Expensive, but this is a premium piece that has the benefit of being portable (gym, car, bedside). You can choose grip width (the sidewinder tapers), you can choose to also just use the end cap for finger strength training. The knurling is passive but plenty grippy and not biting. I love using this to train grip, well I don’t love the painful burn, but love the results.

General Info and Specs: The barbell is made with attention to detail and is a very high quality bar. The bar has a traditional weight of 45lbs, so it doesn’t mess with your math when adding plates. Keep in mind, you have to SIGNIFICANTLY scale down the weight that you normally work with, so it’s not a lot of math anyhow 😂. The bar is 7feet 2 inches with a usable sleeve length of 16 1/4”. Function: I think it’s established that using full ROM can stimulate more stretch-mediated hypertrophy. With a regular grip width most people don’t achieve a full pec stretch with the barbell bench press, as the barbell can’t go down further than your chest. I think dumbbell presses can help accomplish this, cambered presses, and wider grip positions on straight bar. With the Radian Barbell, Its handles move synchronously through the full length of the shaft and create a sort of “combination lift”. A combination of a straight bar and a dumbbell, but keeping the movement controlled along one axis. The handles travel very smoothly and using a Teflon impregnated dry gun lube, they slide like butter. When using this bar vs. regular straight bar for bench pressing, I feel more activation in the clavicular head of my pec major with that added stretch at the bottom with the sliding grips during eccentric lowering, as well as the medial force needed to bring hands together on the concentric portion of the press. With narrowing of the grip on the press, there is definitely recruitment of the triceps and with the back and forth movement I feel the anterior delts being recruited. Also, there is likely more activation with deep stretch on subclavius muscle and pec minor. The Radian, by no means should substitute any straight bar or cambered specialty bar. I look at it as yet another additional bar that brings a change in stimulus for benching or OHP, just a like a Bandbell Earthquake Bar, Football Bars, Cambered Bars accomplish. At $785 it’s not a wise buy

This is a core killer! It involves every aspect of rotational movement and translates directly into athletics. It’s fairly expensive at $160, hence the “value” deductions, but there is nothing else like it out there. It’s another source that I like to rotate in on ab/core days…which happens to be every day.

The bar rotates smoothly on bearings and I like the feel better than the Troy Supra curl bar. It also has a rotational connection point to be able to connect to cable stack if you want. The knurling on the handles is passive. It’s an accessory bar, just like the Troy, that you should only get after you have a good EZ curly bar. It’s not unreasonably expensive and worthwhile to own. When I got the CUBB I sold this since it’s the same principle, but CUBB has added feature of using bands to create resistance upon turning.

This is nicely designed endless rope that is fully made and assembled in Germany. It’s expensive as such, but its compact size belies its resistance strength. I got the “Pro” version at about $1100. Instead of a braided rope it uses solid rubber. It’s the perfect length when mounted on my rack via two Rogue Monster attachment posts. It’s a great upper body cardio/conditioning piece, that takes 1 minute to connect and 1 minute to disconnect and it stores away easily. I wish it had an automatic rep counter. It has a small blue portion where they connected fused the rubber rope that I use to visually count the revolutions.

The history of this bar’s inception (the full sized bar) dates back about 33 years ago. It was the very first of its kind, so its heritage runs deep. Since I had the ability to customize the bar proportions, I decided to go “all in” on having it fabricated in 100% Stainless Steel (bar and sleeves). This also provided me with the best/most distinct knurling vs something that is powder coated or e-coated. I would characterize the knurling on the lighter side of medium. It is a little better than the REP Cambered Swiss Bar, better than my Nuobells, and on par with my Rogue black zinc DB-15 dumbbells, although the knurling pattern is different. The knurling on the REPS Direct Baller Bar is more along a hill pattern with a slight broad, flat recess but not vulcano. The proportions of this bar mimic the Rogue C70S that I have. The overall length of the bar is 72” providing about 15” of space-saving efficiency versus a full-length bar. From inner sleeve collar to inner sleeve collar it measures 52”. The sleeves are machined and 10” long and are smooth without ribbing/grooves. The whole frame is rounded with no sharp edges. The center area which creates a nice space for your chin, nose, cheeks and forehead is 2.5” at the bar and 5.5” at the bends in width. The outside straight portions connecting frame to sleeves are 8” giving good spread for racking/re-racking. The overall length of both the oval frame areas is 36” (about 13” wide on each side and 7 3/4” tall). The knurled grip area is 5.5” long and their diameter is 1.25”. The distance between outer grips from midway point on grips is 25.5”, between middle grips its 19” and between inner grips it’s 12.5”. The grips are positioned at 20 degree angles. The bar feels very balanced and super controllable and puts zero strain on your wrists with heavy load or while performing non pressing movements like skull crushers or curls. This is expensive in this configuration. Look elsewhere like T-Bar barbell

Expensive, but it wears the Sorinex badge well. And it’s not a Sorinex sticker, but rather a metal emblem. The in-line bearing skate wheels are what make this a very smooth piece to use. You can loop a light band around and become added resistance on the pull. It’s small and easy to stow away. I kept it under my red IKEA locker. I sold it once I purchased my GetRxd GHD and I no longer have a photo of it.

I have the Pro series and it’s made very well. The rollers are comfortable and supportive. This isolates very well, specifically targeting the rectus femoris and vastus medialis. It also is good at improving knee stability. Sure to help build big quads - hence the reference to the Greek mythological character King Sisyphus, who was condemned by Zeus to push a massive boulder up a steep hill for eternity, only for it to roll back down every time he neared the top.