Little plate weights

fire_munki · 19 Jul 2011 at 21:10

Hi all, just been diagnosed with golfers elbow (tennis but on the inside of my arm).
In doing some exercise research they suggest a twisting motion with a tiny weight 1kilo or 500g to begin with on the end of a short bar (see this link for a better video http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=3614 )

However a quick browse on line I can't find any that small, either that or I'm be slow tonight. I have the bar from my weights but not weight to go on the end. I'm almost ready to by 500g of rice and gaffer tape the hell out of it. So before I go A-team on it any idea where to look? Or even the proper name for the plate?

semi-pro waster · 19 Jul 2011 at 21:53

They look like fairly bog-standard weights that aren't for Olympic bars there i.e. they will be 1" diameter. Here's a link to get you started although that is for 4 weights and you may get them cheaper elsewhere. Unfortunately the next jump seems to be to 1.25kg that I've seen but maybe that helps a little.

Oh and good luck getting it sorted, it's hugely frustrating when you can't do the sports you want to.

Psycho Sonny · 19 Jul 2011 at 22:01

they are known as "fractional plates"

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8-SHIRLAN...h_Training&hash=item3cb8157a8a#ht_3432wt_1031

i bought them last week or the week before, but they are for olympic bars.

fractional plates are insanely expensive though especially olympic ones.

tbh you may be better off buying a standard spinlock dumbell set from argos, asda, gumtree or ebay, if your only going to be using this for that 1 specific exercise.

Fuzz · 20 Jul 2011 at 08:32

Fitness-superstore.co.uk do various plate free weights. Haven't checked whether they do ones that small though.

fire_munki · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:16

I seem to remeber seeing some at Tesco's once, so I'll have a look there. Don't see the point of buying 4 of them just for one excercise.
If not its gaffer tape and a bag of rice!

Psycho Sonny · 20 Jul 2011 at 14:24

fire_munki said:
I seem to remeber seeing some at Tesco's once, so I'll have a look there. Don't see the point of buying 4 of them just for one excercise.
If not its gaffer tape and a bag of rice!

yeah if you only need them for 1 exercise, just use your imagination and come up with something, shouldn't be too hard.