Weigh It Up · Sport
How heavy is Olympic barbell?
20 kgweight
An IWF competition men's barbell weighs 20 kg before a single plate goes on.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Olympic barbell.
- 1× the packed suitcase (20 kg)
- 1.67× the bicycle (12 kg)
- 0.29× a adult human (70 kg)
- 4.44× the house cat (4.5 kg)
How to picture 20 kg
Start from something you can see right now. Olympic barbell is about 1× packed suitcase. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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