Health & Fitness
Plate calculator
What goes on each side, for the plates your gym actually owns. Every other plate calculator assumes an unlimited set and will happily tell you to load three pairs of 1.25s in a university gym that has one. Tell this one what is on the rack and it will only give you arrangements that exist.
100 kg
4 plates on the bar
2515per side (kg)
What your gym has
Pairs of each plate. Set one to zero if the rack does not have it.
| Set | Weight | Reps | Per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 kgbar | 8 | nothing |
| 2 | 40 kg | 5 | 1 x 10 |
| 3 | 55 kg | 4 | 1 x 15 + 1 x 2.5 |
| 4 | 70 kg | 3 | 1 x 25 |
| 5 | 82.5 kg | 2 | 1 x 25 + 1 x 5 + 1 x 1.25 |
| 6 | 90 kg | 1 | 1 x 25 + 1 x 10 |
Loading is solved rather than guessed at. Taking the biggest plate that fits and repeating is right for a full commercial set and quietly wrong for a limited one: with two pairs of 20s and no 15s, that approach fails to reach 110 kg from a 20 kg bar even though 20 + 20 + 5 a side makes it exactly. This page searches every arrangement your plates allow, so it finds the weight when it exists and tells you when it does not.