Where do you buy your plates from?

HarryPainful

HarryPainful

HarryPainful

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I am looking to buy 25kg, 20kg and 10kg... 2 of each.

Olympic rubber coated.

Been looking for a couple of hours now and the prices seem to hover around

£40 to £45 - 25kg (each)
£32 to £36 - 20kg (each)

And I have seen 2 10kg plates for £37...

You guys who have home gyms, how do these compare to what you have paid?

Anywhere I should be looking?
 
Rubber coated costs more, buy rubber matting it's cheaper :p

I buy my weights when powerhouse have a sale, usually makes them just over £1 per kg :)
 
Some good deals to be had second hand.

As soon as I have my own place and the space I'll be getting set up with a power cage and cross over.

Just being in the gym with other people irritated the hell out of me today. I was only doing CV and some rotator cuff work but the amount of people who just ****** me off by being in there trying to look down on you as they barely 1/4 rep gets on my nerves too much.
 
BennyC said:
Some good deals to be had second hand.

As soon as I have my own place and the space I'll be getting set up with a power cage and cross over.

Just being in the gym with other people irritated the hell out of me today. I was only doing CV and some rotator cuff work but the amount of people who just ****** me off by being in there trying to look down on you as they barely 1/4 rep gets on my nerves too much.
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Hench em up benny.

Definitely ebay and local pick up has some real bargains. Just might take ages to find any.
 
dun said:
Hench em up benny.
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Doesn't help the guy in question is a complete douche. On the lesser of the 2 rugby teams and thinks the sun shines out of his arse.

No warm up just bangs 140KG on the smith and quarter reps. Then ups it again and barely even makes quarter reps, up in his toes the lot. Even had the ***** foam pad on the bar.

It wouldn't bother me so much if he didn't use up all the plates in the gym doing so. It was a good thing my chest/back session is tomorrow and not today because I'd of completely screwed at him. We only have 4x 25KG plates, 4 x 20KG plates, 4 x15KG plates and 4x10KG plates, plus about 8x5KG's. Sounds like a lot but it really isn't.

What bothers me is that he'll prance around boasting a 200KG squat when it clearly isn't. Reminds me of the time I spotted a chap back home who prefered benching on the smith because 'it feels more comfortable'. He wanted spotting on the negative of the first rep :confused: turns out I spotted him for all 3 reps and probaly got more of a workout than he did. I've seen im barely struggle to bench 90KG on the olympic bench.

People need a good slap and a dose of GVT to put them in their place! I don't think anyless (if anything more) of people who lift within their capablities with decent form. I just have an urge to jump on peoples back and make them at least hit parralell. God knows why I'm in such a foul mood! /rant
 
Squatting on a smith?! O_o

I find it harder do anything on a smith at all, infact I struggle benching 70kg on a smith, on a bench I can do well over 100kg depending how I am feeling.

I have never tried squatting with a smith, would probably break my back.
 
HarryPainful said:
Squatting on a smith?! O_o

I find it harder do anything on a smith at all, infact I struggle benching 70kg on a smith, on a bench I can do well over 100kg depending how I am feeling.

I have never tried squatting with a smith, would probably break my back.
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Unfortunatley we don't have a squat rack. A smith makes it much easier to pile on weight seeing as you don't have to balance at all.

I don't find it too much different but find it does hit the muscles differently. I try to mimick a freeweight squat with my positioning. One advantage is that you can put your feet quite far foward and really sit into it to work the quads/glutes differently.

I hadn't benched on a smith for about a year until x-mas when the oly bench was in use. It was absolutley horrible! Akward and just erghhh!
 
BennyC said:
He wanted spotting on the negative of the first rep :confused:
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I now train at home, due to cost and convenience.

When I used to goto the gym, I used to see a lot of that sort of thing - the person doing the exercise probably put in less effort than the "friend" who was spotting him. In effect, the lift was a group effort.

Personally, I don't believe you need anyone spotting you unless you are putting yourself right on your limit, which you shouldnt be doing every single workout anyway. For me, form is very important and when you have strict form, you very rarely need any assistance to lift the weight.
 
HarryPainful said:
Exactly, a spotter is needed when you are about to drop the bar on your head because you have nothing left!
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In which case you are going to failure. From what I know, its not good practise to goto failure repeatedly, week in, week out.

Also, you should know your limits. Why attempt to lift a weight, so far beyond your capability that you have allowed yourself to get into a situation where you "are about to drop the bar on your head because you have nothing left"?

And besides, from what I have seen in my ex-gym, people get "assistance" from the very first rep...not just the last one.
 
Debatable saying you shouldn't train to failure. If you are at the end of your set you can push another 1-2 reps which you perhaps wouldn't of done without that touch from the spotter at your sticking point. Being spotting from the first rep can also be useful if totally burned out and just going for the negative part of the lift. Most people you see doing bench/ upright rows aren't using those techniques but saying its not good practice isn't true :)
 
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