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Powerblock PRO 100 EXP - Underrated Adjustable Dumbbells - Review & Comparison
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Pictures below. Sorry I resubmitted due to typos on phone making this horrid to read***
Hope this helps / others and provides a different point of view for those who would appreciate it. It's great we have so many options to choose from. Maybe these will work better for you too!
Please note this is my opinion and I'm just trying to help as I could not find many people comparing these. Snode AD80, and Reppins are also fantastic options and you can't go wrong with either :)
I purchased these from CYC Fitness (UK) for about £1000
I decided between -Powerblock PRO 100 EXP (£1000), Snode AD80 (£690) and stand (£250), and REP Peppin launching in the UK in the next few months (estimating price to be between £900-1200)
Findings:
Reppins - have some amazing reviews. I haven't had the chance to try the Reppins but I watched so many videos. Negatives I found - some showing that they are quite noisy, and perhaps wobble a little too because of the design + materials. The pin can pop out if you use a certain type of grip (knuckles stuck out when pressing). This is exactly how like to hold DBs (even though it may not be the ideal way). I'd pop the pin out when pressing 60/70/80lbs, but the weights wouldn't fall out unless the selector slid down/ up. A few people complained about the micro plates popping out too, but REP can easily replace these.
Snodes - Found more negative reviews (among many positiv e because they are much cheaper). Some users reported the mechanism fully stopped working, and a few youtube reviews mentioned it didn't feel smooth anymore after a few uses. Luckily I was able to try a pair to realise they were not for me, they shake / rattle too much (I prefer dumbbells that don't clang about).
Powerblocks PRO 100 EXP - Different from the elite USA 90. They're more similar to the commercial ones without the upper bars, so the grip is easily accessible. I don't see them reviewed much on here so wanted to share my thoughts They're almost perfect for me.
Nuobells - Adjustment is very smooth, but too fragile and can't withstand even one drop.
Trulap / Assassin (UK brand) - Quickly begin to stick, and again can't withstand even one drop
Iron masters - I used to own a pair without the extra heavy weight stacks. Less than ideal to adjust, and I didn't want to go back to the older style of manually adding plates, even though they feel great to use.
Powerblock PRO 100 EXP - Good Points (my opinion)
-Urethane- less likely to scuff than cast iron/ painted plates. I have a nice temp+ humidity controlled room (between 12c-24c and 35-55% humidity) so don't need to worry about them cracking in 10 years.
-Flat ends to help kick up + rest the weight with seated DB chest exercises
-Rated for 36" drops but warrantied for 12" for 5 years
-Nicely weighted without the adder cylinder weights 38mm thick handle, great for pressing + forearms
-Knurled or Rubber handle options. I have ordered knurled handles to have the option, but I prefer rubber
-Unlike the reppins these work with fat grips with plenty of room
-No stand is required, I have one of these on either side of my rack, which saves me so much space + easy to access
-Easy to adjust on the fly, and do drop sets. I think these are easier to adjust than the reppins and even the snodes as there is no iffy selector dial
-Feel extremely safe, and sturdy
-Basically zero rattling / virtually silent after I added felt pads into the ends of cylinder / adder slots
-No sharp edges
-Weight is 45kg / 100lbs, Snodes only go up to 40kg
Can buy weights in incriments if you wanted level 1-4
Powerblock PRO 100 EXP Bad Points (my opinion)
-Adder weights are safe, and there are no fears of micro plates popping out, but they do feel a little unbalanced when using 1 or 2 cylinders, something to get used to
-The shape of the DB also makes it difficult to find smaller micro plates - 2.5kg that would fit, to use instead of the cylinders. Platemates do not stick to the urethane
-Expensive - these cost more than the snodes No KG markings / option. I had to buy a label printer and create my own label. It works well now, I like accuracy so I calculated it to 1 decimal place, and add this to the Hevy app.
-Length - these are quite long when 100kg vs reppins, but same length as snodes when using the same weight (they don't go to 100)
-A stand is difficult to find if you wanted one due to the max length (1" Ionger than reppins) and the powerblock one is out of stock in the uk
Top Comment: God the product department for Powerblocks are smoking crack. They've made their product line completely incomprensible. It's impossible to tell what works with what. Oh sorry you've got the PRO EXP SPORT 24 Stage 2 range, that's not compatible with the ELITE USA PRO 900 Stage 1. Even worse the same product looks different depends on which website you're going to buy from! I've spent 15 mins trying to find out even what increments you get with the weights with no luck. It seems smaller increments are not possible with powerblocks, so I'm surprised they are so popular.
Be A Pro Weekly Modifiers | EA Forums - 12550939
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After a decade+, I upgraded my U90 with the compatible Pro EXP Stage ii. Very nice!
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I bought the Powerblock U90 stage i (up to 50 lbs) in 2011. They discontinued that Urathane product line in 2016. I finally upgraded with the compatible Pro EXP Stage ii that goes up to 70 lbs. I hope this post further clarifies questions folks seemed to hang regarding compatibility between different Powerblock product lines.
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PowerBlock Sport EXP Stage 1, 2 or 3 - Sports & Outdoors - Woot
Main Post: PowerBlock Sport EXP Stage 1, 2 or 3 - Sports & Outdoors - Woot
Top Comment: Great deal! I paid $907 for the Pro 90lb set and they’ve been easy to use with no problems. If this deal was going on, I would have saved about $500! These don’t have the support bars at the wrist, like the Pro’s which is a plus. I don’t think you can go wrong at this price · Bought ...
I have been using the new Gemini Pro 1.5 - exp - 0801.. to write code. It is awesome. Free 2M tokens is also awesome!!! Love it : LocalLLaMA
Main Post: I have been using the new Gemini Pro 1.5 - exp - 0801.. to write code. It is awesome. Free 2M tokens is also awesome!!! Love it : LocalLLaMA
Pro decade of exp Roman player here to answer any questions !
Main Post: Pro decade of exp Roman player here to answer any questions !
Top Comment: x3 or normal speed which do you prefer?
Don't pay for ChatGPT Pro instead use gemini-exp-1206
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For all who use Chatgpt for coding, please do not pay ChatGPT Pro, Google has released the gemini-exp-1206 model, https://aistudio.google.com/, which for me is better than o1 (o1-preview was the best for me but it's gone). I pay for GPT Plus, I have the Advanced Voice model with Camera, I have the o1 model 50 week messages, which together with gemini-exp-1206 is enough.
Edit: I found that gemini-exp-1206 with temperature 0 gives better responses for code
Top Comment: Google’s AI services feel so scattered with lots of names —AI Studio, Note LLM, experimental tools, the regular Gemini interface. It’s all over the place and super confusing. Why can’t they just put everything in one place?
Gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05 coding ability thread
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Seems like this is the new big boy by Google. Let me know what you guys think about its coding abilities. The last iteration (12-06) seemed pretty damn solid, so I have high hopes here. Going to be testing it out myself atm (50 free requests per day over on google's aistudio btw).
Top Comment: I have only good hopes for it I mean today I gave GPT 3o Mini a simple modding task in C#, it completely bungled everything and made an unstable, unusable mess! Fed it through basic Gemini 2.0, immediately fixed everything to specification and desired function So I'm looking forward to even better function! I hope it'll allow me to pump out game mods at a breakneck pace. I love everything about modding until it comes to Codding. Then I fucking hate it.
The New Gemini Pro 2.0 Experimental sucks Donkey Balls.
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Wow. Last night, after a long coding bender I heard the great news that Gemini were releasing some new models. I woke up this morning super excited to try them.
My first attempt was a quick OCR with Flesh light 2.0 and I was super impressed with the Speed. This thing is going to make complex OCR an absolute breeze. I cannot wait to incorporate this into my apps. I reckon it's going to cut the processing times in half. (Christmas came early)
Then I moved onto testing the Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.
How disappointing... This is such a regression from 1206. I could immediately see the drop in the quality of the tasks I've been working on daily like coding.
It makes shit tons of mistakes. The code that comes out doesn't have valid HTML (Super basic task) and it seems to want to interject and refactor code all the time without permission.
I don't know what the fuck these people are doing. Every single release it's like this. They just can't seem to get it right. 1206 has been a great model, and I've been using it as my daily driver for quite some time. I was actually very impressed with it and had they just released 1206 as Gemini 2.0 pro EXP I would have been stoked. This is an absolute regression.
I have seen this multiple times now with Google products. The previous time the same thing happened with 0827 and then Gemini 002.
For some reason at that time, they chose to force concise answers into everything, basically making it impossible to get full lengthy responses. Even with system prompts, it would just keep shortening code, adding comments into everything and basically forcing this dogshit concise mode behavior into everything.
Now they've managed to do it again. This model is NOT better than 1206. The benchmarks or whatever these people are aiming to beat are just an illusion. If your model cannot do simple tasks like outputting valid code without trying to force refactoring it is just a hot mess.
Why can't they get this right? They seem to regress a lot on updates. I've had discussions with people in the know, and apparently it's difficult to juggle the various needs of all the different types of people. Where some might like lengthy thorough answers for example, others might find that annoying and "too verbose". So basically we get stuck with these half arsed models that don't seem to excel in anything in particular.
I use these models for coding and for writing, which has always been the case. I might be in the minority of users and just be too entitled about this. But jesus, what a disappointment.
I am not shitting you, when I say I would rather use deepseek than whatever this is. It's ability to give long thorough answers, without changing parts of code unintentionally is extremely valuable to my use cases.
Google is the biggest and most reliable when it comes to serving their models though, and I absolutely love the flash models for building apps. So you could say I am a major lover and hater of them. It's always felt this way. A genuine love-hate relationship. I am secretly rooting for their success but I absolutely loathe some of the things they do and am really surprised they haven't surpassed chatgpt/claude yet.. Like how the fuck?
Maybe it's time to outsource their LLM production to CHHHIIIIINNAAAA. Just like everything else. Hahahaa
Top Comment: "Flesh light 2.0"buahahah
Gemini 2.0 flash exp vs Gemini exp 1206, which one is better?
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I'm still quite confused. I've seen some posts saying that 1206 is better and others saying 2.0 flash is better.
Top Comment: Having tested both extensively for jenova ai's model router, Gemini exp 1206 consistently outperforms 2.0 flash in reasoning and complex tasks based on our benchmarks. It scored notably higher on LMArena (1379 vs 1312) and showed better performance in multimodal tasks. That said, 2.0 flash is faster and more stable for general use.
Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental 02-05 [CODING]
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It appears that the model has been somewhat nerfed.
Does it generate tokens more quickly than `gemini-exp-1206`? Yes.
However, it frequently overlooks crucial requirements in code and introduces errors that break functionality.
Additionally, it tends to be overly proactive, producing excessive code based on assumptions that are often irrelevant.
Its attempts to optimise or refactor existing code often result in unexpected issues.
Have you encountered similar issues?
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Yep. I posted about it like crazy when 0205 first came out.