Texas Power Bar - The Benchmark Powerlifting Bar

If you're serious about your squat, bench and deadlift numbers, the bar you train on matters just as much as the programme you follow. The Texas Power Bar Original has been a fixture in serious strength gyms for decades, and it's not hard to see why, this is a no-nonsense, competition-style power bar built for lifters who want stiffness, consistency and durability above all else.

Built for the Big Three

Unlike Olympic weightlifting bars, which are designed to whip and flex through fast pulls, the Texas Power Bar Original is engineered with minimal whip. That stiffness is exactly what you want when you're grinding out a heavy squat or bench press, the bar loads predictably, tracks true, and doesn't fight you under maximal weight.

• Shaft diameter: 28.5mm, the classic powerlifting bar diameter this model helped establish
• Tensile strength: 190,000 PSI, giving the shaft excellent resistance to bending and long-term permanent bend under heavy, repeated loading
• Bar length: 86" (2184mm) overall, with a 15" loadable sleeve length
• Sleeve diameter: 50mm, fitting all standard Olympic plates
• Bushings, not bearings: bronze bushings are used rather than needle bearings, giving the sleeves smooth but controlled rotation — the traditional choice for powerlifting, where a bar that spins too freely works against you on the big lifts
• Single knurl mark: a single powerlifting grip mark is knurled into the shaft, so you've got a reliable, repeatable hand position set to bar
• Note on competition use: this is the classic all-rounder for training rather than a competition-certified bar — lifters wanting official IPF/USPA approval for meet use should look to the Pro or Elite versions in the range
• Centre knurl: 4" centre knurl included as standard for squat security
• Finish: black zinc shaft with a chrome-finished sleeve, chosen to resist the knocks and scrapes of daily rack and floor use

Why Lifters Rate It

The knurling is the real talking point here. It's aggressive enough to bite when your hands are sweating through a max-effort deadlift, but it won't tear your palms to shreds on high-rep back squats. That balance, grip without gore, is what's kept this bar a firm favourite in strength and conditioning gyms, garages and competition platforms alike.

Because the shaft resists flex, you get honest feedback from the bar: no unwanted bounce out of the hole on a squat, no spring off the chest on a bench press. What you put in is what you get back. For lifters chasing accurate strength standards, or coaches who need a bar that behaves the same way every single session, that consistency is invaluable.

Ideal For

• Powerlifting and strength training gyms
• Home gyms and garage gyms building a serious barbell collection
• Strength and conditioning coaches training athletes on the main lifts
• Lifters progressing from a standard barbell to a true competition-specification power bar

The Gym Company Guarantee

As with everything we stock, the Texas Power Bar Original is sourced for genuine performance, not just a spec sheet. It's a proper working tool for a proper working gym, built to be loaded up, chalked up, and put through its paces week after week, year after year.

Texas Power Bar Original-available now at The Gym Company.