Mirafit 7ft Olympic Safety Squat Bar - Includes QR Collars

Simply awesome.

I had been looking into getting one of these for a while due to shoulder impingement causing me to pretty much drop squats out of my leg workout which really sucked. I’m 43 and have been training since about 15 so trying to save my shoulders these days. I have a small home gym set and don’t train super heavy so a bar that’s rated to 300kg is more than I will ever max out.The bar itself arrived well packaged with no damage so that was a good start. I was impressed with the finish of the bar for the cost, it’s well made and feels like it will last, the padding is thick on the shoulder rests and comfortable to hold on your back which is probably the most important thing as if something causes pain to use your just going to leave it in the corner and use something else. The clamp collars that come with the bar are a nice touch too, much better that those spring type .I have had 2 leg workouts with the bar so far and it works well, I have no shoulder pain and am able to squat in a more upright position due to the camber of the bar, the movement seems a little different to a regular squat with the weight more in front of you, I feel it hits my legs slightly more and core muscles due to the load position which is a good thing. The bar will hold itself on your shoulders so you can squat without holding the handles and perform calf raises which work really well. All in all a great bar for the money which has allowed me to squat pain free again

It's solid, really well balanced. You can warm up with no plates and it's perfect and you can load it up and it's just great.Fantastic bit of kit, I won't be squatting more than 300k so it's a perfect addition. Now I can squat without knackering my shoulder.

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Good price, build quality seems fine. Some of the foam on the end of the handles is splitting but has no effect on the bar and it is being used in an unheated garage. As for the bar style, I wish I'd bought one years ago, much easier to get in a comfortable groove for squatting, fantastic for loading up calf raises (can even do single legged by holding on to a rack as the bar balances itself). Overall at this price, highly recommended to any home gym owner. I have dumped straight bar squats altogether now, much easier on my shoulders.

I have only had this bar for a short time but I have used it for standard squatting, front squats, good mornings and calf raises. It is a fantastic piece of equipment. I was worried about the camber between the weight plates and the handles but it is probably somewhere between 20-30 degrees which is perfect and from what I have read 'the sweet spot'. I have ordered Mirafit equipment in the past and as before this is perfect. I had thought about paying more for other bars but I would recommend saving the £100 and buying another piece of gym equipment. I also read on the Mirafit website the lax load is 300kg - this seems to contradict other reviewers comments.

Great Safety Squat Bar "SSB".Nice solid bar, good padding. The weight of the bar is about the standard weight for a SSB.I brought it for @finditmakeitliftit My Garden Gym, but it wouldn't look out of place in a standard gym.

I bought this because I was having problems getting my hands in the right position and the bar would be resting on the back of my neck. It's bigger than I expected; I have a powercage in the small spare bedroom, so I have to have one end of this sticking out of the door into the hall. It is very comfortable to use though and I can hold the bar in any position while doing squats, now concentrating more on form than the pain in my neck with the other bar. It seemed a bit expensive at first to be spending so much just to do one single exercise with, but I wouldn't be without it now.