Olympic Weightlifting Plates

Conditioned

Hi,

I'm looking into adding some olympic weightlifting to my training.

I presume I'm going to need rubber plates at some stage so that the plates don't get damaged.

Are these the plates I should be looking at and if so is Irish Lifting the only supplier of Olympic plates in Ireland. http://www.irish-lifting.com/product_info_equipment.php?cPath=1_15&products_id=241

How many plates would I actually need I'm presuming I'd only need two 20kg plates to start off and I could put the non coated plates on outside them until I would hit 100kg?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

spiral

they are not the plates you need.Mickk (irish lifting) sells good equipment but you are looking for bumper plates which are pure rubber or a big rubber plate with a metal core not a rubber coated plate.

http://www.jordanfreeweights.com/store/category/ej6e/Olympic_Training_Rubber_Discs.html

http://www.gymworld.co.uk/prodpage.asp?ProdID=6735

http://www.nerlinger.com/

http://www.sportserwis.net.pl/zhangkong_en.php

http://users.telenet.be/tom.goegebuer/links.htm

These plates are expensive but should last for years and years and will save damage on the floors and bar.
.If you were putting 20kg bumpers on either side I probably wouldnt put more than the same on in iron which would bring you up to 100kg.

A pair of 10's and 15's would probably be a good start and a place you can drop the bar:D

Roper

I was looking to get some bumpers a while back but the budget didn't allow it unfortunately. Jordan Free Weights are the cheapest but I'd love to know the quality. That being said we're no weighlifting club so probably most plates would do us fine but I'd still like to get some decent ones.

Anyone any idea what the shipping charges would be like on a set of 10s and 20s?

Mickk

I am and have been working with a compnay for the last 3 months to manufacture solid rubber bumpers, I will hopefully have prototypes next month for testing and then IF there are no problems will have them in stock around january, its a slow process... I might actually give them to you to test roper if you like as they would probably get more use with you than in my place, crossfit workouts ect.

Roper

Mickk wrote: »

I am and have been working with a compnay for the last 3 months to manufacture solid rubber bumpers, I will hopefully have prototypes next month for testing and then IF there are no problems will have them in stock around january, its a slow process... I might actually give them to you to test roper if you like as they would probably get more use with you than in my place, crossfit workouts ect.

That, Mick, would be a sweet deal for me! I would gladly accept any free merchandise on the basis of.... eh, well... anything actually...

When you get them in stock Mick put it out there because I know of at least 5 people looking to stock either home gyms or small facilities with them and the import charges are putting them off.

gabgab

Roper I know Colm got some of these, or something very similar for his place, be worth giving him a shout,

Fair play to Mickk for making sure the stuff is decent quality,

Mickk

gabgab wrote: »

Fair play to Mickk for making sure the stuff is decent quality,

You would be amazed with what people sometimes sell, I got a sample of these (the design is basically a knock off of the eleiko training plates or the dhs ones, the inner chrome disc bolts through a solid rubber outer ring). They cost from the manufacturer was about three times the cost of rubber coated plates so I thought they would be good. When I got them I cut them up and found they were just ordinary rubber coated iron plates, the coating of rubber was only about 6mm thick all over, at three times the price!! They obviously just saw the price the eleiko/dhs sell for and decided to up their prices without understanding what the plates actually do...

brianthebard

Extra costs were probably for the colour coding tbh. Damn they are expensive though!

Mickk

brianthebard wrote: »

Extra costs were probably for the colour coding tbh. Damn they are expensive though!

No they were completely and utterly taking the piss, the price was triple of colour rubber coated iron plates but they were the exact same probuct, just a different shape! They made them look exactly the dhs/eleiko so thought they could command higher prices, without any actual understanding of the use of the plates...

rubadub

I wondered if you could use BMX wheels on a bar before, maybe for lighter training, but a BMX wheel could take the force of a man dropping a high distance. Or get some stronger wheels put on!

spiral

you might find out then if your forehead could take the force of the rebound