Which barbell should I use from Rogue?
The easy answer for everyone is the
Rogue Ohio bar. This is the best mod price option for all purposes from Rogue. If you want to get more specific you can find more details in this article or read which
barbell to buy from Rogue.
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Most popular Rogue bars in 2020
This is an overview of the most popular Rogue barbells per views and click through rates for Marathon-Crossfit.com in 2020. If you want more details on how the data was collected you can dig deeper in what were the most popular Rogue products in 2020.
This is an overview of the most popular barbells on
Marathon-CrossFit.com during 2020. The ranking is as followed:
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West side bar is a variation of the Ohio bar specifically for powerlifting. It is very similar to the Rogue Ohio power bar which recently has gotten a little more attention from influencers. This is a solid bar if you do not intend to do the Olympic lifts and stick to the bench press, deadlift, and barbell back squat in your training.
You can read the full review of the west side bar via this link.
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Rogue Russian bar is another surprise on the Marathon-CrossFit popularity list. While it is one of the most expensive bars you can get from Rogue I personally find that it is more of a collector's item with nostalgia attached to it. It is a great piece of craftsmanship to recreate a bar from the Soviet era. Unfortunately, the collar system is not used in competition anymore and also tenders the bar useless once you lose one of the collars. Rogue also does not provide an option to buy the custom collars separately in case you do lose them. Based on this I would take the
Pyrros bar over the
Russian bar any given day for this budget.
You can read the full review of the Rogue Russian bar by following this link.
What is your why
Before we go into the details of which
barbell to use from Rogue, let me ask you a couple of questions:
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Why do you want to get stronger
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Why do you want to build muscle
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What happens when you do
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What happens if you don’t
These questions matter for your long term commitment and success. Life will get in the way of your goals, ambitions, and dreams. You have to ready and motivated to overcome lack of motivation, bad luck, and stress to reach your goals. Many people fail with their diets and exercise regimes because of lack of commitment and perspective. When you sit down and reflect deeply on these questions this will become a lot less likely to happen. Most people go through their lives like this:
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What do I want
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How do I get it
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Why do I want it
If you make what you want the center of attention you will go in a million directions and arrive nowhere. What you want changes hundreds of times a day based on whom you see, what you do and where you are. This is not a great beacon of hope to follow. If you flip the running order of these questions on their head something interesting happens:
What else to consider from Rogue
What is your training style
To choose the right
barbell it helps to think about what kind of training style you prefer. Usually, there are three big different styles of lifting:
Weightlifters mainly use
barbells for overhead lifts like the clean and jerk. The
bar will be dropped from overhead many times with considerable weight. For this, you want a bar with a good whip and spin. The knurling might not be as aggressive as with powerlifting
bars. Same goes for tensile strength.
For powerlifting you want a
bar with very aggressive knurling, less whip and spin is also not as important. For the bench press and squat, the
bar can be stiffer. For the deadlift, some good whip can help to make it easier to get the
bar off the ground.
For CrossFit scenarios, you want an all-round
barbell which is not ok expensive. You will most likely use it outside and hand it off other equipment as the movements have to be done for time. The weight you use is usually a lot less compared to powerlifting and weightlifting. Also,
a less
aggressive knurling might be of advantage as your hands often take a serious beating during a WOD.
What is your training experience
The more experienced you are the better the
bar you will use. When you are learning the movements you might want to use a
bar that you are not sad about if it breaks. You might drop it, scratch it and do all kinds of weird stuff with it.
The. Keep experienced you become the more you will appreciate a good
barbell and it’s qualities. It might even take you years to get your first one as a
barbell also requires a gym to be put into. This is usually the bigger investment.
Beginner Rogue Ohio Bar
The
Rogue Ohio bar is the all-around
barbell for any purpose at a reasonable price. This is the one to go for your first home gym for any purpose. You will not be disappointed and have a good all-around piece of equipment.
Intermediate: Oly bar or Ohio Power bar
Expert: Speciality bar
If you know your why around the gym and already have the basics covered with a
rack, plates and a barbell you might want to look into specialty bars. These can be
All of these
bars are variations on the classic
barbell to put the focus on different parts of the body. These
bars are for the fully committed who want to mix up their routines to progress quicker. Most people won’t ever need or use them.
What barbell should you use from Rogue
Get yourself the
Ohio bar. If you want to invest some extra money pick one of the more elaborate designs like the
To spice up your home gym and have a good time.