IHateMyJob2004
Lifer
Forgot to mention. I broke down and got fractional plates.
No, not the good ones.
Check this out:
http://ironstrong.org/index.php?/topic/372-cheap-fractional-plates-mcmaster-carr-washers/
Bought them because I was stalled on bench. Did 195x5x5 recently but 200 was kinda like 200x4x3x2x2x3. Might use fractionals to do 196.25, then 197.5 then 198.75. Sound laughable but I'd love to go up 1.25 pounds every 2 weeks. If I pulledthat off, I'd be doing 250+ pounds in a year.
The washers were actually more like 0.6 pounds each but close enough to say that 2 of them make up 1.25 pounds.
Not sure what shipping costs were but the price came to soemthing like $11.
OTHER OPTIONS:
There are several other options to do fractional loading.
1) Chains
2) ankle weights.
3) And this one is genious. Baseball doughnuts. those weights that go on baseball bats to warm up come in 4 ounce increments and have a 2" inner diameter.
No, not the good ones.
Check this out:
http://ironstrong.org/index.php?/topic/372-cheap-fractional-plates-mcmaster-carr-washers/
Bought them because I was stalled on bench. Did 195x5x5 recently but 200 was kinda like 200x4x3x2x2x3. Might use fractionals to do 196.25, then 197.5 then 198.75. Sound laughable but I'd love to go up 1.25 pounds every 2 weeks. If I pulledthat off, I'd be doing 250+ pounds in a year.
The washers were actually more like 0.6 pounds each but close enough to say that 2 of them make up 1.25 pounds.
Not sure what shipping costs were but the price came to soemthing like $11.
OTHER OPTIONS:
There are several other options to do fractional loading.
1) Chains
2) ankle weights.
3) And this one is genious. Baseball doughnuts. those weights that go on baseball bats to warm up come in 4 ounce increments and have a 2" inner diameter.
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