Fractional plates, worth buying?

dr3w_s
dr3w_s Posts: 88 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I found a website that is selling it for $100 plus $20 shipping www.ironedge.com.au which is also the website I got my weightlifting shoes, I found a seller on ebay selling it for $69.99 + $12 shipping, which is SMAI brand, any Australian here has any experience with that brand?

For other members who got fractional plates, is it worth buying?

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  • christianteach
    christianteach Posts: 595 Member
    I've been wondering the same thing. I have them on my wish list with Amazon. They have them for $60 and I would get free shipping. I would love to buy them but I've spent so much over the past week trying to get my home gym set up I hate to ask my husband to buy me something else now. (I did have Amazon send him an email though.)
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    I don't see why not. I use them all the time at the gym. They're great for when you know the next 5-10 lbs up will be a bit too much but 2.5lbs (or whatever the amount is) is just enough.
  • claston77
    claston77 Posts: 103 Member
    This is a US based website but perhaps you can find something similar in Australia at a hardware or home improvement store:

    http://www.mcmaster.com/#91081a046/=nrdtyp

    Each of those washer weigh approx. .625 pounds (some are bit heavier, some lighter)...they fit onto a bar or if you need them for dumbbells like I did you can put some rare earth magnets on them and affix them. Admittedly they do look cray cray when I whip them out of my bag and slap them on the dumbbells at the YMCA but I'm not paying the price for "pretty" fractionals :laugh:
  • HelloDan
    HelloDan Posts: 712 Member
    Depends what you're doing in the gym and why.

    For strength sports, I think it's very worthwhile, as in a competition, it's this fraction that may be important, for general training, as long as the jumps you have currently available aren't too coarse (say 1.25kg plates) I wouldn't necessarily bother.

    Off topic, I remember talking about the shoes, which ones did you go for in the end?
  • geebusuk
    geebusuk Posts: 3,348 Member
    Sounds like a lot of money!

    I got some old spare sockets (mechanics tools), weighed them out to the weight I wanted (.625g in this case so two makes up a 1.25kg plate) in a plastic bag and hang that over the end of the bars.

    I also got a section of 3mm thick 2" ID steel bar - about £5 for a metre as an off cut.

    Might make some fractional weights with that too at some point.
  • dr3w_s
    dr3w_s Posts: 88 Member
    Depends what you're doing in the gym and why.

    For strength sports, I think it's very worthwhile, as in a competition, it's this fraction that may be important, for general training, as long as the jumps you have currently available aren't too coarse (say 1.25kg plates) I wouldn't necessarily bother.

    Off topic, I remember talking about the shoes, which ones did you go for in the end?


    I'm doing SL, I got the Romaleos 2, it was brilliant!
  • GetSoda
    GetSoda Posts: 1,267 Member
    How accurate your actual plates? I bet not very. Unless they are calibrated plates....
  • rick_po
    rick_po Posts: 449 Member
    I bought fractional plates, but after the first week, I didn't use them. If I'm struggling that much to increase weight 5 pounds, I figure it's time to reset anyway.

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