"When I first put him on a weight program, I heard a scream, looked in the weight room and Scottie was pinned under a 45-pound bar with no weight on it. I knew then that he had a ways to go ...

The bar is part of that. At most gyms in the U.S., a typical (Olympic) barbell weighs either 45 pounds, or 20 kilograms (which works out to 44 pounds). If the rest of your weight plates are in ...

At some gyms, there’s only one type of bar, and it weighs 45 pounds, and that’s all you need to know. But that’s not the only type out there, and if your gym has different bars of different ...