Haan ji, a standard 15kg women's barbell is roughly 25mm in diameter, 2.05m in length, and has less whip than a men's 20kg bar, which actually makes it harder to learn the snatch. That stiffer bar doesn't give you the same spring off the hip, so timing feels different. Watching our new lifters, I've seen them struggle with the turnover more on these starter bars, a thing you only notice after years of listening to the clang of different steel at 5 AM while waiting for my bus.
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