Barbell plate manufacturing begins with the use of iron sand casting, a technique that ensures the plates are both heavy-duty and durable. The production process involves advanced techniques to mold, ...

Before you can lift a loaded barbell, you have to find a bar and load some plates onto it. At some gyms, there’s only one type of bar, and it weighs 45 pounds, and that’s all you need to know.

A barbell is the bar that you load the plates on, either empty (the “empty bar”) or loaded (for example, “a 225 pound barbell”). A standard Olympic-sized barbell is 20 kilograms ...