Safety Squat Bar Measurements

Loadable sleeve length is 16 in and the sleeves are designed for olympic weight plates.

Safety squat bar measurements.

The shoulder pads are spaced at 8 in apart and the bar diameter is 1 1 2 in. Designed for those with limited shoulder elbow and wrist mobility but beloved by powerlifters and garage gym champions everywhere the safety squat bar is the perfect implement for developing. The ss3 safety squat bar is our newest adaptation of the most popular specialty bar around. Built to handle over 800 pounds.

This specialty bar has an overall length of 90 1 2 in and handle spacing of 12 3 4 in. Sleeve 2 dia 16 length. The safety squat bar may look like it s pulled straight from a viking village but don t let it intimidate you. The safety squat bar is an amazing piece of equipment that produces massive benefits in terms of strength gains injury prevention and upper extremity preservation.

The safety squat bar helps minimize shear force on the lower back and helps strengthen the upper back by using a more vertical spine position pulling you slightly forward. New bar design to build your squat and pulls while saving your shoulders and back with our ultra load displacing pad design. More control over your squat. It s a very versatile implement that has carry over to many different training modalities including powerlifting strongman bodybuilding etc.

Both groups increased vertical jump height to a similar degree 1 9cm for the barbell group and 2 9cm for the safety bar group both groups had small non significant decreases in 60 yard sprint times 0 07 seconds for the barbell group 0 08 seconds for the safety bar group and both groups had large increases in squat strength with the bar they used for training 29 9kg for the barbell group 40 3kg for the safety bar group. Usually ships in 1 2 weeks. A 7ft bar has about a 52 grip length between the sleeves so it will fit on a 48 wide squat rack or bench press rack with the sleeves sitting just outside both sides of the rack. Some 6ft bars are made to the same dimensions but with the sleeved ends cut short so they also fit in a 48 wide rack.

Squatting with it isn t necessarily harder or easier it s simply another variation of the squat pattern to challenge your.