5ft Pro Olympic Bar with Bearings (680kg Max Load)

Weighing in at 13kg, it has been designed with precision bearings in the sleeves to ensure you get a smooth rotation during lifting. The bar comes with a brushed steel finish and a knurled pattern to help your grip. As a 5ft bar it's ideal for smaller gyms or homes where space is at a premium and it comes with a max load rating of 680kg.

This bar is also available in either 6ft or 7ft lengths.

An Olympic Bar With Bearings

If you're really in to your strength workouts, then a Pro Olympic bar and discs will be something you need to use for squats, heavier chest press and also weightlifting exercises like the clean and jerk or the snatch. This 5ft Pro Olympic bar has been designed and manufactured to take all the weight you can throw at it (up to 680kg!) whilst maintaining it's rotating sleeves. The sleeves in this bar have premium bearings to ensure their smooth rotation as you lift or use the bar.

This bar is a 2" Olympic bar which means any Olympic discs you already have will fit, or you can buy new ones from our wide selection of training, cast iron or competition discs. With it's durable brushed steel finish, it looks the part and with the foot less in length may be best suited for home gyms.

Why Choose an Olympic Bar?

There's two types of bars in terms of widths, the Olympic Bar is pretty much a given for any gym and you can easily get the Olympic discs too. Olympic discs range from 0.5kg to 25kg per disc giving you a simple way to lift with any weight. You would normally use an Olympic Bar for exercises like squats, chest press, clean and jerk or snatch.

The smooth rotation of the weight sleeves is also very important. As you perform squats or chest press, the rotating sleeves ensure you can complete the exercise without rotational forces on your grip from discs sticking. This 6 foot Olympic bar also has a small amount of give and flex and is perfectly balanced.

Key Features

• 5 foot in length (1.53m)
• Olympic 2" Sleeve diameter
• 28mm Grip
• 1 Year Warranty
• 13kg bar weight
• Max loading 680kg