Buff's Barbell Club

About the Gym

Buff's Barbell Club was started by my dad Big Bill Buffington sometime in the 1950s in south central Pennsylvania within the shadows of York Barbell. Today the equipment and the gym's legacy continue with his son and grandchildren. The first bench used was a piece of plywood taped to steel tubing welded together. We still have this bench in the gym. We migrated from classic York Squat stands with hundreds of pounds of York standard weights to mostly York milled plates and Texas and Rogue Power Bars. Buff's Barbell Club is still in Central Pennsylvania, just a bit further north and still in the shadows of York Barbell.