Tonight we had our first incident. Nick was squatting 160kg in the rack I got from Gym Direct, he was using an ABC powerbar.
Markos, I'm finding this just a little bit hard to imagine and need your help please. From my experience, whenever a lift is missed, it gets dropped onto the platform below, so where do these pins fit in to have weights drop onto them or is the lift performed in a power rack? Thank you.
Fadi.
Why don't they use one in comps?
I feel heaps safer in a rack with bars than I would relying on three other blokes...
If you get pinned, just drop forward, the bars catch the barbell before it crushes you.
Or, you can just throw it backward without having to worry about crushing someones foot.
I dislike squatting in racks, so I dont.
Spotters in comps do a fantastic job, no need for a rack.
There has been plenty of talk on here about equipment. Everyone has their opinions, and I'm no different. I never buy cheap, even though for the most part, it will do its intended job.
Normal people gyms get by with cheap bars and racks. Its cost effective and accidents are rare these days, seeing very few PT's have anybody squatting 3 plates etc.
Two years ago a friend of mine was attempting to jerk 120kg behind the head, in a rack.
He missed it and dropped the bar over his back, onto the spotters pins. The bar was bent like a banana, he posted footage on ns.com. He told management and they said dont sweat it.
Tonight we had our first incident. Nick was squatting 160kg in the rack I got from Gym Direct, he was using an ABC powerbar.
On the way up, he felt a twinge in his back and dumped the bar off his back, it landed heavily on the spotters pins. There were around 12 lifters in the gym and they all jumped, it was loud.
We placed the bar back on the pins and I inspected it. The bar is still razor straight, as are the spotting arms on the rack.
Its only when an "accident" happens that you realize how good this equipment really is. I hope you guys never have to dump 160kg off your back like that, but you can rest assured that if your using an ABC powerbar in a Muscle Motion rack, it wont be an issue.
The bar actually fell 90cm, I measured. Thats a big fall for so much weight.
Thanks ABC and Gym Direct.
We had a monolift to use at the WA meet, it's a charm to use! You can get your feet and legs set without the heavy weight on your back, where it seems like you're using a ton of energy just to keep it there.
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