The Black Oxide International Bars are finished with a black Oxide coating & feature hard chrome sleeves. It is a strikingly attractive bar. The black oxide finish has an aggressive grip.

YORK® “Elite” Competition Bars are made from the highest grade North American steel with a minimum tensile of 190,000 PSI. Competition and Training Bars are made from quenched and tempered cold drawn, stress relieved high tensile steel, for maximum strength and flexibility.

YORK® Olympic “Training” bars are made from the highest grade North American steel with a minimum tensile of 190,000 PSI. Ferous bushings lubricated with Forway® facilitate free and constant rotation of the Olympic bar sleeves. Sleeves are finished to a precise 1.975” diameter. Bars are calibrated to Olympic specifications.

The YORK® “Elite” Power Bar has a minimum tensile strength of 190,000 PSI after heat treating. Only North American steel is used in the making of this bar. The YORK® Power Bar is less flexible, more rigid, and excellent for use when performing static, highly controlled, slow movements such as the squat, chest press, and dead lift.

YORK® applied its vast knowledge in bar design and produced perhaps the highest quality, most functional and attractive Economy Olympic Bar of today.