Exodus Strength

Anyone used anything like this before? I'm curious if they are a viable option or wishful thinking. I have to drive to gyms that are almost a half hour away to get access to true bumper plates for my deadlifts and such. Meanwhile there is another location I use when I have nothing from the floor to do that is much, much closer, but only has the dreaded hex plates. Something like this could save me a lot of time during the week.

https://hexbumper.com/

I dunno.

Doing deadlift sets where you reset the bar with minimal time between pulls vice doing them sequentially is the same stimulus.

Always feels like a race against the clock though. Also, the things spin unevenly, you can end up having to twist and turn plates. I just don't like it. The "bumper" part might also be of some value since I don't think my close-by gym has options for lessening the blow of 405+ loads hitting the floor.

I’d expect those things to fall apart.

Don’t treat the “set” concept like a hallowed idea. It’s just density of reps for convenience. Set the bar down, stand up, take a breath, reset, pull. Maybe a set of 5 takes a minute now. No big deal.

Honestly, I’d just swap them out for Pendlay Rows.

If someone snuck into my garage and replaced all my POS iron plates with stop sign plates I would just do controlled touch and go deads...

mouse wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 3:38 am If someone snuck into my garage and replaced all my POS iron plates with stop sign plates I would just do controlled touch and go deads...

I have many years with those 12-sided plates .... and its not so bad once you get used to it.

For the OP, yeah, if you wholesale-completely-drop your deadlifts in the ground, yeah the bar moves around.

But if you super softly touch and go at the bottom its doable.

OR, deadlift standing a plinth or a plate, and do floating deadlifts.

OR, just be careful, set it down, and completely reset everything and take your next rep.

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Also, the bumper wrap gizmo, HAS to add height to the plates.
But then again, the hex plates probably aren't standard/regulation height to begin with.

I had this same issue, maybe ten years ago, working out at 24 Hour Fitness, and ended up finding the same product online -- I'm actually shocked they're still in business, as I've never seen this contraption in use out in the wild. My solution, which works well enough with at least 3 to 4 plates on each end of the bar, is to rotate each plate by a few degrees such that the points/flats of each plate are alternating, thereby producing a sort of almost round surface. This reduced lateral bouncing and I found I could get a few decent reps in before I had to readjust the plates.

Has anyone out there actually used these things though? Bueller?

I tweaked my back once with those stupid plates because a corner of the plate caused me to rotate/twist.

Then I just bought 45lb bumpers. Left them in my trunk and took them to the gym.

And now I have those bumpers for the home gym