HOW TO LOAD YOUR BARBELL - Are you doing it wrong?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Hi friends! Hope you like this video where we take a look at competition barbell loading, and how to organize your plates to look like a competitive snob. These are just training gym plates, but you can still set up plates for easy reading for onlookers or all your dozens of Instagram followers.
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A lot of it is also marketing. According to Ivanko in the old days for a lot of the photo ops they wanted their brand to show, only way to do this was by turning the first plate in. It became tradition, which eventually got written into the rule book.
The charisma coming off this girl is practically tangible
Best cheekbones in fitness
I've just been laying the plates on top of the bar. It's a great method and it's amazing how light the bar feels as I complete my lifts. Downside, it can be noisy and I have to reload after each rep. Upside I'm deadlifting 2000 pounds now.
I enjoyed this video even in it's goofy simplicity. When I first started lifting I had an old high school acquaintance politely tease me by saying "they're heavier when the numbers face out" as he went by. From then on I always loaded them facing in, that same guy is now my personal hype man and best bro.
Nice thing about having my own home gym, I can load the bar however I want and can do curls in the power rack.
Those brows sharper than a katana sword . Dayuum .
I don't understand... why did you stop loading the bar? It was not full yet.
that's for strongstrongstrongstrong friends.
brows lookin SNATCHED
Also, always use the lowest number of plates possible is a competition rule. So for 75 kgs you have to load a red plate (25kg) and a collar on each side, but not a blue plate (20kg) and a white plate (5kg) plus collars :)
So I've been disrespecting the weights this entire time?? 🤷🏾♀️ Thanks Meg😮
Thanks for this. I have been putting all the weight on one end.
Ouuu im bouta look like a pro in the gym tommorow !!!!
also don't steal all the 5kg plates because you too lazy to get 10s. >_____________>
This goes two ways. If people have stolen all the 10s from my rack, I'll make up for it by grabbing whatever's close at hand. But yeah, I get what you're saying.
Thanks MS, now I can be a total snob too! 😉
Definitely five min Fridays in the gym seem more interesting seems like are more natural in the gym
Thanks!
More short videos pleaseeeee. And +1 to the eyebrow comments, your makeup game is on point!
Love the 5 minute friday vids, keep em comin!
Sheesh, THANK YOU MEG!!! I have always wondered but been too embarrassed to ask!
I'm not a competitive power lifter but I train in a power lifter/body builder combo style, so I'm excited to look like I'm more of an experienced gym-rat when I do my compounds xD! Strong peeps!
I always thought some people were just weird and didnt care that the plates were backwards. Cuz it looks weird to me. But now I know. Learn something new everyday I guess.
Hahaha I liked this one. It was fun and hilarious.
Btw I like your other ones too. Just saying. Loloo
Holy shit this is probably the best video/advice ever!! Finaly I can share this to my ocd friends, they say *numbers should all face outwards so all the same way *well powerlifting ocd way is this way 😁
That's interesting. Never gave it any thought before, lol.
Simplicity is the key Megan congrats !
Thanks for your videos. I love watching fitness and diet videos. I love working out. I wanna be like you . I wish I could workout with you.
Love the five minute Friday!
One thing that's rlly overlooked is how to take the weights off the racks when you want to load em on the bar...so often u get lazy and esp. if its a lower one can hurt your back. i had a highschool coach who hurt his back bad doing that and every time he saw someone bending over to yank up a plate he would scream and say "thats what your back is saying when u do that"
I love this tip! Keep making more videos like this!
Hi Meg. Love your videos and I am a wanna be powerlifter. I have my first comp in 3 weeks time. I'd love a video on choosing your lifts for comps... unless you have already done that I could go see. Also eating on the day of a comp would be very interesting. My weigh in is at 10am and lifting at 12 noon.
Great vid and GIRL make-up is on point!
Great tip, I never realized.
Van Halen & CCR \m/
Love the video! Starting power lifting tomorrow and this will make me look like I know what I'm doing.
Can do a video on underwear choices while wearing workout clothes? Are underwear lines okay? Is a thong comfortable? Or nothing?
Are you 12? Or new to underwear? Not sure how anyone else would have questions like these...
jojessica As silly as it sounds I actually saw videos on what underwear you should wear for leggings, and certain workouts. it's a thing.
I go commando in the gym and for running. Much less rubage
Seamless thongs are always the best or commando imo
Get the Victoria secret seamless cheeky or thongs most comfy under leggings or shorts. They don’t show at all.
So jealous of the iron plate gyms u guys have 😤
Never thought of this actually! Thanks!!
this is actually really helpful!
Next time in gym, i am definatly going to be a snob like you :D
Thanks for the video. Learned something new today!
I like these how to vids
At the gym I go to, every plate is loaded with the numbers facing inward. The owner said it is so you have a better grip when loading and unloading the bars. And heaven help you if he sees you loading it any other way.
I was taught the "correct" way in HS. Front face facing inside. But tbh, I don't think it really matters.
Do a double blind test and see if people can really tell which side the face is pointing, doubt anyone would be tell.
Have yet to make it the racks but looks better.... think oreos.
Lol if you really want to make it pretty, put just the facing sides towards where there are most people.
Put the left side facing inside then the right side facing outside. That way everyone on your right side can see exactly which plates are on the left side as well as the right side =D.
But the people who are on the left side won't be able to tell which plate is which since none of the plates are facing anyone on the left side =D
Not looking for pretty or validation, admiration. Just effective and less noise. I appreciate your view though :)
Ah the noise issue, only way I was able to solve that is to buy Spinlock Olympic Collars like the ones she showed at 1:39
But they're pretty spendy =/. And low HOLE tolerance of the plates is very important too.
Yeah, not a cheap passion same for gaming. Will check out what my gym has when I go Monday. Still new to lifting and the gym in general but as soon as I picked up weights and started with deadlifts Its more love than hate :)
Nice to know...
In the gym I'm training both sides of the plates are the same. The plates look totally different. We have maybe 2 plates that look similar to what you were showing...
Yeah in my home gym I have exact plates Meg is showing , but at the gym I go to they have irongrip rubber coated plates that are the same on both sides :( ugly and odd shaped lol
why do you load the first weight (45lb) with the label facing inside and the next one (10lb), the label is facing outward?
You rock! New fan here!
Yes I knew that, I always do that with the Eleiko steel plates. Not the Eleiko weightlifting plates tho, because they are same on both sides. But what I do care about, is that they played Creedence in your gym, they don't do that in my gym :(....
I just love the smile!
Isn’t it also loaded like this to prevent damage on the plate / barbell?
I don't get how this is any different than having the sides face outwards. Either way, there is a face with a numerical value displayed along both opposite directions :P
Think my gym is built for simplicity - weights and brand marking both sides of the plate!! What I see a lot of is people one handing a plate off the mount and then briefcase carrying it to the bar then slinging / swinging it up to two hands to load it. I think that takes away energy from the lift and definitely puts load into your back before you even start. Is that bad form when the next thing you’re going to lift is like 5 to 10x that weight?
I normally load ma bahhbell with telekinesis.
the force is super strong with you!
Of course it is, I´m a strong strong friend.
Is it cheating if you use TK to lift the bar?
When you have three plates on each side, is every play after the first one facing out?? Like let's say there was a 25 in between your 45 and the 10 pound what did 25 be facing in like the 45, or out like the 10-pounder at the end?
facing out like the 10-pounder
45s face the inside, everything else faces out
justtrashed - thanks j. T.
Kyler Strotz - thanks kyler
No, everything except the very first plate faces the outside. If you had 115 on, the 95 would be in, and the 10 would be out. If you had 275 on, the first 45 would be in, the next 45 and the 25 would both be out, etc.
This is the second video I've watched in a row where the person mentioned they were in Boise Idaho, and the videos are completely unrelated and the people don't live there
Great
You're so pretty!!! Also thanks for the tip :)
Thanks.
Strong and beautiful!!
when you're too lazy to change the small plates on warmup sets and end up having smaller plates on the inside and bigger ones on the outside lol... also Meg, would you be going to a USSF meet in the future?
Lol awesome.
I seriously had no idea that this was a thing
I'm snobby and I find this megsquats
Do you have videos on how to safely load and unload a barbell that is on a rack, for new lifters, so the barbell doesn't fly away?
YAAAAASSSS!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS KIND OF VID. 😍😍
I use all 10lb plates on one side and only 25lb plates on the other. Keeps the math easy
I guess I only have been to funny gyms, as it was always color coordinated. And I could see from far away if someone was using the blue 20kg or pink 25kg or yellow 15kg :"D
lmao 10/10 content, makin me laugh XD
You can cheat on the deadlift by loading the lighter plates first haha.
The heavier weights further toward the edge of the bar should actually make the bar harder to lift.
Heavier plates to the outside make the bar easier to break the floor - more flexion on the bar. Depending on speed you can get more whip through the lift, but that can add instability mid lift
The only person you're cheating is yourself
Yep, I’m gonna be snobbing it up from now on.. bc them 45’s aren’t always easy.
You heard it here folks you wants Megsquats respect you do this. Now excuse me while I take this ice bath 😫
Dang just missed you I will be in the area very soon. Oh well. Can you tell me what kind of stuff they have at that gym? Heavy Dumbbells or like 100 plates, iso machines, row machines/ platforms, delts, etc. I do a lot of iso work.
Shout out to Old Skool! 💪
SIMPLE!
I was just there for training
You should come to Chicago and do a meet and greet!
B The Man Hell yea we would love to have her
And if there is more than 2 plates?
#StrongStrongFriend here
I never knew that's how you load the plates.
Iv been gym rat for long time and never picked up on this..😉
I'm confused by the fact that she put the ten facing outwards--so you're _not_ supposed to load all of the weights facing inwards?
Is that just for bench or for squats/deadlifts as well?
No one accuses me of fake weights no matter how I load plates.
Tell this to jen thompson lmao
5 minute Friday on squat walk-out???? :D
00:28 Why do people arc their backs while benching?
ok cool
Same for squats?
“I’m doin’ serious business in this gym, so respect me” Suckas! - Megs 2018.
Okay, so I added the suckas at the end, but seriously, doesn’t it sound like something she’d say? Fo sho!!!
Man all I’ve got is Hex plates so I’m uncool in all areas here 😂😂 #damnlafitness
I have to disagree 100%. The number should be outside. its easier to grip the plates which it how it was designed.
Yep! On the plates after the first, they should be facing out! First one always in.
Why does this matter? I can literally glance at the weights and tell the difference between anything from 5 to 45. 2.5's sometimes look like 5xs and 55's look like 45s. Honest question. Not understanding the point.
I'm just nervous about training with barbells cause I'm scared I'm too weak and I'll make a joke out of myself Idk
Meg’s should I lose weight first then start lifting?
Alondra Galvan Not Meg, but lifting (and building muscle) is a great way to spur weight loss. The only caveat is there is a tendency for appetite to increase as your physical activity levels increase. Determine how many calories you need daily to maintain weight and adjust accordingly.
Short answer is absolutely not.
Wonder how to get my mom to understand this. I've been going for 5 months 5 days a week ( mostly) and just cause nothing dramatic has changed she say I don't work enough...…… Also I have underlying health condition.
It’s silly but it’s true. When people just slam on a ton of smaller weights they look like idiots
chestt! ^^
ikr she has a nice upper chest
No to bad im gonna have the smooth side to the inside
No no all wrong. You load ALL the plates with the numbers facing the inside! It looks better for videos at least lol
you forgot that USE 1x20kg and not 2x10Kgs always see some dude with an ego, hording all the small plates so it looks like he has alot on the bar, when he only got like 40kg xd
Lol love this