At one gym I go to, there’s a 45-pound trap bar and a 55-pound one. At my old gym, there was one trap bar, and I stepped onto a scale with it to find out it weighed 69 pounds (nice).

Your guide to the trap bar deadlift for athletes, beginners, and functional fitness enthusiasts to activate the lower and upper back, core, quads, and more. The post The trap bar deadlift: The ...

How to Do a Trap Bar Deadlift Standing in the center of a trap bar, bend your hips back to grasp the bar’s handles with both hands. Keeping your lower back in its natural arch and your chest ...

The trap bar deadlift is an essential technique for a balanced workout routine. Learn how to pull using the specialized bar with good form.

Great! Problem solved. But on many bars, all you’ll see at the end is a rusty bolt, so we need to look for other clues. If the bar is seven feet long, it probably weighs 44 or 45 pounds.

You can buy mini parallel bars (also called parallettes), which are a great way to do this exercise outside of the gym. Start with 5 to 10 reps, and repeat for 2 to 3 total sets, Williams suggests.