How come weights are made of metal

[DBCooper]

LOL, maybe the room has rubber walls too....maybe the gym is all in his head and this is his only outlet, rubber floor-ceiling-everything, even the lunch trays are bolted to the rubber tables!!! j/k still in a weird mood . lol

 

[endpoint]

LOL, maybe the room has rubber walls too....maybe the gym is all in his head and this is his only outlet, rubber floor-ceiling-everything, even the lunch trays are bolted to the rubber tables!!! j/k still in a weird mood . lol

i would be worried about the rubber underpants

 

[mrzap]

I like the rubber weights in my gym actually. Easier to carry and when people drop their shit it doesn't ruin the gym floor etc.

 

[IronLion]

There are weights that are covered by a thin coat of rubber just for aesthetic and longevetity. They are nothing like bumper plates.

 

[sk*]

There are weights that are covered by a thin coat of rubber just for aesthetic and longevetity. They are nothing like bumper plates.

Yea, that's what they, I hated them in the begining ... well still do.

-sk

 

[JollyRogers]

would you rather have aluminim as plates?

we could have tons of plates haha

 

[louden_swain]

wood weights would be cool lol.

 

[revexrevex]

Wouldn't it be cool if you just had a bar with gravity censor on it, which would allow you to use a digital dial to configure a custom gravitational attraction and thus customize the bar to weigh any amount you want

 

[sk*]

Wouldn't it be cool if you just had a bar with gravity censor on it, which would allow you to use a digital dial to configure a custom gravitational attraction and thus customize the bar to weigh any amount you want

It wouldn't look as cool as putting a bunch of plates on the bar. It sure would help get the ego out of the gym though.

-sk

 

[SofaGeorge]

They aren't made of metal. SOME are made of metal. I've lived in different countries. Elsewhere weights are made of plastic, rubber, concrete, and sand... no joke sand.

When I worked out in Wales... first of all it was hard to find weights... but the ones they did have were these huge plastic wheels. They were the circumference of 25 lbs plates... but 4 times as thick. Each one weighted 20 kilos (about 44 lbs.)

It was a total blast to work with them. It looked like you were benching 800 lbs.

It broke my heart recently to see pictures of one guy training in a very poor country. He is determined to be a weightlifter... and built his homemade weights out of concrete poured into buckets with a metal pole between them.

In the '60s and '70s sand sets were everywehere in teh stores... plastic shells filled with sand.