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apple2peanut in gymrats

Standard bar: max capacity?

Apr 19, 2011 15:35

A while ago I got some used weightlifting equipment, good for a starter-newbie (or re-starter or newbie-again, like myself). I haven't touched them since going to my local gym for a while, but since my membership is about to expire and I can't afford to rejoin at this time, I am dusting off my stuff at home. The main component of interest is the ( Read more... )

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Comments 14

kimuchi April 19 2011, 22:01:05 UTC

There are so many random bar types sold with home gym sets it's almost impossible to guess what yours are like.

apple2peanut April 20 2011, 22:53:22 UTC

Hi and thanks for the feedback. I'm definitely learning about gym equipment now. I've heard one or two comments (in RL) about the difficulty in answering something like this, but I rely more on this comm for actually confirming how little standardization there is.

katie_keysburg April 20 2011, 01:09:55 UTC

Just buy a real bar.

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apple2peanut April 20 2011, 23:04:58 UTC

Thanks for updating me on your interim, ahem, breaks. I have been away from this comm effectively 2 1/2 years I think and if you've reported these occurrences, I've missed out. (Miss this place, the people here, but most of all, miss hitting the gym all this time until my recent return a few months ago.)

Overtime I hope you'll still have room in your garage for more than decorative bent bars, heh. BTW I'm wondering - unless you want to hang on to them - if you can eventually make money off of them (other than sending off to scrap metal yard?) by auctioning them off to potential future fans? Who knows, LOL! Use them for a fundraiser. But hang on to the first one for a while. I'm hoping it will appreciate like gold, heh.

pinkminx April 20 2011, 09:10:39 UTC

I have weight plates from three different sources (.5 kg to I believe 15 kg) and they go with both the adjustable set of dumbbells I bought & the two bars I got from my FIL. Don't take this as word of god, though-- I'm sure there's some ass backwards standard that doesn't go along with the rest.

apple2peanut April 20 2011, 22:56:53 UTC

LOL! This comm's great at sharing experiences. It seems there isn't any true standard, though it is possible maybe sometimes certain things will conveniently fit and/or complement well.

werz_waldeau April 20 2011, 12:13:45 UTC

In my experience, if you don't use plates larger than 25 pounds, you probably won't fill the bar beyond capacity, as long as you leave room for collars. The bigger concern is usually the narrow benches used with those bars.

apple2peanut April 20 2011, 22:52:10 UTC

Hmmm... good, I'm thinking if I'm lucky enough to get up to four used 25 lb. plates from someone, that might be the most I might ever need anyway, when in combination with my current plates. (Misc.: normalcyispasse replied above and gave a grudging estimate that a bar capacity is 200ish. That's a good ceiling and I'd low ball it to 180 lbs., and/or how the bar 'feel's as I increase weight on it.)