Barbell Recommendations and RepOne and other analysis devices

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Using an (evidently somewhat dented on one end) barbell to do my lifts and it takes care of the job, but I think I could be in the market for a new barbell soon. Will be used for training, and I have no interest in olympic lifts, so bench/squat/deadlift general purpose barbell. Currently DL is E1RM of 425-445, so most anything will do the job (though I can always be optimistic about future growth ;)). Is the answer just get an Ohio bar and don’t look at alternatives? What are the reasonable alternatives?

On another note–I realize RepOne isn’t quite out yet (at least I don’t think so?), but does anyone who is happy with the way they judge RPE have experience with how they can help manage fatigue or give a sometimes more objective 2nd opinion? Currently I am suspicious of:

  1. I think I consistently underrate BP RPE but .5 to 1. I have either failed or not attempted the final rep (knowing it will fail) in an @9 on BP 3 times this year, and I think part of the reason is I was lying to myself about the previous @7 and @8 weights.

  2. I think I intermittently overrate squat RPE by up to 1.5. Or it could be a variance in depth/pausing at the bottom instead of bouncing/etc. I video each set and watch when I’m done, but sometimes I’m still not sure and think it would be nice to have some objectivity in a device that doesn’t have personal interest in the outcome.

Generally @6 vs @7 is tough on every exercise.

There are a couple pricey alternatives, but openbarbell seems to have been pretty popular and I’m curious if anyone did the beta for repOne/has any experience with openbarbell.

Thanks!

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There we go, I knew there was a pretty good topic from a while ago discussing velocity trackers.

https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/fo…plement-to-rpe

I believe some of these guy’s logs might have additional insights, but you would probably have to dig through countless posts logging sessions to get to the ones that discuss their findings on VBT

John Hanley

Dave Hahn

Sean Herbison

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Ok, great, thanks. I read through the topic and looked a bit at some of the numbers/observations of the above logs. It seems others think it may be able to be used similarly to what I was thinking and that there has been some success with the feedback.

The feedback leaves me about where I was when I started–on the fence. :stuck_out_tongue: I think I’ll probably gather some more information, wait to see if RepOne is really a super cool, slightly more expensive open barbell or not.

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Occasionally I have my own input, but mostly I am familiar with other people’s work, and try to share that. This is a case of the latter :slight_smile: