The Trap Bar

$ 649.99

Features

Built-In Bar Jack to allow easy loading/unloading of plates
Swappable Grips with 1" and 1.5" (included), and 2" Love Handles (optional)
Balanced Design for both high and low handles.
Open Design to allow for a variety of unilateral and carrying movements
Machined, full-length sleeves with signature end cap

Notes

Please allow 5-7 weeks for order fulfillment and shipping.
Purchase additional handles here.

Bar Specs

Bar Jack

The age-old struggle of loading and unloading plates from your trusty trap bar is over. We are proud to introduce a simple, effortless solution - the built-in bar jack. Our design features 2x nearly inch-thick "legs" with tread to provide grip and stability when the bar is positioned in a vertical orientation for easy loading/unloading. We designed The Trap Bar to allow for an effortless transition from horizontal to vertical position, requiring minimal effort and taking advantage of human kind's earliest discovery - the lever.

Swappable Grips

An industry-first, The Trap Bar by default comes with two sets of machined, knurled grips finished in bright zinc. The grips are easily swappable for your specific training need. To add the 2" Love Handles, or extra pairs of 1" and 1.5" grips to your cart, please use the checkboxes at the top of the page. Additional handles may be purchased here.

Included: 1" Set (26mm)
Included: 1.5" Set (38mm)
Optional: 2" Love Handle Set (51mm)

The Love Handles

Another industry first, the 2" Love Handles are an optional add-on for The Trap Bar that allows for both rolling (the grip will spin freely) or fixed usage. Each set of Love Handles includes adapters to allow for both rolling and fixed use.

Balanced Design

Visualize a regular trap bar with the low handles (see illustration). The bar is a flat plane, stretching out in the X and Z axis. The handles are typically positioned at the center of mass (COM) and center of rotation (COR), so that if the bar was centrally fixed on two points along the X axis, where the handles are, it would be balanced (assuming its weight distribution is even along the Z axis. In theory, if you hold a regular trap bar perfectly on-center using the low handles, it should feel balanced. Practically speaking, the low handles always feel inherently unstable due to the bar's inclination to dive one direction or another like a teeter-tooter - forcing the lifter to self-balance using their wrists. The higher handles don't have this problem, and the bar is much more difficult to rotate forwards or backwards. For an extreme example of instability, imagine deadlifting on a trap bar with the high-handles, but upside down resulting in the fulcrum, or center of rotation, point being 6" below the center of mass. Any minor shift or movement, and that bar is going to rotate and fall right out of your hands.

Our simple solution on The Trap Bar was to introduce a minor 1/2" vertical offset for the low handles, placing them slightly higher than the centerline of the bar. This results in the same effect, but to a lesser extent, as the high-handles - the bar will have a tendency to return to center rather than dive forward or backwards. Think of a teeter-tooter - it's an inherently unbalanced mechanism just like a regular trap bar with low handles. Now, think of a swing - with the center of rotation much higher than the center of mass - it will always try to return to center.

Open Design

In an effort to make The Trap Bar as versatile of an implement as possible, we opted to open up one end of the bar while still ensuring it retains a fully-balanced design. This open design allows for much more variation beyond your standard deadlift, including loaded carries, split squats, RDLs, and lunges.

Machined Sleeves

Unlike most trap/hex bars on the market, The Trap Bar features machined sleeves with 16.5" of loadable space. To cut costs, many trap bars use off-the-shelf DOM tubing whose diameter is less than a standard olympic sleeve, resulting in them being incompatible with all standard collars. Another side effect of this is that plates fit very loosely on the under-sized sleeves, resulting in lots of shifting, movement, and clanging of the plates.

Our sleeves are machined to tight tolerances like any other standard barbell, allowing for a snug fit for plates and compatibility with all standard barbell collars.

American Manufacturing

The Trap Bar is fabricated, manufactured, and assembled in-house at Kabuki Strength Lab, our dual-purpose training space and manufacturing facility in the beautiful Pacific Northwest city of Portland, Oregon. Each bar includes a hand-signed card by the Kabuki Strength employee who assembled it.

Team and Commercial Sales

If you are interested in outfitting your weight room or facility with Kabuki Strength equipment, please visit our Team Sales page and fill out a short form to be contacted by our sales staff!

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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wanted to order 2 sets of fat/love handles. is there a way to only order those????

Yes, you have to go through our customer service desk @ info@kabukistrength.com usually, but I've created an invoice and just emailed it to you. Make sure the shipping address is correct & make payment when you are ready! ~Charlie
How wide is the opening that you stand in...the space between the handles?

It depends on which handles you are using. There is roughly 23.5 inches of space between 1.5 inch handles. Add or subtract .5 inches to get the space between the other two handle sizes & let us know if you have any other questions!
Can we pick one up in Portland?

You are very welcome to pick up most of our items at The Lab. When you are placing your order online, let us know you'd like to pick it up in person in the 'Order Notes' section and list your email and telephone number. Once your bar/product has been produced and is ready for pick up, we will contact you to set up a time to do so. Our order system will still charge shipping at the time of the transaction, but we will refund that as soon as you pick up your bar!
Is this available to Australians? Would love to get one!!

Yes, this bar is definitely able to be shipped to Australia. If you would like a quote for shipping, just email us the full address to info@kabukistrength.com
What benefit does the rolling grip provide? I don't see where any wrist flexion/extension would come in requiring the handle to roll like a normal barbell . Does it make any movements easier? Thanks!

Rolling grips challenge your grip strength, more than anything. Because you are forced to press equally with your thumb vs your other fingers, it makes it much more likely for the bar to slip out of your hands. Strongman and different strength sport competitors like this option for improving grip strength.
What's the max load rating?

The bar capacity is 1,200lbs and the bar jack capacity is 800lbs. Therefore, if you are going to load it with more than 800lbs, you will need to load the bar the traditional way without using the jacks.
Hello, How much would it cost to ship the trap bar to Australia, postcode 3013? Thank you. Cheers, Will

In order to provide an exact shipping quote, you will need to email us your full address to info@kabukistrength.com. Or, you can fill out the address portion of your order, selecting UPS Worldwide Expedited Shipping, which is our only option for overseas shipping, and it will tell you there.
Is this bar rackable? I didn't see a dimension that would indicate that it is. Would love to be able to press with this.

The Trap Bar was not designed to fit in a rack. However, you may use a vertical rack for storage.
Are you shipping this to europa?

Yes, we can ship the Trap Bar to Europe. Please select UPS Worldwide Expedited shipping at check out.
This bar looks incredible. Can I rack it? Will it fit in j-cups? And I'm assuming that it's balanced from front to back? The bar jack is balanced with the bar in front?

The Trap Bar will not fit in a standard rack.
Are the included handles rolling or fixed?

The handles that are included are fixed, but we do have a rolling handle option with the 2 inch handles. Options are listed on the product page.
Will there be financing available for The Trap Bar?

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer financing through Klarna at this time. We will let everyone know if this changes going forward.