Abstract: An exercise weight has an aperture extending therethrough which aperture is defined by an inner wall. The weight includes a locating flange extending inwardly of the inner wall. A resilient bushing of low-friction material is inserted into the aperture of the weight and is in slidably engageable with an elongate rod. The bushing has a peripheral wall and two locking flanges at the top and bottom of the peripheral wall which engage the locating flanges to preclude movement of the bushing relative to the weight in first and second opposing directions parallel to the longitudinal axis of the rod.