Why are they so expensive?

why are they so expensive?

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Because metal costs money to buy/move/shape and that's a lot of it

Use your money on real weights instead of fake ones dude.

Why not.make them with sand?

Some cheap Walmart weights are sand / water filled. The problem is because it's less dense the plate has to be physically larger so you can fit less weight on the bar.

Make the bar longer?

Then you're either weakning the bar by using less metal for the bar itself and more for the collars or making it heavier than the standard 20kg

Fuck the stadards. I want to get ripped not do math like a nerd

join planet fitness then, its like what, 10 bucks a month?

shipping heavy shit around isn't free

Based

>still counting
Never gonna make it unless you cut on the nerd shit

Say what you will about the cost but weights retain their value really well

Go to a milsup store and buy some big rucks and fill then with rocks and sand. Squat , slam , lunge , press with those

the sears near me is going out of business and had their grip plates 60% off. they normally go for 60 themselves, i could go grab a pair for like under 50 bux right now

but i don't need them

you can always make a profit

it's literally the cost of shipping them

I had some cheap ass plates that we're vinyl on the outside and sand inside. They worked fine until the vinyl cracked.

i don't need to.

buy used. it's a lot cheaper.

First off never buy the plates without grips. I made that mistake one time. Never again.

Second off, buy them used. Your muscles cant tell if they are used or not.

Third, a dollar per lb plus tax is what each plate should cost.

how weak are you that you can't easily grab on to the raised edge

most things that weigh a pound cost at least a dollar, so it seems pretty fair.

Plates are around a dollar a pound (unless they're real high quality). Iron is about 20 cents a pound. The other 80 cents is the energy, machinery, and employees involved in melting, casting, packaging, shipping, and advertising said iron as well as a profit for the manufacturer and usually one retailer.

That's a bad gym for lifters

lol never go into biz.

shipping and freight costs and marketing upsell.
iron is dirt cheap. but freight costs aren't

Kek

Peak unlocked.

Why?

Jews don't want you to lift weights.

Just make your own
>scrap lumber for molds
Free
>concrete
around $4 for an 80 lb bag
Boom, four 20lb weights for $4

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Torque is equal to mass*acceleration due to gravity*distance from pivot (being your hands in the middle. Making the bar longer would make it have a greater torque at the sides, which will make the bar significantly easier to bend.