Before you can lift a loaded barbell, you have to find a bar and load some plates onto it. At some gyms, there’s only one type of bar, and it weighs 45 pounds, and that’s all you need to know.

As we’ve discussed before, there are three ways to hold onto a barbell if you’re worried your grip is going to slip. You can ...

A barbell is the bar that you load the plates on, either empty (the “empty bar”) or loaded (for example, “a 225 pound barbell”). A standard Olympic-sized barbell is 20 kilograms ...

A 17-year-old junior gold medalist powerlifter reportedly died after a 595-pound barbell crushed her neck during training.

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To execute the snatch, the lifter takes a bent-over position behind the barbell with both arms spread wide, grasping the bar palm-down. The lifter then uses power and balance to whip the bar overhead ...