Equipment Philosophy

Hercules is like a museum, but instead of paint and canvas, we house and maintain the greatest and most sought-after pieces of weight lifting equipment that man has ever made. Unlike a museum, you can touch and use these great machines without fear of an alarm going off (or like Planet Fitness, for that matter).

We handpick every single machine. We have two major criteria for selecting our equipment. 1) It has to be considered among the best-in-class. 2) It has to be embraced and loved by our members. If the machine does not pass either one of those hurdles, it won’t be in the gym for long. This ritual continues until we find the perfect fit.

Our goal is to provide an overwhelming amount of variety of the best lifting equipment ever made. By doing so we give our members an unrivaled training advantage and lifting experience that hyper-charges workouts.  This makes workouts at Hercules brutally effective and fun as hell. There is no other place like it in Syracuse.