The best bumper plates for Olympic Weightlifting, Powerlifting, and Functional Fitness Training. When you see people lifting at the CrossFit Games on ESPN, they have those oversized, bouncy rubber weight plates that are called "bumper plates". We have incredibly durable bumper plate sets here that are available in multiple weights and colors.
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We Will Bump You Up “I hated every minute of training, but I said ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad...
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What You Need to Know About Fringe Sport Contrast Bumper Plate Sets We are excited to introduce you to our new contrast bumper plates by Fringe Sport. We have taken...
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What You Need To Know About Color Bumper Plate Sets by Fringe Sport Fringe Sport color bumper plate sets include pairs and are the perfect bumper plates for WOD-ing and Olympic lifting....
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What to Know About Fringe Sport Rubber Bumper Plates Fringe Sport black bumper plates are manufactured to go toe to toe with any bumper plate on the market. They are...
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What You Need to Know About Fringe Sport Contrast Bumper Plates We are excited to introduce you to our Fringe Sport contrast bumper plates. We have taken our amazing black...
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What You Need To Know About Fringe Sport Color Bumpers Fringe Sport color bumper plates are manufactured to go toe to toe with any bumper plate on the market. They...
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We Throw Our Weight Behind You “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.”-...
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Step Up to the Plate “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”- Khalil Gibran We want you to have a mighty...
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We Put More on Your Plate “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There...
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Why Use Fringe Sport American-Made Crumb Bumper Plates We're bringing you our very own Fringe Sport crumb bumper plates. These American-made recycled rubber bumper plate are a step above your average plate. This...
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Why Use Fringe Sport American-Made Crumb Bumper Plates We're bringing you our very own Fringe Sport crumb bumper plates. These American-made recycled rubber bumper plate are a step above your average plate. This...
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Why Use Fringe Sport American-Made Crumb Bumper Plates We're bringing you our very own Fringe Sport crumb bumper plates sets. These American-made recycled rubber bumper plate are a step above your average plate. This...
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What You Need to Know About Our Technique Plates OneFitWonder Technique Plates are a great, inexpensive solution for teaching form and technique at low weights. The solid polyurethane construction results...
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What You Need to Know About Crumb Bumper Plates Grab a set of our American made crumb bumper plates and take your lifts to the next level. Crumb bumpers have been a staple at affiliates...
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What You Need to Know About the VTX Bumper Plates The VTX Bumper Plates are full rubber with stainless steel inserts. They are designed for the Olympic lifts, but they are...
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Choose Your Bulk Bumper Plate Set Whether you are buying bumper plates for your garage gym or a box, you can save when you buy bumpers in bulk. You pick...
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Choose Your Bulk Contrast Bumper Plate Set Whether you are buying bumper plates for your garage gym or a box, you can save when you buy bumpers in bulk. You...
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10lb Grey and 25lb Green Color Bumper Plates Are Currently Out of Stock. If you would like to include those in your Bulk Order, they will be available in Late...
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Get the Drop on Your Budget The reputation of our bumpers has become so robust, we made our own generic version before anyone else could. Our go-to Fringe Sport branded...
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Be a King- Make Your Lifts Whole and Strength Infinite The Ouroboros, or snake/dragon eating its own tail, is an ancient symbol of wholeness and infinity. The first known appearance...
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Our Ouroboros plates come in .5 lb and 1 lb versions so you can bump up your lift in small increments. We have them available in pairs but also here in...
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10lb Donut Bumper Plates - Estimated Delivery Early May 2019 Go Nuts for Donuts! Who said "fitness donut in my mouth" is a problem? We certainly didn't because we're now serving...
Bumper plates are a type of weight plate for Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, CrossFit-style workouts and more. Unlike the common iron or steel metal weight plates or discs, bumper plates are made of almost 100% rubber or urethane, with a small metal "insert" in the center.
Buy from our selection of incredibly durable bumper plates for CrossFit Olympic weightlifting and Powerlifting. Durable long lasting bumper plate sets here.
Tech plates are the predecessors to bumper plates. Before the technology and engineering existed to make high quality (light) weight plates from rubber (bumper plates), tech plates were the answer to hold a barbell at proper IWF height to start your first pull for the clean or snatch (or the deadlift for that matter).
So, tech plates are weight plates constructed of plastic that have a 17-18" diameter (there is a bit of variation between brands). They typically are not made in weights higher than 25#/10kg- in fact, we have never been asked for tech plates in weights higher than 10#/5kg.
While they absorb the impact of a drop, they don't bounce like bumpers do- and they tend to be loud on the drop. Durability of tech plates is a strong point, but don't believe anyone who claims they're unbreakable. I've seen them break- although it takes quite a few (thousand) drops.
If you want to load a bar as light as possible, but still have a lifter start their pull from the correct height, use 5# tech plates.
In every other situation, use bumper plates.
Tech plates are more expensive than bumpers, they are louder when the bar is dropped, and with today's top notch bumper plates (ahem, OneFitWonder), the durability gap is way smaller than before.
A bumper plate is a weight plate for Olympic bars that is made almost entirely of rubber (with a steel or brass collar in the middle that accepts an Olympic bar).
The "end state" of the Olympic lifts is overhead or at the shoulder. Many lifters drop the weights from overhead. Since bumper plates are almost entirely rubber, being dumped from the shoulder or overhead will not damage the weights, bar, floor, bystanders, the lifter, etc...
Bumper plates are also great for garage gym use- the rubber construction is much quieter than traditional metal construction.
Durometer is a measure of hardness of a material. It ranges from 0-100, and the higher the rating the harder the material, and the higher the material's resistance to indentation. Anything above 65 is acceptable for bumper plates. Our plates are considered to be excellent.
In general, the lighter bumper plates have a higher durometer reading because they need to be more rigid to withstand the stress of being dropped. Heavier plates have more surface area to distribute the stress, so they do not need to be as hard.
The ten pound bumper plates are purposefully 5mm narrower than the other bumper plates so that when you have 10's loaded on the bar, plus other bumpers, the 10 pound plates impact the ground a split second later than the other bumpers. Since the 10 pound plates have the least surface area and are thus the weakest bumpers, this saves stress on your 10 pounders!
Sometimes the bumpers smell due to the way that they are made. It isn't permanent. The best remedy is to let them air out in the sun for about 5 days.
The bumpers are greased as a part of the manufacturing process. Sometimes the factory doesn't clean the plates well enough.
Here's what we do to de-grease these bad boys:
We wash the bumpers about 3 times, with paper towels, soap, and water. If that doesn't work, then we use a de-greaser spray that can be purchased at a local home improvement store.
Drop away. We are confident that our 10 pound bumper plates can handle the abuse, and they are backed by our fully comprehensive warranty for 1 year just in case.
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