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I finally upgraded my home gym with a set of GXMMAT bumper plates. It’s a 230 lb set, and these are some really nice, high quality bumper plates.
The one thing to know up front: bumper plates are thick, so they eat up more room on the bar than iron plates. For most home gyms that won’t matter, and I’ll show you why below.
Full disclosure: GXMMAT sent me these plates for free when they heard I was putting together a home gym.
Quick take
- 230 lb set: two each of the 45s, 35s, 25s and 10s
- Nice thickness and a high quality feel
- Color-coded, so every weight is a different color and it’s super easy to grab the right one
- 275 lb total on a 45 lb bar, which is plenty for most home gyms
- The catch: bumper plates take up more sleeve room than iron plates
What I liked
The color scheme
I love the color scheme. Every weight is a different color, so you can tell the 45s from the 35s at a glance. The 45s are a nice blue, and you’ve got yellow, green and gray for the rest. When you’re loading and unloading a bar, that makes it super easy to use.
Nice thick, quality plates
These are really nice, high quality bumper plates, with a nice thickness to them. I’m excited to get these used.
The full set gets you to 275
In my follow-up videos I loaded the whole set onto the GXMMAT 7 ft bar. With the 45 lb bar, that’s 275 lb, which is honestly really good for most home gym setups. For the average person, you’re probably not going to go a whole lot heavier than 275. I did a quick pull at each step as I added plates, all the way up to the full 275.
Things to know before you buy
- Bumper plates are thick. I added my other bumper plates to get to 415 lb, and there was still some room left on the sleeves, but if you were using iron plates you’d get a whole lot more weight on there.
- 275 lb is the ceiling with just this set. That’s plenty for most home gyms, but if you lift heavier you’ll need more plates.
What I didn’t cover
This video is a quick first look. I didn’t drop the plates, test how much they bounce or talk about long-term wear, so I can’t speak to those yet.
Install notes
There’s nothing to install. The listing says they’re 2 inch Olympic plates, so they go on a standard 2 inch Olympic bar. I slid them onto the GXMMAT 7 ft bar, and they also come as a bar and plates bundle.
Specs from the Amazon listing
These come from the Amazon listing title. I didn’t test them myself:
- 2-inch Olympic full rubber weight plates
- 10, 25, 35 and 45 lb plates, 8 plates, 230 lb total
- Steel insert
- High-bounce, color coded
- Listed for strength training, weightlifting, CrossFit and home gyms
Who it’s for
Good fit if you: are putting together a home gym, want plates you can tell apart at a glance, and don’t plan to lift much past 275 lb.
Maybe skip it if you: need to load a lot more than 275 on one bar, where thinner iron plates fit more weight on the sleeves.
Bottom line
These are really nice, high quality bumper plates with a nice thickness and a color scheme that makes them super easy to use. The 230 lb set is a great way to fill out a home gym.
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