Affiliate disclosure
Short answer
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you buy through one, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The calculators are free and always will be, and no commission changes what a calculator tells you.
The Amazon bit, in plain terms
BarWeight is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. We are paid a percentage of qualifying purchases. Amazon pays 3% in the category this equipment sits in, which works out to a few dollars on a rack. That is the whole business model.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
What we will never do
This site is a calculator first. The fastest way to wreck it is to start making things up to sell something, so here is what is off the table, permanently:
- No prices. We do not display a price anywhere. Prices go stale within hours and a stale price is a false claim. Amazon’s own terms restrict displaying them too.
- No star ratings and no review counts. Same reason.
- No pretending we tested anything. We have not put a bar in our hands and told you how the knurl feels. Every spec on this site is copied from a manufacturer page or the retail listing itself, and the source is linked on the record.
- No stock or delivery promises. We read the listing on one day. It changes.
- No invented awards. Nothing here is “#1” or “best” because someone paid for it.
- No product photos we are not licensed to use. Where you see a typographic panel instead of a photo, that is deliberate. We could not obtain permission to publish a photo of that exact model, so we show none rather than showing you a similar-looking product. A wrong photo is worse than no photo.
How a product ends up on this site
There are 180 products with a link on BarWeight. Every one of them was put there the same way: someone opened the actual product page, read the ASIN, the exact product title and the specs off the live page, and recorded the date. If a page could not be opened and read, the product did not get a link. There is no automated feed filling this site with whatever pays most.
You will also find equipment on this site with no buy link at all — several Rogue Fitness pieces, for instance. They are here because they are the right reference point for the spec, and we would rather show you the right bar with no link than the wrong bar with one.
Does the commission change what we recommend?
It has not so far, and the structure of the site is the safeguard: the calculators contain the answers, and the answers do not depend on any product. Where we do point at gear, every card carries a “skip if” line telling you who should not buy it. That line is there because a recommendation with no downside is an advert.
Other programs
Amazon is currently the only affiliate program BarWeight participates in. If that changes, this page changes with it, before any link goes live.
Questions
If something on this site looks wrong, it probably is, and we would rather know. Corrections are the cheapest thing we can do.
Questions about the money
▶Do I pay more if I buy through a link on this site?
No. The commission is paid by the retailer out of its own margin, and the price you see is the price you would see arriving at that listing from anywhere else. There is no coupon, no markup and no tracking-based price change involved. If the price on the retailer page differs from anything implied here, believe the retailer page — which is also why this site publishes no prices at all.
▶Do you get paid more for recommending one product over another?
Not in any way that could steer a pick. Every product link on this site goes to the same programme at the same rate, so there is no product here that pays us better than another one. What decides a pick is the published specification that fills a named job, printed directly above the card whose spec table proves it, and every card also carries a "skip if" line naming who should not buy that item. A recommendation with no downside is an advert.
▶Are the calculators affected by any of this?
No, and structurally they cannot be. They are arithmetic — one plate-math equation and four published one-rep-max formulas, all printed on the pages that use them — and they are covered by a test suite of hand-computed cases, so the build fails if the math changes. No calculator recommends a product, and none of them asks who made your bar.
▶Which affiliate programmes does BarWeight belong to?
Amazon Associates, and at the moment that is the only one. BarWeight is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, and as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Of the products on this site, 180 carry a verified Amazon link; the rest are listed as references with no link at all rather than being pointed at a near-enough listing. If another programme is ever added, this page changes before any link does.