When Does the Barbell Tip Over? / Volodymyr Agafonkin | Observable
Early in my strength training journey, I had a gym incident that made me extremely cautious about taking weight plates off the barbell — I took off all the plates on one side, and the bar suddenly shot up, tipping over to the other side, with the weights falling to the ground loudly and causing quite a ruckus. Since then, years of experience taught me that it's actually not easy to make the bar tip over, and it will never happen if you don't do anything extreme, but still, I'd been overly cautious. Since th
