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Equipment atlas

Barbell exercises

A barbell is a rigid bar loaded with plates, the tool for bilateral squats, hinges, presses, and rows. This hub lists catalog movements that require a barbell, including EZ and standard bars when the slug is barbell rather than ez_barbell. The bar path is fixed in the hands, so the exercise names matter: high-bar squat is not a Romanian deadlift. Safety bars and machines are other hubs. Searchers asking for barbell exercises want compound lifts they can plate-load. Isolation curls and skull crushers still appear if the catalog stored a bar as the equipment. Cards link the primary muscle so a bench press can send you to chest instead of leaving you in a gear dump. This is not Starting Strength and not a garage-gym build list.

225 published exercises use this equipment