How to Use a Bent Bar

[@brandontibbetts4214]

"When a bar gets bent... it's no longer straight." Class, I hope you're taking notes!

[@finalboss7956]

😂😂

[@richards6431]

he is truly brilliant. a modern day genius…in his own little mind

[@bigguy7353]

Yes. Ignore all context.

[@ericdalton8609]

😂😂😂😂

[@wreagfe]

@@richards6431 Must be your bent brain.

[@AlexPerez-hl8qr]

Uses: Rack pulls, squats, presses.

[@ericmoorman9680]

“When a bar gets bent, it’s no longer straight…” RIP 2024

[@brianmcg321]

Written by a Kamala speechwriter.

[@gordo608]

if this doesn't end up on a t-shirt we're all wasting our time here.

[@ericmoorman9680]

I’d buy that shirt

[@pedroh3207]

​@@gordo608brasileiro????

[@astang1072]

A couple years ago I bent my main bar in my home gym, a rogue 45 lb power bar, bare steel. 29mm dia. It’s either 200 or 210 ksi, nice steel. Top shelf power bar. But it got abused, dropped on a bench and took a bend. Probably 3/16” (3-4mm). I bought a second one to have a straight bar but the old one is my go-to squat bar, I will use it for rack pulls in near future. Worth learning even good bars aren't unbendable. Take care of them.

[@Kevinbobevin1]

When I lived in the Philippines, the little gym I used had one bar and it was bent. I made do and got used to it. I did all the lifts except power cleans. Benching was the only lift that required me to slow down so I didn't have the bend rotating on me.

[@marshalliize]

Only Rip could take something you could explain in 30 seconds and draw it out to almost 10 minutes. The man who has the most basic program ever with starting strength, yet over explains EVERY. DAMN. THING.

[@gordo608]

What if a bar is bent to the point that it forms a hex shape you can stand inside and grab onto high handles? ...asking for a friend

[@jerrythomas4457]

Did you wake Rip from his afternoon nap to film this?

[@breadbaker5449]

He had a nightmare

[@lyft4238]

Bend it more and use it as a cambered bar?

[@bartfart2123]

if you know someone with a body shop can straighten it back out easily

[@RachelSaunders-l7c]

What barbells does Rip recommend? I've always used Texas Power bars, and I haven't bent one yet. I also do block pulls instead of rack pulls, and Harrington squats off the suspended chain instead of Anderson squats off the pins.

[@DKriticos]

I have one exactly the same, almost 15 years of heavy pin squats and rack pulls do that.

[@RichWithTech]

The real issue is when the bend in the bar is slight enough that you can't easily see it, then you find it rolls out of place mid squat

[@horseman3222]

another classic from my very favourite

[@Etherealdegradation]

Holy shit Rusty is that 770lbs?!?!!

[@leninfernandez9279]

I didn’t see the whole lift, he ought to upload the whole thing

[@CptFUNK1]

"BuT sTaRtInG StReNgTh CoAcHeS ArEn'T sTrOnG!"

[@freneticfanatic]

Yep, 770

[@victorjimenez7213]

Rusty, Rip, Nick and Andy Baker all know there stuff on programing. People just try to gaslight us to sell templates instead of reading a book on how to program.

[@Colt-ii4qn]

Rip is hungover 😄

[@rodneyaulridge4006]

I still use my bent bar. Use it for a semi-cambered bar, squats, rack pulls.

[@jaymcclung4394]

They rarely bend evenly from end to end in my experience.

[@bigguy7353]

Step one- Grab a bent bar. Step two- Put weight and collars on it. Step three- Do stuff with it. How to use a bent bar.

[@gmbotond]

You are a stoic and an enlightened one Rip. I hope you live many more years. Eat meat and drink whis…..WATER!

[@Alan-Roberts-g]

you can buy bow bars now they are good for squats and bench press)

[@NotSure416]

Send it to the axle shop. Mechanics can probably fix it.

[@daved8858]

Rip will use a bent up bar but never a trap bar.

[@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989]

Trap bars are pointless.

[@connorw360]

Rip squatted last night and finished a bottle of whiskey. Looking rough.

[@tyu2489]

Rusty did not pull that weight. the video cuts to a 4 plate pull at 3:31. They are trying to make people salty. 🤣

[@rodneyaulridge4006]

Glad you caught that. Doing stuff like that is stupid.

[@kl0ppih]

Hi Rip

[@robcubed9557]

If the bar isn’t bending then you’re just pretending

[@Dynoman9398]

So if the bar is no longer straight, does that mean it was gay before?

[@matthewcordeiro2073]

Its an almost buffalo bar.

[@npxmnpxm]

Damn, I was hoping the story was going to be that someone was curling with it in a squat rack and dropped it.

[@Etherealdegradation]

You’d be kicked out of WFAC before the end of your first set curling in a rack lol

[@MrVeinless]

I’ve got a bent bar :(

[@BaldurNorddahl]

A bar that bent is useful when cut into smaller pieces for projects on my lathe. There is no point in keeping the crap. A barbell is not very expensive and even the cheapest is better than that.

[@SK-2ill]

No

[@UnbiasedTruth..]

Definitely not

[@astang1072]

Wrong. I started with a $90 amazon special, like 32mm diameter crap steel. The thing bent with less than 300lbs.

[@jmfraser]

I pressed with that bar a couple years ago at WFAC when I didn't realize it was bent. Don't recommend it.

[@leninfernandez9279]

What happened?

[@TyGregorius]

We're Rusty's tattoos free? They look like they were free.

[@UnbiasedTruth..]

You can't even spell, pipe the Fu ck down

[@SalamiNugget]

Grandpa youre drunk

[@charleswalton5132]

That guy should cover up those ridiculous tattoos!

[@Mikeandcris91]

Things with a slight bend still work great as per all heterosexual women

[@rodneyaulridge4006]

Yeah, it must be slightly bent for a reason 😎

[@smilsmff]

Most commercial gyms like L.A.Fitness.Golds ok for Squats , and some OHP . not Bench presses. but sux that you have to spend years using crap equpment shame on the Comercial gyms and junk equipment

[@rodneyaulridge4006]

I love benching with my slightly bent bar. My attempts at a meet go better.

[@zskys9158]

I thought this would be a short video saying you can’t use it. End of story. 😂