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Easy Lock Olympic barbell collar

Product Review (submitted on April 2, 2017):

I've used those standard spring collars at commercial gyms, one plastic kind with a twist handle (also called easy lock) at a friend's place, and this one. This one is by far the best of all of them. If you're using an Olympic bar, the tightness of the spring collar isn't a big deal, but the collar does get bent over time, and it's a hassle to keep applying force to keep it open. Easy lock collars do not have this problem. The twisting ones have some awkward internal stresses and can't easily be repaired. But these are far more intuitive, and are more direct with the force they apply to the bar. Fewer joints and redirections of force make for a more durable and easy to fix product