Buying stuff for my home gym, are rubber plates worth the $ tax? I dont really slam weights that hard. Are they useful for anything else?
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Buying stuff for my home gym, are rubber plates worth the $ tax? I dont really slam weights that hard.
I'd get them if I could afford them. Might as well have some extra protection for the house on the off chance something happens.
Iron plates will frick up your flooring
Buy rubber flooring, hammer it into two sheets of plywood.
American rubber flooring or something like that
rubber flooring is fricking great. Just search for 'horse mats'. Basically invulnerable when paired with a sheet of plywood underneath.
Do you all do 300kg deadlifts slamming them down that you need those?
Weight displacement and sound absorb. Its like 200$
Horse mats have toxic material, you have to air them out and scrub them for 2 days.
I think rubber plates are for oly lifts.
Iron is more soulful, so lifts are increased by 10%.
I mean, rubber, seriously? You might as well be lifting giant dildos.
rubber coated iron plates are the GOAT
>safe floor
>narrow like iron plates
Cheaper to get rubber flooring than rubber plates that will get damaged by the concrete floor and iron weights more than rubber.
Real homies use chrome.
>spend $$$$ for just heavy steel plates for sake of being heavy
stupid monkey
>Taking adware into the gym
ngmi
real homies dont use a plate tree with 2" pegs
Bumpers if doing Olympic lifts/cross shit. Iron if you plan on getting strong enough that you can lift more bumpers than fit on a bar.
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rubber is less dense than metal, so you're getting less weight per disk than in metal
Bumper plates are nice, but by no means necessary unless you're doing olympic lifts where you're dropping/slamming the bar back down from overhead.
If you are lifting with iron plates, you should build some weightlifting platforms (plywood and horse stall mats) but even with the cost of building the platform, it would still be more practical and cost efficient than buying bumper plates.
Also, platforms not only protect your flooring, but also the plates and your barbell. The bearings/bushings/sleeves of your barbell will take alot of abuse if you're lifting on concrete.
they stink and take a lot of space
if you aren’t a olympic weightlifter or drop them regularly you don’t really need them anyway
they also have toxic chemicals in them to keep them soft
iron all the way baby