York Barbell Olympic Bi-Tri-Trap Bar with Rubber Grips

I purchased this product recently and wanted to share its functionality with potential buyers, seeing as no one has provided any customer reviews on Amazon or other places I checked on the Internet. For starters, this is a well made bar as I would expect from York Barbell. The Olympic sleeves are outstanding (not the screw on the end type that often come loose)and they rotate fluidly. The bar weighs approx. what was stated; around 25 lbs. It feels solid and durable and the rubber grips are a nice addition. There looks to be a variety of exercises that can be performed with this such as: french presses, upright rows, reverse curls, hammer curls, any angle of tricep extension, bent-over rows, close-grip bench pressto name a few. What you can NOT do with this bar is a "palms facing up" curl. This was the exercise that looked impractical from the picture. To qualify this, I guess if you had a vice-like grip you could do fairly light palms up curls, but the balance is definately off (the bar would flip down) for this to be practical in any effective manner. This is the drawback, and perhaps the only drawback for this outstanding Olympic bar. I just want readers and buyers to know this limitation before spending the premium price for this bar.

This equipment is everything it claims to be. I manage to do curls with palms up, by wearing weight gloves and holding

the bar on the chrome part near the rubber bike-like handles. The bar is very sturdy and well made. The rubber grips

are excellent for handling.

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