Comments on: Keeping the Power Inside the Bar

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:51:38 +0000

Awesome article. Couldn’t be more true!

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:56:32 +0000

This is great.

We never discussed it, but I learned quick when I started lifting at a powerlifting gym in San Diego that the plates ALWAYS get turned inward. It took only one time when I didn’t do that and they stripped the bar to set the plates correctly for me to know That’s. How. It’s. Done.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:34:58 +0000

I keep my power leakage to a minimum as well! Great post!

The best part about this article is the people that don’t understand…

By: Matt Hayre

Matt Hayre — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:46:12 +0000

I always face the writing in because that makes it easier to take the plates on and off, gripwise.

By: Paul Skavland

Paul Skavland — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:20:28 +0000

Hilarious. And yet I was taught to do this same thing. Just simply, “the plates always go this way.” Where do we come up with this sh*t?

By: ritmbo

ritmbo — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:36:12 +0000

Sorry, I read it many times and still think is nonsense all the stuff about the “power”.

I agree that its some psychology thing, like the powerlifters that like someone to hit their face before a heavy bench press (mabye to avoid the power runing out of their nose, who knows…).

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:14:40 +0000

Read it again, maybe twice until you understand it.

By: ritmbo

ritmbo — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:04:06 +0000

Lyle, I don’t really understand what do you mean by “power leakage”.

Where it goes the power (energy)?, the plate doesn’t rotate.

Define: “Power INSIDE the bar” and “power leakage”.

thanks

By: richard galbraith

richard galbraith — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:43:15 +0000

I reckon bodybuilding.com are going to release a range of plates that reduce power leakage by 20% to pack on an extra 15 pounds of muscle in just 6 weeks

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:15:53 +0000

I’d have to change gyms.