Strength Training Equipment
Strength training is something much more specific than weight lifting in so much as it uses more natural and practical exercises targeting the body and muscles as a whole rather than your typical weight training routine that focuses on individual muscle groups. Many of the items we make and sell in this section are used in Strongman competitions e.g. Farmers Walk Handles, Log Bars, Axle Bars, Atlas Stones, Battling Ropes and so on. These exercises are the sort of exercises that would have been performed before the days of mechanical labour, long before health and safety nannies decided what could and couldn't be lifted during the course of day to day work. These are the exercises of our forefathers, equipment rural and industrial by design, made to replicate the workloads and strength conditioning of life. The strength that man required in order to survive. These days strength training still helps man survive however it's survival on the rugby pitch or in Strongman contests that have become the challenge. Train to survive, train to WIN !!
Kettlebells
Fixed Kettlebells and Kettlebell Sets. From low price high quality home use kettlebells to the very best full commercial cast kettlebells. With the re-emergence of kettlebell training both in the home and in the gym, we thought it appropriate to offer high quality kettlebells to both home users and the tough commercial gyms we supply. The York Fitness Vinyl Kettlebells are our (GymRatZ) home use suggestion and offer increments from as low as 2kg to as high as 20kg. The manufacturer actually rate them for commercial use, but we would recommend studio or class use only. Our heavy-duty customers opting for our suggested cast kettlebells, which offer increments from 4kg to 24kg.
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Fat Bars,Thick Bars + Special Bars
Our range of Standard & Olympic Fat Bars, Thick Bars and Specialist weight training bars designed for increasing strength and power lifting exercises. Custom built in the UK to exacting specifications make our range of specialist bars not only very unique but also unbeatable value without any compromise in quality. Accept no substitutes... We don't!
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Rope Training and Accessories
Credit where credits due. Using thick ropes for strength training is a system devised by John Brookfield in America which seems to have taken of as rapidly as Kettlebell training and subsequently named "Battling Ropes". If you are in the U.S. please visit John at www.BattlingRopes.com for your ropes. Shipping rope from the US to the UK was prohibitively expensive so we have sourced equivalent Manila rope in both 1.5" (36mm) and 2" (48mm) which we cut to length either 15m or 30m (the metric equivalent to 50' and 100' and whip the ends off to prevent fraying. Even though it's sourced in the UK rope of this diameter is still not cheap, but we've tried to make it as affordable as possible. To go along with the 30m Ropes we have a portable pulling post or rope pole which can be used in the absence of a round section Rugby Post. We'll be adding more rope training accessories as we come up with them, but in the meantime, get a rope and start battling and pulling!
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Strength Training Misc.
This miscellaneous Power and Strength Training equipment section is for all those wonderful bits of equipment that are just as at home in a car-park or field as they are in a gym. This is the strongman and strength equipment that falls outside the general classification of gym equipment but has proven to be extremely beneficial for practical strength training for contact sports and team games such as Rugby and American Football etc.
Take a look, the range is expanding all the time. NOTE: If you are an Abs, Chest and Biceps boy this stuff is way too hard-core for you however we will be adding tight-fit black Tee's and lose fit baggies later in the year just for you guys!
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