Prior discussion
I went to swap bar, putting my bar without center knurling in my squat stands, and when I put the other bar in my power rack, I made an interesting discovery:
The bar I'd been bench pressing with measured 142 cm. My rack hooks are about 120 cm apart. All my other bars measure about 130 cm, which would make slamming a bench press back into the rack something that requires more side-to-side accuracy than I'm used to using.
My impression is that inside-the-collars distance was standardized. The rings seem to be 82 cm apart on everything.
Anyone can shed more light on this?
Do I need to get used to using a 130 cm-spaced bar on my 120 cm-space rack?
NB: Rogue Ohio bar also measure 130 cm inside the collars, but here: The Ohio Bar - Stainless Steel the specification isn't given and you can't tell what it is because you'd need to know the thickness of the collars, in addition to the length of the loading area, to figure out this measurement.
I am bewitched, bothered, and bewildered by this. (young folks, see song of this name: )
-S-
I went to swap bar, putting my bar without center knurling in my squat stands, and when I put the other bar in my power rack, I made an interesting discovery:
The bar I'd been bench pressing with measured 142 cm. My rack hooks are about 120 cm apart. All my other bars measure about 130 cm, which would make slamming a bench press back into the rack something that requires more side-to-side accuracy than I'm used to using.
My impression is that inside-the-collars distance was standardized. The rings seem to be 82 cm apart on everything.
Anyone can shed more light on this?
Do I need to get used to using a 130 cm-spaced bar on my 120 cm-space rack?
NB: Rogue Ohio bar also measure 130 cm inside the collars, but here: The Ohio Bar - Stainless Steel the specification isn't given and you can't tell what it is because you'd need to know the thickness of the collars, in addition to the length of the loading area, to figure out this measurement.
I am bewitched, bothered, and bewildered by this. (young folks, see song of this name: )
-S-