Reply With QuoteI don't understand that.Originally Posted by jon cowie
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DIY micro weights
My gym didn't have any 1.25KG plates and I couldn't find any for sale where I live either.
I made two 1.25KG plates for myself by casting plaster, but they were too big and difficult to carry to gym every session, today I came up with another idea and wanted to share it here for anyone else who's having the same problem.
I just bought 2 big ringed chains today. weighted them at the hardware store, each one was 1404 grams (1.4KG) .
Then counted the number of total rings in each chain, there was 19 rings in each chain.
So each ring was weighting 73.5 grams, so then I did cut 2 rings from each chain and now I have two 1250 gram chains. attached a climbing hook to each one and ready to hit the gym with my new weight tomorrow.
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I don't understand that.
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The chain is a nice compact way that you can have micro weights in your bag. I cut plywood circles 4 half pounders and 2 weighing a pound. I also made plywood spacers for warming up for dead lifts. I had the plywood taking space in the garage so it was 'free' and I work out at home.
Was the total cost of the chain weights pretty low?
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They were more expensive than plates per kilo, but since I just needed two 1.25KG ones, that wasn't much and I was happy to pay for it.
about 14$ total (I'm not living in US).
The price of manufactured barbell plates per kilo is 2.5$ for bumper plates. so If they were available in 1.25KG sizes, it would cost me 6.25$ total. not much difference.
And yes they're very compact and punishment proof.
With my previous plaster weights I had to look after them all the time in the gym, they were very fragile and weak. but chains don't have these problems and also they look fucking hardcore unlike those childish plaster weights.
Last edited by squat_gnome; 09-04-2011 at 09:47 AM.
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Sometime in the future I will build a nice home gym, buy 300KG of lead bars, and cast my own lead plates, little super heavy plates, and then an Eleiko power bar, just imagine how cool is that. I hope lead get more cheap in the future so I can make my dream gym.
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Your "climbing hooks," which I'm guessing are caribiner clips - did you happen to weigh those too and add that to the total weight?
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Aha
No I didn't weight them, they're very light, the weight of a coin. even if they be 50 grams each, the total weigh turns into 2.6KG instead of 2.5KG. Personally I guess it's even good to have the weight slightly lower or higher than 2.5KG, because that makes a micro periodization itself. one workout you add your 2.6KG weights (one step forward), the next workout you add standard 5KG plates (actually that's 2.4KG more this time (5 - 2.6 = 2.4) one step backward). do you get the idea? my English gets horrible everytime I want to explain something.
Last edited by squat_gnome; 09-04-2011 at 10:19 AM.
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If you watch for them you can find microplates cheap. I just bought 8 half pound plates and 2 Quater pound plates for $15.20 shipped on eBay.
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But online shopping is not an option to some people living in remote isolated places.
I wished I could buy them but I can't.
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Just out of curiosity, where do you live dude?
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