Wolverson Competition Power Bar

Customer services communication excellent. They delayed delivery for me to make sure I was in to receive the bar.
I have been lifting for a year. My first bar was slipping out of my hand when deadlifting 120Kg+ so I created a list of bars up to £400 to look at.
My requirements: smooth collars, aggressive grip, high load capacity, centre knurl.
I narrowed my search down to this bar and Mirafit's
Price for this bar: £180 (when 10% disc applied) - free postage
Price for Mirafit bar: £350 plus a postage fee.
The Wolverson bar is exceptional value, brass bushes, 1500lb max.
Note a key selling point was the Volcano type knurling which is aggressive but I believe has better contact without ripping, with more edges than the standard high peak type.
The collars were a snug fit with hardly any play. Stainless steel plates slide on quietly compared to my old cheap bar which has more pronounced ribbing on the collars.
On first use: deadlifting at 130Kg was painful and my hands felt burned and had a tattoo from the grip. After 4 deadlift workouts (2 weeks), my hands have toughened up and my awareness returned to the weight and not the hand pain (which has gone).
Latest session, I put the weight up to 140Kg and managed 7 reps. I could not have done that with my old bar.
Note that this bar will tell you if have not gripped properly. If you grip with pinched skin it will punish you. Grip it carefully with no skin folds. It will grip you back.
Very pleased with this bar.

I recently bought this power bar, Wolverson collars and Bison high impact bumper weights. The bumper plates were delivered without any issue and they are absolutely amazing. The power bar and collars were delivered the following day. Unfortunately I had a hospital appointment but the UPS courier left the bar and collars on my drive which was absolutely fine. The cardboard carton which housed the barbell however was damaged. About two feet into the carton it had been completely opened up but fortunately the bar was in damaged. The benefit of this was it was easy to remove the bar from it cardboard packaging. The power bar is fantastic. It has deep but not too aggressive knurling and feels balanced and extremely smooth in use. It also looks more expensive than it actually cost and when used with the high impact Bison bumper plates is a great combination. I am a recent above the knee amputee so am currently restricted to bench pressing but this bar and the bumper plates provide a real incentive to workout at home. In addition to the quality of the bar and plates the Wolverson customer service has been first class. It is my intention to purchase more high impact Bison from Wolverson once my fitness improves. These plates might be overkill for simply benching but they look the business and compliment this rigid power bar. Highly recommended.

Hi i iam a owner of few powerlifting bars and used almost all more expensive so i can say little about Wolverson power bar.

+ Price is low for 155£ with 10% discount code
+ Knurling is deep and same or even better than some bars for 200-300£ - better than primal , strength shop . Knurling feel and look very similar to my fav bar Atx competition powerlifting bar but its 2x cheaper.
+ deadlift feel amazing with little whip
+bench its defo my favorite on this bar
- shaft its rated for 211.000 but i think its not . Bar its not really stiff for example over 230KG squat bar feel little whippy for me.
-the biggest minus is for sleeves quality is great but bushing are low quality or fitted wrong size . Sleeves got loose very noisy and got visible gap . Maybe i was unlucky.

Overall bar is worth 155£ but defo not over 200£. If bushing issue is solved and bar is more stiff i will rate bar aprox 250£ -280£.
Anyway iam happy with bar iam not using this bar at home i took to my local gym to use on daily basis and its defo best bar in the gym .

Great bar for the price. I would recommend this especially for your home gym. I have used it for the 3 lifts, squat, bench and deadlift. I find the knurl is grippy but has not ripped my hands to bits.

I’ve been looking for a power bar for some time. I have mainly trained at home with olympic bars from mirafit, strengthshop and body power. Firstly the price is the best I could find. Mirafit charge £250 for a power bar, strengthshop sell the original texas power bar for £419 and other places like bulldog, blkbox, rogue and eleiko are out of my price range. I got a 10% discount so all in the wolverson power bar was £157 including delivery. It was packaged well but ups delivered it and the tube was damaged and broken. Thankfully the bar was fine, only a couple of scratches on the collars. I’m really happy with the bar. The knurling is great, its a solid bar and I like the wolverson logo on the end caps. You really notice the quality of finish, I’m surprised this is such a good price. My friend has a rogue ohio bar and I would rate this to the same standard of finish and quality. If I had anything to complain about, it would be nice to have option of a different colour bar, maybe even free spring collars. You don’t have much information on the bar in the description, would be good if you added more details. There’s not much online about this bar apart from one review. In fact there’s not much online about wolverson, I only came across the website whilst looking for kettlebells. I think you sell some nice equipment, had I known you exist, I would have probably purchased more things during lockdown. I don’t think I will buy another power bar again. 10/10