Olympic Bar Set

Lets face if you spent $ 150 or $ 1,500 on your Olympic bar, probably represents a significant investment on your part. If you use a gym, especially a CrossFit gym or strength and conditioning, the bars are certainly one of the rooms most used and abused the equipment you have. Often, if nobody takes the time to keep the bars. Let's face it, the bar is used and forgotten, not to mention that often there are a variety of brands that are used and bar manufacturers generally do not send information about care of the bar. In fact, I sent to all our suppliers to bar, requesting information on how to maintain and take care of their bars and even contacted me and said: "This is our warranty information. Do not overload not the bar, not to drop the bar. "There! Nothing else. I must say I was overwhelmed. So the question remains:" How can we maintain and care for our Olympic bars? "

RUST

One thing should be clear about bars is that they are steel. rusting of steel when it is wet. People drive. Sweat Wet Bar Rust = =. Bar manufacturers are trying to fight against this by putting a coating on the bars. The most common coatings (from least expensive to most expensive) are black oxide, chrome, zinc, and bars made of stainless steel. Even with these coatings you still need to keep the bar to hear some advice on what you can do.

Clean the chalk on the knurling. If you use the chalk and you're only using chalk, then please clean the chalk of the bar. If you provide chalk to your gym, you need to clean chalk out regularly (probably daily). Use a nylon brush with stiff bristles to go on the knurling. Remember that chalk dry sweaty hands. How does she do it? By absorbing moisture. Guess what he does while sitting on the bar. Absorbs moisture! Any moisture in the air all the moisture and chalk absorb and hold on the steel. So if you want your bars will not rust please clean the chalk.

Wipe your bars down regularly with a light coat of WD-40 or 3 in 1 oil. Regularly depends on the frequency of the bar. If it is your house twice a month should be sufficient. If you're in a commercial environment, then once a week would be better. If your using a lot in an area of high humidity, you may need to do more often. WD-40 works well because it is a diver in water and dries quickly. Spray it on a rag and wipe it give a good coat, even in far. If you use the 3 in 1 oil again placed on the cloth and give a thin layer of Nice across the bar. Let sit overnight and wipe it again. 3 in 1 works great, but it will leave your bars feel a little fatter, then WD-40.

Most bars have now been made to be fairly maintenance. In general, you do not oil the sleeves. Most sleeves have oil-impregnated bearings or rings. Some of these bars are high-end small oil hole in the sleeves. For these bars you fall into some 3 in 1 oil (DO NOT use WD-40 here) and leave it in the sleeve. Again do this after each use and check before using it again for any excesses that might have filtered to wipe it.

STORAGE

Drinking should not be stored with the weight.