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Texas power bar. OG ftw!

@murdog04 how do you find the double black diamond bar? I’m considering the double-black vs black-diamond.

@@ScottiPewPew love the DBD bar. I have it with a blue cerekote. The knurling is pretty aggressive IMO. Not over the top where it hurts your hands but if you were doing Olympic type lifts with this it will put a beating on your hands. I use it primarily for squatting and deadlifting. It is my favorite bar.

How many is too many? Asking for a friend

@@GlucksGym about 3 bars after your wife says didn't you just buy a bar or are you planning to sell some of your old bars?

If it was the Jackie Chan bar, I’d be in

@@majorgear1021 🤣

Take the short drive from Western North East South Dakota and you can touch any of the shafts here

It's from Oak Club Manufacturing but they aren't making more atm

@@GlucksGym thanks for the reply and the great reviews. I'm currently putting my home gym together and your videos have helped me make a lot of crucial decisions!

Exactly the issue. They say it's X quality. It might even be X quality on launch. but a year or two down the road, is it still X quality when no one is watching over in China???????? maybe.......................

Makes me think of Chinese stainlesss steel BBQ grills versus US stainless steel grills. They look the same but,...

You bring up good points, but no one is immune to sourcing issues. Look at what just happened in the news with aircraft parts from Europe. What matters is the fundamentals of how quality is maintained and the processes associated with it. If you don't have those, it doesn't matter where you source or produce. That is why we have teams of people checking quality non-stop. From vetting factories, 24/7 at the factories, before it ships, after it arrives to our warehouses, investigating customer issues, prototyping, pilot runs, material tests, and more. No one is perfect, but how the company handle quality is critical. You have to be a certain size to have the expertise on your team and to do all this. The stainless steel issue you bring up is some years back before we leveled up our expertise in barbells. Even now we are tweaking to get better after every iteration, which is why you see such a huge change in our designs and quality from 5-10 years ago to today.

@@REPfitness thank you for the well thought out reply. I do like what you're doing in the gym equipment space and I do see lots of innovation. Your racks, rack attachments, specialty bars, and benches are top notch and innovative. Especially like your clear coat options being offered on just about everything and the price point. With regards to your recent Olympic bars I guess time will tell and based on the improvement I've seen with Rep overall I'm optimistic. I hope you didn't take the concern/criticism too negatively. Other brands are not improving their issues in this space, Adrian pointed out an issue with wear on his Ohio bar and he's not alone I've have same issue with my zinc coated Rogue bars too but have had much less issue with a lesser known competitor's zinc coated bar despite using that bar more; they haven't improved that coating just offered different options. In terms of looks, attention to detail, and specs your bar is on point and I'm sure it will do well. Thanks for giving some thought into the production of your equipment instead of just throwing an end cap or sticker on on something generic.

Very well said. We're probably light years ahead of where we were 5 years ago too.

I agree 100%. I’m an old guy who first started going to the gym in the mid-80s. What you stated is exactly how we picked the barbell we were going to bench and squat with. I’ve been building my garage gym for many years now. The cheap no-name barbell I still use is 24 years old. Still looks great and has handled everything I’ve thrown at it. While I never was a competitive lifter, I do not understand the obsession with all the different barbells. Personally I wish Rep would stop putting all this effort into barbells and benches and instead develop more products to attach to the PR-5000 rack I own.

You are so right having been in and out of weight rooms since 1986 all we wanted was a straight bar didn't have all these choices from different companies but competition is good

totally agree, just wanted to point out that most bars are so darn good nowadays that for most people it's better to just pick one and put some iron on rather than worrying about this little detail or that little detail. @@justis142

Back in the 80s, you didn’t choose the bar, the bar chose you. Just like wands in Harry Potter.

Still do

Lol sure you are. Lifting hot pockets doesn’t count.

@@jagleaso What's a hot pocket?

@@finallyfriday.his a$$

@@ktrain420247 announcing your preferences? Next you'll be telling us your pronouns. Leave this talk to real men.

Tell me you've never used good bars without telling me...

I'd go stainless if you want the best feel for knurling. Alternatively you could switch to a power bar for a more aggressive knurl.

I lift about 10% more with the Ohio bar.

Thank you for the support!

Your mouth to God's ears man

There's a clip in here where I show the spin of both. They're similar but Rep using grease in the sleeves vs oil in the Ohio so it'll take a little longer to break in. They're also built a little differently but when it comes to spin they're close enough.

@@GlucksGym Perfect. Thanks for the quick response. Great video.

She may never understand but you keep watching all the same!

@@GlucksGym 🤣🤣🤣 Will do

I wonder that myself. If they can keep the price the same, why not? Probably some angle we're not seeing.

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Rogue's brought their shipping prices for barbells down lately so you're only being charged about $15. It was $25 not long ago and more before that so you're not saving much by picking them up. That being said Rogue is clearly eating some of that cost.

Based on the past and last year's Black Friday they'll put different categories on sale each week. So barbells one week, benches the next, etc

When does the weekly sale start? Do you have to wait until November?

Yeah. If it's like last year it'll be each week of November is a new sale.

Good a few coming still 😊

Classic Brandon 😂

Hahahaha. This comment wins especially from you

No homo

That's a tougher question than it seems. Once you get to a certain price range let's say $300+ you will gain build quality as things get more expensive but not as much as let's say vs a $200 bar or verse a $150 bar. So I'd pick a bar based on the knurl you want and the finish at that point and whatever other factors matter to you (where it's made, etc). The chewy bar is great but you'd have to want passive knurling for a power bar. The Hybrid has incredible tolerances but that knurl is much more aggressive though Rep's bar is pretty close. It's also 28.5mm instead of 29mm if that matters to you. You want something in the middle for knurling go with the Ohio Power. Does that make any sense?

Yeah it goes from good enough for everybody to more specialized to your needs. Makes perfect sense @@GlucksGym

They're put together differently. You can see it in our Double Black Diamond review, it's put together like the Ohio Power bar (for the most part)

Oh I'm watching you 😉

Yep but I'm here to provide an unbiased look, not say what people want to hear 🤔

@@GlucksGym thats why i love ur channel

Edit: Got one in at the last second 😂

I have a lot of bar reviews coming so I gotta pace myself 😂

They clearly looked at AB and many others. It most closely resembles ABs construction but we've had barbells held together with bolts for many years and Rep's is a little different. I think this is drawing inspiration from a few places.

Third 😥

Commercial gyms should have commercial equipment but unfortunately they all don't. That being said I have seen very very expensive commercial bars in a commercial gym and are so beat up you'd have no idea they were at one point $1,000

Texas Bar was first. Then maybe the California or Ohio bar, not sure which was next. Is Chevy not allowed to call their truck the Chevy Colorado? Rep's HQ is in Colorado, it's where they designed the bar, so not a big deal imo. Manufacturing is just one part of it all.

The Texas Bar and the California Bar are both made in the USA. I believe your addition actually supports my point instead of contradicting it. With numerous potential names available, intentionally replicating Rogue's Ohio Bar concept while producing it in communist China seems distasteful to me. It not only indicates a deliberate decision against using American manufacturing but also appears to be an attack on it.

@@Mytruck5600tailights I just meant it wasn't Rogue's concept. It's been done before, by multiple companies. And my Chevy Colorado example? Not made in Colorado. Names are just names. Could be from where it's made, could be from where it's designed, or could just be a name a company likes. Your distaste for China/support of USA manufacturing is I think the main reason you're upset with it rather than how many reasons a company could use to call a bar after their home state.

It’s the name of the city where their hq in the us is. Quit trying to stir shit lol

😂 There are a lot of styles of lifting besides powerlifting