Increasing weight on the bar without microloading

[dsp]

How do you accomplish this in a linear progression fashion? Seriously I've read tons of stuff on home budget microloads and stuff and short of tying a string around 2 1 lb packages of ground beef and then tying it to the bar I'm stumped.

[Paul Sousa]

Are you asking how to increase without microloading, or are you asking how to microload without buying fractional plates?

[dsp]

The first one. The second I can accomplish by tying ground beef packages to the bar, but I don't really want to bring them to a commercial gym. Would be pretty epic though.

[Paul Sousa]

Sorry if I am confused, but if you just want to increase without microloading than all you do is increase by more weight. Microloading is just a term used for making smaller than 5 lb. increases on your lifts.

[LudwigVan]

I don't understand the question. Just buy some washers and put them on the bar.

http://www.fastenal.com/web/products...u=96017&ucst=t

[yorick]

I don't understand the question. Just buy some washers and put them on the bar.

http://www.fastenal.com/web/products...u=96017&ucst=t

There's gotta be cheaper places to get these washers. The 1.25 lb steel plates at Rogue are only $6 per pair+shipping.

OP - I've seen people put pennies in socks and tie it to the bar. Something like 20 pennies will come close to 1.25 lb.

[Briks42]

Ankle weights work too

[dsp]

I live in Canada, nothing useful is shipped up here, we only have outgoing maple syrup and wood.

That pennies suggestion is pretty funny, lmfao. If I had a home gym, that would be my method, but pardon me for being a pansy - that seems kind of silly to bring to my gym.

One other thing. Rip said that all weights are castings, and all can be off by a small margin. Wouldn't the combined effect of a few plates be enough to change the weight and make microloading almost futile? Sorry if I over analyzed this.

[Paul Sousa]

Sorry to be a pain with this, but what exactly are you asking? People are recommending inexpensive options for microloading, but it seems you don't want to microload, correct?

[dsp]

I'm asking if there are ways to manipulate my training so that I can make 5lb jumps in a linear progression manner while balancing workload and recovery. Even jumping 5 lbs on the texas method volume day is pretty hard. Ideally, I want to do SS again and microload, but I don't think the washers here have weight values, or it'd be a pain to find something capable of weighing them (thinking about bringing them to the weight scales for fruit in nofrills lmao)