"Lifting weights I can't even lift, to develop gains I don't even want, to impress females I don't even like…"
50kg Weight Set Includes:
Double baked enamel cast iron plates
Plastic carry case
1 x 183cm barbell
2 x 35cm Spinlock Dumbbell Bars.
4 x 5kg Cast Iron Weight Plates (Discs)
6 x 2.5kg Cast Iron Weight Plates (Discs)
4 x 1.25kg Cast Iron Weight Plates (Discs)
Bars and spin locks add to 10kg
Pretty decent price considering the vinyl version are this price same.
no pun intended but good 'pick up' though :p
Thanks. My closet amart is 2717km, but there are multiple rebel stores close. :)
rebel is amart sports as amart sports is rebel.
Rebel members can use this towards the $40 voucher deal when spending $200+ until 5/12
How do I choose pickup for this? Thanks in advanced
not sure bro, probably easier to call your nearest store and ask them to put it aside for you :)
You should consider posting this as a deal.
Anyone knows what the quality's like?
Slazenger is ozbargain home brand… But this is vinyl…
Pardon my ignorance, vinyl weights are inferior, correct?
you got it!
Weight is weight when you are exercising.
Vinyl is bigger/bulkier and wont last as long as solid metal. But for a home gym it can be better because its not going to smash the floor as badly as its softer (although you should have a rubber mat underneath you anyway).
However, metal is almost impossible to damage and so is a 'better' choice on every other criteria.
Probably $1 at Sports Direct
Great for females…
Gotta start somewhere…
This is actually pretty bad value.
First up similar sets have been $48 and $60 in the past:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/78662
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/114194
Second up: it's crappy equipment. You can't do much with it but very light clean based stuff. You don't even deadlift properly with it 'cause it hasn't got bumper plates, although you could do slow or stiff legged deadlifts. You could only do kitchen squats or those carry lift squats. Doesn't come with a bench so you'd have to spend more to get the bench and stands.
Basically it's a weight set for people who don't know what they're doing and will likely use them once or twice then give up. Which is fine for $48-$60 but a rip off for $150.
Those are cement weights, different products
Different, yes. But barely. Cast iron plates are definitely better than cement coated in plastic but in this set they are functionally identical because, as I said, this set isn't a very practical one. It doesn't include everything you need to use it properly and you can't even get bumper plates for it if you want (it's not Olympic diameter). It's a sort of nowhere set - not a cheap and nasty but not a good set either.
Agree with most of your comments but you don't need bumpers to deadlift (maybe you mean 45 plates?) and no one that deadlifts is looking at a 50kg set and thinking, perfect! Actually I don't know what anyone would want with a 50kg set.
Guys this is like buying a bike, do it properly or don't do it at all. Power rack + Olympic barbell + weights = never pay gym membership again (investment paid off in a year), never witness bicep curls in the squat rack, never listen to rubbish music again (looking at you FF members)
Agreed on all points. I was trying to shoehorn uses for the set in where they didn't exist, trying to find the upside to this thing. Doing proper heavy deadlifts (over 1.5x bodyweight) you'd want bumper plates or a lifting platform but that doesn't really apply to this thing.
The problem is that very few exercises apply to this set.
It's like buying a Z97 mainboard and a Xeon processor with no graphics card and 1GB of RAM. It's just a bad combination of stuff where it wouldn't really work right and you'd have to change and/or buy a bunch of other stuff and even then you'd be making the best of a bad situation instead of getting the right combo from the get go.
yeah, bro, deadlift or go home. If you cant DL 400, don't come near me.
Come on, there are plenty of people for whom 50kg (or 60kg with the bar) is a good workout. Plenty of people who cannot bench press 50kg or shoulder press 50kg or even squat with 50kg. Telling people to get power racks? Really. They can buy more weights when they need to.
And what if you wanted to do your accessory lifts at home - curls or whatever - and the heavy lifts at a gym?
@dtc: OK, that was over the top. 1.5-2.0x bodyweight is what most men could do without serious training (3-4 months of training 3 times per fortnight). Oh yeah, real macho stuff I'm pushing, rah rah 1.5x bodyweight deadlifts you big strong manly man, you must have been training for literally dozens of days.
And I brought up deadlifts beacuse you can do them from the ground. You have to start every exercise with these from the ground because there's nowhere else you can start from with this equipment.
This set is 50kg including barbell, by the way. It's not a 20kg bar.
With 40kg of weight plates with the remaining 10kg in the set being made up from the bars and spinlocks.
And again - you mention bench press… what, from lying on the floor? Shoulder press? I guess you could clean it first. Squats? Like I said - you'd have to do kitchen squats or do a carry lift, neither of which are particularly safe.
Seriously guys, if you want to weight train take it and more importantly your safety seriously.
If you want to do accessories at home buy equipment appropriate for those accessories not this hybrid, incomplete set.
And most annoyingly - you actually agree with me at the end. This set is suitable for some accessory exercises. Not many, but some.
I use buckets filled with cement
'Pick up available' pun or no pun intended?