How many pound is a plate?

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Im from sweden, and as you all now, in Europe we use the metric system for weight and length measurements.

So, how many pound is a "plate"??? is it 40?45? Im talking about the usual metalplate seen in all kinds of training videos and such. And people in this forum keep talking about squatting so and so many plates.

Oh, bye the way, the most common plate in sweden are 15 and 20 kilos. Usually with a layer of rubber around it also. We have different colours for different weights 15 = yellow, 20 = blue, 25 = red, 50 = green.

What do you have over there?
 
a plate is 45 lbs. sometimes though a plate is 20 kg, which is 44 lbs.
 
what about the bar then? We use the usual olympic bar 20 kg wich I believe is international standard. do you use the same bar (i.e 44pounds) or??
 
Metric system rules, what's with the Imperial countries, were not in the stoneage anymore.
 
Yeah. metric rules!

You folks has all kinds of different system, feet, pounds, miles, oz.

Maybe europe should invade USA and make them civilized. We can bring all kinds of good stuff we have have, communism, and ummmm, ummm.
 
Since I am of Swedish decent I will not bash your European heritage. I'm sure somebody else will though......If that will make you feel better.
 
"We can bring all kinds of good stuff we have have, communism, and ummmm, ummm."


Hahaha. Normally I'd be offended by anti-American talk (you can shit talk our "leader" all ya want though) but that was just hilarious, plus, even as a US citizen, I agree not using metric is stupid. Especially since our engineers/scientists etc. have to learn the metric system to share data more effectively, and more importantly, gather it more precisely. I am kinda glad we don't use kilo's though, I don't like how those make my lifts sound so little.
 
rickdog said:
Since I am of Swedish decent I will not bash your European heritage. I'm sure somebody else will though......If that will make you feel better.

You're a Swede too? My grandfather was born in Sweden and came over on the boat in the late 20's. Morfar's a stud.

My gym has a mix of 45lb oly bars, kilo plates (10/15/20/25kg), and english small metal plates. It makes it hard for me to figure out how much I lifting.
 
Lard-ass said:
Im from sweden, and as you all now, in Europe we use the metric system for weight and length measurements.

So, how many pound is a "plate"??? is it 40?45? Im talking about the usual metalplate seen in all kinds of training videos and such. And people in this forum keep talking about squatting so and so many plates.

Oh, bye the way, the most common plate in sweden are 15 and 20 kilos. Usually with a layer of rubber around it also. We have different colours for different weights 15 = yellow, 20 = blue, 25 = red, 50 = green.

What do you have over there?
Coming from Sweden do they generally use Eleiko bars/weights? I think the milestones are 140kg (3 plate), 180kg (4 plate) and 220kg (guess how many plates). If the plates were 25's then it'd be a damn sight harder.
 
Yep, most gyms are filled with eleiko plates. And for the plates, most people like to load up the bar with several 15 kg weights so it looks more. Especially the metrosexuals.

And for the bashing, I like to bash sweden to most. Lets just say I dont like socialism.(before this gets into a war room-thread.

Right now I feel the urge to tell a little story, (like anyone would care, and everybody must have heard this one already) But anyway this supposed to have happened in the 80
 
Lard ass, there is much truth to your sig..... You are a very wise man. Please continue to spread the word.
 
Umm, Since Im kind of a retard, subtle sarcasm and irony is wasted on me. But maybe you sincerely wanted to be nice, gosh thanks dude.
 
Yeah,
No sarcasm in my last post. Your sig. says, " all women are bad". I happen to agree with that statement (for the most part) and I was just letting you know. It's to bad they are so cute and at first even sweet.
 
Okey, didnt know what you meant with "sig". I am a bitter man when it comes to women.
But luckily theres internet porn. :D
 
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