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Open Trap Bar / Hex Bar 3.0 – Rotating Sleeves

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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.

“What a great bar! It’s well-designed, solidly constructed, and expertly finished. I love the dual handles and the built-in jacks.” – Michael P.

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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 read 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

Weight47lbs / 21kg
Length59" / 1500mm
Width22.2" / 565mm
Heigth4.8" / 124mm
Handle Sleeves Diameter1.9" / 50mm
Warrantied Weight700lbs / 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 centred 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:

  • Trap Bar deadlifts produce less strain on the lumbar spine than conventional straight bar deadlifts. This makes Trap Bar deadlifts useful not only if you have a pre-existing back injury (or if you just want to give the lower back a break without skipping their deadlift days), but also if you are a beginner who is still trying to develop baseline strength levels. To learn more, check out Can Trap Bar Deadlifts Replace Squats?
  • Training with a Trap Bar develops power as well as raw strength, and the carry-over from this kind of training into other sports is undeniable – Olympic weightlifters, Strongman athletes and powerlifters, and professional athletes alike can all benefit from incorporating Trap Bar deadlifts into their training.
  • Trap Bars with dual-handles like the B.o.S. Open-Ended Trap Bar, when used with the higher handles, can allow lifters with limited mobility due to an injury to still practice, perform, and perfect their deadlift. The higher handles are also useful for you if you’re having trouble keeping a flat back, as the higher starting point and shorter range of motion makes it easier to train this position and build some hip and back strength before starting to pull from the floor.
  • Trap Bars are just extremely versatile training tools. Standard deadlifts are only their primary use, but you can also use your Trap Bar to train:

    Farmers Carries, Romanian Deadlift, Single-Leg Deadlift, Shrugs, Seated Deadlift, Walking Lunges, Split Squats.

  • Adding a Trap Bar into the mix is just an excellent way to spice up your training and expand upon your training variety. Trap Bar deadlifts are mechanically different than a straight bar deadlift so that they will work your hips, quads, and back differently.
  • You will not find a nicer, more versatile, higher-performance Trap Bar that you love at a better price anywhere, and the B.o.S. Open-Ended Trap Bar, the only economical trap bar with a built-in bar jack! See the image for the exact dimensions. 700lb warrantied weight capacity. Weighs 47lbs.
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LB
03/24/2024
LINDA B.
US US

Best new item in the gym

This is my new favorite gym item! New to body building, building up my gym, 17 months into lifting in my almost 60 yrs! This open trap bar is sturdy and exactly as described. Totally worth the money.

  • My Fitness Goal Is: Build, build, build muscles
03/25/2024

Bells of Steel

HI Linda, Thank you so much for reviewing our open trap bar. We are so glad you have enjoyed your new bar and was worth the purchase . We wish you the best on your lifting journey and hope to see you again! Yours in strength, The BoS team

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03/19/2024
KV
CA CA

Solid Piece of Gear

Well built, quality finish. Open design is nice and allows for movements that are more challenging /riskier with a traditional trap bar. Lunges, frame carries, even OHP. Standing it on the "feet" is a good setup for zercher movements, and really cuts down on the space required to store. My only con is the reason I knocked off a star... size. This is appreciably smaller than most other trap bars, which limits me to a fairly close stance on DLs. I'm 6'7" with some parts that creak now and then, so I typically pull with a stance just wider than shoulder width and slightly duck-footed. If that doesn't sound like you, I wouldn't worry too much.

  • My Fitness Goal Is: Live Long & Be Strong
03/20/2024

Bells of Steel

Hi there, Thank you so much for reviewing our trap bar today. We are glad you have been overall pleased with this product and its function. We understand its smaller size can sometimes be a negative but we hope it is space efficient and still valuable for your pulling exercises. We cant wait to see you again ! Your BoS team

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