The Andreoni Bar Review – Great For Some, Not For Me

Cable attachments get me going in the morning. And today we are diving into the Andreoni Bar. We’ll take a look at what it is, what it does well, what it doesn’t do well, and then slap it into a Tier List, where S Tier is saved only for the best of the best cable attachments.

Transparency Note

They sent the Andreoni Bar over earlier this year, free of charge, for sake of review. I did not sign up for their affiliate program.

Andreoni Bar Overview

The Andreoni bar absolutely blew up on the various social media platforms earlier this year so I’m betting you’ve seen it before. It is meant to attach to a functional trainer or dual cable column set up. This gives you the ability to take advantage of both weight stacks for heavier cable work without the need for a hack of any kind.

The unique camber gives us some potential to move the bar around a bench or our bodies without the issues of banging into either of them that a typical straight bar would do.

Andreoni Bar Specs

• FULL STEEL BAR weight: 18lb (not hollow)
• Maximum load: 450lbs 
• Bar Length: 49.5″
• NOTE: THE ANDREONI BAR IS 49.5 INCHES LONG AND WILL FIT ON THE VAST MAJORITY OF CABLE MACHINES AND FUNCTIONAL TRAINERS.
• WHAT IS INCLUDED WITH THE BAR: SHIPS WITH FREE ANDREONI WRIST STRAPS AND RUBBER GRIPS.

What The Andreoni Bar Does Well

The Andreoni bar is a multi-purpose piece, unlocking everything from chest supported cable rows, to cable shrugs, cable deadlifts, seated pullovers, cable tricep pushdowns, and probably a bunch more. Home Gyms Hacks and Reviews gets credit for a lot of the creative uses for this bar that I’ve tried out. It has some knurling in the appropriate places, which is fairly passive but enough for this purpose.

And it fairly easily connects into the dual cable set ups as intended. It 100% accomplishes what it was intended to do.

What The Andreoni Bar Does NOT Do Well

Unfortunately, in my gym, the Andreoni Bar is a Jack of All Trades, master of none cable attachment. It does a lot, but I’d never pick this bar over anything else I own to do those exercises. Pullovers and lat prayers are better accomplished with the likes of the BT Bar and Atlas Bar.

Chest Supported Rows, especially with a dual cable set up, are better done with a pair of Prime ROT-8s handles.

The Tricep Cable Dip concept was one I really wanted to work well, but unfortunately, with how long the bar is, and the nature of a dual cable piece, it is very unstable and difficult to push the weight and intensity effectively. Overhead presses are similar; I’m grabbing a set of dumbbells or using my Trak Handles for this.

If you plan to do deadlifts with this, remember that you’ll need to elevate yourself off the ground to get a full range of motion. You do get a unique pulldown option where you can pull it around you in a couple different ways, but we already know I’m grabbing my MAGs.

The one exercise that hit pretty well, was the cable shrug. But you could accomplish this with a pair of D Handles in an easier fashion.

Rating Of The Andreoni Bar

The Andreoni Bar definitely does a lot. It definitely connects into a functional trainer easily and if you are struggling to get enough resistance loaded up in that scenario, this might be a perfect solution.

But in our gym, it just really isn’t.

I’m putting it in the C Tier. It works, but it doesn’t have a place in a home gym looking to acquire the best of the best cable attachments.

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Wrap Up

I can totally understand why people enjoy this. It just isn’t for me.

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