It’s a suckers bar, if you are too pussy to have a bare bar on your shoulders and extend your arms more backwards to sides to grab it. Never understood that girdle bar, if the weight is too much, you squat some more with light weight until you are ready. If you want to try heavier, use Smith machine. This is like if you can’t swim you still go to the open water and use those kiddie arm floaties, technically it helps, but you are not learning anything and only endangering yourself
Never seen this before.