• Keep up to date with Ausbb via Twitter and Facebook. Please add us!
  • Join the Ausbb - Australian BodyBuilding forum

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.

    The Ausbb - Australian BodyBuilding forum is dedicated to no nonsense muscle and strength building. If you need advice that works, you have come to the right place. This forum focuses on building strength and muscle using the basics. You will also find that the Ausbb- Australian Bodybuilding Forum stresses encouragement and respect. Trolls and name calling are not allowed here. No matter what your personal goals are, you will be given effective advice that produces results.

    Please consider registering. It takes 30 seconds, and will allow you to get the most out of the forum.

which low-mid price aussie supplied barbell?

callan said:
yeah i have used the texas bar and the knurl is sharp, it may make a mess of your hands at first but fuck does it grip good
Click to expand...

And for those of us who would prefer their hands weren't made a mess of and/or don't want calloused hands (cushy white collar job here)?
 
NightFallTech said:
Never understood why one has play the 'hard man' to lift weights... never subscribed to the whole macho BS thing myself in anything i've done, and that hasn't hurt me in the last 33 years.
Click to expand...

So you don't think building your grip strength would be benefical. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
 
I do work to build grip strength, i just don't use my heavy sets when the bar is going to be slipping and the knurl cutting into my hands to do so, in my experience that leads to torn up hands and callouses...

My grip strength actually exceeds my pain threshold for the knurl cutting into me.

Edit : I do have hyper sensitive skin though that tears easily.
 
Maybe the pendlay nextgen HD bushing bar would be best for you night? It's meant to have grippy but not damaging knurling.
 
If you developed calluses your skin wouldn't tear so easily. It just kinda defeats the purpose of buying that bar, people buy it specifically for that knurl.
 
Drifter said:
Maybe the pendlay nextgen HD bushing bar would be best for you night? It's meant to have grippy but not damaging knurling.
Click to expand...

Has fine but nice grippy knurling. I wouldnt use it for squats or bench though. Its good for Deads and oly lifts.
 
I've read a couple of posts that say the Texas Power Bar from Gymandfitness is a fake...Any truth in that?
 
NightFallTech said:
Sounds promising.
re the callousing... firstly, I don't like the callouses... secondly.. they tear anyway!
Click to expand...
you will get callouses no matter what unless you use gloves, simply from the pressure from the weight on the folded skin. so really a course knurl will just give you better grip, i used a pendlay bar for ages and still got callouses
 
A lot of talk about expensive bars here, for a casual home trainer who wnats a $200 bar

Not sure how people bend these bars unless they are mis treating them, My most expensive bar is $55 and I have dead lifted over 180kg with it and it gets used every time I train and it's still perfectly straight.

180kg is not a lot by some people here, but it's still a bit, even if I exceed the 180kg in the future I don't think the average home trainer requires a $500 plus bar unless you are competing and getting quite serious about your training.

I think it's more want than need to be honest.
 

Agreed. Cheap bars probably don't like to be dropped but if you can't put it down then you shouldn't be lifting it anyway.
 
bull said:
Agreed. Cheap bars probably don't like to be dropped but if you can't put it down then you shouldn't be lifting it anyway.
Click to expand...

My old $150 was bent as fuck after 6 months to the point where it would roll in my hands during squats and bench. I never mistreat bars, it just bent from constant racking.

A $500 dollar will last the average trainee forever if cared for correctly (kept oiled, etc). I think they're worthwhile investment.

You can ask for custom ABC bars with less gnarly knurling.
 
Not to mention the better bars are easier on the joints

A competitor at the GPC nationals tore his forearm squatting a few weeks ago due to using a bar that wasn't really intended for low bar squatting

My old Iron Edge bar is pretty dangerous to squat will. Slippery knurling, you have to set the pins lower as the weight increases to compensate for the bend (and neither I or anyone else I train with are 400lb squatters)
 
Last edited:

Yep I had a cheap bar slightly slip on my back the other day and tweaked my shoulder.
 

Key point there is competitor... how many of these issues only show up once your squatting 200+ ?
 
Well 400lb is less than 200kg lol

So the issue shows up well before then

The girl I train squats 110kg and with the cheap bar she wears wrist wraps and her wrists/forearms still get beaten up. Eleiko bar in comp no wraps no issues
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register