Originally Posted by
Jason Donaldson
A I prefer bare steel, and it's not a maintenance burden by any means.
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If you're in a financial position to ADD the SS bar, it's good to have an extra bar, for a couple of reasons. First is "two is one, one is none", just in case. Also, if you have room, for some pairs of exercises you can interleave warm ups for the next exercise with the work sets on the current one, to save time. My second bar is a secondhand, older Rogue bar that I got with my rack - it's perfectly serviceable, but an OPB would definitely have been better.