Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Original price €149.99
Original price €149.99 - Original price €149.99
Original price €149.99
€127.99
Current price €107.55 Excl. Tax
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Our Garage Strength Barbell is an ideal solution for smaller training areas where space is at a premium. Measuring 183.5 cm in length, this barbell allows you to perform the essential lifts at home without taking up too much space.

Weighing in at 15kg, the Garage Strength Barbell is still long enough to fit snug (!) into all of our standard rigs, power cages, and squat racks. 

It features a black E-coating, which is harder-wearing than black oxide, chrome, and zinc. This coating is corrosion-resistant and environmentally friendly. E-coating involves electrically applying a paint finish to metals, resulting in a durable, hard-wearing, and safe finish that effectively resists oxidation and corrosion from water, sunlight, and household chemicals.

If you’re tight on space and need a cage, check out our 1.85m Garage Cage.

SPECS:

Weight: 15kg
Length:1.835m
Shaft: Steel
Shaft length between sleeves: 127.5cm
Shaft diameter: 28mm
Distance between rings: 800mm
Loadable sleeve length: 250mm
Centre knurling: Yes
Knurling type: Coarse
Sleeve type: Steel Bushings and Needle Bearings
Recommended max load: 200kg Max suggested load.
700lbs steel tensile rating PSI: 186K
6 month warranty

FAQ

Can this bar be used for Olympic Weightlifting?
No, the Garage Strength Barbell isn’t suitable for Olympic Weightlifting. It lacks the appropriate spin, flexibility, and durability required for the high-impact, dynamic movements involved in Olympic lifts. 

Is this barbell suitable for advanced lifters?
The Garage Strength Barbell is best suited for beginner and intermediate lifters. It has a maximum capacity of 200kg, so it might not meet the needs of more advanced athletes. 

Customer Reviews

Overall rating: 4.8 / 5 from 25 reviews.

Customer photo review of Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Bilanciere veramente valido, disegno della zigrinatura spettacolare, molto aggressiva con ottimo grip! Dimensioni perfette per il mio rack Force Usa G4. Spedizione e consegna velocissima con imballaggio top!

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Customer photo review of Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

This is the best shorter then standard length barbell, fits exactly into my squat rack and barbell holder, really good design, comfortable to hold and it doesn't slip due to the surfuce. 10/10 recommend! (though shipping with UPS is kinda painful) Really happy with it overall :)

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Customer video review of Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

La Barra es perfecta, las medidas son las de web, mi Gym es pequeño y necesitaba una barra con al menos 127cm de zona de agarre ya que mi Rack mide de ancho 121cm y tengo q decir que va perfecta y la zona de carga suficiente para mi. El Grip es bueno sin molestar, tiene un Grip de 10cm en el centro de la Barra. En definitiva muy contento con la Barra. Si tuviese que mejorarla estos serían los puntos: -2cm más en la zona de agarre. -El Grip Central de al menos 20cm. -La pintura de la Barra en Mate sin brillo.

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Customer photo review of Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Die Bar hält was sie verspricht! Die Beschichtung ist 🔝 Top. Bei 100 kg minimal gebogen. Die Griffstärke ist optimal mit 28,5. Die Beladung könnte ein wenig länger sein, dann könnte man mit kleineren Scheiben arbeiten

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Customer photo review of Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Excellent barbell Arrived well packaged. I'm very happy with this barbell, highly recommend. I don't have enough room for a 7ft olympic barbell but needed something that works with my power rack. This is money very well spent!

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

The garage sized e-coat bar by Strength Shop is a really good product. I really needed a shorter than official bar for at home because I'm tight on space, but it also had to be of a better quality than what you can find on Amazon. And the Strength shop version is just that. Nicely calm spinning bearings, robust coating, I very much prefer the black shaft over a chrome one. The only thing I did not fully enjoy is the aggressiveness of the knurling, so I'm only using the bar with gloves on. But that obviously comes down to personal preference and how soft your hands are, plus it's really not that big of a deal to simply wear trainings gloves. All in all a worthy purchase and reasonably priced.

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Awesome quality, amazing value This is a great bar - the ends are solid but spin freely and the knurling is about right. Ideal for smaller spaces and also handy as it’s exactly 15kg, so it’s easy to just add a pair of 2.5s and your back on a 20kg bar for working out what you need to add for a particular weight - some other bars are annoyingly 15.9kg or 13.8kg etc. It’s also a great price, some other places have bars this quality for 170-200, or other bars at this price get poor reviews. Very happy with it.

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Quality international bar I have limited space so wanted a 6ft 15kg bar and already had the wide black coat ez bar so purchased this bar knowing how nice the ez bar was build and finish and I wasn't disappointed. If you want an international 15kg bar get this, with thin steel plates you can load all the weight you will ever need on it

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Good product, not the greatest Barbell but the best short Barbell for rack. Five stars to the customers service, I had a problem with the Barbell and they solved it in no time. Great experience.

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

6ft International Barbell Just received the bar and I’m really happy! I emailed customer care to get some more information before my purchase and the reply was very swift. I made the order and bar came next day via ups. Really well packaged, was in a tube which was then in a rectangular box. Previous times I have ordered barbells from other places they only come in the tube, so really great that it was double protected from Strength Shop. Nice finish, very smooth sleeve rotation, no noises and smooth finish on the sleeves. Weighed 14.6kg which is great, with the collars on weighs 15kg, added 2.5kg fractional plates on both sides and I get a 20kg bar :-D *I have to preface I ordered a similar 6ft international bar from Mirafit and I was very disappointed. The price was the same but quality very poor. Firstly the bar didn’t weigh anywhere near 15kg, it was about 13.2kg. This really throws off being able to correctly weight the bar for progression in training. The next thing was that the sleeves were really crunchy and rattle when spun. Not smooth at all, one side was worse then the other. That was £130 down the drain as a barbell is too hard to return. Ended up selling it on gumtree for £100, making a £30 loss.* In contrast my experience and product delivered by Strength Shop - fantastic! If you need a 6ft international barbell, this is the one to get, you won’t be disappointed! If I had to make one critique it would be to have a slightly coarser knurling - but to be fair this is an olympic bar and not a power bar. The other thing I would suggest to Strength Shop is to label the bar as a 6ft international barbell. I could only find two places that sold this barbell. Then one day I was looking on your website and found it! If it was labelled differently probably would have ordered sooner and not made the mistake with Mirafit. Will definitely order again from you, I like your 2028 barbell, probably will be my next purchase. Thanks again for great customer care and fantastic barbell!

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Cannot submit a two star review, so changed it to three. Order and delivery was easy and timely. The advertised length measurements are exact, and very well balanced to be as short as possible but as long as needed. I am very happy with this part of the product. The specific barbell I received had a few significant dents. Nothing beyond what would occur with a couple of miss-racks, however not a nice experience out of the box. The knurling is advertised as "coarse". There is a small area, perhaps 4 centimeters, on one side of the barbell where this is true. The rest of the length however, the knurling is so shallow as to be merely cosmetic. That is to say, it is both insufficient and inconsistent. The look of the barbell is nice. The chrome of the sleeves is acceptable, and the sleeves themselves are machined to be smooth rather than with that light straight-knurl that adds a bit of friction-resistance and that ziiiip-noise to some sleeves. I prefer smooth so this is a plus. The black paint is evenly and nicely applied, but chipped when I applied the hooks for my suspension scales. This may be an unreasonable test of how hard wearing it is, as the hooks have a slight edge. It may indeed be hard wearing in regular use. The weight of my unit is approx 15.160 grams. That puts it within a 2% tolerance (on the heavy side), which is certainly acceptable at this price point. The shaft is Ø27.8mm, so a bit on the thinner side. The sleeves have very little give along the length of the shaft, but do not fit snugly around the shaft, so there is more give between the sleeve and shaft than you might expect. TLDR: This bar, while by no means high end in feel, has perfect measurements for training within a constrained space. However a QC-issue with the knurling prevents me from recommending this product even at this price.

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves

Probably the best low-budget garage barbell out there. I like the fact that the length of the sleeves has been increased so that there is enough space for plates. Yet, you might want to make sure the sleeves are long enough for your plates before buying. (mind the collars). Even though the bar is not supposed for weightlifting, the sleeves spin suffiently smoothly for snatches and cleans.

Garage Strength Bar - E-Coat Shaft with Chrome Sleeves