Known for their toughness and sheer strength, IronMind bars have been chosen for the harsh environments (and heavy demands) of World's Strongest Man competitions since 2011.
For decades, the world's most widely used and highest quality weightlifting bars—York and Jackson, for example—had a natural finish, and nobody thought twice about the fact that they oxidized, turning dark brown over the years. Some of the finest bars in the world today, such as Schnell, maintain this tradition, but the norm for both bargain-basement bars and high-end IWF/IPF certified bars is chrome plating, leaving some people unaccustomed to the whole idea of a lifting bar going from bright to brown as it ages and oxidizes.
All IronMind Bars and some grip tools—Apollon’s Axle, Buffalo Bar, S-Cubed Bar, Big Boy Dumbbell Bars, Olympic Husky Handle DB Bars, Wrist Reinforcer, and Little Big Horn—are made from a natural finish steel. If you live in a humid place, you will want to keep the surface covered with something to block moisture or they will rust. We don’t know of a lifting bar ever oxidizing to the point of creating a structural risk, so the chief concern has always been cosmetic.
