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Rep Fitness Black Friday 2023 Sale

November 3, 2023 Tim Comments Off

Rep Fitness’ biggest sale of the year has begun, check out what is available NOW in the Rep Fitness Black Friday 2023 sale: Rep Fitness Black Friday 2023 Sale Overview Rep Fitness is known for their great gear – especially their power racks and benches. Black Friday 2023 is their biggest sale of the year. It works a little differently for the year 2023 – there’s going to be a changing set of specials each week. For example, to kick things off this month they are starting with Rack Week. Use their Rack Builder tool and you get 10% off your entire order (NOTE: Rep brand merchandise, some exclusions apply). This deal only runs through November 6th – so don’t [Read more …]

Rep Fitness Alpine Weightlifting Bar - 15 kg with an athlete 3

New Barbells for Women from Rep Fitness

July 16, 2023 Tim Comments Off

Let’s take a look at the New Barbells for Women from Rep Fitness. Are you new to weightlifting and want to start it light? Try these new women’s barbells from Rep Fitness. REP is a team of fitness and strength-sport enthusiasts that makes home and commercial equipment and specializes in strength and conditioning equipment. New for 2023, from Rep Fitness: New Barbells for Women from Rep Fitness – Overview There is no classification for fitness equipment, but there is when it comes to barbells. But even if they are categorized by gender, they can still be used by anyone interchangeably. Women who are strong enough can definitely use a full-sized bar. Men’s and women’s barbells differ in weight and length, [Read more …]

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New Barbells from Rep Fitness

June 19, 2023 Tim Comments Off

After conquering the bench market – Rep Fitness is now launching new New Barbells. Rep Fitness gives you the opportunity to transform your strength and conditioning home workout routine. They offer versatile and durable home and gym equipment with rugged, heavy gauge steel construction and a lifetime guarantee. Experience the competition-grade quality of Rep Fitness and elevate your fitness routine with these new barbells from REP. New from Rep: New Barbells from Rep Fitness – Overview Barbells are a useful and effective tool necessary if you want to be strong safely and progressively. This is because as you gradually increase the weight over time, your muscle tissue will tear down and rebuild, making you stronger. Barbells help strengthen every muscle [Read more …]

Longhorn Bar – Camber Bar from Fringe Sport

June 19, 2023 Tim Comments Off

Let’s take a look at the new Longhorn Bar – Camber Bar from Fringe Sport. A camber bar makes it easier for you to squat if you have shoulder or elbow restrictions. Bring swag to your home gym with the Longhorn Bar from Fringe Sport. This bar is an excellent alternative if you are tired of the same old boring barbells you’ve been using for years. It is a specialty bar that has been curved to give you more shoulder comfort. From Fringe Sport: Longhorn Bar – Camber Bar from Fringe Sport – Overview The Fringe Sport Longhorn Buffalo Bar is an extraordinary specialty bar that adds a unique and wild twist to your workout. It is built of the [Read more …]

Tape for CrossFit Workouts

May 29, 2023 VA Worker Comments Off

Let’s take a look at Tape for CrossFit Workouts. Sports and Fitness are continuously developing, and plenty of methods and products always come out to improve performance and preserve one’s health. The athletic tape is one of the fitness items that has stayed useful and effective ever since it came out. Here’s some of the styles we are going to look at: Tape for CrossFit Workouts – Overview Whether you are a novice or a professional in the fitness world, athletic tapes can help you improve your performance and stay injury free. There are different kinds of athletic tapes, and all are beneficial in their own ways. One of them is the traditional tape which is used to prevent injury [Read more …]

Rogue Hybrid Power Bar

February 27, 2023 Tim Comments Off

Here’s the new Rogue Hybrid Power Bar – it’s meant for powerlifting and good old fashioned strength building. Combining tighter tolerances with current innovations from the renowned AGGRO Power Bar, the Rogue Hybrid Power Bar came to life to create a superior lifting experience, while symbolizing another step forward in precision machining. The Rogue Hybrid Power Bar is optimized for powerlifting and strength programs. It has excellent sleeves with controlled spin, tight manufacturing tolerances, and many more features, making it a powerful bar for serious lifters. The Rogue Hybrid Power Barbell: Rogue Hybrid Power Bar – Overview An aggressive knurl, center knurl, reduced whip, and controlled spin are the traditional “core four” features of a standard power bar. Rogue worked [Read more …]

Force USA G3 All-In-One Trainer

February 19, 2023 Tim Comments Off

Force USA has updated their Force USA G3 All-In-One Trainer – this is the new version 2. It’s a functional trainer – and so much more! The new and improved perfect entry-level All-In-One Trainer is here to bring convenience to your fitness. The Force USA® G3™ is an upgradeable All-In-One Trainer that integrates twelve strength training stations into a single power rack footprint. It is recommended for home use and comes with 14 attachments and a 2:1 cable pulley ratio for a versatile training. The newly updated V2 of the G3 All-In-One Trainer from Force USA: Force USA G3 All-In-One Trainer – Overview The Force USA G3 All-In-One Trainer provides exceptional workout versatility in a single power rack footprint. With [Read more …]

Force USA G12 All-In-One Trainer

January 29, 2023 Tim Comments Off

Let’s take a look at the Force USA G12 All-In-One Trainer. Combining nine strength training machines in the footprint of a single power rack, G12 from Force USA is the ultimate pin and plate-loaded strength trainer home gym. With it, you can execute full-body training or break up your training days to focus on upper-body or lower-body training. It also contains built-in storage for an Olympic and Standard barbell, weight plates, and cable attachments for tidy, organized, and safe training. Only from Force USA: Force USA G12 All-In-One Trainer – Overview The Force USA G12 All-In-One Trainer integrates pin and plate-loaded weights for the ultimate home gym strength training system. The pin-loaded stack weights are attached to the Functional Trainer [Read more …]

A Rogue Olympic weightlifting barbell - loaded with Rogue training bumper plates

Guide to Olympic Barbells

January 15, 2023 Tim Comments Off

Before investing in quality and expensive barbells, understanding your barbell is the first step to consider. This way, you will be acquainted with the parts of the Olympic barbell, their purpose, and the kinds of features you should be getting for your best lifting experience. Let’s take a tour through the different parts of the barbell, and make sure we understand all the features and options for each. First stop – the shaft. We’re talking about Olympic barbells here – the big-boy barbells that have a 2″ diameter sleeve to accommodate Olympic sized plates. We’re not discussing the standard barbell – which is common in your local sporting goods store. That bar has only a 1″ sleeve diameter and doesn’t [Read more …]

The Bella Bar is Rogue’s go-to multipurpose 15KG barbell for female athletes. Fully machined and assembled in Columbus, Ohio, this versatile ladies bar is uniquely optitmized for Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, and/or a CrossFit WOD.

Buyer’s Guide to Barbells – Barbell Types

January 10, 2023 Tim Comments Off

In this article, we’re going to give you a tour of all the different kinds of barbells – and what each one is best for. With the different kinds of barbells you see in a gym or in a sports facility, you might be confused about which to use. Each of them has purposes and benefits for overall well-being. They vary in size, shape, knurling, whip or stiffness, and sleeves, yet they are all instrumental in strengthening your whole body, increasing your range of motion, improving your athletic performance, and much more. A single barbell allows you to do different exercises and movements to target different areas of the body, provide unique grips, and employ different muscles. We have to [Read more …]