Difference Between Hex Plates and Round Ones?

Training Powerlifting
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[quote]apwsearch wrote:
Plainly stated, the plates are a contributing if not causative factor in your injury.

The plates do not allow you to pull back but rather force you to break the floor by pulling up.

When we have lifters forced to pull under the conditions you describe we have them do one of two things.

  1. Pull from a powerrack where the bottom pin holds the weight just slightly elevated (like 1/4").
  2. If this is not available, place a 2.5# plate under the edge of the plate on the side opposite from which you are pulling.

Either one of these will help you initiate the pull properly and relieve much of the SI stress.[/quote]

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[quote]butterja wrote:
Slightly different request here, but I’m not sure which topic to search - is anyone familiar with round, grip-handle-style, BLACK olympic plates that are NOT IronGrip? I’m looking to outfit the gym I manage with plates for our new cages, but the constraints I’m held to are color (black) and that the plates must have grip handles (not a solid disc). So far, I’ve only been able to find a non-hex style in gray, anyone know if somebody makes these in black?

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Ivanko.

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[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
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Lol, that is what I ended up doing for a while but I can’t afford it atm so I’m just going to HPE in the mean-while. At least there isn’t as much deuchebaggery in there as compared to the rec center. The safety bars go down very low in the squat rack too so I get the depth I need for dl’s. I use straps for pulls b/c I don’t wanna pay 15 bucks (including shipping) for a chalk substitute but my grip is naturally strong and it gets worked pretty hard through bb rows, benching and its variations, and other exercises. [/quote]

Haha, yeah when I did my lifting at the school I always went to the HPE unless it was squat day. Did they finally put a rack in the HPE? They only had a smith machine when I was in there. The new fitness center is really nice and everyone would always questiion why I loved the HPE more than the new place. It’s way less crowded and like you said, the level of douchebaggery is absolutely through the roof at the new place. More so than any other gym or fitness center I’ve ever been too. It tended to be the more serious lifters in the HPE.

Now if you really want to go to a great weightroom, the one behind the football stadium where the athletes train is fucking fantastic. It’s atheletes only now, but when I first started students could go in as well. It’s got eveyrhting (including bumper plates and platforms). If I would have known then what I know now…

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I trained at a gym that had the Iron Grip plates and they are a pain to use. I found that the best thing to do with plates like this is multiple heavy singles. What I would do is line up the flat sides of the plates in a row and pull, set it back down, line up the flat sides again and pull. This way I could keep my groove and not worry about being off kilter when I pulled the next rep.

My personal opinion of the Hex plates is that they were designed by gym owners and personal trainers so that gym patrons would not be doing any overhead lifting or dead lifting. This is also an excuse for insurance purposes, having investigated insurance of a facility the insurance covers all type of lifting. I feel that gym owners and personal trainers just do not have the knowledge or skills to teach those lifts to their clients and patrons. This will cut down on the liability of the facility.