a buddy of mine has his own olympic weight set in his basement so couple of times I did flat bench with his equipment and I was able to puch more reps than I did at the gym I normally pump at with the same amount of weights...feels like as if his weights are a bit lighter than ones at my gym ....is that possible!??! I mean he has the olympic bar and plates as well except the bench is different than ones at the gym.
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Thread: not all weights are made equal??
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07-03-2003, 12:10 PM #1Registered User
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not all weights are made equal??
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07-03-2003, 09:40 PM #2Member
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they should be the exact same weight as what it says on em... maybe its just you were not trying to show off when u were at his house, the surrounding was different so u could concentrate more or something
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07-11-2003, 07:27 PM #3Registered User
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plates can vary in weight by quite abit,ive seen 35 #hex db go from 31# to 37#,,i take a digital fish scale with me when i buy my plates
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07-12-2003, 09:43 AM #4Registered User
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If you want extreme accuracy, then you usually have to pay for it; the 0.40 per lb plates are not as nuts-on as the much more pricey Eleiko plates. That goes for measuring devices as well, i.e. the $10 bathroom scale or the multi-thousand $$$ "legal-for-trade" balance with 300 lb capacity and +- 0.5 oz. accuracy.
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07-12-2003, 11:04 AM #5Originally posted by henry
plates can vary in weight by quite abit,ive seen 35 #hex db go from 31# to 37#,,i take a digital fish scale with me when i buy my plates
You might want to buy your db's from somewhere else. I've never seen or heard of that much of a difference before.
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07-12-2003, 11:07 AM #6Originally posted by MiloMan
If you want extreme accuracy, then you usually have to pay for it; the 0.40 per lb plates are not as nuts-on as the much more pricey Eleiko plates. That goes for measuring devices as well, i.e. the $10 bathroom scale or the multi-thousand $$$ "legal-for-trade" balance with 300 lb capacity and +- 0.5 oz. accuracy.
Exactly true.......and IMO paying more for maybe a half pound difference is a total waste.
On a side note, I just pulled a few pairs of my hex db's off the rack and weighed them on a bathroom type scale. All of them appear to be accurate.
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07-12-2003, 11:23 AM #7Registered User
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they can vary a bit, but the should not vary alot if they do i should not buy weights anymore at the store your buying them
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07-14-2003, 09:58 AM #8Registered User
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I have two different brands of Olympic 45 lb plates in my home gym. Was curious one time as to how close they were to 45 lbs, so I weighed the plates. The older plates weighed 47 lbs a piece, while the new ones were right at 45 lbs. So there is definitely some variation in uncalibrated plates.
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