A weight bar is a piece of fitness gym equipment. It’s been used in bodybuilding and fitness workouts. Excluding the exercises with dumbbells, machines and the exercises without any weights, all other exercises in the gym include the weight bar. Some of the most important bodybuilding exercise include working out with weight bars, ex. bench presses, barbell shoulder presses, barbell squat, etc.

The weight bar range in length is between 4 feet (1.2 m) and 7 feet (2.1 m). Most of the weight bars has fixed diameter of 1 inch (2.54 cm).

The weight bars have specially made outer portions that allow disc weights (also called plates) to be slid onto them. In this way, you can obtain any total weight which is necessary to get a complete workout at the gym. The combination between weight bar and plates is called barbell.

When you train at the gym using barbells, you can also slide specially made spring collars, one on each end of the weight bar. It will prevent discs sliding during the exercises. It’s really useful, because sliding of disc while you’re training could be a reason of injuries.

Weight Bar Buying Tips

No matter if you intend to purchase for your home workouts or for your fitness gym, in the both cases you’ll have to select your weight bar carefully, because most of the exercises depend of it.

1. Check bar’s capacity – every weight bar has capacity. If you buy a weight bar for your home workouts and you train with light weights you can buy a weight bar with lower capacity such as 600 Lbs. But if you’re a fitness gym owner, keep in mind that there’re many people that train in our gym and some of them could really advanced, so in this case you should buy a weight bar with higher capacity such as 1200 Lbs.
2. Read Bar’s Description – if read the weight bar’s description, usually you can read if the bar is suitable only for home gym or it can used in a fitness gyms.
3. Compare the prices – the weight bars are not so expensive, but it’s a good idea to compare the prices before purchasing. Depending of the bar’s capacity, you can buy a weight bar with lower capacity (less than 600 Lbs.) for between $100 USD and $150 USD. You can buy a weight bar with higher capacity (between 600 and 1200 Lbs.) for between $150 USD and $250 USD.