Lucky you got some plates mate, hopefully you didn’t overpay. Many pirates on Gumtree at the moment, listing old rusty standard iron for $5 per kg, however I did see some 1kg ankle weights for $25 each, that is a new level of craziness.
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Got em through an equipment supplier that just restocked: MA1 out of Victoria. They had second hand weight packs for about 5 bucks a kilo. Decent quality and given the current market its good.
I’m seeing $10/kilo on Gumtree/Marketplace. New stuff online is 4-many bucks depending on what ur buying.
I dunno how much this kinda stuff is under usual circumstances.
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Most of the stuff I have bought over the years is around 1-1.50 per kg for Oly plate. I’ve picked up a few ripper bargains to make a heaps of sets of DB’s up to 40kg each. Just seems like idiots are now trying to rip everyone off. Lady at work said she saw some random bloke in the carpark at the shops selling cleaning stuff the other day, haha.
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Cheap as. I’ve always wanted a home gym but that was like in the 10 year plan. With all that’s going on I’ve had to look into it seriously. It’s expensive but nothing too crazy especially when the market settles again. It’s conceivable at least lol.
I got the noodle bar and gonna get a decent stiff bar and those will last me a lifetime. I can take em into I’ll equipped regional gyms if that’s where I’m at. I’ll save the rest for when I’m ready.
How much did your DB set cost all up you reckon. How does that compare to say adjustable DBs up to 80kg each for $600-750? I’ve enjoyed DB pressing last few blocks got up to a set of 10 @ 50kg so a home gym would have to have these.
Had a look at racks this afternoon and I’m a little bit fancy so maybe one of them that u can build upon with whatever accessories u want like ~2 grand total with the accessories I’d like.
Anyways I need to work on getting that bread first before chowing down on a sexy home gym but it’s fun to think about and acquire pieces to
Hmm, gotta say I reckon for the whole lot less than 200 bucks, that’s for a set of 40kg’s, 30kg’s, 20kg’s, 15kg’s, 10kg’s and 5kg’s. The 40’s I can take make 50’s out of if I am game, plus I’ve got a set of handles that take Oly plates, so can make em as heavy as I like, but would prefer a set of 50’s and 60’s. I bought the plates in bits and pieces and handles here and there or with other stuff and sold the rest, so I’ve probably paid next to nothing for them.
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Home gym on the cheap inspiration
Wasn’t feeling amazing but took the option to push a bit on meme deadlifts. Hit 240kg x 7 @ RPE 8 so we’ll use that as a bench mark for my meme deadlifts/with this set up. @kckfl349 behold the power of memes
My body isn’t used to these weights/work in the top half of the movement because on thin plates I’m limited at the floor. Will put in a solid training block and see where this takes me. I hope it’ll carryover aight to calibrated plates like a decent accessory movement.
Bench meh but feeling stronger again. PB AMRAP two biscuits/100kg x 14 for kicks.
Probs went too hard for early on in the training block will need a couple of light days but expect big things after those.
@Cyrrex pls leave your kilos here to bless my deadlift thnx
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Fuark you make it look easy Hamster, great work.
Wait with all the buying stuff till after this shit is over. There might be some good deals around, with people getting rid of new bought home gyms.
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Bit late mort lol. @I_Luc was telling me that under normal circumstances 2nd hand weights are going for 1-2 bucks a kilo too.
Bit late for me this time around d I’m afraid I’ve bought everything I’ll need for however long this quarantine goes for already if anything I needa sell a piece or two.
We’ll see what the fall out from this is like I might complete my weight plate collection because rn I’m renting half of what I got but that’s not a high priority
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Bruh, you might wanna take off the glasses when you throw them rocks. Glasses are a pain in the ass if they get caught in an accident. Chances are low, but still a pain in the ass if something happens lol
Mate I am the danger
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Yep, under 2 bucks a kg usually. More insane listings today, I really hope people aren’t paying these inflated prices, 1 bloke, 65kgs of old random weight and a shitty old bar -850 bucks 
, another one, just over 100kg’s of plates and few odds and ends -1150 bucks!
These people need a good slapping!
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Message each of em “ur a dumb cunt” until you get banned on marketplace lol
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Haha, crazy hey.
-5 faith in humanity. Kinda in trouble because I’m well in the negative now lol
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Lol “meme deadlifts” I really wanna pull on some fat bumpers to see what i could do.
ingenuity at its finest with the C clamps haha
nice work
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Depends on ur DL style u may get a little out of them u may get a lot
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Got some mats. Had fun wrecking my knees jumping on em for a minute. Two 1x1m pieces aren’t quite long enough so I’m gonna chop it up a bit: take a strip off each and stick it on the end so that a fully loaded deadlift bar is gonna fit on it (I think need like over 230cm)
Keen to slam some deadlift onto them lol
Would be easy to make your own platform with them, 1 sheet of ply, stick em to it and another sheet of ply for the middle and to match the height of the mats.
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