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Do you guys count the bar?

  • 12-07-2009 9:08pm
    #1
    tlev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭


    Just a quick question of personal interest...

    Do you guys count the bar when lifting? So when you say you bench or squat xxx kgs is that including the weight of the bar?


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  • #2
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    Quick answer - Yup!


  • #3
    tlev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭tlev


    It weighs 20kg in the gym no? I was just wondering because I get used to not counting the bar when I work out at home because it isn't an olympic one and is pretty light so when I'm in the gym I just forget about it. And was wondering if everyone else was like that. :)


  • #4
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    tlev wrote: »
    It weighs 20kg in the gym no? I was just wondering because I get used to not counting the bar when I work out at home because it isn't an olympic one and is pretty light so when I'm in the gym I just forget about it. And was wondering if everyone else was like that. :)

    When it's 20kg count it, when it's an Argos one weighing a pound or two forget it.


  • #5
    dave80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭dave80


    tlev wrote: »
    Just a quick question of personal interest...

    Do you guys count the bar when lifting? So when you say you bench or squat xxx kgs is that including the weight of the bar?

    defo include the bar


  • #6
    celestial
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭celestial


    You're liftin it aren't ya? so you might as well count it!


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  • #7
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    Yes.
    If you lift it, count it.

    Rough figures

    7ft Oly bar -20Kgs
    6ft Oly bar - 17Kgs


  • #8
    tlev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭tlev


    Funny how I haven't thought about it until now.


  • #9
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    I think someone asked Rip this in the ask rip forum.

    Not sure though.


  • #10
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    d'Oracle wrote: »
    I think someone asked Rip this in the ask rip forum.

    Not sure though.

    Huh?


  • #11
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,514 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    I get used to not counting the bar when I work out at home because it isn't an olympic one and is pretty lightp
    I'd count the weight of that bar too - if it is an Argos 5 foot solid bar it's about 6 kg.


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  • #12
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    I don't actually count the weight normally so if someone asks me what I lift I usually answer with what's on the bar.

    I was kinda chuffed the other day to realise that including the bar I'm squatting 15kg over my body weight.


  • #13
    tlev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭tlev


    It does give you that warm feeling doesnt it? haha


  • #14
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    I have a friend who uses the Smith machine all the time (yes he's that guy :rolleyes:).

    He tried to convince me that the bar was in fact 20 kg. I, who hates to be wrong, brought the weighing scales over and told him to stand on them with the bar on his shoulders, then told him to stand on it without the bar. We found out that the bar was 9kg.

    I was happy :)


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