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GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar

Price: £385.00

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GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar
Latest Safety Squat Bar design with bends and bracing = greater strength and loading
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar shown with "London Irish Green" Power Rack.
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar
GymRatZ Olympic Safety Squat Bar. Suitable for loads up to 400kg!
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar
Squats (with the Safety Squat Bar) in the GymRatZ Power Rack.
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar
Hypers (with the Safety Squat Bar) on the GymRatZ Professional Hyper Extension Bench.
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar
Our Safety Squat Bar fits in an olympic width rack. Here it's shown in use within the GymRatZ Smith Machine (with Gun Rack Option) with Chains.
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar
Developed for and on behalf of London Irish RFC by our skilled fabricators.
Latest Safety Squat Bar design with bends and bracing = greater strength and loading
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar

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ORIGINAL GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar

Original heavy-duty Safety Squat Bar. The rollers are thick and durable and the bar's constructed from heavy-gauge steel. GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar is a great tool for anyone suffering from rotator cuff problems or had a shoulder reconstruction and wishing to squat.

Similarly to other inventions like the much cheaper Manta Ray, the Safety Squat Bar helps to distribute the weight across your shoulders and tends to make the weight sit slightly higher. Subsequently, you don't get the discomfort some can find with a bar and most users report more emphasis on their quads.

Another GymRatZ first. We were the first UK manufacturer to produce a Safety Squat Bar in response to a request by London Irish Rugby squad fitness coach in the early "Naughties" !. Having since provided many UK athletics organisations, elite-level sports clubs and National and International squads with the Safety Squat Bar it's certainly well tried and tested.

There are plenty of alternative versions of safety squat bars appearing on the market with the handles at the pads at the same angle as the weight arms. Justification for this "easy to make" copy is that because the weights are in front then the bar tries to force you forwards so you need to forcefully counteract the imbalance. This is NOT a safety squat bar but should be called a "try and tilt you forward bar". The bar geometry is just wrong. Our Safety Squat bar keeps the weight in the same center of gravity as a regular barbell squat so you can perform regular squats even if you can't get your arms back to support the bar.
The angles and design of our GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar were created SPECIFICALLY for the London Irish Rugby squad and many angles were tested before the PERFECT design was agreed upon and manufactured for us by "Simon" Waton Gym Equipment.
Don't be fooled by the cheap imitations. Sure they may have a purpose but it's a totally different exercise and shouldn't be confused with a true Safety Squat Bar that replicates a regular squat "hands free".

Note: The pictures above currently show our safety squat bar without the handles fitted, but the bars are supplied with handle extensions that screw into the end of the pads. Saying that, we have the angles so well calculated that you can squat with any weight on the safety squat bar without needing to even hold the handles. (See following video with handles fitted with Matt demonstrating the safety bar squat with hands by his side as recorded to show a disabled gentleman how easy it really is to use without arm mobillity)

GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar TECHNICAL SPEC:

  • Dimensions: 2250 mm x 550 mm
  • Weight 30Kg
  • Load Capacity: In Excess of 400Kg
  • Highest quality SSB available
  • Lifetime warranty

 

IMPORTANT NOTES:

All GymRatZ Gym Equipment is made to order and, subsequently, each order regarded as a special order. This means that lead times will vary and we request genuine orders and enquiries only. 

 

For use with olympic (2") plates only (sold separately).

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Read all reviews for GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar

3 Reviews
GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar

Safety Bar - Safe squats

Review submitted on 16th January 2012 by

Got my new safety bar which arrived in perfect condition.

Tried it out and very pleased: easy to use, balances perfectly and very comfortably on the shoulders. I have an old shoulder injury and am rather stiff in the shoulders; this avoids pulling my shoulders out of position so no more struggling to get hold of the bar, so now I can concentrate on squats and working my legs and not pins and needles in my shoulders and wondering if I am going to pull a back muscle. Brilliant!

GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar

Great Bar

Review submitted on 2nd July 2010 by

I've been thinking about buying a safety squat bar even since I saw one being used by West Side Barbell and finally decided to buy one when I started getting bicep pain while squatting with a regular bar. First thing I'd like to say is that this is a quality bar which feels like it's been built to take years of punishment not one of those cheap bars that are bent within a few months. I must say I got some strange looks in the gym when I first used the bar but it's now become very popular especially with those who have shoulder problems and we've got a few of them in the gym! And finally, the service I got from GymRatz was first class and I'm definitely going to be buying some more bits from them in the future.

GymRatZ Safety Squat Bar

Squatting comfort!

Review submitted on 6th May 2010 by

Made for elite athletes recovering from shoulder injuries (shoulder reconstruction, rotator cuff injury etc.) to enable them to return to squatting. The Safety Squat Bar's also incredibly popular for general squatting use - it's very comfortable!