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By “arch” I mean bars with handles available along the gradual slope to the apex of the camber, which can be tremendously useful as I’ll explain. In the chart I’ve noted these as “arch” or “offset”.

How Camber Styles Impact Stability and Range-of-Motion The 50mm sleeve diameters noted above are actually somewhere around 49.8mm, the same as all olympic bars. It remains a specialty type of bar that not everyone will find enough use for to justify having. The bar takes up a lot of space and can’t be used as a replacement for all traditional straight-bar exercises. There are a couple exceptions here with 50mm sleeves. This causes plates to fit sloppily, but even worse, most collars will not tighten on them. However, as you might have run into with axle bars, the pipe used is crafted for an inside diameter, leaving the outside diameter an annoying 48mm instead of close to 50mm. Rotation is not really necessary on bars like this. Most of the bars featured here are one-piece welded construction, using pipe steel on the end instead of sleeves that rotate over a solid inner shaft. Second, if you instead press with any inner grips above the plane of the sleeves, the bar kind of hangs down below your grip to stabilize it against wanting to rock forward or backward so much, the same as the raised handles on a hex deadlift bar.įor a more description of how the different camber styles on these featured bars change these effects, See the section further below, How Camber Styles Impact Stability and Range-of-Motion. A narrow grip right in the middle of the camber would be like using a straight Swiss bar. Note that these advantages only apply if you use one of the wider grips. This is useful also for bent-over rows, letting you pull your hands past your abdomen. You might find it handy for other exercises too.įirst, shown above where you would ordinarily hit your chest with a straight bar bench press, by using grips below the peak of the camber you’ll be able to bring your hands down further before the bar hits your chest.

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Lifters find that after some time doing neutral-grip presses they are stronger in the upper portion of the straight-bar press when they go back to it.įor lifters who don’t want a full neutral grip and need to just barely work around joint discomfort and be able to utilize most of their strength they would use for traditional bench presses, the angled grips are perfect.Īside from bench presses, bent-over rows, and seal rows, the bar can come in useful as a replacement for other specialty bars like tricep bars and curl bars, particularly for doing hammer curls and skull crushers. This position also works your triceps more. A neutral grip (palms facing) sets you up to press with your elbows tucked in closer to your body, aligning your shoulders, elbows and wrists in an easier way that might totally avoid aggravation and allow you to keep lifting heavy, working around your injury. Small injuries can stick around forever when you keep doing it. Traditional straight-bar bench pressing can aggravate shoulders, elbows and wrists with the way the joints are twisted under load. The concept is much the same: Give the user options for a more neutral grip (palms facing), and along with that comes the need for varying grip widths to accommodate different sized users, different exercises, or preferences. Some say that a Swiss bar refers to a design with 90° handles, while a football bar has angled handles like the above. The above is known as a Swiss bar or football bar. Until a couple years ago, you would mainly have seen the non-cambered version of this kind of bar: To explain, let’s look at a simpler version first. Who needs all these handles, angles, and the cambered shape?