Provided you aren't holding the bar by one end w/270lbs on the other and shaking it, yeah.
FWIW, though, I would use std bars, because the plates are thinner, so you can get more on the bar (oly plates are like 2x the thickness of std plates), but that's just me.
Cynic, you raise a great point, but with a limited budget and an olympic barbell set under my belt, i think i'd rather keep my stuff as interchangable as possible at the moment...
THanks all!
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in the quick reply box there's a little icon with a picture of a mountain and a yellow background. it looks like this:
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also, do you guys think it matters if the handles are weighted or not? The set I found with the screw collars is weighted (5lbs, plus the collars add another 5). The ones with the alligator collars are a lot cheaper and are not weighted.
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I hate the ones that screw into the bar. I have them for my standard bar, and the spring ones for my olympic bar. The problem I have is that the little pin that you actually turn begins to bend after a while, and that bending makes it impossible to keep turning (because after a half-turn the pin has to slide through the hole so that you can grip the other end). Fixing them is a pain in the ass too.
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
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I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
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They are a dream to use. You slide them on, and give the lever a 1/4 turn to lock it on the bar. Then you spin the black threaded sleeve and it pushes the plate together hard and locks everything together. No slop, and the plates don't rattle.
Plate clips
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