Let's talk about plates

[supersizeme]

My gym has the stupid octagonal rubber plates. I suppose they're not stupid in the eyes of the owners as they're less noisy, however that's the reason I hate them. I don't care that they have the handles built into the actual plate. I miss my old gym where they had iron plates and you could grab the lip of them and slide them out of the tree and it would make the iron sliding against iron noise. Then when you put them on the bar it would make a nice THWACK sound. Not to mention the plate jingling you hear during a set of squats. And the octagonal shape of the rubber plates sucks ass for deadlifts. I'm not sure if I'm worrying about nothing here, but if you have three octagonal plates on one side synced up perfectly, and the other side is all jumbled, wouldn't the synced up side go down like a half inch more? I've never used a level on a bar loaded for deads before. I've thought about bringing in a pair of those shoes that people wear when they have one leg shorter than the other to compensate for it. I've also thought about bringing in some prerecorded sounds of plates jingling to play on my mp3 player during my sets.

As far as dumbells go, my gym right now has the metal plated ones. I like these more than the rubber ones, too, except when you have Dumbell Clanking Shithead working out in your gym - the guy who has to smack the bells together as loud as possible at the top of each rep. All...hey look at me I'm lifting weights but can't control them. The other gym I go to occasionally has rubber ones, but not individual rubber plates on a dumbell bar. It's all one solid piece of rubber on each side. They're not bad. Lumberg - the purple cow lands in Bangkok at noon-thirty. But I still prefer the metal ones.

Please list what your gym has and what you prefer.

 

[strangebrew]

no

 

[jerkbox]

my gym has half gay plates - octagonal, but no rubber...the 25, 35, and 45 have little cut out handles too.

i prefer the old school round iron dealies

we have metal dumbells - not solid cast ones, but assembled ones with the knurled grip and all. however, they don't have mutiple plates, just one big plate on each end. i don't thinkg I have a prefence here. though, i don't think i'd like rubber anything.

maybe rubber bumper plates for cleans and stuff....but, they don't even have a platform or anything

 

[Seashell]

My gym only has metal ones. No handles or any of that sissy-stuff.

I don't think I'd like those rubber-coated ones..the lack of a "CLANG!!!" when putting the bar back on the hooks after a set of squats would make me feel less of a monster than I clearly am.

 

[jerkbox]

meow

 

[from zero]

My gym has cool iron plates. Aww yeah.

 

[jerkbox]

My gym has cool iron plates. Aww yeah.

i need a crumbhole gym like yours to go to......cept your power racks are utter garbage.

 

[tuc biscuit]

My gym has these bad boys

I feel like I am a business man carrying a briefcase full of important documents for meetings when carrying them.

It has rubber encased dumbells, but they are huge when you get into the heavier weights.

 

[psychedout]

Speaking of plates, anyone ever see 100pd plates?

 

[jerkbox]

My gym has these bad boys

I feel like I am a business man carrying a briefcase full of important documents for meetings when carrying them.

It has rubber encased dumbells, but they are huge when you get into the heavier weights.

those are some pricey plates

 

[vinylgroover]

My gym has the normal iron plates with no handles, but i take my own handle to the gym, clamp it to the plates and carry them as if they had in-built handles.

 

[flexygrl]

My gym has the metal Octaganol or however the hell you spell it kind too. I find it harder actually to take the new ones with the handles off and on. I don't know why, but for some reason they always seem to catch on the bar of the tree. The old ones are much better. We still have some of the oldies but goodies laying around.

 

[Lumberg]

The other gym I go to occasionally has rubber ones

When the metal ones are out for cleaning?

 

[Synpax]

My gym, despite being very fruity, has the haahd-car metal plate weights by "Standard." Very noisy when I do my deads.

 

[Lumberg]

To answer the question I prefer regular round metal ones and solid smooth round metal DBs.

 

[supersizeme]

i've never seen a 100lb plate, let alone picked one up before.

tuc - those plates are fucking cool...saw them over on the training board earlier. if i ever get a home gym, i'm so buying those. Paul Sr. from American Chopper goes to a gym that has them. his 405lb bench they showed had four of those bad boys on each side.

 

[tuc biscuit]

they are like $200 each, so good luck affording it, I feel at home using such expensive items though, I often set use one as a tray and carry my brandy baloons in it

 

[tuc biscuit]

these are the dumbells they have

 

[supersizeme]

One day when I get a Cadillac Escalade, I'm going to replace the stock rims with those plates. The license plate will say "NO STRPS."

I heard that Jerkbox enjoys hula-hooping with the 25s.

 

[WODIN]

I thought this was going to be about everyday ware vs. the good china.

OH well.

 

[tuc biscuit]

I want these, but they are like $500 each

 

[Becoming]

you guys are a bunch of sissies.... the only plates you need are the slim metal ones... more plates fit on the bar that way...

as for dumbells, no one uses those except for guys who want an excuse for why they don't lift much... ("using a bar hurts my pink panties.....")

(this is semi in jest, so calm down toughguys....)

 

[tuc biscuit]

I only use these on special occasions, like when matt the shirtlifter comes round

$1140 for a 45 pound dumbell

 

[vinylgroover]

Anyone's gym still use the sand filled 'Don Oliver's'?