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Question about equipment.
Coach Rippetoe, I am interested in buying a barbell set so I can lift at home. I was wondering if you had any input on the quality of certain manufacturers.
After looking, this appears to be the best deal I can find: http://bigfitness.com/olweset300lb.html
I have heard of elitefts.com, and they sell Troy barbell equipment, so I thought the U.S. Sports (Troy Barbell/U.S. Sports) barbell might be good quality as well.
I have heard of power bars like the Texas Power Bar, but that is really expensive and I don't think I am going to be lifting anywhere near enough weight to need a barbell that passed a 1200 lb. static test! I seriously doubt that I will be lifting more than 300 pounds for any exercise for a good while.
Thank you.
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I don't really comment on equipment here, except to say that saving money on a bar is a really bad place to save money. Always get the best bar you can possibly afford that suits your training purposes. This won't be the best bar, and you can buy plates used at 2nd Hand Sports or the equivalent, after you ordered a decent bar from somewhere else.
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Oh, ok. I was unaware that you did not comment on equipment, sorry. Since this thread is already open though, I found this set at a local store for $192.58 (tax included): http://www.troybarbell.com/store.php...on=show_detail
None of my lifts are over 250 lbs. and since the bar is rated at 350 lbs. I think I could wait a month or so before ordering a nicer bar. By the way, I thought 45 lbs. was the standard for Olympic bars, this one says 44?
Is 1 lb. enough of a difference to get some fractional plates just yet? I have been lifting at a gym, and you said in Practical Programming it is ideal for the plates to be marked because the variations in plates can make the weight different, and cause you to train with a weight below or above what you need.
Thanks for commenting even though you don't comment on equipment. Thank you.
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Bars are produced for the metric equipment market, and the one you have weighs 20kg. This is 44.1 pounds. They all do. We call it "45" in the gym when working with pounds to make the math easier. Fractional plates solve another problem, that of making our incremental increases smaller, not making the weight a more pleasing number.
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Ok, if they are all 20KGs I should be ok. By the way, I found some material that makes nice 0.5 lb "plates". I found these at Lowes Home Improvement: http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...044&lpage=none
and they weight roughly half a pound each. Maybe you should add that to the material you can make fractional plates out of in the next edition of practical programming .
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These things are sure uglier than 2" flat washers and JB Weld.
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As Mark said, be wary of cheap bars, I bought some cheap ones early on and they suck. I bought one that was supposed to be 45 lbs (or 44lbs) and it actually weighs 37 lbs. I bought another one for females that was suppossed to be 25 lbs and it weighs 32 lbs. Check your plates too. They aren't always what they say they are. I just wrote on mine what they actually weigh cuz sometimes if you load up the bar wrong you can really feel the imbalance.
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Yeah, those are uglier. But at least they have those here, I asked for 2" washers at the hardware store and the guy acted like he had never heard of such a thing.
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Try Lowe's or HD instead of the hardware store. If an actual hardware store doesn't have them and the big box does, it tells you why Mom and Pop are going out of business.
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the hardware store I was talking about was Lowe's..
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