I've posted here because it's techincally to do with max lift totals on the bar.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but all olympic sized steel bars are 20kilo?
I have two olympic style bars in my gym, both exactly the same length and shape, except one has a slighter thinner diameter around the bar itself.
I use the thinner because I have thick hands and I feel it enables me to get a nice tight grip on the bar.
Guy X walks over and says, "hey is that bar lighter", to which I reply no it's a standard 20. He immediately turns to his gym buddy and says "i told you so". His gym buddy was adamant up until I told him he was wrong that the bar was the "light bar" than the other olympic.
All steel olympic style bars, whether thin or thick, are 20kilo weight, correct?
For the record, i've held both hand in hand and they feel pretty much the same which should confirm my theory. But the thinner grip does feel.... easier to use? Lighter would be the wrong word.
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