Nike missed the mark, if they were gonna come out with lifting equipment they should have done it during Covid. ALOT of people who knew nothing about lifting was just buying equipment and would have bought this off the name alone. I’m interested to see the sales in a year because the home gym market for the most part has got back to normal numbers.
I think they are going to go after colleges and high schools with their equipment, they already have deals for certain schools to use their stuff for jerseys and such, this is a natural progression.
@@LuisPerez-eu8bk ya that’s what I figured. And I bet every athlete with a Nike deal is getting equipment lol. Hopefully as they get deeper into it they push the envelope since they have more money then a lot of these gym equipment manufacturers combined
I def agree with it being targeted to all the schools already in the Nike system/program. The home gym user is just an added bonus to that number. It will be interesting to see if this line develops into something truly substantial/innovative in the future tho.
I can tell you the way this equipment looks on screen it won’t hold up to college lifting. It’s a consumer bar for a consumer price. Plus, Nike doesn’t have a bar to fit requirements for powerlifting (fed.), CrossFit, or Oly lifting (fed.). 28mm makes no sense. This is a cheap bar made in China with the swoosh on it so consumers buy it.
That's one of the target markets for the company I work for. We would never be caught dead selling a product that has a fitness brand's name on it even if we removed it when installing one of our own pieces of equipment.
Imagine my shock finding out the Nike bar was "imported" (usually a fancy way of saying made in China) but costs nearly the same as the gold standard, made in USA, rogue ohio bar.
@@wildcard7799 I've used the Ohio bar at my home set up for the past 4 years or so and it's flawless. I've used plenty of other brands at gyms I've belonged to and I don't prefer any of them over Rogue. They earned their reputation as the gold standard.
I feel like the real market for this bar is not really your average consumer looking to buy a nice barbell that will last a lifetime. It is more for the multitude of colleges across the country that are sponsored by Nike and have Nike everything. So it makes a lot of sense for Nike to start making barbells and racks and such for all of the new multimillion dollar college weight rooms that pop up every year.
@paintpaintpaintco.6039 do you read? no where in the comment is it saying that Nike barbells are the best. Dude is just saying it makes sense for brand image so that they can slap these barbells/weights everywhere and increase sales.
@@spawn302yeah, i feel like most niche products serve a purpose that consumers do not think too much about. fair, they don't need to know, it's a business after all, who cares, but people who say this has 0 place, are definitely wrong
@@geoffreyfaltot1006 I have used Ohio bars for a while for powerlifting and they're extremely stiff and have a great knurl. My team in general beats the shit out of bars and they hold up really well
Nike bar is 325 with 25 dollar shipping, I think the 375 total is including the taxes. He didn’t mention the shipping cost for the Rogue bar or taxes. While I agree the Rogue bar may be the better option I do believe it will cost a little more.
While I wouldn’t personally buy this bar, Nike aknowledging the home gym equipment market, means more people will have an entry, which means more home gym owners, more consumers, more reasons for the established strength brands to innovate. The downstream effects of this is what is actually exciting, even if this bar isn’t. Speaking of bearings, coop do you know anything about the Eleiko bars from around 2021 starting to have the bearings lock up? It’s happened to a few higher level weightlifters in the US lately like Dylan cooper and Wes Kitts.
Not likely. Their equipment cost more than Rogue equivalents so they’re not giving ‘more’ people entry. People that buy Nike gym equipment are more than likely already set on buying Nike branded items even if they could get a better quality item for a lower price.
Pretty rough take. How does Nike’s involvement increase the consumer base for something as expensive and space altering as gym equipment??? It’s not just the cost. Takes up a huge space in most reasonable homes. Most people don’t buy something like this on a whim. Most can’t. This will drive lower priced brands up in price because as long as they stay under Nike’s outrageous pricing they are still the “alternative”.
I think Nike is aiming for a different demographic, yes their die hard fans for sure, but also I think this is aimed at athletes who don't really care about the specs of strength equipment as much as we do. Athletes and lifters are fundamentally different: for athletes lifting is a means to an end, for them getting stronger/faster means being better at whatever sport they play. For lifters, lifting is both the means AND the end goal, lifting heavier and getting stronger means you will be better at the sport of lifting heavier and being stronger. All athletes care about the equipment they use for their sport, be it bats, gloves, footballs, cleats whatever it is they use and thus they want the best when it comes to that. For those of us whose sport is lifting, that means our barbells, dumbbells, benches, racks, lifting shoes, plates etc. That's why Nike is never going to come out with strength equipment that surpasses Rogue, REP, hell even Titan, because they don't NEED to, they just need equipment that is good enough so that athletes will buy, not Lifters. Simply put: a football player won't care if his flat bench is 17.75" but any of you watching these videos and reading this know exactly wtf is wrong with that .25".
False. I’m a cyclist who got in for lifting, purely to build strength to support my sport (as well as build functional strength as I get older). I bought a rogue Ohio bar because I wanted something that is tried and tested in the weight lifting industry, and also because as athletes we know why quality in a piece of sport equipment matters in the long run. In fact, the more likely scenario would be athletes trying to cheap out and buy some made in china bar, while trying to justify it as being a better investment than something like a rogue or rep bar. Today’s athletes are a weird bunch; trying to buy as cheap as possible in some weird opposition to the influx of covid athletes coming in with their wallets and making them feel poor in comparison.
This doesn’t really make sense, most athletes are probably more into lifting than a lot of lifters and gym goers are. Especially in this day and age they tend to have knowledgeable coaches or at least guidance and use high quality equipment and really know their stuff because of this.
For your current bar and if you want this just buy orange spray paint and white spray paint, get a outline sticker that resembles the Nike logo then slap it on then spray the white spray paint on that Nike logo and spray the bar orange
Seems like a general use barbell with a slant to the oly lifts. Which makes sense the Olympic lifts are fantastic for athletic development. I expect to see this barbell more used in S&C on college campuses rather then in garage/powerlifting/Olympic lifting gyms.
Yeah I tend to agree, my only issue is that 28.5 mm is going to be a little tougher to hook grip for people that like olympic lifting that have smaller hands.
Olympic lifts are fantastic for getting good at Olympic lifts. You can get the exact same athletic benefits with vastly less time spent on drilling difficult technical details that have zero carryover to everyday athleticism. RDLs, Trap Bar deads, actual jumping and sprinting drills, etc barely require any technical development and develop the same qualities of hip extension power, movement quality, etc
The irony that a company that charges a massive market for mid quality... everything, uses a cheap product because they don't want to pay a mark up for a brand name
Nike specializes in mass producing mid product, works great for shoes, shirts water bottles. But I domt think that model fits for strength equipment where people wanna buy something that will last them a lifetime.
I actually prefer the thinner bars when it comes to bench, I have a really old 28mm (I think) and then a newer 29mm, and I feel like on bench 28mm moves better but when it comes to squat 29mm feels better.
Appreciate the review Coop... i do love my 28mm bars but i'd likely prefer the lifetime warranty as well. I don't think you've done a review on the Bumper plates yet so thats what i'm kind of waiting for... just wanna see how close the numbers are compared to stated weights and how much of a difference there might be.
I was blown away by the price of these bars. The budget options without anything extra is good enough for me.. $100 is way better for absolutely no difference that I would care about.
Could you clarify the pricing differences, you showed 325 + 25 for shipping on the Nike bar and said that it was 375 total. Is that with taxes? A lot of comments are about how the rogue bar is priced cheaper and while that bar may be a better value, I don’t think it actually is cheaper once you include shipping and taxes.
I mean, Duracoat and Cerakote are really different. There are other companies out there making a similar product to Cerakote like KG coatings who sell a very similar product at a slightly lower price, but Duracoat at least the firearm finishes I have seen is just an epoxy paint. You can take it off with acetone even, Cerakote isn't like that, frustratingly you have to sandblast it usually to get it off of something once it is cured. I have used the air cured Cerakote and I have never seen anything that doesn't need a hardener be so hard to remove (though the H and V series oven cured coatings do use hardener IIRC). Not that there is anything wrong with an epoxy paint, that is how most appliances are done, and many people paint firearms and other heavy duty things with them, but it has never held up to chemicals or abrasion as well as an actual ceramic coating. In that barbell that uses both, I have to wonder, what exactly are they duracoating? Or are they saying some use Cerakote and some use Duracoat?
this feels like a really balanced, unbiased review. (vs say the adjustable dumbbells which didn't much cover reliability/failure and also the danger of slipping plates.) thanks! definitely one where the facts are laid out, and you can pick according to preference. sometimes a color would sway me on something. sometimes another spec. but i can appreciate that for any of us that spec could be different.
The bar and the plates are fun and cool to look at, but I doubt I'll ever buy them. I've promised myself if I ever buy another bar, it will be the Rogue Ohio bar.
yeah, idk why people watch this and come out thinking it's a terrible bar. it's cheaper than the gold standard, and Nike funded gyms will be packed with these and will work well.
I can see distance runners getting stuff like this for a home gym. Think about all they'd need to do: split squats, front squats, power cleans, maybe overhead press to balance it out. All they need is a bar, a few pairs of plates, and some tiles.
The Nike barbell is nothing more than Nike wanting to find more ways to suck funds from loyalists to the brand. It's no different than people who buy Lululemon. There's plenty of options out there that are just as good and at a way more fair price.
@@jacobesnard ive had 2 pairs of lulu shorts i got on sale back in 2017. Ive ripped holes in almost every pair of shorts ive bought since then. Nike, under armor, it doesnt matter. Anytime i buy stuff i buy it on sale so its no different from buying any other major brand. And i am extremely rough on shorts. In the past few months ive ripped almost my entire arsenal of workout shorts. Just got some of the ripstop ones for like 40 a piece and they feel like theyll last a good while. But i dont have much experience with any other clothes. I have one shirt, but havent had it for long enough to tell beyond it seems promising considering i also have ripped holes in like all my workout shirts too.
@@casey6104 same. I usually buy my workout shorts from Nike and casual shorts from Lulu. I workout pretty intensely so these shorts really get tested. I’ll have to check out ripstop
Pretty smart move by Nike imo. I'd imagine these get pushed to high school/college weight rooms everywhere where they what have ties. That's probably already enough to do the marketing for them.
This is just about name and brand recognition man. I use made in the USA crumb bumpers that’s I get for $1 a pound because weight is weight. My squat rack is from titan, my bas are a titan 5 foot Olympic bar and a rogue Ohio bar and my bench and adjustable dumbbells came from Amazon all in all $750 and I have everything I need. If I went to with Nike Id barely have a bar and some bumpers
I'm not surprised by this. As soon as I saw it, I said it was made to look like one of the top contenders. I appreciate your honest reviews and watched a lot of videos before purchasing my own barbell, and yours were the most helpful of all of them
Seems like something they would sell as package deal for high school and college sports teams and campus gyms to go along with the other equipments and apparel they buy.
I wish they would design a barbell that would have voice activation. Shia LaBeouf saying "Just... DO IT!" like in the meme, every time the bar touches my chest.
You sound like the guy at the Pentagon in his barricaded fortress room with 500 trophies of medals on the wall shelving. THANK YOU SO MUCH for your Service.
@@AjaychinuShahnah dude…I simply appreciate still buying American made products. And yes I’m a veteran that appreciates your whining rhetoric. Sounds like you never made it to your local recruiting office, let alone MEPS.
Actually not true, I visited a Recruitment Agency of US Army and went through the interview process. Unfortunately not strong enough to get through the regimen and left graciously with my head up.@@gracci01
I work in a warehouse and I stopped buying Nikes because the glue holding the sole to the rest of the shoe can’t last 6 months of daily wear. My under armor shoes have lasted me 2 years
The bar definitely is volcano knurled but its definitely not a medium and the ceramic coating definitely did fill the divots in the knurling peaks, other than that this is a pretty standard bar.
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Nike missed the mark, if they were gonna come out with lifting equipment they should have done it during Covid. ALOT of people who knew nothing about lifting was just buying equipment and would have bought this off the name alone. I’m interested to see the sales in a year because the home gym market for the most part has got back to normal numbers.
I think they are going to go after colleges and high schools with their equipment, they already have deals for certain schools to use their stuff for jerseys and such, this is a natural progression.
@@LuisPerez-eu8bk ya that’s what I figured. And I bet every athlete with a Nike deal is getting equipment lol. Hopefully as they get deeper into it they push the envelope since they have more money then a lot of these gym equipment manufacturers combined
Covid happened in a week ma meeeehhn
I def agree with it being targeted to all the schools already in the Nike system/program. The home gym user is just an added bonus to that number. It will be interesting to see if this line develops into something truly substantial/innovative in the future tho.
I can tell you the way this equipment looks on screen it won’t hold up to college lifting. It’s a consumer bar for a consumer price. Plus, Nike doesn’t have a bar to fit requirements for powerlifting (fed.), CrossFit, or Oly lifting (fed.). 28mm makes no sense. This is a cheap bar made in China with the swoosh on it so consumers buy it.
The aesthetic is awesome. Definitely aiking for the rich people that have home gyms they never use
That's one of the target markets for the company I work for. We would never be caught dead selling a product that has a fitness brand's name on it even if we removed it when installing one of our own pieces of equipment.
Lift a book buddy
Would buy one used and probably barely used
Cheap
Nah if I could have my own gym I’d get this. Very sexy
Imagine my shock finding out the Nike bar was "imported" (usually a fancy way of saying made in China) but costs nearly the same as the gold standard, made in USA, rogue ohio bar.
Went with rogue personally
@@wildcard7799 I've used the Ohio bar at my home set up for the past 4 years or so and it's flawless. I've used plenty of other brands at gyms I've belonged to and I don't prefer any of them over Rogue. They earned their reputation as the gold standard.
I heard that they are made in the same factory as Rep?
@@simonlau7707 i couldn’t find any info on their manufacturing personally. Rep does make good stuff though.
gold standard is Eleiko but yeah
I feel like the real market for this bar is not really your average consumer looking to buy a nice barbell that will last a lifetime. It is more for the multitude of colleges across the country that are sponsored by Nike and have Nike everything. So it makes a lot of sense for Nike to start making barbells and racks and such for all of the new multimillion dollar college weight rooms that pop up every year.
Really smart take
Rouge still has better equipment, it’s like under armor gear
@paintpaintpaintco.6039 do you read? no where in the comment is it saying that Nike barbells are the best. Dude is just saying it makes sense for brand image so that they can slap these barbells/weights everywhere and increase sales.
@@spawn302yeah, i feel like most niche products serve a purpose that consumers do not think too much about. fair, they don't need to know, it's a business after all, who cares, but people who say this has 0 place, are definitely wrong
Nothing beats the under $50 used barbell that I can get on Facebook Marketplace
I got mine for 90ish off Amazon
I was today years old when I found out people have preferred brands of barbells and there's barbell standards.
@@SpamBin-e4q me too. i was very shocked when he said hes gonna review the plates, like? bro what are you going to do? weigh them or smth?
This bar is perfect for people that like Apple. All about brand recognition and no substance.
As an android user, I completely agree 😂
Apple has a much better laptop/phone and operating system than any androids.
There’s a reason most designs are based on Apple’s…
I'm an Android user but this is a ridiculous take. There is plenty of engineering in Apple products.
“Everybody look at me! I use Android, have twelve launchers and four apps for chat on my phone, I’m so cool!” 🤡🤡🤡
Rogue Oho bar for sure. The additional $25 to not have a Nike logo and it's made in America is worth it.
Agree with the Rogue Ohio bar. Has aggressive knurling. Use it for benching.
My gym has an Ohio bar and it’s my go-to for benching now.
Texas Bar or Ohio?? need one for general powerlifting.
@@geoffreyfaltot1006 I have used Ohio bars for a while for powerlifting and they're extremely stiff and have a great knurl. My team in general beats the shit out of bars and they hold up really well
Nike bar is 325 with 25 dollar shipping, I think the 375 total is including the taxes. He didn’t mention the shipping cost for the Rogue bar or taxes. While I agree the Rogue bar may be the better option I do believe it will cost a little more.
This bar looks like it’s made for the guy who does 135lb RDLs with a belt.
With the swoosh facing out, of course.
LMAO STOP
Not shocked the bar is kinda medium. The plates being made from recycled materials is interesting though.
If you watch the video only the outside of recycled, the inner rubber is regular plate rubber
@@captainjacobkeyes6733that’s some cop out from Nike
meaningless virtue signaling
Coop WOULD have a knurled wedding band 😂 💪🏻
Not sure I would buy a nike barbell but those super colorful bumper plates are quite nice, like terazzo tile. Love the 80's memphis design look.
While I wouldn’t personally buy this bar, Nike aknowledging the home gym equipment market, means more people will have an entry, which means more home gym owners, more consumers, more reasons for the established strength brands to innovate. The downstream effects of this is what is actually exciting, even if this bar isn’t.
Speaking of bearings, coop do you know anything about the Eleiko bars from around 2021 starting to have the bearings lock up? It’s happened to a few higher level weightlifters in the US lately like Dylan cooper and Wes Kitts.
Not likely. Their equipment cost more than Rogue equivalents so they’re not giving ‘more’ people entry. People that buy Nike gym equipment are more than likely already set on buying Nike branded items even if they could get a better quality item for a lower price.
yeah it just means shit's going to become more expensive, not sure that's what I want
I find when companies cater to larger and larger consumer bases the quality of products and service usually go down.
Pretty rough take. How does Nike’s involvement increase the consumer base for something as expensive and space altering as gym equipment??? It’s not just the cost. Takes up a huge space in most reasonable homes. Most people don’t buy something like this on a whim. Most can’t.
This will drive lower priced brands up in price because as long as they stay under Nike’s outrageous pricing they are still the “alternative”.
Its going to be no-name quality with rouge price. Worthless.
I think Nike is aiming for a different demographic, yes their die hard fans for sure, but also I think this is aimed at athletes who don't really care about the specs of strength equipment as much as we do.
Athletes and lifters are fundamentally different: for athletes lifting is a means to an end, for them getting stronger/faster means being better at whatever sport they play. For lifters, lifting is both the means AND the end goal, lifting heavier and getting stronger means you will be better at the sport of lifting heavier and being stronger.
All athletes care about the equipment they use for their sport, be it bats, gloves, footballs, cleats whatever it is they use and thus they want the best when it comes to that. For those of us whose sport is lifting, that means our barbells, dumbbells, benches, racks, lifting shoes, plates etc. That's why Nike is never going to come out with strength equipment that surpasses Rogue, REP, hell even Titan, because they don't NEED to, they just need equipment that is good enough so that athletes will buy, not Lifters.
Simply put: a football player won't care if his flat bench is 17.75" but any of you watching these videos and reading this know exactly wtf is wrong with that .25".
Disagree, get a real user name
@@Patrick_McCulloughexplain why you disagree.
False. I’m a cyclist who got in for lifting, purely to build strength to support my sport (as well as build functional strength as I get older).
I bought a rogue Ohio bar
because I wanted something that is tried and tested in the weight lifting industry, and also because as athletes we know why quality in a piece of sport equipment matters in the long run.
In fact, the more likely scenario would be athletes trying to cheap out and buy some made in china bar, while trying to justify it as being a better investment than something like a rogue or rep bar. Today’s athletes are a weird bunch; trying to buy as cheap as possible in some weird opposition to the influx of covid athletes coming in with their wallets and making them feel poor in comparison.
You bought a Rogue Ohio bar so you could brag about it on youtube lmao@@87togabito
This doesn’t really make sense, most athletes are probably more into lifting than a lot of lifters and gym goers are. Especially in this day and age they tend to have knowledgeable coaches or at least guidance and use high quality equipment and really know their stuff because of this.
Skip to 1:28 just repeats and rambles until then.
For your current bar and if you want this just buy orange spray paint and white spray paint, get a outline sticker that resembles the Nike logo then slap it on then spray the white spray paint on that Nike logo and spray the bar orange
that’s going to rub off onto your hands the second sweat touches it
@@HondaRedWhiteAndBlue not if you use dura coat that's made to paint guns
Seems like a general use barbell with a slant to the oly lifts. Which makes sense the Olympic lifts are fantastic for athletic development. I expect to see this barbell more used in S&C on college campuses rather then in garage/powerlifting/Olympic lifting gyms.
Yeah I tend to agree, my only issue is that 28.5 mm is going to be a little tougher to hook grip for people that like olympic lifting that have smaller hands.
Olympic lifts are fantastic for getting good at Olympic lifts. You can get the exact same athletic benefits with vastly less time spent on drilling difficult technical details that have zero carryover to everyday athleticism. RDLs, Trap Bar deads, actual jumping and sprinting drills, etc barely require any technical development and develop the same qualities of hip extension power, movement quality, etc
@@LAK_770this would make sense if athletes didn't do olympic lifts irl. they already do this, along with everything you said
Them plates drippy af🔥
7:27 Math ain't Mathing
I like the fact that you’ll be able to go to a brick store, Dick’s, that has locations across the nation and get it same day if in stock.
The irony that a company that charges a massive market for mid quality... everything, uses a cheap product because they don't want to pay a mark up for a brand name
The fact you have a ring with knurl marks is crazy
Never knew I needed a barbell review…until now! 🔥🔥🔥
Still surprised it took Nike this long to get in the strength game
Nike specializes in mass producing mid product, works great for shoes, shirts water bottles. But I domt think that model fits for strength equipment where people wanna buy something that will last them a lifetime.
I actually prefer the thinner bars when it comes to bench, I have a really old 28mm (I think) and then a newer 29mm, and I feel like on bench 28mm moves better but when it comes to squat 29mm feels better.
Does 1 mm make a difference. He's talking about a half mm. That's thickness of a hair on a fly's behind
I'm honestly surprised it has taken them this long to come out with this type of equipment.
Appreciate the review Coop... i do love my 28mm bars but i'd likely prefer the lifetime warranty as well. I don't think you've done a review on the Bumper plates yet so thats what i'm kind of waiting for... just wanna see how close the numbers are compared to stated weights and how much of a difference there might be.
On the way. Chainsawed one in half and I think it will surprise some people. - Coop
@@GarageGymReviews 👀🤔
@@GarageGymReviews Did...did he say *_chainsawed_* ??
Thanks for honest review.
Thank you for the content and the honesty
Keeping it REAL BABY! LETS GO! Biggups on your credibility baby.
9:09 'I love orange!' Instant sub, it's my fav color🟠🧡💪
Well, while it isn't the best at the very least they aren't trying to sell it for absurd prices. It is marked up, just not as much as you'd expect.
I bought my rogue ohio bar for $275 years ago for my home gym
Best bar ever
Love the watch color coordination 👌
I was blown away by the price of these bars. The budget options without anything extra is good enough for me.. $100 is way better for absolutely no difference that I would care about.
This is an excellent review/analysis
Could you clarify the pricing differences, you showed 325 + 25 for shipping on the Nike bar and said that it was 375 total. Is that with taxes? A lot of comments are about how the rogue bar is priced cheaper and while that bar may be a better value, I don’t think it actually is cheaper once you include shipping and taxes.
Thank you for another hones review.
Haven't watched a video in a while. Enjoying the step up in production! Kudos!
please do synergee rhino barbell! great reviews best budget for canada, wanna see if coop loves the aggressive knurl
Best budget for Canada would be BOS barenaked bar
I got their Olympic bar for 110, absolute steal. It’s regularly around 280 or so
@@keldsports8337 BOS makes fantastic equipment !
Haha fellow Canadian here waiting on it in shipping. I’ve been wanting him to review too because it’s definitely a better option in Canada right now
I mean, Duracoat and Cerakote are really different. There are other companies out there making a similar product to Cerakote like KG coatings who sell a very similar product at a slightly lower price, but Duracoat at least the firearm finishes I have seen is just an epoxy paint. You can take it off with acetone even, Cerakote isn't like that, frustratingly you have to sandblast it usually to get it off of something once it is cured. I have used the air cured Cerakote and I have never seen anything that doesn't need a hardener be so hard to remove (though the H and V series oven cured coatings do use hardener IIRC). Not that there is anything wrong with an epoxy paint, that is how most appliances are done, and many people paint firearms and other heavy duty things with them, but it has never held up to chemicals or abrasion as well as an actual ceramic coating.
In that barbell that uses both, I have to wonder, what exactly are they duracoating? Or are they saying some use Cerakote and some use Duracoat?
This was a really impressive review. Also... where'd you get that knurl ring?
I consider buying if they swap the swoosh for a Home Depot logo
this feels like a really balanced, unbiased review. (vs say the adjustable dumbbells which didn't much cover reliability/failure and also the danger of slipping plates.) thanks! definitely one where the facts are laid out, and you can pick according to preference. sometimes a color would sway me on something. sometimes another spec. but i can appreciate that for any of us that spec could be different.
The bar and the plates are fun and cool to look at, but I doubt I'll ever buy them. I've promised myself if I ever buy another bar, it will be the Rogue Ohio bar.
Should change that to a Texas power bar.
@@Farquad76.547nah not dealing with the rust and over the top price
This is the type of thing that would be cool to see in a nike history museum or something.
Just looked these up 210 for a set of 45s is crazy. I got mine for $1 a pound, $90.
Squat rack next please also if you could include how attachments will work on it from other brands
The bumper plates are actually dope-looking.
If you're going to buy a barbell, I recommend Texas Power Bars or Rogue Fitness.
Having a stylish gym is important, love it.
I’m getting married in October and dude your band is sick! Where did you get it??
Rogue sells them but I don't know the manufacturers
Coop's review in one sentence: good enough but nothing special.
yeah, idk why people watch this and come out thinking it's a terrible bar. it's cheaper than the gold standard, and Nike funded gyms will be packed with these and will work well.
I can see distance runners getting stuff like this for a home gym. Think about all they'd need to do: split squats, front squats, power cleans, maybe overhead press to balance it out. All they need is a bar, a few pairs of plates, and some tiles.
Nothing like the look of a worn sleeve on a barbell tbh. I love the coating coming off from use look
The Nike barbell is nothing more than Nike wanting to find more ways to suck funds from loyalists to the brand. It's no different than people who buy Lululemon. There's plenty of options out there that are just as good and at a way more fair price.
I will give credit to lulu lemon that their shorts don’t fall apart unlike other brands.
With Lulu I’ve found that similar products really don’t compare. If you find something that does, please let me know
@@jacobesnard ive had 2 pairs of lulu shorts i got on sale back in 2017. Ive ripped holes in almost every pair of shorts ive bought since then. Nike, under armor, it doesnt matter. Anytime i buy stuff i buy it on sale so its no different from buying any other major brand.
And i am extremely rough on shorts. In the past few months ive ripped almost my entire arsenal of workout shorts. Just got some of the ripstop ones for like 40 a piece and they feel like theyll last a good while. But i dont have much experience with any other clothes. I have one shirt, but havent had it for long enough to tell beyond it seems promising considering i also have ripped holes in like all my workout shirts too.
@@casey6104 same. I usually buy my workout shorts from Nike and casual shorts from Lulu. I workout pretty intensely so these shorts really get tested. I’ll have to check out ripstop
Ha. Just noticed the knurling in the wedding band. On point.
I feel like the Nike weights are for college football recruiting, selling to the public is just a bonus.
I was really excited for this video I would love a full nine series
Pretty smart move by Nike imo. I'd imagine these get pushed to high school/college weight rooms everywhere where they what have ties. That's probably already enough to do the marketing for them.
The Ohio bar ALL DAY 🇺🇸
how ironic in Nike not wanting to pay "the brand fee"
I need a new barbell, mine is only 35 pounds, I would love to have that tbh, idc what anyone says, it looks cool to me lol
325$+25$ shipping seriously I mean my gym has bar somewhere like 250$+ has a lifetime warranty on bar bending does nike offer something similar?
Coop are you going to review the Rogue Hybrid Power Bar?
I'm sticking with my Eleiko and Kabuki bars
This is just about name and brand recognition man. I use made in the USA crumb bumpers that’s I get for $1 a pound because weight is weight. My squat rack is from titan, my bas are a titan 5 foot Olympic bar and a rogue Ohio bar and my bench and adjustable dumbbells came from Amazon all in all $750 and I have everything I need. If I went to with Nike Id barely have a bar and some bumpers
I'm not surprised by this. As soon as I saw it, I said it was made to look like one of the top contenders.
I appreciate your honest reviews and watched a lot of videos before purchasing my own barbell, and yours were the most helpful of all of them
i am seriously out of the game of training but i find this extremely interesting
Coop, why guess at the bearing numbers? Just disassemble it and check
Great review as always. Where did you get the ring on your 4th finger? That’s a legit ring-solid.
3:52 Lol "hill" knurl is being TOO NICE.. That is more of a "mound" knurl where it's barely there lol.
Damn the Nike skin on a barbell set🔥
please do the rack and plates next
Texas Power Bar in bare finish. $279, no nonsense, develops a nice patina.
Seems like something they would sell as package deal for high school and college sports teams and campus gyms to go along with the other equipments and apparel they buy.
The Gritt Bumper Plates Have Been Great For Me 💪🏾🔥🔥🔥
It is truly wild to me that somebody will pay $300-$350 for a metal pipe with a slightly larger metal pipe on the end of it.
A pipe is hollow.
its a bar
I wish they would design a barbell that would have voice activation. Shia LaBeouf saying "Just... DO IT!" like in the meme, every time the bar touches my chest.
Drop the link for your ring please Coop, looks really dope
It’s a one off from an Eleiko bar. Rogue does make some too though, although they’re pretty bulky imo. I used to wear one. - Coop
That bar will be fine.
Five-year warranty means stay the hell away.
Love the honesty and detail, I learned a lot and won’t be getting this 👏💪
Coop looks like if Mitch hooper never did strongman😂
I bought a bar about 18 months ago new from Play It Again Sports... no idea what brand it is. All black. Holding solid.
Curious to know if you have tested any of Lycan Fitness’ bars.
I can see these showing up majorly in collegiate gyms
Who tf makes a 10 min video on a steel rod
I'm not in the science of Barbell-Diameter, but i don't think 1mm really makes a difference.
Good, rogue will start to have reasonable prices
i just like the look, and it works for what its made off, same as the plates, look fantastic
Can you please review the Nike squat cage. Looks like it could have potential but also could be glitter poop
35$ for 10 pound plates that aren’t even Olympic plates. 😂 this is supreme brick vibes.
Good job Coop !! No sure that I associate lifting with them
Gotta get it for the brand!
I will have a “Made in USA” and an American Flag ANYDAY over a limp swoosh.
You sound like the guy at the Pentagon in his barricaded fortress room with 500 trophies of medals on the wall shelving. THANK YOU SO MUCH for your Service.
@@AjaychinuShahnah dude…I simply appreciate still buying American made products. And yes I’m a veteran that appreciates your whining rhetoric. Sounds like you never made it to your local recruiting office, let alone MEPS.
Actually not true, I visited a Recruitment Agency of US Army and went through the interview process. Unfortunately not strong enough to get through the regimen and left graciously with my head up.@@gracci01
I work in a warehouse and I stopped buying Nikes because the glue holding the sole to the rest of the shoe can’t last 6 months of daily wear. My under armor shoes have lasted me 2 years
The bar definitely is volcano knurled but its definitely not a medium and the ceramic coating definitely did fill the divots in the knurling peaks, other than that this is a pretty standard bar.
4:20 I wish he would add a ranking like where does the knurling fit in relation to other bars
How about an update to the best powerbars available now. I'd like to see you get your hands on the Kabuki Oregon Power Bar.
We got these in our D1 college gym a couple months back. I have noticed no difference to our previous bars
Because theres no difference lol. Weight is weight
Hand grip and handling comfort is very important