Always add the weight of the bar when tracking your lifts. Here's how to find out how much it weighs. Olympic Barbells Normally an olympic style 7ft long bar on the bench press rack weighs 44 lbs or 45 lbs. 44 lbs is common because of the conversion from kilograms for international usage. 20kg = [...]
https://youtu.be/Y_mwDu8fXuQ Being a personal trainer on the side for the last twenty years, I knew exactly what I wanted in my home gym when my wife and I built our house about two years ago. Of course, it would be easy to go with all commercial gym equipment, but it would also be very expensive. [...]
Several online gym equipment stores give discounts to firefighters, police, emergency medical technicians, rescuers, active US military, and US military veterans. Depending on the store, they might give a discount to all of those groups, but I've listed the ones they specifically mention on their site. Stores will most likely require proof of your status [...]
As you know, the internet is full of big-name fitness blogs associated with magazines and employing a hundred writers, and many more junk fitness blogs that try to imitate them. I'd like to share with you some "medium sized" blogs run by experienced strength coaches and trainers who offer good advice and ideas on their [...]
Don't miss our most popular new posts from this year! I understand you don't have time to read everything we publish. Things drop off the front page before long, and you'll miss some of our best stuff because of it. Lucky for you, I've picked out the highlights... #1 - How Much Does a Smith [...]
As usual, some random interesting things I collected over the last month! Squats and Bad Knees? Youtuber hard2hurt has videos on MMA and self defense I like watching. One new video is on squats. "I can't squat cuz I've got bad knees!"You don't have bad knees. You just have knees. They're all like that. Immediately [...]