Masheen

Glossary

The words a program assumes you know, each in one plain sentence and one drawing.

The bar and plates

The parts of a bar and the things you load on it.

Knurling Knurling is the rough cross-hatched pattern cut into a bar's shaft where the hands go, so the bar does not slip.

The IPF rule book asks for a bar that is "well knurled" and sets where the knurled sections sit. Two rings, 81 cm apart, mark how wide the hands may go in the bench press.