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Barbell Plate Calculator

Men's Olympic bar 20 kg / 45 lb · women's Olympic bar 15 kg / 35 lb · technique bar 10 kg. Change this when you switch plate systems.
Worked example result
Plates per side (load both sides the same)1 × 25 kg, 1 × 15 kg
Actual loaded weight100.00
Shortfall vs target0.00

For 100 kg on a 20 kg bar, each side takes 40 kg: one 25 and one 15 — loaded exactly, with zero shortfall.

Plates per side = greedy largest-first split of (target − bar weight) ÷ 2 using the standard plate set · Powered by CalcHub — Barbell Plate Calculator