The Open Trap Bar is one of the most versatile barbells to have in your gym. Smoother pulls and being easy to load gives you an unmatched deadlift experience.
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Open Trap Bar / Hex Bar 3.0 – Rotating Sleeves
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The Trap Bar, also known as a Hex Bar is one of the greatest innovations in strength training equipment.
The Trap Bar often called a Hex Bar, is one of the best specialty bars for building strength and developing power in the deadlift.
Our latest in-house designed model has three core benefits that will make training with your new trap bar a dream. Want to learn more about specialty bars? Then check out our article: Best Specialty Barbells for Strength Training.
We firmly believe that if it’s a barbell, the sleeves should rotate. Unlike almost any other trap bar on the market, our trap bar features rotating sleeves. To keep the bar more compact for both storage and shipping, the sleeves are a little shorter than full-length barbell sleeves; however, the plate block has been made extra thin, allowing for a full 7 B.o.S.45lb iron plates to be loaded on each side. Fit even more calibrated plates with a maximum weight of 700lbs.
It Has a Built-in Deadlift Jack
A feature never seen before on a home gym hex bar, and is usually reserved for abhorrently expensive models. The Bells of Steel Open-Ended Trap Bar has a pair of built-in bar jacks. By rotating the bar vertically like a lever until it’s sitting on the feet of the jacks, the weight plates end up mere inches from the floor. This allows you to add and remove plates with total ease. The entire process is effortless; no longer will your trap bar be neglected and left on the sidelines simply because of the time and effort required to load and unload the bar.
An Open-ended Frame
This ingenious design offers several benefits over the traditional, closed-frame design. The most important of these being access to far more movements than before. By opening up the front end of the bar, it is now possible to use your trap bar for split squats, Romanian deadlifts, weighted carries, lunges, and more, while still being perfectly balanced for your deadlifts and shrugs.
Rotating Sleeves
We firmly believe that if it’s a barbell, the sleeves should rotate. Unlike almost any other trap bar on the market, our trap bar features rotating sleeves. To keep the bar more compact for both storage and shipping, the sleeves are a little shorter than full-length barbell sleeves; however, the plate block has been made extra thin, allowing for a full 7 B.o.S.45lb iron plates to be loaded on each side. Fit even more calibrated plates with a maximum weight of 700lbs.
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Specs
| Weight | 47lbs / 21kg |
| Length | 59" / 1,500mm |
| Width | 22.2" / 565mm |
| Heigth | 4.8" / 124mm |
| Handle Sleeves Diameter | 1.9" / 50mm |
| Warrantied Weight | 700lbs / 318kg |
The Benefits of a Trap Bar (Hex Bar)
It is considered by many to be both superior and safer than deadlifting with a traditional straight bar, as the load is centered and more balanced with a Trap Bar, which puts much less stress on the spine.
Here are just a few reasons why it should be your go-to specialty barbell:
Frequently Asked Questions
The trap bar/ hex bar has a 28mm diameter and a 1,500mm/59.1″ length.
The hex bar/ trap bar weighs 21.3kg/47lbs.
The trap bar/ hex bar has a black oxide coated shaft, with white zinc coated sleeves.
Yes, regular 2-inch collars and Olympic weight plates will fit this trap bar/ hex bar.
- Assuming a spring collar is used and there’s a slight amount of free space at the end of the bar, here’s the number of 45lb plates that you can fit on each side of the trap bar/ hex bar:
- 3.0 x 45lb Dead-Bounce Bumper Plates
- 3.3 x 45lb Conflict Bumper Plates
- 4.4 x 45lb Competition Bumper Plates
- 7.3 x 45lb Mighty Grip Plates
- 7.7 x 45lb Machined Plates
*A decimal means that additional smaller plates may also fit on top of the listed number of 45s, but not another full 45lb plate.
An open trap bar is a specialty bar that is primarily used by weight lifters and exercise enthusiasts to improve deadlift strength and power. It is made out of bars bent into angles and welded together to form a hexagonal shape. The hexagon features two large handles welded in the middle and an open-framed design that allows you to step in the middle and pick it up by the handles.
Open trap bars are worth it. It can help you get more workout variations, especially when training general movement patterns for heavier straight bar lifts.
The trap bar/ hex bar has a 700lb capacity.
Typically, trap bars have extra long sleeves. Our trap bar/ hex bar has standard barbell sleeves in order to cut down on shipping costs and make the bar more affordable.
In the box, you’ll find the barbell itself and a generous coating of oil in order to minimize oxidation during shipping.
Covered under our Limited Lifetime Warranty guarantees that your bar will not bend under normal use, and protects against defects in material, function and workmanship.
Open trap bars are best used when you are learning to lift because they are user-friendly, can help with positioning and teach you about proper leg drive. It is designed to help minimize the amount of stress placed on the lumbar region of the spine. If you’re someone who wants to practice deadlifts but doesn’t want to put too much stress on your back because of an injury, or if you’re an athlete looking to build explosive strength movements, the open trap bar is the way to go.
Both conventional and trap bar deadlifts have many benefits. The hamstrings and spinal erectors are more activated in the traditional deadlift, whereas the quadriceps are more activated in the trap bar deadlift. Because of its design, the trap bar deadlift is slightly simpler to accomplish. It’s also easier to teach, has less shear force on the spine, and is safer to perform for MOST athletes.
The trap bar deadlift produces far more power than the traditional squat and deadlift, which is one of the most effective exercises in improving athletic performance. An athlete can easily lift weights, and move the bar quicker in a more explosive manner for any given load while reducing the risk of injury. It helps athletes develop powerful traps, back, grip, and core muscles.