Barbell Bar Buying Guide

I have been involved in powerlifting for two or three years, and my performance is average. The city where I live is surrounded by traditional gyms, most of which are fixed equipment, and some don’t even have free squat racks. Fortunately, the basic requirements for powerlifting equipment are not high, so I simply started to purchase equipment myself to meet the needs of powerlifting training. In the past few years, I have bought and touched a lot of equipment. Here I mainly want to say that no matter you are doing powerlifting, weightlifting, fitness, or bodybuilding. In this article we explain aboout Barbell Bar Buying Guide.

The most important, basic, and indispensable thing for these projects is the barbell! Some people will definitely say that there is nothing to say about the barbell. It’s just a bar. Whether it’s good or bad, it’s the same training. In fact, I thought so at first, thinking it’s just an iron rod. But as the years of training increase, I have learned a lot of knowledge in this area. I have also spent money to buy a lot of bars and have a lot of practical experience (the experience of using high-quality barbells and shoddy ones is simply a world of difference).

There are a lot of information about powerlifting action techniques on the Internet, but there are really few in this area, so I had the idea of ​​writing this article to share my experience with everyone. In addition, as more and more friends are buying their own equipment to exercise at home, I hope this article can be of some help to those friends who want to buy a barbell that suits them and is of high quality.

Barbell Types

Okay, enough nonsense. Let’s get to the point. There are actually many types of barbells. The size and appearance are different for different events and training purposes. Today we will mainly talk about the two sports that have the highest requirements for barbells and use barbells as competition equipment, weightlifting barbells and powerlifting barbells. Below, a large number of illustrations and detailed pictures will be cited for explanation. First, let’s talk about the basic size and parameters of weightlifting barbells, please see the picture below:

Locking device:

The weight of the lock is 2.5kg, and the specifications of the barbell plates are: 25kg 20kg 15kg 10kg 5kg 2.5kg 1.5kg 1kg 0.5kg

The mass deviation of each part of the barbell must comply with the following figure

The color of the barbell plate is

The above are some basic parameters of the barbell. After understanding them, let’s take a look at some domestic and foreign big-name weightlifting barbells that have obtained the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) certification.

Swedish Elkiko barbell (Eliko is also the most common barbell brand in major international weightlifting and powerlifting competitions) is sold abroad for around $1,000 for a competition bar and around $600 for a training bar

The price of Werk San barbell abroad is about 1000 US dollars for competition bar and 900 US dollars for training bar

Japanese uesaka barbell

American Rogue barbell (Rogue is a brand. Friends who are familiar with CrossFit may know that almost all barbells in CF competitions are of this brand. In addition, it has also been used in powerlifting competitions in recent years). The price abroad is about 600 US dollars for competition bars and 500 US dollars for training bars.

The domestic price of Shanghai Double Happiness barbells in China is about 9,000 RMB for competition bars and between 3,000 and 4,000 RMB for training bars.

Barbells brands

This time we mainly introduce some common brands of barbells in competitions. There are many domestic brands as well, which we will not list here one by one. If you are interested, we will have the opportunity to discuss with you in the future. Next, let’s talk about powerlifting barbells.

The price of eleiko powerlifting barbell abroad is about 900 US dollars for IPF competition bar (basically all IPF competitions use eleiko barbells)

Taking eleiko as an example, let’s take a look at the relevant requirements for barbell specifications in international powerlifting competitions. Below are the requirements for competition barbell specifications by IPF (World Powerlifting Federation)

Next, let’s talk about powerlifting barbell plates. As usual, let’s take a look at the IPF’s requirements for powerlifting barbell plates.

Powerlifting steel plates are rare in China, and many friends may not know much about them, so I will briefly talk about them here. If you are interested, you can talk about them in detail later.

The above are the common brands and products. This article is written very simply, just to let everyone appreciate the barbells of big brands. I believe that you will have a basic understanding of barbells after reading this. The barbell that looks simple to ordinary people is actually a very delicate and demanding product.