But you can use them for any lift you like, so you’ll still find them at gyms where nobody does any Olympic lifts. Cap Barbell THE BEAST Olympic Bar | For Weightlifting and Power Lifting ...

The bar is part of that. At most gyms in the U.S., a typical (Olympic) barbell weighs either 45 pounds, or 20 kilograms (which works out to 44 pounds). If the rest of your weight plates are in ...

The snatch, traditionally contested first in Olympic competition, is a two-armed lift during which the athlete must raise the barbell overhead in one fluid motion, then rise to an upright standstill.

Most of us can’t pack a treadmill, an elliptical, a stair master, a full rack of weights, and a Smith machine into our homes, after all. So, we thought we’d ask Sam Quinn, a personal training lead at ...