Ideas for smaller weight increases?

Celtic67

Hi,
Im currently following the Starting Strength program and am moving up through weights steadily enough. The smallest plates my gym has are 1.25kg so every increase in weight is 2.5kg this is OK on Squats and Deads but proving a real challenge on Bench Press and especially Military Press as I go up through the weights.
Does anyone have any suggestions for making smaller weight increases (apart from ordering magnetic plates over the web)? Has anyone else made their own? I was thinking along the lines of maybe filling two bags with either 0.5kg or 0.75kg of sugar and tying them to the bar. Trying to find right bags might be a problem.

Any ideas?

BossArky

2 weeks ago I rang my gym to request they get more 1.25kg plates.

Last night I spoke to them again. Apparently they will not buy more 1.25kg plates because people rob them (by leaving with them in their pockets). I was told to bring my own. WTF?!

rubadub

Get some old socks and make 2 holes in each of them near the top, so you can stick it on over the bar, then fill with coins or gravel/stones. You could also get long enough socks, fill with coins in the middle, then get the 2 ends and tie a knot in it right onto the bar.

Or get some chain and wrap it around it, on either end, or on the trigrip plate holes. If you had something elastic connecting the 2 ends of the chain then you could put it on, twist, put on again and keep doing it until the slack is gone, then the elastic should hold it on.

In a gym you could stick on extra collars if they are about.

Transform

just buy your own bloody partial plates - i have magneitc discs from

platemates

and bought 0.25kg and 0.5kg discs to fit olympic bars from www.proactive-fitness.co.uk
i use them in my gym to great effect and vital when i train females as the jumps are even more pronounced for them

Otherwise its just going to real messy