Trapezoid Weight Plates Will Transform Your Training! DefiPlate Review

I certainly haven't seen plates like this before and probably neither have you. These are a defi plates. A defi plate is a creative take on a 45 pound weight plate with a unique design and purpose to specifically not be round. Because of this you can add a whole new dimension of variety to your existing barbell training or even use it as a standalone accessory for a lot of creative movements. Due to its trapezoid shape, this thing is specifically built to introduce instability or a deficit in your lifts whether you're using it for deadlifts, benching, squatting, or even in a strongman implementation for carries and more. There's definitely some serious appeal here for lifters who want to challenge their stability, improve their bar path, and add some real variety to their training with movements you literally cannot do with standard circular plates. However, in my mind this is clearly designed for experienced lifters or people who have a very specific use case.

There's some safety and cost considerations so it very well could be overkill for home gym owners. We're just looking to pick things up and set things down so let's check it out. Hey guys, this is Michael with the Jungle Gym Reviews. Today we're reviewing the Deffie Plate. This is a unique take on a 45 pound weight plate. It's clearly a trapezoidal weight plate with different cutouts for a bar and what essentially is grip and or your hands for a variety of different movements.

We're going to kind of talk about some of the use cases here and what I like to use it for and why this plate. But basically, no, the whole premise of this is two things. It's not meant to be circular so that it actually is more of like a lever left to right, balancing, introducing instability into certain movements.

And then two specifically for use as a deficit plate because as you can see here, you start from the ground, the bar is about five inches lower. Now before I get into the video, if you could quickly hit that subscribe button below if you haven't already, it's going to continue to help us grow the channel and make sure you get notified when we post our two times a week reviews throughout the rest of 2025. And if you're interested in purchasing this after the review, check out that link in the description below.

So first and foremost, I want to say this thing is obviously a creative take on a weight plate, but there's a couple cool things about it. You'll actually see on the top here USA. This thing is both made in Michigan cast and finished, powder coated, sandblasted, all that good stuff. So it is a made in USA product. That's not something I necessarily, you know, a hill I'm willing to die on, but it is cool to support local businesses. I'm actually located in Michigan as well. And I connected with Jake, the owner slash creator of defi plate at home gym con this year and he wanted to have me borrow a pair of these for the review. I say borrow because first and foremost, I want to mention price. Obviously this thing is made in USA.

Obviously this thing is novel. The biggest kind of downside with these plates from what I've noticed so far is the price. They are $600 for a set of used plates, $800 for a set of new plates. And that's not including standard shipping, which ends up being somewhere around $100. If you buy in bulk, like sets of 10, he can work with you on pricing discounts and stuff like that. But just know these are expensive plates and they're expensive because of how they're made, but they're expensive because of what exactly they're made for and the fact they're made in small batches.

So the main premise behind this, as I mentioned is deficits. When you put this thing on the flat floor compared to a normal weight plate, you can pretty quickly see it's a little bit lower and it essentially creates, like I said, a deficit due to where the bar mounts in this hole. Besides the fact that it has the hole for the bar here, it also has these, which are meant exactly for this to be handles. So whether that's for, you know, carrying it like I'm carrying it now, whether that's for things like I've actually found, I really like kind of doing these like upright row style. I've even seen this advertised to do like some like bent over rows from the ground like this.

I mean, essentially this plate is made to be a versatility slash variety weight plate for exactly that reason. It has some very specific uses, but I've even found you want to try to do some like curls with it. You can do curls.

I've kind of dangerously found ways to do, you know, like a standing overhead press. So really you can kind of get creative because it does have these grip plates. But then the other part in this is the shape creates this gravitational pull downward. So the plate always wants to tilt one end down so you have to fight a little bit against gravity. You'll see when we put it on something like this here. If you kind of tilt one side you'll see it start to be a little bit of a lever.

Now this is one of the cool things I really like about this and I didn't expect honestly to like it that much. Things like bench press when you start to do this. It actually just forces the weight to be like a little more centered over the bar. I guess if that makes sense. I'm sorry if I don't articulate that correctly. But basically it just forces you to focus on the stability. Kind of like if you've ever used like a bamboo bar but that's more of just like a... I would say like a small muscle stability and this is truly like a front to back.

How is your bar path according to the gravitational downforce of this unevenly weighted trapezoid weight plate? So besides that the other thing again is the deficit. Two reasons.

One for the standard low height. One thing I did also hear from Jake was that this just doesn't allow you to kind of let's say cheat when you do like max effort like single one rep max deadlifts. Because you can't actually roll the bar back and use of that little bit of weight plate momentum to get it off the ground.

That and the fact it is a deficit just makes it harder. Plus then you can do things movements that otherwise you couldn't really do with a weight plate without like a step up platform. So essentially this is almost the equivalent of using a step up platform for things like RDLs for things like bent over rows where you will hit the weight plate on the ground. You know if you're doing bent over rows with a 45 pound plate and you want to do it like with your torso pretty low towards the floor right here I would be essentially hitting the floor with the weight plate.

So I have two options either elevate my feet or in this case use a defy plate to get a little more range of motion. Romanian deadlifts regular traditional deadlifts just starting at a lower fixed point. You name it I've even seen in their advertising videos using these for like block pulls or different type of strongman movements like carry movements both from a deficit perspective and again from the instability. So I think there's just a lot of creative ways you can use something like this in home gyms. Overall I probably wouldn't recommend this for most home gym mourners unless you have a very specific need and use case strictly because of the price. If this thing were the exact same price as a pair of 45s absolutely no brainer.

I would say go buy a pair of these and I actually talked to Jake I said hey I'd love to buy a pair of these can I buy you know one of these used pair that you lent to me for the review. He's like yeah there's $600. Man that's a really hard pill to swallow because I can do a lot of things and or get a lot of attachments or other types of equipment for $600. I don't know that me in this more hypertrophy bodybuilding stable training oriented environment really have enough of a use case to spend $600 on one pair of weight plates.

I found again three or four movements I really particularly like to use them for but to me I don't know that I can justify the cost so I assume a lot of other home gym owners are going to have that exact same problem with this. If you can find a way to kind of scale as he grows do a little more mass manufacturing even if that's import to get the price down I think like I said this is a no brainer that really is the only major downside for me. Now the other two things I want you to note if you do decide to go this way is that because it is so long at about 39 inches it does take up a lot of space when you store it. If you want to put it on a traditional weight plate holder you're definitely going to take up more side to side space than a normal you know 45 or similar weight plate so the other thing you'll see here when I show some clips of me benching you actually have to be aware of how far it goes back because for example if I tried to rack this here on this rack because I only have a 16 inch rack I'm going to hit my weight plate storage in the back before I can even make it to where the j-cups go. So that would be again the major considerations is because it has so much left to right wick you need to find a good place to store it but because it does stand and is more boxy and square I find personally I either like to stand it up against the wall double stack them and it takes essentially no no space here so because it has grip because it's flat it's not going to roll I'm not worried about it running away hitting my kids etc you know or you can even kind of lay it flat like this and it doesn't even take up too much space that way as well so few considerations for those who are interested in from what I understand most of the people buying these right now again are not home gym owners but strong men or people who have a very specific reason they want the grips they want to train that instability and overall they're just looking for more fun more variety or like let's say very sport specific style of training so guys that's pretty much it for today's review of the defi plate and defi plates as always if you have any questions or comments please leave them down below I'll be happy to answer at least try thanks for tuning in the jungle gym reviews we'll see you next time take it easy peace