Great for making visitors to your gym think that you're pretty strong. If you actually are strong, or like to train strongman-style, this would be a good item to have in your equipment toolkit. I bought mine off of Craigslist for $20 from a dear lady who subleased an apartment to a college guy, who apparently used it to transport beer to frat parties. I've alternately filled it with water and sand and did "functional" movements with it, e.g. throw for height or distance, clean and press, loaded carries. Few sessions with the keg makes me appreciate the good ole' barbell all the more!

I survived the most rigorous certification process in my life, but it was well worth it. Get it, if you want people to know that your gym is a place where they can get strong, stay strong, and learn how to use their strength.

These give you the benefit of training with a pinch block coupled with the versatility of using a dumbbell. They really work your grip, especially the pinch grip that heavily involves the thumbs. There are two widths you can choose from, 2.5" and 4", which offers greater versatility than Titan's beam ("Saxon") barbell, which is 3" x 3". My only complaint is that the sleeves could have been designed better so that the powder coat of the inmost sections do not get scuffed when loading and unloading plates. The sleeves are also narrower than the standard olympic sleeves, so you'll need a collar adapted to specialty bars.

This BBC (Big Black Curl-bar) is a distant cousin of the legendary chrome hex-bolted ez curl bar, the one visited by the bar fairy. It also bears similarity to an axle bar in that it boasts a thicker diameter (around 2") - and every guy knows what a big difference an inch can make. As such, it stimulates forearm gains even as one is trying to grow their biceps. For anyone used to using the chrome ez curl bar, once they go big and black, they might never go back.

My Abmat pad sits quietly in the corner of my gym, guilting me for avoiding sit ups. Luckily for me, it has other uses, e.g. for greater ROM during one-arm dumbbell preacher curl via an incline bench, comfortable floor cushion during seated cable rows, a pillow during naps in the gym. The pad is incredibly resilient and seem to return to its original shape, no matter how many times it gets squished during my "off-label" uses. As such, it's an ANTI-memory foam. One day I'll succumb under the mounting pang of guilt and use it for sit ups. Finally.

Legend has it, this bar has existed since the dawn of time, like the monolifts in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Some theologians believe that there was a "gap" between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 - and I believe that that is when this bar may have been created. After God said, "Let there be light," he said "Let there be gains" and - poof! - this bar materialized ex nihilo. Its mode of travel is mysterious, but some surmise that it's transported via bar fairies through wormholes, ending up in various garage - and even basement - gyms across planet earth. Given this pedigree, this bar is easily God-tier. Epilogue: Oh, the ez curl bar in my hands - but if I could understand what you are, bolt and all, I should understand what God and man is.

As a normal straight male, I feel obligated to open this review by saying, "I got this for my wife (or girlfriend)." And that would be true. However, in my case, at least, it's also true that I use the bar more than she does. Before you judge, you should know that I have small frickin' hands, and the narrower shaft (25mm) just feels good to me. I can actually do a proper hook grip with this bar! So, I primarily use this bar on deadlift days where I want to feel like a badass of sorts by pulling with a hook grip. Now, there are couple of respects in which I wish this bar was better. First, the knurling, which for my taste is too passive. (I blame Buddy Capps for giving me manly calluses!) However, the narrow diameter makes up for the passiveness of the knurling, so grip isn't really an issue. Second, it doesn't have center knurling, which doesn't make it inviting for back squats. I've seen this billed as an "all-purpose bar," but that should include it being a bar for squatting - which a center knurling would have helped. So, in short, whether you're a guy with "Trump-sized hands" (as his enemies conceive of his hands) or a gal with delicate hands, the Bella Bar may be a good option for you.

This is the economy model of Titan's stout H-PND (trademark be damned, I'm gonna say "reverse hyper" for the rest of the review!). H-PND uses 3" x 3" 11-gauge steel, and weighs about 250 lbs. The economy H-PND uses the same gauge of steel, but given that it's 2" x 2", it shaves about 100 lbs off of its more stout cousin. Maybe as a result of its lighter weight (?), it tends to "move around" when "decent" weights are used (e.g. two 45 lbs on each side). Now, I've seen people on social media going ballistic like a fish out of water while doing reverse hypers, and if you are one of them, then this economy reverse hyper might not be for you - at least not until you fix your form and lift correctly like we used to when we were a proper frickin' country! A possible fix would have been to bolt this down, but that option wasn't provided by the genius engineers at Titan. My remedy is two-fold: 1. use my muscles, not momentum, when doing reverse hypers; 2. take a page out of Louie Simmons' book and use bands (if you are in need of some bands, be sure to use Massenomics' EliteFTS affiliate link). With these two parameters in place, I find that Titan's economy reverse hyper does a pretty good job.