If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
The Ausbb - Australian BodyBuilding forum is dedicated to no nonsense muscle and strength building. If you need advice that works, you have come to the right place. This forum focuses on building strength and muscle using the basics. You will also find that the Ausbb- Australian Bodybuilding Forum stresses encouragement and respect. Trolls and name calling are not allowed here. No matter what your personal goals are, you will be given effective advice that produces results.
Please consider registering. It takes 30 seconds, and will allow you to get the most out of the forum.
I'm not sure if I understand. My gym has soft rubber coated plates. I thought these were bumper plates but the 10 is smallest with the 15 medium and the 20 the normal size.
If you look at the guy that posted up the video of his snatch they were the green rubber plates and the same in my gym but they're small.
So they're not true bumper plates as they're not the proper diameter?
bumper plates are rare in commercial gyms. they all same size, generally colour coded and bounce when dropped.
you can get colour coded rubber coated plates but actual proper bumper plates bounce when dropped.
Want to have a guess why you havent seen them before LJ
A pair of 20kg plates on my Zhang Kong bar comes out to $1740. Thats for a 60kg combo. Do the math on 260kg.
Thats what I was trying to explain to that **** when comparing Mikes Gym in Dandenong with the equipment at PTC.
He was clueless at the difference and popped his tampon.
Most commercial gyms use easy to bend bars with no knurling and steel plates or rubber coated steel plates.
You cannot drop them. He claimed elite athletes trained at his gym. I've trained there. You spend 30 minutes looking for a straight bar, then if you find one you hang on for the whole session. Then the curlers stare at you when you clean.
Elite athletes do not train at gyms without quality Olympic bars and bumper plates.
Gym Direct sells bumper plates, one of my clients got some from Adrian at a great price.
My coloured bumpers are actually calibrated plates for accuracy.