| Hand / Bar Size, as they relate to THICK bar lifting: by Joe Roark | |||||||||
| A bar is only thick in relation to a hand that is short. To an infant, a standard one inch bar is thick. | |||||||||
| Here is a listing of bar diameters and circumferences, and some of the famous lifts that have been | |||||||||
| performed on some of these size bars: | |||||||||
| Diameter | Circumf. | Description and/or example: | |||||||
| 1 | 3.14 | standard one inch exercise bar | |||||||
| 1.1 | 3.45 | standard olympic bar | Goerner RH deadlift 727.5 lbs | ||||||
| 1.18 | 3.7 | Goerner one hand deadlift 552.5 lbs | |||||||
| 1.5 | 4.71 | Cyr deadlift 525 lb dumbell | |||||||
| August Johnson one hand deadlift 475 lbs | |||||||||
| John Y. Smith farmer's walk, 75 yards, using a 220 barbell and 200 dumbell | |||||||||
| 1.51 | 4.75 | The Cyr dumbell in the York Hall of Fame | |||||||
| 1.59 | 5 | (included just for completeness) | |||||||
| 1.62 | 5.08 | Cyr one hand snatch 188.5 | |||||||
| 1.65 | 5.18 | Arthur Saxon RH snatch 206 lbs | |||||||
| 1.91 | 6 | (included just for completeness) | |||||||
| 1.93 | 6.06 | Apollon railcar wheels 366 lbs | |||||||
| 2 | 6.28 | Jowett's 169 lbs dumbell ? | |||||||
| 2.03 | 6.37 | Rolandow barbell at York Hall of Fame | |||||||
| 2.16 | 6.78 | Dominique Rest one hand snatch 181.75 lbs | |||||||
| Simon Bauer one hand snatch 154.25 lbs | |||||||||
| 2.22 | 7 | (included just for completeness) | |||||||
| 2.25 | 7.06 | Edward Aston two hand deadlift 496 lbs | |||||||
| 2.36 | 7.41 | Apollon's 226 lbs barbell | |||||||
| Goerner's challenge barbell 330.69 lbs | |||||||||
| 2.38 | 7.5 | Inch original 172 lb challenge dumbell | |||||||
| Jean Baillargeon passed 167 lbs hand to hand | |||||||||
| Goerner RH snatch/swing 169.75 lbs | |||||||||
| John Marx one hand deadlift with each hand 226 lbs | |||||||||
| 2.42 | 7.62 | Harry Schaffron/Shaffron dumbell in York Hall of Fame | |||||||
| 2.47 | 7.75 | Replica of Inch 172 challenge dumbell (compare to 2.38) | |||||||
| Cyr's hand length was 7.75 | |||||||||
| 2.5 | 7.85 | Apollon's lift to rebuke the Rasso Trio 341 lbs | |||||||
| Paul Von Boeckmann's hand length was 7.85 | |||||||||
| 2.54 | 8 | (included just for completeness) | |||||||
| 2.62 | 8.25 | Goerner's hand length was 8.25 from one source; not sure about this | |||||||
| 2.67 | 8.5 | John Marx's hand length was 8.5 | |||||||
| 2.75 | 8.63 | John Marx RH snatch 154.25 lbs; he also had two dumbells with this size | |||||||
| handle. Bells weighed 132 and 143 lbs | |||||||||
| 2.86 | 9 | Hand length for Saxon, Apollon, Carnera | |||||||
| John Marx had two revolving dumbells this size, 120 lbs each | |||||||||
| 3 | 9.42 | Antone Matysek reversed curl 88 lbs | |||||||
| 3.25 | 10.2 | (included just for completeness) | |||||||
| 3.5 | 10.99 | Lightfoot's dumbell with 11" circumference | |||||||
| 8.2 | 25.75 | Travis dumbell in York Hall of Fame | |||||||