Why do Olympic bars turn at the ends?

[GTC]

I don't understand what it's for.

 

[slyfalcon]

freedom of movement. helps with balance and keeps you from injuring yourself.

 

[Theonlyoperator]

If you've ever done cleans you would understand. Sometimes this shitty bar at my gym will bind up when i'm doing cleans and it really hurts the lift when the weight doesnt rotate properly.

 

[Mudge]

Even doing deads especially if quickly, the bar would want to rip out of your hands if there was no freedom.

Anyone who has ever owned a yo-yo or a gyroscope should know this.

 

[Suareezay]

so you can spin the wheels in between sets

 

[DarkCurse]

so you can stand on the bar and scoot around the gym.

 

[B.Reel]

C'mon man, everything spins these days

 

[pullinbig]

you can roll them on the floor when loaded too. this is nice for deads or any movement that starts from the ground

 

[Insane_Man]

If you rotate it fast enough it will take flight.

 

[pullinbig]

you can put cards on it with clothes pins to make a really cool sound too whilst you ride it around the gym. the chicks will be impressed.

 

[Fender]

you can put cards on it with clothes pins to make a really cool sound too whilst you ride it around the gym. the chicks will be impressed.

No they weren't...I tried this after you told me to do it and was pretty embarrassed. This may work in a PLers gym in N. Carolina but in my preppy gymrat gym...it didn't fly.

 

[pullinbig]

No they weren't...I tried this after you told me to do it and was pretty embarrassed. This may work in a PLers gym in N. Carolina but in my preppy gymrat gym...it didn't fly.

you gotta hold your mouth jes right.

 

[Insane_Man]

you can put cards on it with clothes pins to make a really cool sound too whilst you ride it around the gym. the chicks will be impressed.

In highschool I used to do that to the wheelchair kids. Put a card in there while they were hard at work.