Black & Red Barbell Club

Black & Red is a barbell-centric strength sports organization that focuses on developing technical excellence in Olympic-style Weightlifting, powerlifting, and other competitive strength sports in the DC/MD/VA region. We carry the mission of improving weightlifting proficiency and positioning individuals for success on the platform. This theme guides our operating tenets and success principles we impart to our athletes. Black and Red's principles include:

- Perfection obsession: Every rep is an opportunity to perform the perfect rep.

- Insist on the highest standards: We have fun, but we encourage and challenge everybody to productively be the best they can be, in and out of the gym.

- Open minded, but skeptically curious: Treat all information as potentially useful information, but distill what really resonates with, and works for, you.

- Dig deep: Like most good things in life, what we do is hard work. Learn to develop physical, emotional, and psychological resilience. Doing hard things is hard, but immensely rewarding.

- Enjoy the dark place: You have to be willing to put in the work, and “suffer” now to be prepared for when it counts.

- Vocally self-critical: Benchmark yourself against yourself, your peers, and the best in your weight class. Be willing to accept your flaws, so you can conquer them, and become stronger for it.

- Raise the bar: Your high standards mean you should be constantly raising the bar on your performance, your knowledge, and your general acumen. Be an example, and constantly aim to be the best you can be, always.

- Earn trust and trust your teammates: Be open-minded, listen, and help your teammates with humility and support. In and out of the gym, we are a family. Take care of your family. If you need to get in touch with a coach, please email [email protected].