Is there an answer?

[naysayer13]

Ok, I'm mathematically challenged, (hard to add the plates to my superbig bench of 135 lol) So I'm wondering...Why are larger plates made in 45/35/25 pound increments? Then smallers drop to 10/5? Why aren't larger plates 50/40? Is there some history to this? Is there an answer?

[firenwire]

Because the standard bar weighs 45 lbs?

[naysayer13]

Yeah, I considered that, but that still puts you at 135/105/95. Then again, a pair of 50's makes it 145.. lol

[Bojangles69]

this is one of those stupid ass questions you lose your mind trying to figure out than learn thats just the way shit started and noone cared to change it. But i would like to find the guy who said o lets make the weights end with 5 and not a nice round 0 #. So if anyone has any theories, bump. Then i can tell people at the gym and they can be like "who cares" lol.

[Pooks]

Cause we're not metric? and our stuff doesnt make sense like that.. I dunno LOL

[~fuelforfire~]

lol frick who cares, and jeez who cares@!

[NOREGRETS]

Don't think about the plates, just lift the plates.

[taiboxa]

because its all based in Kg's

[biglouie250]

how do you use the 3 sea shells??

[Pooks]

how do you use the 3 sea shells??

U wipe your ass with them.

[GunTotingHipGangster]

because its all based in Kg's

tai got it
i think the english system is stupid, i wish the US would have converted 30 years ago

[cfiler]

because its all based in Kg's

Yup. ALOT of people don't know that. There seems to be always someone at the gym who asks "Why is it 45lbs instead of 50?"

I'm supprised that an american company never made any 50lb plates though.

[ToTheBuckeT21]

I love the way the plates are set up.. all you have to do is add them together and u know your going to get a number that ends in zero.. just take the first 2 numbers and add 1.. then add 45 for the bar.. like think about 185.. you add 90 for the 45s to 50 for the 25s then the 45lb bar.. Its really simple to figure out. I think the bar should just be 50lbs.

[SnaX]

Ive got a better question for you.. In fact two of them

Why do hotdogs come in packs of 10, and the buns in packs of 8?

AND.... Why are batteries labeled how they are as AA, AAA, D, C... etc
Huh huh?

[MFT81]

Yup. ALOT of people don't know that. There seems to be always someone at the gym who asks "Why is it 45lbs instead of 50?"

I'm supprised that an american company never made any 50lb plates though.

My gym has a stack of 50 lbs plates and we used to have 100 lbs plates too

[taiboxa]

My gym has a stack of 50 lbs plates and we used to have 100 lbs plates too

we got hundo's but no fiftys at ours..

[Psychotron]

What happens when you add any two numbers which end in 5?

[taiboxa]

What happens when you add any two numbers which end in 5?

you get the sum.

[oldman]

We have 100's and 50's... well the 50's are really 45's with a lot of grime and dirt on them that know way 50lbs..



~Old