Gym Weights vs. Meet Weights - Advice Requested

[Bryan Dobson]

Sounds like a good plan. Always go conservative until you have experience in meet conditions..you lift when you are up, not when you are ready as in a gym, and lifting t commands is different, you go when you are told
For my home set of plates, I simply weighed and marked the accurate weight on them, and pair them for balance(important not to put all the overweight plates on one side and underweight plates on the other. I have some plates that weigh less and some that weigh more. When loaded up to maximal attempts it tend to be a wash towards an accurate weight.

[Coconut Chris]

Personally, I've never noticed a difference in weight between calibrated, meet plates and regular gym plates / bars. If anything, the meet / calibrated equipment feels more manageable. No harm in weighing the bar or plates, but every time I've weighted a suspicious iron plate or bar for feeling off, it's always been 44-46 lbs. I think that any difference you'll find will be compensated by the adrenaline rush of the day. Good luck!

[Mike_M]

Appreciate all the input from everyone. Yeah, I'm not worried about winning, just pushing for the best out of myself. Suppose I should also clarify that I'm not stressed about any of this, just very analytically minded and like to consider all the variables for curiosity sake.