honour of Donald Dinnie day!

🏋🏻‍♂️ IT'S COMPETITION TIME! 🏋🏻‍♂️

On the back of the commonwealth games and the success of our home nation lifters, I wanted to celebrate by offering a free 90 minute Olympic lifting taster session for you and a mate!

Whether you've never done it before but fancy a personal session to give it go, or you are currently lifting and want some coaching on parts of the lifts etc.

This could be just for you! All you need to do is like and share this post, tag us in your story and tag a friend in the comments that you'd like to bring along with you! Results will be drawn on Wednesday 31st August!

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