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When I bought my first "real" bar it felt a lot heavier than my Chinese 300lbs TSA set bar. Grabbed the Chinese bar to weigh, like 33lbs!?! Fuck, all my PR's off by 12lbs..........
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I stood on the scale and then picked it up. It's between 43 and 44 lbs depending on how I shifted my feet.
It's also a cheap Fitness Gear bar, I bought the whole 300 lb set two years ago for less than $200 with a coupon. It pairs well with my Titan rack. A few steps above ghetto, but just low class enough to work well in my damp basement with block walls and bare bulb lighting.
It's not great, lots of slop in it and the collar things that keep the plates from sliding into the center of the bar are getting stripped, I need to weld them on or something.
I figured when it finally broke for good I could just make it a 100% landmine bar and get a nicer one.
When I bought my first "real" bar it felt a lot heavier than my Chinese 300lbs TSA set bar. Grabbed the Chinese bar to weigh, like 33lbs!?! Fuck, all my PR's off by 12lbs..........
My friend did that to me at his house.
I was working out with him while we visited for the weekend, I loaded up one plate to start warming up for squats, and felt really great about.
I didn't want to kill myself going heavy, just wanted to have a good workout, so I did my working sets at 3x10 with a weight I knew I could handle, felt like I crushed it afterwards.
A little later we got talking about where he got his weights from, he bought most of them used.
Then goes "Yeah, I got that bar really cheap too, but it only weighs 35 lbs"......thanks for telling me when we were loading it during the workout pal. Went from feeling pretty good to feeling pretty average in about 3 seconds flat.