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Different types of barbell

  • 11-07-2008 1:08pm
    #1
    brianthebard
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    Ok this may seem like a silly question, but try and help me out if you can. I recently switched gym and the barbells feel a good bit heavier than the old place. I thought it might just be me, I haven't been training that well lately, etc. but another lad with much more experience than me has switched from the same gym and says the same thing, it feels at least 5kgs heavier to him. It seems to be as long as the ones in the old place, but thicker. The obvious answer would be that the last place had lighter bars and these are "real" olympic standard, but we had the same bars in the uni gym and they were marked as 20kg. So anyways the point is how many different standards of barbell are there? could these ones be twenty five kgs?


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  • #2
    BossArky
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    Ask someone who works in the gym or stand on a scales with the barbell in your hand.


  • #3
    rubadub
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    There are different official weights for womens & mens, but I imagine many cheaper ones are not to contest standards/weights, this came up before many were under 20kg. I think it would be rarer to get heavier ones since it uses more steel so would cost a manufacturer more. The likes of ironmind have crazy expensive ones to ridiculous loads which could weigh more, but I cannot see a normal gym investing in those, Ironminds dearest barbell set is $3,919!

    http://www6.mailordercentral.com/ironmind/prodinfo.asp?number=1218%2D182%2E5


  • #4
    Hanley
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    rubadub wrote: »
    There are different official weights for womens & mens, but I imagine many cheaper ones are not to contest standards/weights, this came up before many were under 20kg. I think it would be rarer to get heavier ones since it uses more steel so would cost a manufacturer more. The likes of ironmind have crazy expensive ones to ridiculous loads which could weigh more, but I cannot see a normal gym investing in those, Ironminds dearest barbell set is $3,919!

    http://www6.mailordercentral.com/ironmind/prodinfo.asp?number=1218%2D182%2E5

    The reason the Eleiko set is so expensive is because they're all calibrated to the exact weight on the plate. And then there's the money they pay for IWF certification. The bar itself is probably $1.25-1.5k

    In weightlifting women's bars are 15kg, but noticably thinner.

    Don't forget a thicker bar can appear heavier because it's harder to hold onto. That being said, in TF they have two types of bars. One is what I'd called a standard olympic barbell. The other is thicker, darker and 2-4kg heavier.


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