Olympic plates 1kg,.5kg & lighter?

Turbo_diesel

Anyone know where I can get these?Mick at Irish lifting doesn't have any.

Deadly Combination

Shop in dublin and these are the prices - http://www.mcsport.ie/bodymax-radial-rubber-olympic-disc/p-powwtow0045pd.aspx

1.25kg = 3.21euro
2.5euro = 6.43
5kg = 12.91

If these prices are too high in which i think their are you should buy second hand

Turbo_diesel

Thanks for the info but lookin for 1kg,.5kg & lighter.

TommyKnocker

I got a set of these from the US.

Iron Woody Fractional Plates


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Deadly Combination

I agree with B-Builder

rubadub

Deadly Combination wrote: »

Shop in dublin and these are the prices - http://www.mcsport.ie/bodymax-radial-rubber-olympic-disc/p-powwtow0045pd.aspx

1.25kg = 3.21euro
2.5euro = 6.43
5kg = 12.91

If these prices are too high in which i think their are you should buy second hand

Those are coated, the plain ones are cheaper

http://www.mcsport.ie/bodymax--hammertone-olympic-weights/p-powwtow0001pd.aspx

seems a good price, under €2 per kilo. But not as small as the OP wants, those fractional plates cost stupid amounts, you could get them laser cut from stainless for less.

g'em

Deadly Combination wrote: »

i dont think you get any lower then 1.25kg their olympic weights not standard weights

Actually they're not olympic weights Olympic plates are in the following currencies:
0.5kg, 1kg, 1.5kg, 2kg, 2.5kg (plates and collars), 5kg, 10kg, 15kg, 20kg, 25kg.

In weightlifting we very often use the shrapnel plates because sometimes we work up in very small increments. We don't have quarter kilo plates at all - mostly because we only use whole kg's in competition.

OP the Iron Woody plates that B-Builder linked to are pretty decent, the only other suppliers I know of would be commercial ones unfortunately.

Scuba Ste

Check out nerlinger.com. They do fractional plates at reasonable prices. Lowest is .5kg though, I can't imagine needing less than that tbh.

Hanley

g'em wrote: »

Actually they're not olympic weights Olympic plates are in the following currencies:
0.5kg, 1kg, 1.5kg, 2kg, 2.5kg (plates and collars), 5kg, 10kg, 15kg, 20kg, 25kg.

In weightlifting we very often use the shrapnel plates because sometimes we work up in very small increments. We don't have quarter kilo plates at all - mostly because we only use whole kg's in competition.

OP the Iron Woody plates that B-Builder linked to are pretty decent, the only other suppliers I know of would be commercial ones unfortunately.

Aren't olympic plates denoted as "olympic" because of the hole size? That is, they fit onto an olympic bar. As opposed to "standard" which has a smaller hole?

And 1.25 and 2.5kg plates WERE "olympic" per your definition until that 1kg rule came in, right?

g'em

Hanley wrote: »

Aren't olympic plates denoted as "olympic" because of the hole size? That is, they fit onto an olympic bar. As opposed to "standard" which has a smaller hole?

And 1.25 and 2.5kg plates WERE "olympic" per your definition until that 1kg rule came in, right?

The first one I genuinely don't know, sounds like a logical explanation though non-olympic plates fit on olympic bars though. Some do anyway!

Yeah they used to be - I think Eleiko still make chrome ones, but I haven't seen them used in ages. Doesn't make them null and void or anything, obviously, just now par for the course anymore.

Edit: sorry Hanley I've just seen what you're getting at, the link wouldn't open for me before. Yeah you could classify those 1.25 as olympic plates - sorry Deadly Combination, my bad - they're just not competition plates. There's very similar ones used in ECB!

Edit again: is that link showing up different pages for anyone else everytime they open it?? Some of those weights idefinitely aren't olympic weights and some could be used alright

d'Oracle

I got some on Pullum sports.

http://www.pullum-sports.co.uk/bars-and-discs/olympic-training/olympic-fractional-weights-steel/prod_59.html

ray jay

this is what you do: go to a hardware store. Buy a length of chain. Bring it home and weigh it, then cut it up into pieces that weigh 0.5kg, 1kg, etc. Use string or wire ties or whatever to turn them into loops. When you need them, wrap them around the sleeve of your bar. Quick and cheap!

DM-BM

http://www.strengthshop.co.uk/index.php/weight-plates/cast-iron-plates/0-5kg-plate.html

Turbo_diesel

Cheers for the replies sorted!