buying weights gear

BlueIsland

putting together home gym. I got a bench, 140kg olympic set, doorway gym from irishlifting. Im looking to sort out dumbbells. expensive things they are. I was thinking these bars http://www.irish-lifting.com/dumbell-handles-pe-244.html might let me put my plates from olympic set but pretty sure they be too big...any advice?

marathonic

You'll need two of these ones if it's an olympic weightset you have. I'm not sure whether the collars come with them - you'd need to ask that (and if you get an answer, post it here so that future readers know).

Also, 10kg plates limit your range of motion with a lot of dumbell excercises so you'd be well advised to buy an additional four 5kg plates and two 2.5kg plates. That'll mean you have, including what's in your original olympic weight set, eight 5kg plates, four 2.5kg plates and four 1.25kg plates. This would allow two evenly weighted dumbells to be used up to 33.5kg each (including the 6kg weight of the bar). Obviously, the additional plates can also be used on the olympic bar so you'd have a 165kg Olympic set.

marathonic

By the way, I've just checked http://www.powerhouse-fitness.co.uk and they appear to be slightly cheaper if you order the following:

Two Olympic Dumbell Handles
Four 5kg plates and four 2.5kg plates
...and use their WINTER10 voucher code for 10% off

Delivery is £42 to Ireland so this order should work out a little under €160 including delivery as opposed to Irish-Liftings €164 (and you'd have two extra 2.5kg plates). Delivery is standard so have a look around their site if ordering to see if there's anything else you'd like such as a skipping rope for warm-ups.

Again, I'm not sure whether PowerHouseFitness provide the collars with the bar but you could ask in their LiveHelp on the site. If not, you'll also need these collars.

JJayoo

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9003156/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CSports+and+leisure%7C14419152/c_2/3%7C15701400%7CWeights+and+strength+training%7C29022084/c_3/4%7Ccat_29022084%7CWeights+and+dumbbells%7C14419310.htm

Argos is always handy

marathonic

JJayoo wrote: »

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9003156/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CSports+and+leisure%7C14419152/c_2/3%7C15701400%7CWeights+and+strength+training%7C29022084/c_3/4%7Ccat_29022084%7CWeights+and+dumbbells%7C14419310.htm

Argos is always handy

Yeah, but those are vinyl plates and will be quite big. Therefore, I'd say even the 5kg plates will limit the range of motion for exercises to a similar extent that the 10kg cast iron plates would. If this is the case, that set is automatically reduced to a 20kg set - or 10kg per dumbell - and the 5kg plates would be useless as he/she has an olympic barbell and plates at the moment.

As he/she already has an olympic weight set, it's better to spend the extra money now rather than going cheaper and regretting it later.

I'm assumming here that their budget extends to €160 - which is a reasonable assumption considering the amount they've already spent on equipment.

OP, if the budget isn't available at the moment, I'd consider waiting until it is because the equipment that you already have is sufficient for a total body workout.

BlueIsland

marathonic wrote: »

JJayoo wrote: »

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9003156/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CSports+and+leisure%7C14419152/c_2/3%7C15701400%7CWeights+and+strength+training%7C29022084/c_3/4%7Ccat_29022084%7CWeights+and+dumbbells%7C14419310.htm

Argos is always handy

Yeah, but those are vinyl plates and will be quite big. Therefore, I'd say even the 5kg plates will limit the range of motion for exercises to a similar extent that the 10kg cast iron plates would. If this is the case, that set is automatically reduced to a 20kg set - or 10kg per dumbell - and the 5kg plates would be useless as he/she has an olympic barbell and plates at the moment.

As he/she already has an olympic weight set, it's better to spend the extra money now rather than going cheaper and regretting it later.

I'm assumming here that their budget extends to €160 - which is a reasonable assumption considering the amount they've already spent on equipment.

OP, if the budget isn't available at the moment, I'd consider waiting until it is because the equipment that you already have is sufficient for a total body workout.

Cheers for the in depth response! Yeh I posted too hastily there even though answers were generally a search away! Think I'll go with Olympic handles! I have 2 5kg plates, 4 2.5 kg and 4 1.25 kg plates! So that would give me 18.5 kg dumbells without going near the 10kg which I could prob put on for bent over rows as wouldn't restrict ROM! Sure once I invest in the good handles plates can be purchased whenever needed!