The personal trainers at South Carolina Barbell are all skilled in training youth to adult athletes in all sports.  Athletic training programs are specific to each individual athlete and focus on age, sport, fitness level, flexibility and several other factors.  Although we are mostly known throughout Columbia as a Strength Specific facility, we have worked with many types of athletes from High School football and basketball players to gymnasts, tri-athletes, and marathon runners, as well as powerlifters, strongmen and bodybuilders.

When beginning with a new client we ask our selves a couple of key questions:

What does this athlete need?

Speed, Power, Strength, Endurance, Nutrition

Why are these things important?

All of the above factors must be incorporated together to create balance in the athletes skill advancement.  Most coaches understand these basic principles but due to the stresses of coaching there is a huge gap in the ability to offer this balance to all of the athletes on the team.  Coaches must spend their time working on the most talented or "natural" athletes, as well as working on specific aspects of the game, leaves the rest of the team with sub par training by the coaching staff. Basically, unless you or your child are "naturals" much of  the time you are forced to fend for yourselves!    The gap can be narrowed or even eliminated with a specialized strength coach. This is where South Carolina Barbell and Heavy Athletics come into play. Our strength coaches have over 50 years of training and coaching experience! We currently are in charge of the strength program for the Optional Team at Carolina Gymnastics, as well as working with individual football players, swimmers, tri-athletes and cyclists. 

What we Teach our athletes:

1. Proper techniques in all the basic strength exercises. Proper form helps to enable the athlete to get the most out of all muscles groups. This ALONE will raise strength levels 10-15%!

2. Provide an atmosphere for each athlete to excel and feel good about their personal successes.

3. Promote skills that each athlete will use the rest of THEIR lives!

4. Instill belief in their abilities!

5. Teach injury prevention through proper training.

6. Teach how to eat properly and prepare for any contest!

7. We offer Group training. We don't do one on one because one on one does not prepare the athlete for the real world of sport. When athlete's work together, they prepare together, they compete together and they push together!

What is the BOTTOM line?

Our job is to teach each athlete how to maximize their potential. The average person never utilizes even 20% of their available strength. Top athletes over time may get to 50-60%! Where are you or your child as an athlete-average or slightly above average? Let our coaches help you and your team get to the top. We want YOU to be better then you are right now. Call today to schedule a free appointment to come and check our facility out and talk to a coach!!!

Special packages are available for entire teams looking to work together and increase their strength, skills and endurance.