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Bar length and banging the plates on the power cage

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  • Posts: 10,413 Member
    DopeItUp wrote: »
    Having a power rack and not using the safety bars is like driving a car without a seatbelt. It's there, you've already paid for it, you have the safety equipment, why wouldn't you use it? It would be foolish not to use your seatbelt and just plain silly not to use your power rack for the purpose that you purchased it for.

    Set the safety bars just below the level of your chest with a proper arch. If you fail, just flatten your back and the barbell will rest on the safety catches. Easy, safe and pretty much foolproof. I've done it about a hundred times. Failure tends to sneak up on you when it comes to the bench press and furthermore, injuries are completely unpredictable.

    Agreed. If you have them, why wouldn't you use them?? True, failure shouldn't happen as often on a 5x5 program compared to something like 5/3/1, but *kitten* happens, and suggesting they aren't important strikes me as a bit irresponsible.

  • Posts: 273 Member
    Yes, this is much better.

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    $139 at Flaman Fitness in Calgary.
  • Posts: 900 Member
    Ok, so lowering the bars on the squat makes sense, I can drop the weights off my shoulders easily enough if I need to.

    Tell me more about safety bar height on bench press. It's a more risky exercise to do alone, since I am under the bar in a way which could be difficult to get out of. Where should I have the bars set for bench press?

    Regarding getting a new bar, I will at some point, but it's not in the budget this month, so I will have to keep making this one work in the short term.

    Check out kijiji or whichever site like that is popular in your area.
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