Speak Your Mind Reviews

I recently purchased a bunch of weightlifting equipment for my garage and I’ll be doing reviews of it all over the next few days.

The company I bought it through is called new york barbell of elmira corp and the manufacturer is a company called TDS. Unfortunately it’s out of stock on Amazon (where I bought it) so I linked to their 5.5 inch Steel Log. The 8″ log is the one in the center of the rack. It was $229.95 plus shipping.

Ok here are the high points:
Its well balanced and always seems to lay with the handles pointing up so no adjusting!
It takes Olympic plates so I didn’t have to invest in a bunch of pig iron.
It comes with real clamps not those spring clamps.
It’s coated with a black paint of some sort that seems to be pretty tough.

The down side.
The handles are coated with the paint. It doesn’t really make the handles slippery but the knurling doesn’t work as well as it could. I’ll be changing that with a quick run of the wire wheel in the next day or 2.
The tightening bar in the clamp is pretty soft & will bend if you put any decent pressure on it. So that is an area that I think they could improve in.

Overall
I have to say that this thing is a blast to workout with! It’s well balanced & comfortable to hang on to. It weigh’s 75 pounds by the way.
I like the 8 inch diameter. It’s big enough to work you pretty hard at top of the clean but not insanely hard like a 12 or even a 15 inch log would.
You’ll really start to see what I mean when you get into heavy triples, doubles & singles. Once you get it overhead you appreciate the balance.

Overall good stuff & I look forward to training with it on a regular basis! I’ve only had it for a couple of weeks so there really hasn’t been much opportunity to expose any weaknesses yet. If I run across and problems I will be sure to post them later on.

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