FEATURES:
- Heavy duty design
- Angled grips
- Plated weight horns
- Ideal for those with shoulder injuries
Our Football Bar (an alternative to our Swiss Bar) was specifically designed to allow American football players, who are suffering from common shoulder injuries, to continue with their training, namely bench pressing. This is how the bars name was derived. For more in-depth reading of the Swiss Bar and Football bar you can read more here
The bar works by enabling you to bench press with a near neutral grip thanks to its angled handles. These angled handles keep stress off of the front deltoids thereby making bench pressing safer and more effective.
The bar offers a multitude of options in terms of handle positioning which are placed at 595mm, 415mm and 235mm. The benefit of which means you are able to target different parts of a muscle.
Don’t be fooled into thinking this bar is only suitable for those of you suffering from shoulder injuries that want to continue benching. It can be used effectively in many other movements such as curls, tricep extensions, rows and for shoulder pressing making this a great value barbell to invest in.
Unlike many other specialist bars available on the market we opt to knurl the handles, this will offer superior grip making for more efficient training.
We also nickel plate the weight horns. This is a high quality, hard-wearing finish that prevents them from easily chipping and flaking which would make them susceptible to rust.
Another unique touch is the plastic base which you’ll see at each end of the weight horn. This offers the advantage of hiding any welds and, aesthetics aside, will ensure your plates sit flush preventing any wobble and helping to protect your plates from scratches.
Richard C. on –
FOOTBALL BAR
Great piece of kit to spice up pressing or rowing sessions. Slight negative is if you have big hands likely as not youll skin a knuckle at some point, but the benefits of the bar far outweighs this.
Mick smith on –
FOOTBALL BAR 34MM POWER RACK VERSION
Excellent quality feels solid, bought it for doing rows and over head presses and bench press mainly, but found it good for over head squats and hammer curls , it’s a versatile bar, very happy with it
wayne on –
AMAZING PIECE OF KIT
First its a bar & its nearly £300.. But what a bar. It feels industrial ( making me feel quite burly) and you can see the hand made finishing. The knurling on the handles, the welds and then the powdercoating. Even the company badge on the front looks like its come from a sports car.
Using the bar, you can feel the stretching on your pecs by using the different handles, the knurling really helps with your grip as well. You can also do this with overhead tricep extensions, and with bent over rows same again. The way the handles are positioned takes any grief of your wrists, as a standard bar will wrench them back, its just a really versatile bar .
If you have a home set up this will take the place of your standard Olympic bar leaving that just for squats, if you find yourself in a gym and they have any kit from these guys then you know it means business. Yes its expensive compared to whats on the market.. but for the money you have a handmade piece of kit that makes you feel like thor and his hammer im glad i went with and got it delivered the next day with updates, in short if you get what you pay for and for this you get a lot. Well done guys, well made, will also be well used