The tower, twenty weight plates and three Gungnir of Norway barbells: two short Dumblers and one 160 cm Pumper. The plates are eight of 5 kg, four of 2.5 kg, four of 1.25 kg and four of 0.5 kg, which is 57 kg (126 lb) of plate weight. All three bars carry the SlideLock collar system.

Each short Dumbler loads to 32 kg and the 160 cm Pumper loads to 62 kg. The 57 kg of plates supplied with the set is spread across those three bars, so you cannot have both Dumblers and the Pumper at their ceilings at the same time from the plates in the box. The 10 kg extension plates are the route to more, and they mount at the rear of the tower four at a time.

25 mm on every plate in the set, matched to the 25 mm sleeves on all three Gungnir bars. It is the smaller of the two common bores, so a 50 mm Olympic plate will not fit these bars. Working inside one bore is what keeps the set simple: the twenty plates in the box and the 10 kg extension plates sold separately are all cut to the same 25 mm, and they move between the Pumper and both Dumblers with nothing to change.

SlideLock is Gungnir of Norway's patented collar, fitted to all three bars in this set. A plate goes onto the sleeve and the collar locks it with a single slide, so there is no screw collar to wind down and no spring clip to pinch open with a loaded hand. Changing plates between sets is one movement per side, so a solo session on the Pumper stays workable.

It is real wood veneer over panel, combined with powder-coated steel and brushed stainless steel in the frame. The plate centres are real wood veneer as well. Veneer is a genuine wood facing and it is what gives the finish ladder its grain, but it is a facing over a panel and never a billet of timber, and NOHrD is straight about that.

Two reasons, one of them practical. The veneer face carries the same grain as the tower, so the loose plates read as part of the furniture, and it puts wood between two steel plates where they meet on the sleeve, which takes the ring out of loading and unloading. The mass is still metal underneath the facing, so a 5 kg plate weighs 5 kg.

Yes. NOHrD offers 10 kg (22 lb) extension plates as a separate purchase, and they mount on an extension at the rear of the tower that holds up to four of them. They take the same 25 mm bore as the plates in the set, so they load onto the Pumper and the Dumblers without anything else changing. Ask us to price the extension against your order.

45 x 45 cm on the floor and 117 cm tall. A barbell station rarely gets smaller than that, and the layout earns it: the plates go on the front, the loaded bars go on the frame, and the 160 cm Pumper stands upright at the back out of the walkway. Leave working room in front for the bar itself, which is longer than the tower is wide.

88 kg, or 194 lb, empty. With the twenty plates racked on it that comes to about 145 kg on a 45 x 45 cm footprint before the three bars, so it is worth checking the floor build-up if the room is above ground level. It is free-standing and needs no wall fixing.

Six, priced up from Shadow to Walnut. Shadow is the black-stained option and it reads as dark furniture, with Vintage the aged character finish in the middle. The finish lands on the tower and on the plate centres together, so a loaded tower is one wood from the floor to the top plate.

Twelve packages, and yes, the station is assembled on site. Twelve cartons is a lot of consignment to receive at once, so check the delivery access and where the boxes can be staged before the date is booked. Tell us about lifts, thresholds and turns and we will pass it to the carrier.

The WeightPlate Tower is the barbell station and the DumbBell Set is the fixed weight one. Here you build the load by hand and get up to 62 kg on one bar for squats and deadlifts, on a 45 x 45 cm footprint. There you pick up a finished dumbbell between 5 and 25 kg with no loading at all, on a 135 x 100 cm footprint and 320 kg of standing weight. A WeightBench pairs with either, and it is the piece most barbell buyers add next.