Meet our specialty barbells: each with its own unique features and benefits. Join us for a quick introduction to each with their features highlighted to help you pick the best one(s) to join your home or commercial gym.
STEP 1: LEARN
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIALTY BARBELLS
Best for: Specialty; deadlifting, squatting, lunging, pressing, carries, & more
The REP Open Trap Bar allows for a versatile range of movements like squats, lunges, presses, and deadlifts.
FEATURES
- Rackable
- Open design frame
- Removable handles:
Narrow
Standard
Wide
Rotating - Round tubing and knurled
- Balanced
- Finish: Hard chrome sleeves/Textured matte black powder coat
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- Price: Starting at $379.99
Best for: Specialty; squatting, lunging, step-ups, good mornings, & more
The Safety Squat Bar is a top-of-the-line, specialty barbell that provides comfort and training variety for squats, lunges, and more.
Features
- Rackable
- High density pad
- Knurled handles
- Balanced
- Finish: Hard chrome sleeves/Metallic black powder coat
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- Price: $329.99
Best for: Specialty; pressing, rowing, pulling, curls, extensions, & more
The REP Cambered Swiss Bar is a multi-grip barbell that is incredibly versatile tool for strength training. The cambered design provides a greater range of motion, and the different grips target specific muscle groups.
FEATURES
- Rackable
- Removable eyebolt for use as a cable attachment
- Three grips
- Round tubing
- Knurled handles
- Finish: Chrome sleeves/Matte black powder coat
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- Price: $289.99
Best for: Specialty; curls
REP's Curl Bar features a bent shaft to reduce joint strain and is cambered to limit the stress on the wrists and elbows.
FEATURES
- Bent shaft to limit stress on wrists and elbows
- Medium style knurling
- Hybrid sleeves for the perfect combination of spin and stability
- Finish: Hard Chrome or stainless steel
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- Price: $149.99
Best for: Specialty; curls
The Rackable Curl Bar features a longer shaft between sleeves so you can rack it on your power rack, making it easier to load plates and more comfortable getting into position.
FEATURES
- Rackable
- Bent shaft to limit stress on wrists and elbows
- Medium style knurling
- Hybrid sleeves for the perfect combination of spin and stability
- Finish: Hard Chrome or stainless steel
- Free shipping
- Price: $199.99
Best for: Specialty; deadlifting, carries, & more
The Trap Bar is a great tool to help people learn or improve the mechanics of the deadlift, for people rehabbing from an injury, or for lifters with a limited range of motion.
FEATURES
- Hexagonal frame for equal distribution of weight around the body
- Medium style knurling
- 25mm handle diameter
- Smooth sleeves
- 500lbs static load capacity
- Finish: Chrome
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- Price: $264.99
Best for: Specialty; pressing, pulling, deadlifting, & more
The Axle Bar features an extra-thick, 2" diameter to strengthen your wrists and grip.
FEATURES
- 5' or 7' options
- 2" diameter
- Collars included
- 700lbs static load capacity
- Finish: Matte black powder coat
- Bonuses: Free Shipping
- Price: $69.99
Best for: Specialty, carries
Improve your grip, endurance, and overall strength with REP's Farmer's Walk Handles.
FEATURES
- Elevated handles
- 32mm handle diameter
- 13.8" loadable sleeve length
- Collars included
- 450lbs static load capacity (per handle)
- Finish: Matte black powder coat
- Free Shipping
- Price: $139.99
Best for: Squatting
The Helios Squat Bar is a top-tier, specialty barbell designed specifically for squats.
FEATURES
- Finish of Shaft/Sleeves: Black Cerakote/Duracoat®
- High-end touches:
-Laser-cut etchings of the barbell name, weight, and a tribute to Colorado, where REP was founded
-Metal endcaps featuring a unique design - Free shipping
- Price: $369.99
Best for: Deadlifting
The Hades Deadlift Bar is REP's top-tier deadlifting-specific barbell. This 20kg (44.1lb) bar features no center knurling and very aggressive, deep, mountain-style knurling to provide maximum grip support for heavy deadlifts.
FEATURES
- Finish of Shaft/Sleeves: Black Cerakote/Duracoat®
- High-end touches:
-Laser-cut etchings of the barbell name, weight, and a tribute to Colorado, where REP was founded
-Metal endcaps featuring a unique design - Free shipping
- Price: $339.99
Best for: Technique Training
REP's lightweight Mesa Technique Bar is ideal to help you learn the proper techniques of Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting.
FEATURES
- Finish of Shaft/Sleeves: Aluminum/Duracoat®
- Endcaps featuring a unique design
- Free shipping
- Price: $159.99
SPECIALTYÂ BARBELL COMPARISONS
In a world of straight barbells, these guys look different. Some are curvier or thick. Some have handles or pads or all kinds of different grip angles that can look confusing to use – even if you’re not new to the gym. But there are two things these specialty bars all have in common:1. They all have metal, loadable sleeves you can stack weight plates onto.2. They’ll all help you get yoked as heck.Here’s a closer look at seven popular specialty barbells: what they are, how to use them, and why you want to.
LEARN MOREConstruction refers to things like material, bearings, and bushings. We use state-of-the-art processes to ensure a consistent, high-quality product and sets the standard for manufacturing.
Our barbells were designed by lifters for lifters; our engineers (and our whole team) live the gym lifestyle and use REP’s equipment ourselves. This line of barbells was over 10 years in the making -- the fusion of customer insights, rigorous testing, thousands of reps by different types of athletes, and our decades of experience in both lifting and designing quality, innovative gym equipment.
When designing these bars, our engineers paid close attention to every detail:
> Consistent knurling and well thought-out knurling patterns for different types of bars
> Tons of design effort put into tolerance analysis to ensure the bars have the most solid build quality possible and extremely tight tolerances. Everything fits together perfectly every single time.
> Specs that are strategic for each bar. Our weightlifting bars adhere to International Weightlifting Federation standards, and our power bars are in alignment with the International Powerlifting Federation’s competition specifications. We carefully considered the length, diameter, and all specs of every bar – because even 1mm difference can totally affect the feeling and function of a bar. We get it.
> Newer (and rare) technologies, such as high-end barbell sleeve construction options like our inner race needle bearings on the Alpine Weightlifting Bar.
We test each batch of steel to ensure it’s up to our rigorous quality standards. In fact, we went through five different types of steel and stainless-steel prototypes to find the exact material for the best attributes for each type of bar we designed (power bar, Olympic weightlifting bar, mixed-use bar, training bar).
The actual makeup of the steel – the heat treatment and the final result – varies between the different types of bars. For example, how we treat a power bar vs. the Colorado Bar is different (tensile strength, stiffness, shaft diameter). It all depends on the functions and demands of the bars.
We strive to deliver a great product to your door with no hassle. We ensure this by employing our own quality control team that is on-site daily, at the manufacturer and warehouses, for both inspections and training to improve production methods (even the robots need help sometimes!) and packaging. We also ensure our packaging is designed to survive the occasional brutal beating while en route to the customer, so you'll notice our boxes are reinforced and the parts within are further protected with internal packaging.
Our competitors that import often don't spend the money for quality control, and our competitors who manufacture domestically often don't spend the money for great packaging -- both of which lead to hassle for you as you try to get credit for damaged parts or new parts sent.
You will also notice consistent high quality in the equipment itself. Every barbell is as beautiful as the next, even down to our coatings. We put a ton of effort to dial in the perfect Duracoat® or Cerakote coatings, and they’re always consistent, due to our standardized process. With REP’s barbells, you know what you’ll get. Every time.
Value is subjective, but we're at the sweet intersection of price and quality. Spend more, and it's likely just for a name or very minor, nonfunctional details. Spend less and you're likely rolling the dice on durability over time. The benefit of our scale is that we can employ the most modern manufacturing methods, resulting in a consistent, high-quality product.
For barbells, good quality construction is important – good quality materials, consistency – and at a price you can afford.
STEP 2:Â MAINTENANCE
Barbells take a ton of abuse. They bear a heavy burden and are thrown around, bumped and jerked, and then often put away filthy to forget about until tomorrow.But barbells need love, too. After investing in a quality barbell, you want it to last – and continue working well as long as you’re working. Taking care of your bar will keep its spin smooth, maintain the knurling, and keep it looking shiny and new. Follow the link to learn how to properly care for your barbell so it doesn’t rust and bust.
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