Now is there any reason to buy "better" quality plates, other than tolerances? ie is the $350 set at fitness town that much worse than a set of plates from Rogue for example?
I'm looking at iron, not bumpers.
imo there's no reason to spend the extra cash. if you're worried about tolerances bring a bathroom scale to the store with you to make sure that your matching plates are the same weight, or at least within 1/4 pound of each other.
if you're going to spend extra cash, quality bumper plates are the place to put it.
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