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Bar Weight

ChristinaLConway
ChristinaLConway Posts: 115 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I bought a used weider pro bench press and I dont know how much the bar alone weighs. Anyone know? I was unable to find it online. I dont own a scale (go me!) so Im not able to check it at home myself. TIA

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  • jrline
    jrline Posts: 2,353 Member
    Is it Olympic or regular? How long is it? Is it a curl bar?

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  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    Links of what you bought would give us some better help?
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Do you have a vet clinic close? Weigh it.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,356 Member
    You will likely have to weigh it.
  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 339 Member
    or you could just weigh yourself then weigh yourself holding the bar and work it out.

    Although a straight normal bar will normally be 10kg or 20kg if it's an olympic one(2'' holes in the plates over 1'' for normal)
  • ChristinaLConway
    ChristinaLConway Posts: 115 Member
    Whats the difference between normal and olympic?

    I cant weigh it...I dont own a scale. Novel idea I know.
  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 339 Member
    If it is a normal straight bar then the bit on the end where the plates go is a different diameter. 1'' is the normal bar and is normally 10kg, 2'' is the olympic bar and 20kg.
  • PrizePopple
    PrizePopple Posts: 3,133 Member
    I could be wrong on the difference, but visually the biggest thing is the ends - the olympic bars are larger than "normal" ones.

    Note the size difference of the center holes...

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  • Shawshankcan
    Shawshankcan Posts: 900 Member
    Prize, you are right.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    The length makes a difference as well. Without more information there's no way to say how much it weighs.

    I have a 72" long 1" bar that is 15 pounds. Then the bar that came with my el cheapo bench weighs little enough that I don't even count its weight.
  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 339 Member
    If it is an olympic bar it will weigh 20kg as thats kind of the point about calling it an olympic bar. the others I didn't realise come in different lengths plus of course in the US you still work with pounds so that changes things again.
  • jesiann2014
    jesiann2014 Posts: 521 Member
    My olympic bar is 44 lbs. With the clips, 45.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    a US olympic bar is 45#.

    Only one way to be sure though. Weigh it.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    A MEN's Oly bar is 45 lb.
    A WOMEN's Oly bar is 33 lb.

    The two I have at home both weigh 20 lb.

    My point? Find/buy/borrow a scale and weigh it.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    WTF?

    Women Oly bars are lighter? Wow. I should probably have googled that. lol.
  • jesiann2014
    jesiann2014 Posts: 521 Member
    I'm with you, dbmata. I didn't know there was a guy or gal olympic bar... Hmmm...
  • redfisher1974
    redfisher1974 Posts: 614 Member
    Learn new crap everyday....
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    WTF?

    Women Oly bars are lighter? Wow. I should probably have googled that. lol.

    33 pound weight bar. interesting. I think thats what they got at the golds gym I used to go to. Explains why the bars are so much thinner then my school gyms.
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  • jesiann2014
    jesiann2014 Posts: 521 Member
    BFD, weird rocks.
  • Wronkletoad
    Wronkletoad Posts: 368 Member
    yeah -
    yopeeps025 wrote: »
    dbmata wrote: »
    WTF?

    Women Oly bars are lighter? Wow. I should probably have googled that. lol.

    33 pound weight bar. interesting. I think thats what they got at the golds gym I used to go to. Explains why the bars are so much thinner then my school gyms.

    cool stuff - ours are 35 lbs at our xfit - thinner. good for that and carnie folk - SMALL HANDS
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    smell like cabbage.
  • PrizePopple
    PrizePopple Posts: 3,133 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    smell like cabbage.

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    Too soon?
  • Elsie_Brownraisin
    Elsie_Brownraisin Posts: 786 Member
    TR0berts wrote: »
    A MEN's Oly bar is 45 lb.
    A WOMEN's Oly bar is 33 lb.

    The two I have at home both weigh 20 lb.

    My point? Find/buy/borrow a scale and weigh it.

    I didn't know this either, which explains why my gym has about many 20kg bars and one 15kg one.
  • lisabee77
    lisabee77 Posts: 13 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    WTF?

    Women Oly bars are lighter? Wow. I should probably have googled that. lol.

    They are shorter too. A men's bar is 7' and a women's bar is usually 6'
  • Sam_I_Am77
    Sam_I_Am77 Posts: 2,093 Member
    TR0berts wrote: »
    The longer standard sized Oly bar is 45 lb.
    The shorter Oly bar is 33 lb.

    Fixed... There are no men's or women's bars, there are bars used to fit the need.

  • noexcusesjustresults2014
    noexcusesjustresults2014 Posts: 212 Member
    PrizePopple wrote: »
    I could be wrong on the difference, but visually the biggest thing is the ends - the olympic bars are larger than "normal" ones.

    Note the size difference of the center holes...

    olympic_standard.gif

    +1.
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