50 kg Plates

[d_man]

Does anyone know where you can buy, or even get 2nd hand 50kg plates, the only place I have seen them is on the internet in the UK and the price was steep and then you would have to ship them too, bit to exspensive for me!!

let me know if you do cheers :pray:

[Best Bench]

Might be tough to find second hand 50's, don't think there would be to many floating around. We have just ordered a bunch of 25kg IPF plates from Ivanko through Blue Fitness NZ.

Ivanko have some cheaper 100lbs (45kg) plates. Based on what we paid and depending on how many you wanted I guess they would be around $250 - $300 NZD landed.

http://www.ivankobarbell.com/Product/o2b.htm

The 50's that I saw on the Ivanko website are IPF approved plates and would be about $500. Blue Fitness are a distributer for Ivanko in NZ and are really good to deal with.

Unless you are running out of room on the bar 50's can just be a pain in the arse. We have a couple at Eastside that reside on the Legpress.

[Ann]

The last time I saw 50kg plates was a few years ago. Starr Fitness in Napier had them and so did Sparta Health and Fitness (roughly about 3-4 years ago) until some woman complained about them lying on the ground because she tripped over them!! :roll: You can give Sparta a ring - and speak to Rod the owner and ask him what he did with them - just a thought . Then again he may not know what the hell happened. Apparently they got them removed due to Health and Safety reasons - a bloody lame excuse if you ask me. :pfft:

[Sakura]

Apparently they got them removed due to Health and Safety reasons - a bloody lame excuse if you ask me. :pfft:

They should've removed the clumsy woman instead. It's a gym for gods sake. :doh: What was she expecting to be on the floor, a plate of sausage rolls?

[Grego]

The last time I saw 50kg plates was a few years ago. Starr Fitness in Napier.

:nod:

Apparently they got them removed due to Health and Safety reasons - a bloody lame excuse if you ask me. :pfft:

That's what I heard too. Might be something worth a quick call to OSH if looking at using them in a gym. Then again the more likely story is they might have shipped them to the Powerhouse Gym in Wellington as they are now home for the Central Districts Powerlifting rather than Starr. Excuses!

[nate225]

The last time I saw 50kg plates was a few years ago. Starr Fitness in Napier.

:nod:

Apparently they got them removed due to Health and Safety reasons - a bloody lame excuse if you ask me. :pfft:

That's what I heard too. Might be something worth a quick call to OSH if looking at using them in a gym. Then again the more likely story is they might have shipped them to the Powerhouse Gym in Wellington as they are now home for the Central Districts Powerlifting rather than Starr. Excuses!

LOL no shortage of 50's there!

Why play with nickels & dimes when there are 110lb slabs of iron laying around! :grin:

[Woodbury]

I can't lift them off the leg press, like 80% of people

[Ann]

How many leg presses do you have in the building? It its two - use the other one! :grin: Then again - ask someone else to help you lift them off - easily fixed.

However, whoever the lazy prick was that put them there in the first place - should also be putting them away! What the hell is wrong with people these days - what? Too big and strong to put weights away!! Idiots!

[d_man]

got some priced off a site only place I could get them was in the usa shipped over and they were the 45kgs ones and it was going to cost well over a 1200$ to get them over here so think il just leave them there lol!!

[Travel Express]

my gym has 50kg Plates... i doubt they would sell them though.

[d_man]

offer them 20$ straight cash for them, il take them off their hands :grin:

[macmad]

I don't know why you'd want 50kg plates, they are bloody useless, too much hassle to load in competitions, and 2 x 25kg calibrated plates take up the same or less room on the bar.

If you really want some, we have 6 x 50kg Ivanko chrome calibrated plates in Perth, owned by powerlifting Australia that I'm sure I could get permission to swap for 6 x 25kg Eleiko or Ivanko IPF approved calibrated plates. As long as you paid the freight cost to send them to NZ and the 25's to Perth. The 50's are leftovers from 1988 IPF worlds, slight rust, but still accurate weight.

[Old Bull]

I don't know why you'd want 50kg plates, they are bloody useless, too much hassle to load in competitions, and 2 x 25kg calibrated plates take up the same or less room on the bar.

If you really want some, we have 6 x 50kg Ivanko chrome calibrated plates in Perth, owned by powerlifting Australia that I'm sure I could get permission to swap for 6 x 25kg Eleiko or Ivanko IPF approved calibrated plates. As long as you paid the freight cost to send them to NZ and the 25's to Perth. The 50's are leftovers from 1988 IPF worlds, slight rust, but still accurate weight.

I like it Mac :clap: :clap:

[alfa romeu]

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WEIGHTLIFTING EQUIPMENT THROUGH THE AGES

by Dresdin Archibald, Canada, 2007

PLATES

Colour - Colour coded plates also became established after Munich. The 25s were red, 20s blue, 15s yellow. Green 50 kg plates were added in 1976 but were seldom used due to their being nearly as heavy as some loaders. They were gone by 1980. By 1984 10kg rubbers were black but iron versions had no standard colour. In 1988 we got green 10s, white 5s, black 2.5s, chrome 1.25s, .50s and .25s. The rubber 10s were then made green.

Precision - In the old days the standards were not so strict. One time a locally made bar was used in the US Nationals. It was off-handedly referred to as a "maverick" bar by Bob Hoffman since it was five pounds heavier than it should have been. A sorrier word was never spoken in the barbell world.

hellow friends:does any body nows if those standard plates are older plates of york, yvanko, ...

[Carlos Insane]

Ive got x2 solid stell 80kg plates made for the big boys I might try and get a pic of them and put it on later. They are one offs but they look pro not like they have been made in th farm shed. Its a f@#ken wrk out getting the on the bar though good for dead lifts.

[alfa romeu]

people i have a friend who has some plates to sell, plates like these

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/attachmen ... 1103097070

can anyone tell me if those plates are bumper training ones?? and the prices? :shock:

[Outkast]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Sports/Exercis ... 094532.htm