New Rogue Bar - I'm weaker than I thought

[Paul1]

It turns out that the bar I bought at Sports Authority 5 years ago only weighs 33 pounds. This made for a very unpleasant surprise when I tried my new 44 pound Rogue bar, for the first time, trying for a PR on bench intensity day.

Pound for pound I sure got a new PR, but damn that hurt.

This also I suppose explains why my old cheap-ass bar was getting bent.

[Mark Rippetoe]

The only 15 kilo bars I've ever seen are 25mm women's Olympic weightlifting bars. But then, I've never been cheap about bars.

[bugbomb]

My Academy bars weighed 37 and 42. 33 is pretty wild.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

Yep. I got a 37 lb bar at Academy 7-8 years ago. It wasn't supposed to be. Pieces of shit. I think they mill the sleeves too narrow and that's where the weight is lost

[HeavyMetal]

I checked my Academy bar the other day, and I came up with 40 even. At least that's what my bathroom scale says when I stand on it with the bar in my hands. I don't think the sleeves on mine are any more narrow than my brand new B&R (which is awesome). They are pieces of shit, that's for sure.

[wal]

But then, I've never been cheap about bars.

Well, I know you have always been a generous man, so what type of refreshment can I expect at your bar? I still don't mind a cup of your Arbuckle's though. None of that Texan sheep dip for me though. Ha!

BLUEY BRINK

There was once a shearer by name Bluey Brink,
A devil for work and a devil for drink;
He could shear his two hundred a day without fear,
And drink without blinking four gallons of beer.

Now Jimmy the barman who served out the drink,
He hated the sight of this here Bluey Brink,
Who stayed much too late and came much too soon,
At evening, at morning, at night and at noon.

One morning as Jimmy was cleaning the bar,
With sulphuric acid he kept in a jar,
Old Bluey came yelling and boiling with thirst;
‘ What ever you’ve got Jim, just hand me the first!’

Now it ain’t in the histories, it ain’t put in print,
But Bluey drank acid with never a stint,
Saying, ‘That’s the stuff Jimmy! Well, strike me stone dead,
This’ll make me the ringer of Stevenson’s shed!’

Now all that long day as he served out the beer,
Poor Jimmy was sick with his trouble and fear;
Too worried to argue, too anxious to fight,
Seeing the shearer a corpse in his fright.

When early next morning he opened the door,
Then along came the shearer, asking for more,
With his eyebrows all singed and his whiskers deranged,
And holes in his hide like a dog with the mange.

Says Jimmy, ‘and how did you find the new stuff?’
Says Bluey, ‘It’s fine, but I’ve not had enough!
It gives me great courage to shear and to fight,
But why does that stuff set my whiskers alight?

‘I thought I knew drink, but I must have been wrong,
for what you just give me was proper and strong;
It set me to coughing and you know I’m no liar,
But every cough set my whiskers on fire!’

anon

[Paul1]

I didn't think I was being cheap but what i wasnt as informed a consumer at the time. I had bought it as part of a bench / rack / bar set (gold's gym brand) and the bar was otherwise standard dimensions. Oh well.

[Alcon]

I bought a 300# set at academy a long time ago, when it was $100, "Standard" weights and bar. Took me some time to figure out the bar weighed 37#, also explained why at the gym the same weight always felt heavier.

I'm always sure to bust people's bubble when they talk about their milestone on bench or squat, with an off brand bar.

[drcube]

How does one go about weighing a bar accurately? With plates or without? Just lay each side on a home scale and add the two numbers together?

[PressesPeople]

Haha I also had a Sports Authority bar for the longest time. It also weighed 33 pounds. Shitty, but you get what you pay for.