When comes to Barbell(Straight bar), they have Olympic Barbell and the Standard Barbell. Olympics require 2" weight plates to fit inside and Standard barbells only fits for 1" weight plates which is standard. Olympic barbells are mostly longer and heavier than Standard barbell. The weight capacity for Olympic barbell is also far more higher than Standard Barbell. Since I already bought all my weight plates and bars the standard one, I don't feel like investing into Olympic's(Cost a bomb and need to renew all my 1" plates into 2" plates ZOMG). May I ask any experienced user here who use Standard Barbell have experienced with bending? Actually my target is to reach 200kg for the Standard Barbell but I am afraid it will bend. I bought my barbell in Fitness Concept, 60" Standard Barbell which weigh around 7kg. Any suggestion or solution? Thanks for helping.