Commercial Dumbbells and Free Weights

Every member on your floor touches a dumbbell or a plate before they touch anything else, which makes free weights the part of a gym build where cheap coatings and thin steel show up fastest. Sports Lodge is bringing Gym Factory's commercial free-weight range, manufactured on the same Lithuanian, ISO-certified production line as its selectorized machines, into the UK, Canada, and the northern US. This page covers the current free-weight line-up – Olympic weight plates, chrome plates, bumper plates, and fixed dumbbell sets – plus the buying questions worth asking before you spec a rack.

Olympic Weight Plates: Standard, Chrome and Bumper

Gym Factory's plate range runs three finishes across the same Olympic-hole format, so a gym can mix a working set on the main floor with a chrome or bumper set for a different area of the facility.

• X1 and X1-3 Olympic Weight Plates, from €6 to €464. This is the baseline plate line most PT floors run daily. Priced by individual plate weight, so a gym owner builds a full denomination spread – from small change plates up to the heaviest single plates – rather than buying a fixed bundle.
• X1C and X1CC Chrome Weight Plates, from €33 to €767. The same Olympic format finished in chrome, with X1C covering compact 1.25–5 kg plates for smaller, precise weight increases, while X1CC covers 10–25 kg plates with integrated grip handles and colour markings for easier handling and identification. Gyms typically reserve chrome for a lifting platform or a front-of-house free-weight area where the equipment doubles as part of the room's visual standard.
• X1T Olympic Bumper Plates, from €107 to €998. Built to be dropped rather than racked down, which is the standard requirement for Olympic lifting and CrossFit-style programming, and the reason why bumper plates carry a higher unit cost than the standard cast line.

Fixed Dumbbell Sets: Standard and Chrome

The dumbbell range splits the same way: a standard set sold with its own storage rack, and a chrome line priced across a wide span so a gym can spec light rehab pairs and heavy singles under one product family.

• X2, X2-1 and X2-2 Dumbbells, from €263 to €578. X2 and X2-1 pair rubber-coated 1–10 kg dumbbell sets with their own storage racks, turning a compact dumbbell area into one purchase rather than sourcing the rack and weights separately. X2-2 takes the range into heavier fixed dumbbells and is designed to be paired with compatible Z09X or Z09X2 dumbbell racks, giving gyms more flexibility when planning a larger free-weight area.
• X2-2C Chrome Dumbbells, from €30 to €4,677. Chrome-finished dumbbells available in pairs from 2.5 kg to 50 kg, increasing in 2.5 kg increments, with the top end of the price range representing the complete dumbbell set rather than a single heavy dumbbell. This is the line to quote when a gym needs to fill gaps in an existing rack with specific weight pairs or build out a complete chrome dumbbell range.

Chrome, Bumper or Standard: What the Finish Changes on a Commercial Floor

The finish decision on a commercial floor usually comes down to three trade-offs, and they hold regardless of manufacturer. Chrome plates and dumbbells hold their surface finish well and read as premium in a free-weight or lifting-platform area, but a chrome finish transmits more noise on the rack and on the floor than a coated one. Bumper plates exist specifically to survive being dropped, so they matter if your programming includes Olympic lifts or CrossFit-style work, not for a general strength floor where plates go back on the bar under control. A coated or rubberised finish, where a manufacturer offers one, tends to protect both the floor and the plate edge and cuts noise in high-traffic areas, which is the usual reason gyms run a coated set on the main floor and reserve chrome for a smaller showcase area. None of this is a Gym Factory-published spec for the X2 dumbbell line specifically – it's standard commercial buying logic, so treat it as a framework for the conversation with Gym Factory rather than a confirmed spec on any single product.

Loadable plates and fixed dumbbells also serve different floor plans. A plate wall with an Olympic bar setup lets one plate inventory cover bench, squat and deadlift stations at variable loads, while a fixed dumbbell rack gives members instant access to a full weight range with zero loading time – which is why most commercial floors run both rather than choosing one over the other.

Ordering a Free-Weight Wall: Lead Times and Rack Options

Gym Factory's standard commercial terms apply to free weights the same way they apply to machines. Production typically runs 6-8 weeks, with EU delivery adding one to two weeks after production and longer outside the EU. Orders are confirmed with a 50% deposit, with the balance due after production and before shipment, and a full quote is provided within 48 hours of a complete request. Custom specification – dimensions, handle position, colour – is available where a build calls for it, though bespoke items generally cannot be returned or exchanged once made, other than for a confirmed manufacturing defect or a logistics issue in transit.

For X2 and X2-1, Gym Factory lists the dumbbell set and storage rack together as a complete set. That does not apply across the entire dumbbell range: X2-2 is sold as a separate heavy fixed-dumbbell line and is compatible with the Z09X and Z09X2 racks, while X2-2C is offered as a standalone chrome dumbbell range. This gives a gym the choice between a compact ready-made dumbbell set with storage included or building out a larger free-weight area around the dumbbell range and rack configuration it actually needs.