High quality bars (Olympic etc) are rated to around that load (1500lbs or so), and they are very ductile, so I'd imagine its not that hard to find an even higher grade.
I have a feather steel Olympic bar at home. never loaded it to max weight as i doubt i could lift 700 KGS ( not LBS ). sure bars can take a good weight depending on the quality of the bar. the video looks highly suspect to me...more i won´t say
yes & a bar is not just a bar, power bar ...etc the bar in the video was not an olympic bar as far as i could see. no bar even olympic takes so many wide plates.
I honestly can't tell the difference, I don't have much experience in this area. I'm more of a weighted carry type of guy, I like moving with weights rather than just standing. I get bored easily with this kind of thing.
Yeh, I have second thoughts about buying a bench, it has to be heavy duty, but then it's very heavy. My elastic band work quite well, AND I am not 53!!!! It's not as if I can go far with this anymore.
Yeh, normal bar is a lot shorter, it's 45lbs. I think you can put like 10 plates max on each side. Hell, that's already 945lbs!!! How many people in this world can bench that?!!!
The bar does look olympic just looked again but custom built obviously to accomodate the plates where I would like to see Standard iron olymic plates on there.Olympic 45s. Bumper plates are much wider than iron
I suck at physics but I know a little about wiring , now that I think about it, if that video is legit, I think the custom length of the bar is why it wouldn't snap, and also the reason for the spring action.
Are these studded wrist bands a kung fu thing?
The guy in the top picture (might also be him in the bottom one but older) is in this video. Same Pose @ 5:23
but hey maybe he knows & i don´t. I liked the bands coming from two directions on the standing punches though.
