I've benched with it's fine, same for deads and cleans. The reason you are paying so much for the fucking thing is the wicked knurl. Please don't tell me you wear gloves when you lift?
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
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)?
Take up knitting maybe.
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.
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.
Maybe the pendlay nextgen HD bushing bar would be best for you night? It's meant to have grippy but not damaging knurling.
Maybe the pendlay nextgen HD bushing bar would be best for you night? It's meant to have grippy but not damaging knurling.
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 callousesSounds promising.
re the callousing... firstly, I don't like the callouses... secondly.. they tear anyway!
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.
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)
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)
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