How much could this bar hold?

[notanothersnake]

I really enjoy his videos and such, definitely a good resource and seems like a cool dude. I think he might own his own gym? I know he has been very involved with eliteFTS over the years, not sure if he still is or not.

We have rubbed elbows a couple times. Seems cool. He was doing shots at a bar in the back of the PL meet last time i saw him lol. He was handling, not competing

 

[TenPin]

Olympic weightlifting barbells also should have some whip but I would think they'd want less... Not really familiar with that world. Generally, it's something that has been intentionally built into the bar...

in general terms Olympic lifters will want as much whip the bar as possible, but unfortunately competition standard bars are strictly controlled in terms of the amount that with they produce.

Whip in Olympic bars ( while doing Olympic Lifting) will do two two key things:

1/ Reduce the “crash” of the bar onto the lifter at the bottom position of the clean ( and to a lesser degree the snatch) and allow the lifter to use the upward whip to get out of the bottom position easier
2/ At the end of the clean movement you’re allowed to readjust your hands before the jerk which typically involves a small bounce off the bar. To move your hands out. Lifters will try to deliberately introduce bounce into the bar to introduce whip albeit quite slight but then start the Jerk drive as the bar hits the top of the upward motion of the whip so the whip is actually starting to pull the Jerk up for them ( you can do this by also dropping fast into the power position and pausing momentarily before extending)

A clued up lifter will add 10% to the max jerk if allowed to do this - which is against the rules

Whip is less important in the initial pull as the weights in C &J and snatch are much lighter than deadlift so whip in the initial pull is less important.
Hope this makes sense

 

[TenPin]

I don’t know the bran because it was given to me for free. But is either a 15 or 20 pound bar cause it’s reading about 17-18 on my scale which doesn’t make sense but ok. But I don’t have any other bar and I’m broke due to this shit going on. I would like to add 225+ at least to the bar but I got a feelin this shit gonna snap. The plates as well are my homemade concrete molds that are around 48 pounds

Are you sure it’s not a 8kg Olympic Technical bar (17.6lbs) ?

 

[ickyrica]

Are you sure it’s not a 8kg Olympic Technical bar (17.6lbs) ?

Skinny with a screw on collar...

Maybe one of the skinny ones that have the screw on collars?

Ya exactly one of those lol.

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[CAswole]

@Chmewy I have 2 of those skinny bars with screw on collars. Now idk about you're but I have used up to 315 on mine for RDL'S little whip but nothing crazy. I've taped it at certain grip points to make the skinny bar
not feel so weird in my hand.

 

[Chmewy]

@Chmewy I have 2 of those skinny bars with screw on collars. Now idk about you're but I have used up to 315 on mine for RDL'S little whip but nothing crazy. I've taped it at certain grip points to make the skinny bar
not feel so weird in my hand.

Alright good to know