Exercise Your Way to Optimal Fitness and Wellness

Encouraging Customers to Get Fit Since 1983

Exercise Your Way to Optimal Fitness and Wellness

Encouraging Customers to Get Fit Since 1983

ACTIVITIES

Add Intense Workout Activities to Your Lifestyle for a Healthier You

The Brickyard Gym in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has the equipment and experience needed to ensure our customers’ fitness goals are met. We cater to a wide variety of customers, including beginners, strongmen, and bodybuilders.

Our Amenities

Members at our gym have access to our showers, locker rooms, and infrared saunas. We also have tanning beds available for an extra fee. Our gym has an old-school feel with its cement floors and brick walls.

ABOUT

About Our Owner

Ken Weber is passionate about helping customers take the first step to improve their fitness and overall health. Inspired by his dedication, we help and motivate customers to achieve their fitness goals.

How Ken Found Fitness

Ken’s path to a physical fitness lifestyle and career started as a youth with the Carmen Avenue gang on the northwest side of Milwaukee. During each season, they had a specific sport that the gang played: football, bicycle racing, kick-the-can, red rover, baseball, ice-skating, swimming, basketball, etc. They played all of these fun activities from sunup to sundown.

Education and Fitness Journey

In 1978, Ken focused his energy toward earning a double major in Physical Education and Recreation and a double minor in Adaptive Physical Education and Health at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

During Ken's college days, he began a strategic and intensive workout plan to rehabilitate a shoulder injury, which required invasive surgery. At this time, the "workout bug" bit, and Ken embarked on a new venture into the world of weight training.

Weight Lifting and Bodybuilding

In 1977, Ken entered an Olympic Lifting competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. This encouraged Ken to enter his first powerlifting competition in 1978, leading him down another path in 1984 to join his first bodybuilding show.

The Gym That Changed Ken’s Life

In 1982, Ken joined "Dix Fitness," located at 12th, and Lincoln, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After entering the gym, Ken inquired with the owner Dick Piontek that he was very interested in learning how Dick built his gym from the ground up since he wanted to open up his gym someday.
Due to Ken's inquiry and avid interest in the world of gym ownership, Dick one day asked Ken if he would like to buy his gym. Through some negotiation, they both agreed on a purchase price. One week later, on July 20th, 1983, Ken moved the gym to 2235 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. and opened the doors as "Ken Weber's Fitness Company."

Teaching Days

From 1980-1985, Ken worked as a Physical Education instructor and coached the Football and Swim teams at the Riverside High School. He found the experience of teaching students from all different physical fitness backgrounds challenging and rewarding. Ken enjoyed creating lesson plans to encourage and instruct students into growing into well‑rounded individuals.

Upgrading the Gym

In 1989, Ken needed a larger gym space and relocated to the Avalon Building at 2483 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. He felt it was a good time to rename the gym to "The Brickyard." Ken felt the name coincided with his hardcore philosophy of bodybuilding.

Expanding the Gym

In 2001, Ken needed to expand the gym one more time and was able to purchase the old Mirth Theater Building at 2651 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. The gym's floor space expanded from 3000 square feet at the Avalon Building to 6500 square feet on the airy, opened-area, high-ceilinged 2nd floor of the new Brickyard Building. The membership, as well, expanded from 200 members to 408 members present day.

Testimonials

“I love brickyard an the people who r truly passionate about lifting!!! great place to learn and make serious changes!!!”
-Oliver Janus

“Absolutely one of the best gyms in the state”
- Larry Olson

“This gym is awesome
AWESOME!!! Everyone is so friendly, it’s not super crowded and you don’t get the whole “meat head” vibe. You feel like your back in the 80s in a good way. They have a sauna, showers and tanning beds too! It’s only $5 for a drop in. We are touring musicians so this is so perfect for us and doesn’t break the bank!”
- Kelly Ann

"love it there Kenny is an awesome business owner and makes you feel at home”
-David Romo

“Has a comfortable grunge type of feel, without having that weird industrial feeling of a bigger gym, while maintaining high cleanliness. Between the cardio equipment, training machines, and free weights, it's got everything you'll need for a full work out.”
- Cody Evans

"I have belonged to many corporate gyms “Golds, L.A. fitness, Anytime, etc.” but the feel at Brickyard is completely unique. You will never work harder in a gym then you will at Brickyard. It’s like walking into Mighty Micks Gym in Rocky, it’s has a great old school vibe and screams “Push harder” the moment you pick a weight up! I highly recommend Brickyard to anybody looking to get into shape!”
- Christopher Feldmann

Contact

Hours of Operation

The Brickyard Gym is open 7 days a week, including holidays.

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We’d be more than happy to help you get started and succeed with a fitness routine that pushes you to be the best and strongest version of yourself. For any questions, send us a message.

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