Fringe Sport Savage Change Plates
Rubber-coated cast iron microplates in four weights, sold by the pair — the cheapest way to stop stalling on a lift.
Specs
| Contents | 1 pair (2 plates) |
|---|---|
| Weights | 1.25, 2.5, 5 or 10 lb per plate |
| Weight tolerance | ±1% of declared weight |
| Material | Cast iron coated in virgin rubber |
| Inner diameter | 2 in |
| Full diameter | 1.25 lb — 5.25 in; 2.5 lb — 6.25 in; 5 lb — 8.25 in; 10 lb — 9 in |
| Thickness | 1.25 lb — 0.525 in; 2.5 lb — 0.72 in; 5 lb — 0.77 in; 10 lb — 1.01 in |
| Warranty | 1 year |
These figures are copied from Fringe Sport’s own published specs and were last checked on 2026-08-31. Manufacturers revise products without notice, and variants differ. Confirm anything your decision depends on with Fringe Sport before you buy.
Choose this one if
- You have stalled on a press because 5 lb per side is too big a jump
- You want microplates that will not chip your bar sleeves or your floor
- You want to buy only the increment you actually need rather than a full set
The detail
Progress on upper-body lifts breaks down at the plate, not the muscle. The smallest standard jump is a pair of 2.5 lb plates — 5 lb on the bar — and on a press that is somewhere between 3 and 5 percent in one step. Miss it twice and you deload. A pair of 1.25s turns that into a 2.5 lb jump, and the lift keeps moving.
The material choice is right for the job. Cast iron coated in virgin rubber, not crumb: a microplate spends its life being handled, dropped on the sleeve end, and stacked on concrete, and bare iron chips and rusts while crumb sheds. The coating also means the plate does not ring against your bar's sleeve finish — the same argument as the MilSpec bumpers, applied to a plate you handle far more often.
±1% tolerance is meaningful specifically here. On a 45 lb plate, 1% is under half a pound and nobody notices. On a 1.25 lb plate it is 0.0125 lb, which is the point — a microplate that is not accurate is not a microplate.
The dimensions are the thing to check against your bar and storage. The 10 lb is 9 inches across and just over an inch thick, which is a real plate rather than a shim; the 1.25 is 5.25 inches and half an inch. All four share a 2-inch inner diameter, so they load on any Olympic sleeve and on a plate tree with standard pegs.
Sold by the pair rather than as a set, which is the correct way to sell these. Most people need 1.25s and never touch the 10s.