Titan Fitness Cambered Bench & Row Bar, 3" Drop, 600 LB Rated

Great bar and a great company to work with when I encountered some problems

TOP LINE: If you are weight training and somehow don't know that weighted tension at full stretch is one of the most important aspects to promote hypertrophy, I don't know what you are doing. This bar does that. After 6 months of training, I had been doing regular bench presses at 185 for 8 reps for my working sets with a normal straight Olympic bar. When I got this bar I intelligently went down to 135 for 8 reps. I immediately felt the stretch doing the workout. And this is the day after and WOW I am sore—the sorest I have been since starting training again. And good muscle soreness—not joint or ligament soreness.BOTTOM LINE: If benches are part of your weight training program (and they probably should be barring injuries), get this bar.LONGER DETAILS: I recently got back into weight training at age 41 because I finally found an attorney job that didn't require me to be stressed out and work 60 hours per week.I started weight training in my early teens but I never advanced much past beginner. I was never consistent for more than 18 months at a time. College happened and I quit because of video games and beer.Then I was in the Army for 4 years. I restarted weight training for a few months before joining and kept at it during AIT and sporadically during my time in.Realistically retroactively judging it: I still never got more than 18 months consistent training and my physique reflected that: at my best shape I was 165 lbs, 5' 9" ~10% body fat. My max bench was 275 for 2 reps. I was also doing a heavy load of endurance training at the time (on my personal time in addition to Army PT ((which is basically a joke and maintains a basic level of fitness only))). To quantify that, I won my amateur age group at the Honolulu triathlon sprint distance in 2014.Now, more than 10 years later, I have changed jobs and moved to a place that is not cycling friendly and to a house that allowed me to build a temperature-controlled home gym.I hate indoor stationary cycling and so I decided to simply start 100% focused hypertrophy training. After six months, I have seen good results and LITERALLY this bar has provided the best feeling chest workout I have had during this phase of life.The only time I can remember feeling such a great chest workout was with dedicated commercial gym press machines. And this bar has the added benefit of being free weight.If you have a home gym and train for hypertrophy, get this bar. GET THIS BAR.

Love the bar. It’s well balanced I get a great range of motion on my presses.

The kernels are amazing. They are enough to get a great grip. The extra range if motion really helps feel my chest work. Just make sure to drop weight off you are used to using a regular bar.

I really love this cambered bar from Titan Fitness.. I've been using one like this at my local gym I have a membership through but it doesn't have the brand it's from and it's been very used and has mild knurling.. I like it's width and depth.. The titan one is a bit wider but with mildly more knurling.. I do wish it had a little bit less width in it's start of camber so I could have a more shoulder width option with camber and only go wider from there.. It does have good width for the close grip bench press using the cambered portion as the handhelds although no knurling.. It is also perfect for bent over rows, seal rows or incline bench rows/seal row attachment for a squat rack but again it'd be nice if it was a bit of a less width camber and even a deeper camber as it still hits the bottom of the bench even if it does give you a better range of motion compared to a straight barbell.

Sturdy, and gives that deep stretch under load at a reasonable price. This is perfect for the everyday lifter looking to mix it up. Also, while it’s not intended to be used for squats, it surprisingly will work in a pinch if you are trying to knock out supersets.

This is the only barbell I use. I love that I can get full ROM on the bench press and seal rows. The Knarling is substantial but doesn't rip the skin from your palms. This has been a great addition to my gym, highly recommend.

Best way to do bench press, I'll never go back to a straight bar. The stretch is so much deeper and u can really feel it in your pecs the next day