What Are Bumper Plates?

Popular with competition weightlifters and CrossFit enthusiasts, bumper plates are dense rubber weights designed to protect your floor when dropped from a distance, such as during deadlifts, snatches, and clean and jerk exercises. Bumper plates are uniform, one diameter from 5kg to 25kg.  

UNIFORM SIZING

A unique characteristic of bumper plates is their size. Unlike standard weight plates, where each unique weight is also a different diameter, bumper plates are all the same diameter. Instead of varying in physical size (45 lbs. being the largest and then working down from there), they vary in thickness and construction. This has two distinct benefits. First, when you drop the bar, all the weights hit the ground at the same time. This distributes the force across a larger surface area and helps prevent damage to the plates or your floor. Second, there are a few exercises where lighter plates with a larger diameter are beneficial. An example of this is the barbell hip thrust. Getting your legs and hips under the bar and into the correct starting position is much easier

Looking for Bumper Plates Melbourne?

Gym Equipment Melbourne carry a wide range of bumper plates from our black bumper plates to our coloured bumper plates and our Hyper FX Commercial Bumper plates.

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