Pretty much. Spotter arms can also allow you to do Anderson squats and dead-stop good mornings, which I’ve always found exceptionally effective. Same for pin presses as well. Taking the stretch reflex out can be a very effective accessory or even main lift. Shouldn’t use it all the time though.Would love a solution but then what....take weight off and reset it?
I keep to myself in the gym but if someone asked me I would definitely help, need two guys though.
This reminded me of a guy back in college who couldn't grow some kept doing more and more. One day he's benching and has 315 on the bar which I thought was strange since I doubted he could bench it but figured he was maxining.........so I help him lift it out, he lowers it to his chest and begins the press......makes it a couple inches and it stalls so I help him to the top, he then yells out he's getting 10 reps so let go........I said "Fuck you" and pulled the bar onto the rack as I had no intention, nor did I think I'd be able to upright row 315 nine more times.......lol
Rookie mistake. You gotta change gyms lol.Yep, it is like they select the weight based on how big their spotter is, lol.
Worst part is that you spot the douche once and you are immediately his forever-friend. So you start working out at different times, but he figures that out too, lol.
Yep, it is like they select the weight based on how big their spotter is, lol.
Worst part is that you spot the douche once and you are immediately his forever-friend. So you start working out at different times, but he figures that out too, lol.
Why is that bro, why wouldn't spotter bars work if by yourselfthe problem is that youll only be able to do singles.
my college strength and conditioning coach programmed squat negatives into our training a couple times. I think it was like 20% above our 3RM. But we had a spotter behind us and one on each side. Slow negative down, all 3 spotters bring us up. Did something like 3 to 5 reps.
Seems impossible to do without spotters.
This reminded me of a guy back in college who couldn't grow some kept doing more and more. One day he's benching and has 315 on the bar which I thought was strange since I doubted he could bench it but figured he was maxining.........so I help him lift it out, he lowers it to his chest and begins the press......makes it a couple inches and it stalls so I help him to the top, he then yells out he's getting 10 reps so let go........I said "Fuck you" and pulled the bar onto the rack as I had no intention, nor did I think I'd be able to upright row 315 nine more times.......lol
Why is that bro, why wouldn't spotter bars work if by yourself
Or get it down to 315 by taking off plates and then squat it back up. Tough to start off on the bottom like that and I'd not recommend it.Because you'd have to unrack the entire thing AND you'd only be able to do singles.
Say you squat low 500's. You'd put 570 or whatever on the bar, unrack it and slowly lower it down. Then you're screwed.
You can only do a single. And then you'll have to pull all the weight off in order to lift the bar back up and rack it.