Your Trusted Guide to Ride-On Toys in the UK
Stand in front of a barbell wall at any decent UK gym and you’ll notice something odd: the bars aren’t all the same. Pick up the wrong one and a lift that should feel controlled suddenly feels like wrestling a fence post. That’s the whole story behind 20kg Olympic bar vs 15kg Olympic bar — … Read more
A weightlifting barbell for beginners is any Olympic-specification bar — typically 20kg for men and 15kg for women, 2.2 metres long, with rotating sleeves — built to let a new lifter learn the snatch and the clean and jerk without the bar fighting them. That’s the textbook definition, but it doesn’t tell you much about … Read more
Buy the wrong bar and you’ll find out at the worst possible moment — halfway through a heavy set, when the sleeves won’t spin and the knurling feels like it’s made of glass. An Olympic barbell is the one piece of kit that touches every single session you do, from the first empty-bar warm-up squat … Read more