Best place to buy barbells and plates?

Get a decent bar, decent rack, decent bumpers. Get your iron plates on the cheap.

But for that to be relevant, you'd need a decent program. Les Mills encourages crap technique, learn to lift properly then decide if it's still for you.

I use the beater bar almost exclusively for deadlifts. I LOVE it for deadlifts. It's not -that- much bigger around. I got it so my wife and I could lift at the same time.

For just one bar, would highly, highly recommend the Rippetoe Bar. It's amazing.
Obviously you can't go wrong with the Rogue bar either!

I didn't see the rippetoe on the website, so i assume its no longer offered. but i'll double check. also looking at the mens econo bar.

Get a decent bar, decent rack, decent bumpers. Get your iron plates on the cheap.

But for that to be relevant, you'd need a decent program. Les Mills encourages crap technique, learn to lift properly then decide if it's still for you.

i'm sure the OP will be much better off listening to an anonymous internet post then following a program that a multimillion dollar company spent thousands testing and producing.

Play it Again Sports always has stuff for cheap.