Weight of the bar?

nice_guy80

Now, don't go ridiculing me here, but how do I know what the weight of the bar is? Just want to clarify exactly what i'm lifting

I don't train in a 'fitness centre' gym, but in a small gym in a sports club with no staff or instructors. Its a club members' only gym. Its the business cause there's never anyone there!

Anyway, I've been told by various lads in the club that the bar is 10kg, others that its 15kg.

How would i know for sure? very similar to this one

ricka05

if its full lent , so called olimpic bar ,its 20 kg.................

spiral

if its 7foot it should be around 20kg, 6 foot around 17kg and 5 foot around 15kg

nice_guy80

deadly!!!

fairly sure its full length. I'll have to measure it. means i'm lifting more than i thought

was wondering why i was nowhere near those crossfit standards

Brian?

Is there not a scales in the gym you could weigh it on?

nice_guy80

no. the gym is basic enough. but has all the things needed imho

Hanley

spiral wrote: »

if its 7foot it should be around 20kg, 6 foot around 17kg and 5 foot around 15kg

Is that crap bar in Hercs a 6 footer?? I never actually measured it.. I kow it comes in around 17kg tho!

sunnyjim

Now, don't go ridiculing me here, but how do I know what the weight of the bar is? Just want to clarify exactly what i'm lifting

I don't train in a 'fitness centre' gym, but in a small gym in a sports club with no staff or instructors. Its a club members' only gym. Its the business cause there's never anyone there!

Anyway, I've been told by various lads in the club that the bar is 10kg, others that its 15kg.

How would i know for sure? very similar to this one

We must train in the same place.

I've been there 2 years and the place is empty no matter what time I'm in. Never once waited for anything when there is people there! And I've never once seen anyone use the squat rack, except once when I saw a bloke doing seated military press.

spiral

Hanley wrote: »

Is that crap bar in Hercs a 6 footer?? I never actually measured it.. I kow it comes in around 17kg tho!

I dunno but i bought a 6 foot bar from workout world a couple ogf years ago and it was 17ish and a mate of mine had a 5 foot bar that was 15ish

nice_guy80

We must train in the same place.

I've been there 2 years and the place is empty no matter what time I'm in. Never once waited for anything when there is people there! And I've never once seen anyone use the squat rack, except once when I saw a bloke doing seated military press.

jeasus i doubt it. unless you are down the country somewhere?

rubadub

They should really engrave the weight of bars on them.

Wonder if there is another way to estimate. e.g. curl with the bar as many reps as you can. Now get 2 10kg dumbells and curl and see if you can match it.

Or if there was some machine, say lat pulldown you might be able to rest it on the other weights, and do the same test, matching rep for rep, but in that case the exercise is the exact same (i.e. I could curl more weight on a fixed bar than dumbbells)

Roper

Standards wise
Full O bar- 20kgs
Ladies bar (no really)- 15kgs

There's also some training bars and stuff available that come in as low as 8kgs.

Hanley

spiral wrote: »

I dunno but i bought a 6 foot bar from workout world a couple ogf years ago and it was 17ish and a mate of mine had a 5 foot bar that was 15ish

Hmmmm.... I see. You know the bar I'm talking about in Hercs right? Really slivery... almost like a cambered bar. It's such a piece of crap!

spiral

is that the one that some people actually prefer to bench on ?

Hanley

spiral wrote: »

is that the one that some people actually prefer to bench on ?

Yeah, cos it's lighter :D

Are you talking about someone on a Sunday morning? Who also likes to use the crap bench? If youre talking about who I thinik you are, it's cos he likes to make things that bit harder on himself. Gotta love a guy trying to do that while close gripping 140/150.

spiral

Thats the man

peterako

spiral wrote: »

if its 7foot it should be around 20kg, 6 foot around 17kg and 5 foot around 15kg

Yippee!!!

I've just added 7kg to all my lifts

(I use a 6 foot bar and had only allowed 10kg for it....will weigh it today...)

Peter