I’ve always adopted the Australian nomenclature for plate-naming:
45 lb = Kookamungas
35 lb = Chazzwazzers
25 lb = Dungaroos
10 lb = Uke-uke flim-flams
5 lb = Paul Newmans
2.5 lb = Beyelbubbs
Seems the most logical way of going about it. Maybe it’s just me.
I must say that I would really really really love for my gym to get the colored bumper plates. I’m not kidding that I swear my lifts would go up 20% the first time I use them.
plates, quarters, dimes, nickels, chips (2.5)
There is not a name for 35s because they are an abomination and a waste of plate tree space.
I don’t know anyone that actually uses any of these names though. Usually just say “load X amount of weight”.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
There is not a name for 35s because they are an abomination and a waste of plate tree space.
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Seconded.
100s = hundos
45s = plates or wheels
35s = 35s
25s = quarters
10s = dimes
5s = nickles
2.5s = pennies or 2.5s, however, biscuit sounds pretty damn cool. Cookie, eh, I guess it could work, though crumb is funny too.
Bumper plates, if I am in a gym that has them, are denoted by their color. Except for the occasional gym that has several different weight bumpers that are all black. In this case, you just kind of guess, as its hard as fuck to read the labeling on black bumper plates.
100=Hundreds
45=Plate
35=Pussy Plate
25=Quarter
10=Dime
5=Nickel
2.5=Cookie
WAGON WHEEL!!!
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
I’ve always adopted the Australian nomenclature for plate-naming:
45 lb = Kookamungas
35 lb = Chazzwazzers
25 lb = Dungaroos
10 lb = Uke-uke flim-flams
5 lb = Paul Newmans
2.5 lb = Beyelbubbs
Seems the most logical way of going about it. Maybe it’s just me.[/quote]
Hahahahaaaa nice.
The squat rack can be called the jaberwocky-ding dong.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
I’ve always adopted the Australian nomenclature for plate-naming:
45 lb = Kookamungas
35 lb = Chazzwazzers
25 lb = Dungaroos
10 lb = Uke-uke flim-flams
5 lb = Paul Newmans
2.5 lb = Beyelbubbs
Seems the most logical way of going about it. Maybe it’s just me.[/quote]
Hahahahaaaa nice.
The squat rack can be called the jaberwocky-ding dong.
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Just don’t put 2 Paul Newmans on the bar and curl in the jaberwocky-ding dong.
oh yes. some of our greens are black. they still get to be greens though because they are 10kg bumper plates.
[quote]HG Thrower wrote:
Just don’t put 2 Paul Newmans on the bar and curl in the jaberwocky-ding dong.[/quote]
That goes without saying. No Aussie worth his binbadoo would curl Newmans in the jaberwocky-ding dong, lest he upset his fellow gruff-gruff Jackaroos.
The klinba-wazzle is for curling Newmans.
45- plate
25- half a plate
10- ten
5- five
2.5- hamburger
The 100s are the “big boy plates”. Then it’s the standard plate, quarter, dime…
haha. some dude asked me today if he could borrow my fives because he couldn’t find any… i was like ‘you can - but i think i see some over there’ and he was like ‘where?’ and i was trying to give him verbal directions and he kept missing them…
turned out I thought he meant 5kg but he meant 0.5kg.
hmm.
i wonder what he calls the 5kg’s.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
[quote]HG Thrower wrote:
Just don’t put 2 Paul Newmans on the bar and curl in the jaberwocky-ding dong.[/quote]
That goes without saying. No Aussie worth his binbadoo would curl Newmans in the jaberwocky-ding dong, lest he upset his fellow gruff-gruff Jackaroos.
The klinba-wazzle is for curling Newmans. [/quote]
I’m a grown ass man, grown enough to know better, but this shit cracks me up.
I was stuck in Katherine Oz for a couple months back in the 90’s and the cowboys and prison guards all had the secondary lingo just like this.
100-hundos
45-wheels
25-quarters
10-10s
5- fives
I call them all plates.
And 35s are just fine in my book. Makes one less plate to put on for deadlifts. 100s are what we almsot never use, even though we have 4 of them.