TESTOSTERONE NATION | Weight of the Bar?

Beginners
Weight of the Bar?		1

Today's Activity

dreadlocks1221
Level 0

Join date: Jan 2012
Location:
Posts: 306

This is probably a dumb question, but...

When you are lifting, do you count the weight of the bar?

Report

sexyxe
Level 0

Join date: Dec 2011
Location: Australia
Posts: 580

Yes.

20kg/45lb

Report

StateOfPsychosis
Level 4

Join date: Aug 2008
Location:
Posts: 374

If you lift an empty bar, does it weigh anything? Yes.

Report

alexus
Level 0

Join date: Feb 2010
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 4556

you surely do.

some gyms have lighter bars. 10kg training bars, or 15kg... the women's olympic lifting bar is 15kg (competition standard).

Report

killerDIRK
Level 0

Join date: Apr 2011
Location: California, USA
Posts: 582

take into account that different bars do indeed have different weights. My safety squat bar weighs 61.5 pounds.
Some of the big boy bars are 55 pounds if I recall properly and if for some reason you decide in a state of delerium to use a smith machine take into consideration most of them are counterweighted, so they would be 2 maybe 3 pounds at the most !

Report