In my gym, we always place our plates facing outwards on a bar. However, I see all these pics in T-Nation wherein the plates are facing inwards. I was wondering which way you make your plates face.
Plates face in, keep the power in, focus.
Plate face outwards, alwayds arranged from highest on the inside to lowest on the outside.
Edit: Just a habit and “superstition” I’ve developed.
At my gym they have the double faced plates with handles, so I throw them on the bar and go. If we had real plates I’d have the faces pointed in, just out of habit.
At my gym people put on 2.5 pounders first and then 45’s. I can’t figure it out.
They also mix the 45’s with the 25 kg iron plates and even bench with mismatched bumper plates. It is a wonder they survive.
Faces go in.
Weight differential. Plates ALWAYS face in…
In, always in.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
At my gym they have the double faced plates with handles, so I throw them on the bar and go. If we had real plates I’d have the faces pointed in, just out of habit.[/quote]
Do you line the handles up or stagger them at 90 degrees?
Just as long as the plates are symmetrical and as close together as they can be.
Plates always face in. Easier to take out and less dange of slipping.
Plates face in…I’ve had to replate the bar when my lifting partner faced them out…he kept doing it claiming there was no difference…he now swims with the fishes.
Plates are put on biggest first…had a guy that wanted to “work in with me”…he suggeted we put the 25 pounders on first and then the 45s reckoning that it would be easier to just strip the 45s so that he could bench his 95 lbs and then I could do my 275…he now swims with the fishes.
It should go without saying that you never put anything less than 25 lb plates on an olympic straight bar. If you can’t do the exercise properly with 95 lbs, you should use dumbbells.
[quote]sen say wrote:
It should go without saying that you never put anything less than 25 lb plates on an olympic straight bar. If you can’t do the exercise properly with 95 lbs, you should use dumbbells.[/quote]
Plus it just looks silly with anything less. Plates always face in. I think the football coach mentioned something about it was good luck.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
At my gym they have the double faced plates with handles, so I throw them on the bar and go. If we had real plates I’d have the faces pointed in, just out of habit.
Do you line the handles up or stagger them at 90 degrees?[/quote]
Usually I just put them on any old way. It doesn’t matter. I am fidgety though, so during a rest between sets I might line them up.
They must face in. Any other way turns me into an obsessive compulsive.
Does it bother anyone else to mix brands of plates that are the same weight, but not quite the same size? That bothers me sometimes too.
either as long as they are the same.
[quote]Flop Hat wrote:
Does it bother anyone else to mix brands of plates that are the same weight, but not quite the same size? That bothers me sometimes too.
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Only if I have to. Call it OCD, is there a way to guarantee they are the same weight? No. Mentally, the size difference throws me off. Sometimes the color. All black or all silver. Or, the matching plates have to be the same color (both 25s black, not one black, one silver). Just in case one paint weighs more. Laugh it up.
Plates always face in. And I hate having to match different brands or styles of plates on the same bar. If I do, I at least try to match them in pairs. Difference might be small, but it still bothers me.
I like to use two sets of collars, one on the inside of the plates, one on the outside. That way, I can put the plates in different spots on the bar. Sometimes, I’ll even put all the weight on one side of the bar. Other times, I will put on 9 10-lbers on each side, rather than 2 45s.
I like to be different and shake things up, keep it spicy.
DB
Usually out, don’t want the numbers staring at me.
i go in out in out so the numbers are sandwiched.