Barbell for a barbell - types, how much it weighs and the best exercises with a barbell

Barbell bars are versatile equipment that are an essential tool for strength training. Devices differ in appearance and shape depending on the purpose for which they are used, size and weight. For effective training, it is important for a person to know the features of using this tool.

How much does a barbell weigh?

There are several types of bars that differ in purpose and technical characteristics: length, diameter, and of course, weight. There are straight and curved bars, some are suitable for basic exercises and are placed on the shoulders (squats) or used in deadlifts, while others (curves) are intended only to be held in the hands. On average, straight professional bars weigh 15-20 kg, excluding locks, and curved bars weigh about 6-7 kg.

Conclusion

It is unlikely that constant training with a wide bar will bring you tangible benefits. A rollback in working weights during deadlifts and a decrease in neuromuscular activity during bench presses are obvious disadvantages of wide bars. Add to this a weak grip and the associated risk of losing control of the weight and getting injured. The score is 3-0 in favor of the narrow neck. When it comes to training grip strength, a wide bar is not a panacea. Any expander, gyroscopic trainer, or a series of simple exercises with free weights or on horizontal bars will cope with this task well.

Types of barbells

There are several types of straight chrome bar: Olympic bar for weightlifting, powerlifting and special for women. They are used for basic exercises: squats, deadlifts, barbell presses, and the like.

Olympic bar

The bushings on this plate bar rotate, which is important for weightlifting exercises that require jerking.
The neck rod has notches. Options:

• Weight – 20kg.
• 2 locks – each 2.5 kg.
• The neck diameter is 20 mm.
• Length – 2200 mm.
• Total weight with locks – 25 kg.

Olympic bar for women

This type of straight bar differs from the previous one in size and weight.

• Weight – 15 kg.
• Length – 2050 mm.
• Diameter – 25 mm.

Powerlifting bar

This bar has slight differences from the Olympic bar: the length of the bar is 2200 cm, but the diameter is 29 mm, and the weight is also 20 kg. Withstands heavy loads.

Trap neck

A hexagonal or hexagonal bar is designed for deadlifting. It replaces the Olympic bar and shifts the load to the quadriceps. By holding the bar in your hands, as opposed to a straight bar, you can avoid compressive stress on the spine.

EZ-neck

A curved bar is essential for exercising the arm muscles, especially the biceps. The special shape of the bar is able to remove excess stress from the wrists, which greatly facilitates the technique and makes it anatomically more comfortable for the joints.

• Neck length – 1200 mm.
• Weight – 6500 grams.

W-shaped neck

The curved bar is very similar to the ez-shaped bar visually and in technical characteristics, but is designed specifically for performing the French press, namely for the triceps. You can also perform biceps and forearm exercises with this bar.

Parallel grip bar

Another common name is oval. Necessary for a parallel (neutral) grip, which provides an anatomically comfortable load on the biceps and forearms. This variety can replace the two previous options for working out the arm muscles.

Universal bar (home non-professional)

These options are found in home equipment lines. A straight bar allows you to select the load for all muscle groups, but the technical characteristics must be selected depending on your physical fitness. Typically, such equipment is of poorer quality, but also costs much less.

• The length of the neck is from 1250 to 2000 cm.
• Weight – from 6 to 10 kg.

P-neck

An unusual and custom U-shaped bar that enhances the range of motion in the bench press that cannot be achieved with an Olympic bar. The special shape of the bar allows you to lower your arms lower, thereby stretching the pectoral muscles more, and this, in turn, will improve the appearance and accelerate the growth of the pectoral muscles.

• Weight: 20 kg.
• Length: 225 cm.
• Protrusion height: 35 cm.

Bar with rotating knobs

This invention is designed to provide additional supination of the biceps and pronation of the triceps, which is simply not possible with a conventional barbell lift. Rotating handles inside rings on bearings provide free rotation of the hand, as if working with dumbbells.

• Length: 120 cm.
• Weight: 12 kg.

Hatfield Vulture

Weightlifter and powerlifter Frederick Hatfield, who invented this design, once suffered a shoulder injury, after which he could not train with a regular bar. Thanks to this, his invention was born. A bar with a shifted center of gravity provides both comfort and safety at the same time, and increases the load on the quadriceps. Special rollers do not put pressure on the shoulders, and the shift in the center of gravity does not overload the shoulder and knee joints.

• Weight: 35-40 kg.
• Length: 225 cm.

Why do you need to have information about shells?

It is very important to have information about what types of barbells there are. Surely many people do not understand how important this is. In fact, this is very important to know. A person who wants to achieve high results must know everything about the area in which he strives to achieve success. It’s hard to imagine that world bodybuilding champions don’t know how much a particular piece of equipment weighs.

This is the moment when knowledge helps not only in achieving results, but also in maintaining health. There are an incredible number of examples when a person comes to the gym and grabs everything. You can often notice that he weighs 60 kilograms, but does not know anything about the barbell itself. As a result, he will get injured, because heavy weight has a bad effect on unprepared joints.

When it comes to deadlifts and squats, maintaining an accurate weight is incredibly important. In general, these are all words, but the fact remains that before going to the gym, you need to familiarize yourself with the weight of individual sports elements.

The best barbell manufacturers

Iron King

Russian manufacturer of sports and rehabilitation equipment. The company appeared 15 years ago and has earned credibility in the market of sports equipment and exercise equipment. Iron King guarantees the safety of its products and high quality, despite the relatively low cost. Depending on the type of neck, prices vary from 1,300 to 7,000 rubles.

IDOL Action

The manufacturer produces lines of various types of necks. Among them are:

• Godzilla 20kg competition powerlifting bar, 29mm diameter;
• Olympic bar Tiger, weighing 20 kg with bearings;
• as well as a women's Olympic bar weighing 15 kg with bearings with a diameter of 25 mm.

Cost from 11,700 – 14,000 rubles.

Rogue Fitness

The US brand produces sports equipment, including the men's Olympic bar weighing 20 kg, with a diameter of 28.5 mm, a top seller in Russia. Approximate cost from 13,000 rubles.

BRAIN-MUSCLE CONNECTION

The second reason why working with a thick bar is so beneficial is that a thick bar forces you to engage your forearms, hands, wrists and fingers to a much greater extent than a regular bar. Thus, you activate the most powerful brain-muscle connection, which leads to an increase in volume and strength. Have I completely confused you? Read on - I’ll explain everything to you now.

What do I mean when I talk about the brain-muscle connection? I mean the connection between your brain and your central nervous system. Every time you lift a weight, the movement begins with your brain consciously sending a signal to your muscles, causing them to pull or push in a certain direction. This signal is sent to the muscles through the central nervous system. When the muscles receive a signal, they respond by pulling or pushing, just as the brain tells them to. This is the “brain-muscle” connection, i.e. connection between the brain, nervous system and muscles.

Signals from the brain to the muscles are transmitted in the form of nerve impulses. The strength of each nerve impulse, the total number of nerve impulses and the frequency with which impulses are transmitted from the brain to the muscles is the most important factor that determines how much force you can develop in a particular movement. I can't point to any scientific research to "prove" you that I'm right, but I firmly believe that fat bar training increases nerve impulse strength, the total number of nerve impulses, and the frequency of nerve impulses.

As I noted above, a thick bar is a terribly uncomfortable thing and difficult to hold in your hands. When lifting such a bar, you are forced to constantly adjust the trajectory of its movement - otherwise you will immediately go astray from the correct trajectory and will not be able to complete the movement. Your brain will be forced to maintain a constant connection with your muscles. I believe this kind of feedback is necessary to strengthen neuromuscular connections. This is what makes working with a thick bar incredibly effective.

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Choosing
rods

(from German
Stange
- “rod, rod”) - a sports equipment for lifting weights in weightlifting, bodybuilding and powerlifting.

Vulture

The collapsible rod has bushings at the ends to secure the load, consisting of disks of various weights and locks.

History[edit | edit code]

In ancient Egypt, warriors lifted iron and stone beams to develop strength. The ancient Greeks made dumbbells. Soldiers of medieval England (XIV-XV centuries) competed in lifting iron beams. Chronicle of the end of the 16th century. describes a stick with lead weights attached to the ends—the first mention of a variable-weight barbell. Ball barbells have always had a bar 1 m long. The literature describes the manufacture of dumbbells: “Cast lentil-shaped balls are put on a small iron barrel and attached to it with a small spike. The barrel is riveted and wrapped in leather.” The barbell was made in the same way.

In addition to cast rods, there were also hollow rods of variable weight. Sand or shot was poured into them.

The collapsible rod appeared in Germany in the mid-19th century. Since the 1896 Olympic Games, only a collapsible barbell has been used in competitions. A special place is occupied by the Apollo axle - the axle of a trolley with a diameter of 50 mm and a weight of 165 kg, named after the nickname of Louis Uni[en] (France), who lifted it daily on the stage. The main difficulty was that the axis did not turn. Only 30 years later, the Olympic champion of the 1924 Olympic Games, Charles Rigoulot[en] (France)[2], was able to lift it. A barbell with a rotating bar was invented by the German engineer Berg at the beginning of the 20th century. For the first time at competitions - at the European Championships in 1929. Later, at all major international competitions, a barbell with rubber-coated discs was used.

Kraevsky bar[edit | edit code]

“The Father of Russian Athletics” V.F. Kraevsky created a collapsible barbell of an original design, with three marks: one in the center of the bar for lifting with one hand, and two on the edges; and discs 2 - 10 lbs. Starting from the Russian Championship in 1897, it was used in competitions. Later it was improved before the revolution by S. D. Dmitriev (Moscow) and in Soviet times by Jan Sparre (Moscow) and N. I. Koshelev (Leningrad).

FEAR FACTOR

Another reason why exercises with a thick bar engage the nervous system more is the way a thick bar looks. And it looks so impressive and intimidating that you automatically pull or push it harder than a regular bar. This sounds crazy, but think about it for a minute. Many years ago, Harvard psychologist William James noticed that a person squeezes a dynamometer harder if a red light turns on at the moment the force is applied. Only red color led to this result. Moreover, with some lamp colors, subjects squeezed the dynamometer WEAKER, despite their best efforts. James theorized that these results could be explained by the fact that red light is associated with danger (after all, red is the color of fire, blood and war). Compared to blue, green or brown, red is a “hot” color. If color affects strength in this way, then it can be assumed that a bar that is two to three times thicker than a normal one can lead to the same reaction.

Remember, nothing motivates like fear. The great heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey fought like a caged animal and literally destroyed his opponent every time the opponent was significantly larger than him. But when the opponent was the same size as himself, Dempsey fought only like an ordinary mortal. Dempsey literally made a patty out of the massive Jess Willard, who was a head taller than Dempsey and outweighed him by about 45 kg. However, Dempsey narrowly lost to the smaller Edward Carpenter. Dempsey suffered his only two losses to Gene Tunney, who was about the same size as Dempsey himself. Many say that Dempsey fought best when he was in fear of his opponent. And his fear appeared when his opponent was larger than him. I believe that was the case, and I also believe that just the sight of a steel bar that looks more like a telephone pole will cause any lifter to get a lot more adrenaline pumping. In other words, a fat bar does to you the same thing as your personal trainer yelling “GO PRESS” in your ear every time you do a rep.

Weight

When discussing what types of barbells there are, one cannot help but touch upon the topic of the weight of this apparatus. Its weight directly depends on its size - the longer it is, the heavier it is. On average, the weight of a metal rod for a barbell ranges from 6 to 30 kilograms. Particular attention should be paid to the locks that are attached to both sides of the bar to secure the pancakes. The standard weight of locks is 2.5 kilograms.

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BENEFITS FOR GRIP DEVELOPMENT

Thick bars are great for strengthening your forearms, wrists and fingers. Any exercise you do with a thick bar automatically turns into a test of the strength of your fingers and hands. A thick bar makes pulling movements nearly impossible, curls incredibly difficult, and even pressing exercises become a real challenge when you do them with a thick bar. Like a dinosaur, you'll be doing a lot of specialized grip work, but keep in mind that you can really push your grip to the limit if you simply use a thick bar instead of a standard bar in your upper body workouts.